[CatoRenasci]

Oh, the bourgeoisie would provide most of the eggs, but that is not to say there are not other reactionary elements that needed elimination. Of course, as you point out, one wants to be on the leading edge of history. The best way to think of Marxism is as theology, almost as eschatology. The main goddess is DiaHistoMat (Dialectical Historical Materialism) who through the dialectic leads us inevitablly to the dictatorship of the proletarian as we transform society into the classless society and the withering away of the State.

[AmishDude]

Well said. Marxism as religion is easy to see but you flesh it out nicely. I wonder if parallels can be drawn between the fall of Marxism as a philosophy and the fall of some once-powerful religions.

It is amazing, though, to see what has happened to it. There are different strains of it and each strain has a different idea of the proletariat.