"Traditional" communists seem to have more in common with feudalists. The modern type seem to have more in common with technological-singularity-ists, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and various space-cases who think it would be best if everyone became a-gendered gay robots.
Of course not, the number of people who've read any Marx is pretty small
- even among communists.
It's an orphan ideology from the 1800s when it was common to believe "political science" was a real science and related to Darwinian natural selection, somehow.
It's an elegant and intuitive theory. The graveyard of mathematics and physics is littered with theories that were elegant, intuitive, and wrong
Even Euler seemed to throw up his hands with it eventually, after being intrigued at first, pretty damning testimony as I don't believe Euler was a man who tended to say "I was wrong" easily.
No, not illegal. There was no applicable German law that supported the death camps, and at trials afterward, defense attorneys DID try to find legal coverage.
Dive bombers and gas chambers are another level.
Ask any Trump supporter.
Not nearly fast enough. The US suffers from gross inequality of incomes, and that is producing all sorts of unfortunate side effects.
Squealing about "Marxism in education" is rather like bleating "four legs good, two legs better". George Orwell was a socialist who understood that Marxist communism wasn't in the least socialist - something that the international socialist movement had understood back in 1871, when they kicked out Karl Marx and the proto-communists for being undemocratic.
You are a bit behind the game. A life-time of indoctrination can have that effect.
The eclipse light bending thing was impressive.
Marx was not a Marxist, so reading the original works would not help all that much.
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