The establishment vs Uber

[kandrathe]

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To me, and I suspect to your college professors, you have just enough knowledge of Marxism to be frustrating.

Not sure what you mean by this, in particular the frustrating part.

I would say you know enough to ask difficult questions, but not enough to understand the answers.

Lastly, I would like to say I don't think the Marxist viewpoint is "extreme". Extreme would imply that it is ideological, and the framework itself by its nature, is anti-ideological.

And... here is part in parcel of what I'm talking about. You don't get to redefine words to suit your purposes. Ideology is just that, a framework of thought or returning to our latin roots, thought narrative. Here is Wikipedia's view of what is defined there as Marxist ideology. Anti-ideology as discussed by Chomsky for example, was used to describe fear mongering propaganda and policy, such as in "anti-communism".

Generally, anything followed by -ism can be described as an ideology. Marxism is an ideology. Luxemburg-ism is a more ultra-leftist schism of Marxism left of Leninism, left of Bolsheviks. Extreme is the concept of being not just to the left in this case, but to the extreme left. As opposed to centrist, or leaning left, or leaning right. You are, as we've discussed above, extremely outside the norms of political thought, and in fact, you appear pretty far outside the norms of Marxist thought.

So far out, in fact, that we're clearly using different dictionaries.