Unemployment, and so on

[kandrathe]

... because I'm not a blind flag waving patriot that thinks my country can do no wrong, and doesn't conform to the views the majority of the sheeple hold. Right.

Implying that anyone who's not with you, on what verges in the US as being upon the lunatic fringe... is a blind flag waving patriot sheeple.

I have no qualms about being a Marxist in America

Except, that you stated you feared you won't find a job. Which I think is an apt assessment given your career choices.

...for I know most people, have a distorted, propaganda-indoctrinated view of what Marxism really is, and what kind of people Marxists are.

Sheeple again. And, non-Marxists cannot be "Free thinkers"?

Do you really believe the majority of people in the US, and "other" countries buy into "egocentric reactionary mentality" promoting "jingoism and xenophobia, racism, apathy, misogyny and sexism, hatred of gays, fundamentalism"? Really? And, the counter corollary is that these things do not exist in a Anarcho-Marxist state. Do you realize how crazy this sounds?

As for "fighting terrorism with more terrorism" depends on your definition of terrorism. This is a crux of a problem with any approach to a war on "-ism"s. Given the right set of government lawyers, torture can be whitewashed as necessary enhanced interrogation.

"and the complete austerity and disregard capitalism has for humanity for the sake of maximizing profits." Again, "-isms" don't love people, or give them regard. People love people, and give them regard. Our systems just reflect ways in which we attempt to be both fair and compassionate.

To be a Marxist is to simply be a lover of humanity, and to be a disbeliever and skeptic of economic, as well as socially constructed divisions in our society and the status quo in general.

Which has to be the weirdest definition of Marxism I've seen to date. Wouldn't that equally describe MLK and the equal rights marches of the 1960's?

Now, if people want to hate me for that, it is they, not I, who has the problem. They are most likely pretty shallow anyways. I don't really give a damn either way. I could be the last Marxist on earth, and I still wouldn't change my views. I would rather be in the smallest of minorities in the world and be able to be a free thinker, than hold the majority opinion but be a complete tool for the system and take everything that is fed to me (just because the masses say this is how it is).

And, no one should hate you for your Marxist ideas. Just don't prejudge people as distorted through your lens, and understand that your lens may seem distorted to others. Holding the majority opinion does not imply one needs to "be a complete tool for the system". You like democracy, except when it disagrees with you, and then you need to cover that by explaining that people are deluded sheeple. As one of the so called, "Sheeple", I'd just like to say that the implication is bigoted, and condescending.

Whatever. To each his own I guess.

Exactly. Give people respect for having thought through their views, and don't automatically assume people are sheeple just because they are moving within a majority. Maybe they are right, and you are wrong. It might be possible.