Anyway, getting to a more interesting aspect of this article, are there any Marxist countries left in modern times?
Russia, Vietnam and China have moved towards a state capitalism system, I read a book recently about North Korea and how their ideology is more based more Japanese Fascism then traditional Marxism and their society is like an inverse version of Nazi Germany then a Marxist state. The book argues that their supposed Marxist ideology is simply a show for outside and their true ideology is based on Korean racial superiority and the idea that Koreans must be protected from the outside world, rather then Marxism.
What does that leave, Cuba? Even they are slowly moving towards a market economy.
I don't get right wingers trying to use Marxism as a boogeyman at this point, Marxism never recovered from the collapse of the USSR and has failed to remain a relevant ideology past 1991, IMO. This seems like living in the past.
I think social democracy has become a more popular ideology among left wingers then Marxism has, being that its more practical and realistic then Marxism (Bernie is a social democrat), while the far left has rejected traditional Marxism in exchange for anarchism.
So I don't know why right wingers fear the return of an dictatorship of the proletariat, that idea has become discredited and will never really recover.
