Almost too many valuable insights to comment on. This one alone, for example:
In fact, Communism is an ideology by, of, and for ideologues, that ends up empowering and celebrating those very ideologues. This is as true of progressivism’s other branches as it is of Marxism.
Indeed it is. I have always found it curious that the very same activist may cry against the oppression and celebrate the accession to power of the very same dirty-handed proletariat that in all other aspects he views in withering contempt. Find a campus progressive who likes rednecks, for example, and good luck with that.
So yes, the song is about the singer and always has been. Selflessness is Marxism's greatest and most flatulent pose, and when the leaders of the Revolution are the ones being driven around in limousines, it's embarrassingly evident.
Yet, notwithstanding progressivism’s premise that individual minds merely reflect society’s basic structure and hence are incapable of reasoning independently about true and false, better and worse, reality forces progressives to admit that individuals often choose how they think or act despite lacking the “structural” basis for doing so, or that they act contrary to the economic, social, or racial “classes” into which progressive theories divide mankind. They call this freedom of the human mind “false consciousness.”
Marx avoided this problem by insisting that there is only one demarcation of class, economics. It isn't so; an individual may also be a white proletarian or a black bourgeoisie, man or woman, French or German, gay or straight. In fact, it is "class" that is the construct, not any collective consciousness or interest, and when an individual is, as he is, a member of infinite multiple "classes", his interest, his identity must necessarily be individual. And that is the proper repository of political rights, within the individual, which is completely contrary to the fervent insistence of class theory. Collectivism undoes itself, Marxism displays "internal contradictions" to use Marx's phrase, and Locke and the Founders were right all along. That's how you build a society, not around any intricate manipulations of class in the interest of any fictive "social justice" or "political correctness".
This one is going to take some time to digest properly. Thanks again for posting.
BTTT