To accuse profiteering Marxists of hypocrisy is to miss the point about what Marxism is, as Dale Price at Dyspeptic Mutterings points out:
Repeat after me: Marxists are not hypocrites.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power.
It is wrong to call Buy Large Mansions! leader Patrice Cullors a “fraud.”
I understand the compulsion, but the barest read of history demonstrates that Marxists are impervious to allegations of hypocrisy.
Marxism is simply a method of power acquisition that drapes itself in the finery of social uplift for the masses. It sets forth principles–and then proceeds to ruthlessly dispense with them and those who hold them.
It has done so from the beginning. All that matters is what the party decides. And when the party line changes, so do the party members. Or else.
Go here to read the rest. Marxism has proven itself to be lousy as a roadmap to the future, as a blue print for bringing about justice in societies and a dead end as a philosophy of history. However, it is gangbusters as a means by frustrated intellectuals to grab power and wealth. No wonder it is so popular in academia!
As I’ve been saying forever (plus one day) Hypocrisy, to the left, is a badge of honor. We can not apply our standards of goodness to those whose only standard is everything, but goodness. That is pure folly. The same with calling the left ignorant or “stupid.” They are not. They are deadly smart, and cunning, and sadly, winning….
If we wish to defeat them, then we “need to be as cunning as serpents.”