We are now privileged to hear Ayers on GMA trying to convince us that he was actually the good guy and that he did nothing wrong, that it is the US that is oppressive, not the communists, all by the use of moral relativism, which uses the Marcusian technique of re-defining words in order to confuse the target.
Have you read Das Kapital? It is hardly a theory of history. It is a formula for governmental control. “Communism” goes back to Plato's Republic, so it is nothing new. The modern communist links directly back to Marx and his ilk.
The Marxist theory you are talking about emerged from Gramsci’s second wave of Marxist revolution. After the Bolsheviks, he realized a workers’ revolution would never succeed. He figured out that the best way was to revolutionize the culture. “Marxist theory” was part of that second wave of the revolution and it was designed to indoctrinate and remake the way people think and perceive. He spelled out his plan and the commies have been implementing it ever sense.
Maybe you like toying with theories academically, but the result is the same. The world and especially this country is pushing hard toward communism because of indoctrination in academe made palatable through Marcusian redefinition and blurring of terms.
A commie is a commie is a commie. Screw “Marxism” and “theory.”
I'm not blurring anything. I specifically defined the two terms in question. Marxism is a theory of history stating that all history can be defined in terms of class struggle and that this continual historical clash of economic opposites (Dialectic Materialism) will inevitably result in revolution. That's how it's defined in every textbook I've ever encountered in Grad School and beyond.
It's estimated that about 95% of his writing is about the problems with Capitalism. Very little on what would actually be an improvement. Enter one sociopath after another filling in the blanks (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot).