>>516594008 (OP)
Yup. complete bullshit.
Communism and socialism emerged from specific material conditions. The Industrial Revolution. Masses of people were brought together in factories and urban centers, and thinkers like Marx developed a worldview to understand their place in this new order: how power operated and how it could be transformed.
By the late 1970s and early 1980s living conditions in the West had changed significantly. Society became more atomized and individualistic. In this context, traditional socialist and communist frameworks failed to offer people conceptual tools that resonated with their evolving sense of self. As a result, leftist ideologies splintered, trying to accommodate these new subjectivities.
Much of what was traditionally "left-wing" was abandoned. The focus shifted toward self-actualization, self-expression, and identity politics—prioritizing the individual, in line with liberalism, despite Marx, Gramsci, and Marcuse insisting that the individual is a construct of capitalism. The contemporary left began to champion diversity and tolerance—liberal values that were never central to historical socialism or communism (which emphasized unity, not pluralism; conformity, not diversity).
In classical Marxism, diversity and tolerance are often seen as distractions or signs of “false consciousness.” The aim was not to affirm individual difference, but to overcome it through collective struggle. The modern obsession with universal rights reflects a liberal framework, not a socialist one. Rights, self-actualization became both the means and the end—far removed from materialist critiques rooted in class.
In effect, today’s left adopted the illusion of liberal idealism: emphasizing individual rights, democratic institutions, and moral progress through reason and cooperation—over the materialist focus on class struggle and economic forces as the engines of historical change.
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