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It was, supposedly, on Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, itself a derivation of Gramsci. I don't think a great deal of it, frankly - it's pop Marxism rather than the real deal. A young Hillary evidently felt otherwise.

The postmodern version of Marx is highly emotional largely because it is deliberately too obscure to admit of precise logical analysis. Emotion turns out to be as powerful a motivator in politics as it is elsewhere in the life of men and women, but this particular set of emotions does not represent humanity's finer moments - it consists of pure distilled envy and of hatred, specifically hatred for success and its dismissal as mere theft from the unsuccessful.

It is the latter that explains the rationalization behind redistribution. That is Marx's last malign gift to a society he hated because it didn't conform to his fantasies. Those fantasies outlived him because their bases of hatred and envy are basic to the human condition.