EX-MARXISTS

I think if anything it existed during the industrial period when a petit bourgeois middle class arose, but shackled to manufacturers. Despite popular memery American manufacturing isn't dead yet, just moribund. Service workers would be the proletariat, unless their bosses are full service.

With few exceptions, they didn't have much marxist credentials to begin with.

Government contracting is basically modern-day feudalism. The US funds companies like SpaceX etc, gets to keep the tech at a lower price and the companies then get to sell it abroad.

Because they are cops, spies and stooges.

That has nothing to do with feudalism.

This is not true. It's possible to give up after a while seen the sorry state of marxism today

You're forgetting two big ones: Kolakowski and Popper, both of whom become very staunch liberal apologists.

There have been hundreds of millions of people believing in the tenets of Monarchism, Liberalism, etc. so of course you'll also find examples of liberals who became open Nazis etc. or a switch between any other such pair. The only positions possibly free from that problem are micro-sects, like vegano-posadism or whatever. What's the point. Is Mussolini's life the proof that syndicalism leads to fascism? Surely not. This is a dumb idea for a thread and you are dumb, OP.

Brainlet who got constantly BTFO by the Vienna circle and who only had socialist sympathies as a teenager (possibly influenced by his socialist uncle Josef Popper-Lynkeus) and perhaps early twenties. 20th century Muke.

People's war bitch

I've been preoccupying myself with a bit of his work - enough for me to find out that he renounced his views on evolution being a 'metaphysical programme' or whatever he called it. Most know about his criticism of Marxism's lack of scientific-ness and the standard response appears to come from the 'analytical Marxists' who try to reframe it as some sort of rigid body of knowledge (they take Marx's achievements with regards to empirical judgements rather than the core of his method, which is strictly dialectical). Some researcher called 'Alexander Naraniecki' alleges that Popper actually took a neo-Kantian or even Hegelian turn in later life. I have seen even less on Kolakowski besides Rafiq's words against some 'will franklin' guy (who was probably a troll!)