While there appear some nuggets of wisdom here, I don’t think Marxism applies much anymore.

The world has moved on beyond everything he knew. We should be careful to avoid trying to reference current events against anything seen before. We are covering new ground now, from the point of view of technology at least.

In fact it even appears to be moving beyond anything many modern observers can understand, far less theorists from long ago.

A war between two dystopias, the Huxley kind, and the Orwell kind, appears the only way we can describe things, knowing a little of what they each wrote.

It is probably true ideology is beyond what we can express with words, though.

That was the main nugget I drew from your piece, thanks for posting.

It is interesting that there appears in general to be an attack on language and natural communications from some directions, especially intellectual establishment.

The kinds of things I mean is cancellation culture, which inhibits communications, and politically modifies language.

To me cancellation culture is about cancelling emotive words, language, and concepts, more than it is about cancelling people.

If we can’t express the concepts amongst us then of course we can’t think about them collectively, in which case maybe we really do think less about them individually.

Ironically it appears driven by folks who have the best of intentions, and are considered “Highly intelligent”, and yet they don’t seem to be able to see the harmful outcome.

Dare I say such a characteristic may even appear to be gender related.

If we were not the required gender to start with, then we are modified by the ideology to become such, at least in the way we think.

Critical race theory appears to be the latest concept which has become a target.

We shouldn’t be thinking about that, it seems, lest we become racists.

Nor should we be questioning the logic of things like patents in vaccine technology, lest we become anti-vaxers.

We shouldn’t be watching porn lest we become rapists.

And so on.