The establishment vs Uber

[kandrathe]

... In fact, most of my learning of Marxism has come from OUTSIDE the classroom - done on my on accord for my own interest.

Then it is like a hobby, and you are just as likely to get bad source information as you are to get good. You said before you were pursuing political science, and therefore I guess I assumed you were studying the Marxian perspective to some depth. You can take it from me. When Schumpter said Marxism had become like a religion, he did not mean it as a troll. He meant it in the sense that in his day, as it is now, adherents recite the dogma without any understanding. They take it on faith, without any intellectual digestion. You are so put off by the suggestion that anything might be wrong with a Marxian ideology, you refuse to "open" your mind to ideas that might challenge your extreme worldview (up there at the north pole).

To me, and I suspect to your college professors, you have just enough knowledge of Marxism to be frustrating. But, yet do not seem serious enough about it to really study it -- which would require you to actually read economists views, like Schumpter, Keynes, Galbraith, Sweezy, and even Friedman and Hayak. It seems Marxism is either your silver bullet, where you may believe it to be THE "answer", or you are merely using it to differentiate yourself (or elevate) from the masses of the brain dead surrounding you. Either way... you seem to not understand enough about it to realize yet that it is not.