sociology

Cracking The Fraudulent Story Code Of The Social Science Cult

Alex Coppen

Apr 1, 2022 • 20 min read

Whether we like it or not, humans think in stories; parables, even. They help us pass moral education down the generations. We are exceptionally vulnerable to their power, for good reason; they help us understand a world which overwhelms us. The stories we tell others, and ourselves, are our sense of GPS navigation in a complex, changing world.

These "scholars" of the humanities are liars, plagiarists, and charlatans. They are parasitical activist ideologues entirely taken hostage by a single zealous tale they pattern-match onto anything they can. Everything they touch, they ruin.

Marxism tells a story which has captured the world for more than 150 years. It's a religious story; a false tale about the world which has led to the murder of a million people for every year it's been in print. The story has been re-modelled and re-told over and over, and universities are charging hundreds of thousands of dollars per student for entire courses in different versions of it.

As we'll see, it's an old, old story. And an extraordinarily powerful one which taps into our most basic nature as spiritual creatures.

With thanks, as always, to Dr James Lindsay, who originally articulated a lot of this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNW79czfibw.

The Master Story Template

Marx's mono-myth is a theological template. All you need for the recipe is some ingredients to substitute, and you can create your own "justice" movement with a sociology degree.

Ingredients:

Something you envy and/or resent in others (being normal)
A dominant group who have it (the normal)
A victim group who don't have it (nutjjobs)
A made-up pathology ending in "ism" (normalism)
A name for your movement or subject (nutjobism studies)
A "structural" illness which results (nutjob stigmatisation)
A handy shortcut term for the "consciousness" of your cause (nutjobness)

Copy and paste this little routine:

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [__________].
One group, a superstructure called [__________], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [__________], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [__________] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [__________] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [__________] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [__________] is to reveal this [__________] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [__________] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [__________] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [__________].
When [__________] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [__________] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [__________] justice.

We can do this all day, endlessly. It's trivial.

Class: Classical Marxism

There's a lot to say about Marxism, and it's obviously much deeper than this with its themes of alienation, labour theory of value etc. However, the basic formulation is the same: there's a dominant group excluding access to something from an underclass group, which needs to be overturned for justice.

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called capital.
One group, a superstructure of the upper and upper-middle class, have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, the Proletariat, don't have.
They have created an ideology called capitalism to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to capital provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to capital and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of Marxism is to reveal this class antagonism to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this structure because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a class consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [fascists, reactionaries, Nazis].
When the Proletariat become aware, they will seize the means of producing capital to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation (Socialism) will become spontaneous, which will produce class justice, or advanced communism.

In modern terms, old-school Marxist is Critical Class Theory.

The Poisonous Crock Derivatives

Anyone can do this. Anyone. These people are con-artists and fraudsters. All you have to do is substitute your chosen terms into the theology transcript, and write 10,000 journal articles about it. Then bad female journalists will refer to you as a "scholar".

Do NOT pay for your kids to study this nonsense at university. They can get their degree right here.

Academia Marxism: Critical Theory

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [academic knowledge].
One group, a superstructure called [academics], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [humanities' scholars], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [traditional theory] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [academia] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [academic credentials] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [Critical Theory] is to reveal this [bias/power-driven system of academic knowledge] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural power-bias of academic credentials] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [Critical Theory] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [essentialists].
When [humanities' scholars] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [knowledge] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [academic] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Sociology".

Homework: discuss how the power relations of traditional theory promote endemic stereotypical attitudes and contribute toward dominant scientific culture.

Sex Marxism: Feminism

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [being male].
One group, a superstructure called [Patriarchy], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [women], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [misogyny] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [maleness] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [maleness] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [feminism] is to reveal this [systemic misogyny] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural sexism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [feminist] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [sexists and misogynists].
When [women] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [patriarchy] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [gender] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Women's Studies".

Homework: discuss how the power relations of structural misogyny promote endemic masculinity and contribute toward dominant patriarchy culture.

Gay Marxism: Gay Liberation

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [morally-acceptable sexuality].
One group, a superstructure called [heterosexuals], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [homosexuals], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [homophobia] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [heterosexuality] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [sexual tolerance] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [gay liberation] is to reveal this [systemic homophobia] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural anti-gay hate] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [gay rights] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [bigots and homophobes].
When [homosexuals] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [sexual morality] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [sexuality] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in gay rights activism.

