Marxism? Naw, Narcissistic personality disorder.
And while I’m armchair psychologizing, I bet grandma, who raised him, expressed often how proud she was of him, how smart he was, imbued in him a sense of superiority and entitlement, which made her shock so great when she read his book and how much he undervalued her, aka “typical white woman”.
Liberal,Marxist,Narcissist,Communist they all seem to have one thing in common. A monster ego.