Not only is Marxism alive and well in some circles, it is stronger than ever. Except for the SDS and Black Panther types, the protests in the 60s and 70s were not overtly advocating socialism. Neither the Democratic Party of the 1960s and 1970s dominated by socialists. Instead it was overwhelmingly anti-communist.
Marxism in the 21st Century has changed, however. When Marx advanced democratic socialism in the 19th Century, he envisioned that it would create a better standard of living for the working class and lead to a communist utopia of abundance. The hard experience of the 20th Century proved otherwise. Most Marxists now acknowledge that their economic system will not deliver the prosperity of capitalism, but consider universal poverty to be a feature rather than a bug. We can thank the lunatic environmental movement for turning universal poverty into a desirable end state.
We can thank the lunatic environmental movement for turning universal poverty into a desirable end state.
And the Environmental is dead wrong again. The poor nations pollute the most. They dump their raw sewage straight into the sea.