Homework: discuss how the historical misrepresentation of sexual minorities by homophobic narrators promote systemic discrimination and contribute toward dominant heterosexual culture.

Race Marxism: Critical Race Theory

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [whiteness] through another construction called race.
One group, a superstructure of [White Europeans], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [People of Colour], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [White supremacy] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [whiteness] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [whiteness] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [Critical Race Theory] is to reveal this [systemic racism] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural racism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [racial] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [racists and white supremacists].
When [People of Colour] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [whiteness] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [racial] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Whiteness Studies".

Homework: discuss how the colonial policies of structural racism promote endemic white supremacy and contribute toward systemic whiteness culture.

Literacy/Knowledge Marxism: Critical Pedagogy

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [literacy/educated-ness].
One group, a superstructure called [educated/literate and knowledgeable], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [non-literate], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [traditional learning] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [educated-ness] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [literacy] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [Critical Pedagogy] is to reveal this [systemic literacy] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural educatedness] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [critical education theory] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [colonisers].
When [educators] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [literacy] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [education] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Critical Pedagogy".

Homework: discuss how the academic relations of structural literacy promote endemic colonial learning and contribute toward indignenous educator oppression.

Sexual Marxism: Gender Theory & Queer Theory

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [sexual/gender norms, or normality].
One group, a superstructure called [cis-heterosexual], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [abnormal], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [cis-hetero-normativity] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [normality] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [normality] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [Queer Theory] is to reveal this [systemic homophobia/queerphobia/transphobia] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural cis-hetero-normativity binary] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [queer] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [bigots, fascists, transphobes, cis-het-scum].
When [the abnormal] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [sexual/gender norms] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [sexual/gender] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Gender Studies".

Homework: discuss how the heterosexual relations of structural transphobia influence queer performativity and contribute toward dominant cisheteronormativity in hegemonic masculinised culture.

National Origin Marxism: Postcolonial Theory

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [civilisation].
One group, a superstructure called [Western empires], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [colonised indigenous people], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [imperialism] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [imperial power] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [civilisation] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [Postcolonialism] is to reveal this [systemic imperialism] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural colonialism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [Postcolonial] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [backwards].
When [colonized people] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [civilisation and cultural knowledge] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [cultural] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Cultural Studies".

Fat Marxism: Fat Studies

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [being thin, fit, and conventionally attractive ].
One group, a superstructure called [the thin, fit, and attractive], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [non-fit/thin people], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [thin normativity and healthism] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [fitness and thinness] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [attractive healthiness] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [fat activism] is to reveal this [systemic thin normativity] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural healthism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [body] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [fatphobes].
When [other-bodied people] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [body normativity] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [body] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Fat Studies".

Homework: discuss how the social relations of favoured athletic normativity promote systemic fatphobia and contribute toward establishing a dominant patriarchy of healthism.

Ability Marxism: Disability Studies

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [ability].
One group, a superstructure called [able-bodied], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [the disabled], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [ableism] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [ability] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [ability] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [disability studies] is to reveal this [systemic ableism] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural ableism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [ableist] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [ableists].
When [the disabled] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [ability] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [ability] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Disability Studies".

Homework: discuss how the normative relations of systemic discrimination promote structural able-bodied queer relativism which contributes toward a hegemony of dialectic of ability.

Environmental Marxism: Climate Justice

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [the right to exploit natural resources].
One group, a superstructure called [industrialists], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [the planet, nature, and animals], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [industrialization and modernity] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [resource exploitation] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [control over exploitation] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [environmentalism] is to reveal this [systemic profit-ism] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural industrialism] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [environmental] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [deniers].
When [consumers] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [industry] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [climate/environment/animal] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Climate Studies".

Homework: discuss how the power relations of structural climate change denial promote endemic fascism and contribute toward a culture of dominant patriarchal capitalism.

Israel: Anti-Zionism

Ever wonder why there are so many problems with antisemitism in left-wing political parties?

It's not because they're anti-Semitic. They just hate the Jewish government of the Jewish state, which is full of Jews, built for Jewish people, and wants to make life more Jew-y as it does all that Jew stuff. And want the Jewish homeland not exist anymore.

