Marxists think having to work for a living is "slavery". Let that sink in. We are living beings. We require certain things for our survival. Those things don't magically appear before us. We have to work for them. Food, shelter, and all the things we have created in our industrial civilization, have to be CREATED through productive effort. For most people, there is nothing bad about this - it's a fact of life, and, many of us find satisfaction and joy from the effort. We work to sustain and improve our lives, which we love. Marxists rail against this fact, and call it an "injustice". They call it "slavery". Terms like "wage slavery" are what they call having a job. So, to be clear: Marxists hate work. Because they hate the idea of working to sustain their lives. Because they hate their lives. Because, at root, they don't believe they are competent to do the things the rest of us do - creative productive effort. So they hate themselv
When leftist/progressives employ ridicule, they seek to destroy - ridicule demolishes. When they employ sarcasm, they seek to destroy - mockery is destruction. When they use the argument from intimidation - accusing their opponents of racism, or lack of compassion - they destroy. When they engage "political correctness" - literally, banning the use of "politically incorrect" words, really, thoughts - they destroy. When they attend speeches by opponents and shout them down so loudly their opponent cannot effectively speak, they are destroying. When they riot, rampage, loot and burn, they are destroying - directly. What they are doing is literally destroying thoughts in the minds of others - before those others can clarify and consider thoughts opposed to the leftists. They are actually doing battle inside the minds of their opponents, shutting down those minds before they can become a threat. It is one thing when leftists do this. The modern leftist is at root a nihi