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [The Holy Land].
One group, a superstructure called [Jews], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [Palestinians], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [Zionism] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [The Holy Land] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [The Holy Land] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [anti-Zionism] is to reveal this [systemic Zionism] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural Palestinian apartheid] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [anti-Zionist] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [Zionists, Benjamins, Jews, Them, etc].
When [gentiles] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [Israel] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [Palestinian] justice.

Congratulations, you now have a degree in "Middle East Studies".

Homework: discuss how Zionist ideological hegemony in cisheteronorative culture reveals the structural racial dominance across domains, or a rationalisation of how and why Jews run the world while keeping all the money and Israel should be destroyed.

On The Way: Pedosexuality Marxism

We all know where this is leading, as it always does.

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [adult sexuality].
One group, a superstructure called [adults], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [children and pedosexuals], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [pedophobia/mapphobia] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [adult sexuality] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [sexual tolerance] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [child love] is to reveal this [systemic pedophobia] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural anti-pedophile hate] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [child love] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [bigots].
When [children] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [adult sexuality] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [minor attractedness] justice.

The Meta Theory of Identity Marxism: Intersectionality

The motherlode of all this is the unified theory of competitive oppression, which of course is the stunningly intellectual idea some people have it worse than others.

So what do we get when we metaphysically jam all these complaints together against the cisgender straight white Christian able-bodied educated athletic male meat-eating capitalist Israeli imperialist?

There is a special type of property which has been constructed in society called [only suffering one oppression at a time].
One group, a superstructure called [cisgender straight White able-bodied educated athletic capitalist men], have given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [everyone who isn't cisgender straight white able-bodied athletic educated capitalist men], don't have.
They have created an ideology called [The West] to justify why they should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [not suffering any oppression] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [not suffering any oppression] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [intersectionality] is to reveal this [systemic crossroads of oppressions] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center of society to create awareness of how society is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [structural system of oppression] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [intersectional] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
There are those who want to preserve the injustice of this social structure because of the benefits they receive for participating in it. They are called [privileged].
When [marginalised people] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [society] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [social] justice.

As we can see, being god-level "aware" of this fractal of "interlocking" (LOL!) oppressions is the apex of Marxist sociology; similar to a higher state of consciousness us mere humans cannot fathom. Aka, "woke".

The Original Template: Genesis 3

Interesting, isn't it? The worse possible offender in this list of oppressions is:

Unlimited wealth
Scholarly
Light-skinned
Male
Strict on heterosexual morality
A teacher
Strict on gender roles
Dismissive of disabilities
Strict on abnormal behaviour
Sovereign/imperial
Keen on natural beauty and health
Commanding of the natural world
Jewish

Hmm. Sounds a bit like someone we all know who is mentioned in the Bible.

Speaking of the Bible, let's try out that mono-myth on another character we all know.

There is a special type of property called [the knowledge of good and evil].
One person, a superstructure called [God], has given themselves exclusive access to it which others, an infrastructure of everyone else, [mankind], don't have.
He has created an ideology called [sin] to justify why He should control access to it, which imposes the situation and allows it to continue.
The system exists to exclude those below from the power and privilege that access to [the knowledge of good and evil] provides.
This creates a dialectical conflict of social relations between those who have access to [the knowledge of good and evil] and those who don't, where a person's identity is defined by which group they belong to.
The goal of [tree exploration] is to reveal this [garden's structure] to people by bringing those on the margins to the center to create awareness of how it is structured unfairly against them.
Most people participate in this [simple humanness] because they possess a false consciousness. They need to be enlightened so they can achieve a [godly] consciousness, which will lead to a revolutionary consciousness driving them to flip the system over.
When [mankind] become aware, they will seize the means of producing [the Kingdom of God] to overturn it and enforce a situation of equality.
Eventually, acts of equalisation will become spontaneous, which will produce [supernatural] justice.

Or as it says in the book:

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The Serpent's oldest trick, targeted at the unquestioning woman first:

"Something else is going on which is being hidden from you. You are being lied to".

Marxism is a powerful ideology because it's the oldest story of all. It's the snake's story in the Garden of Eden. It's imprinted on our nature. Marxism itself is a theology; a re-telling of our oldest mythology, with all its deceit and resentment packaged in.

It's the same Marx who wrote poems in the voice of the antichrist, with words like these:

How so! I plunge, plunge without fail
My blood-black sabre into your soul.
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell’s black mists.

Till heart’s bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
He chalks the signs, beats time for me,
I play the death march fast and free.

We know, Karl. We know.