I'm as opposed to this woke nonsense as anyone, but calling it "Marxist" is wholly misleading. Marx and his ideological companions saw social injustices, like slavery, through the lens of economic exploitation and class struggle. The DIE cult flips the script entirely; for them, economic inequality is a product of omnipresent "structural racism" and "white supremacy." Calling this delusion "Marxist" is just as incorrect as calling Donald Trump "fascist."
Fair point and thanks for asking that question and giving me the opportunity to elaborate. I was saying "neo-Marxist" because the DIe agenda essentially takes Marxism and ctrl+f replaces "class" with "race/gender". Comparison:
Marx -> Use the power of the state to seize power and economic opportunity from the "bourgeoisie" and distribute them to the proletariat to fix the inequities of history by any means necessary.
DIE cult -> Use the power of the state to seize power and economic opportunity from the "privileged"[1] and distribute them to the "underprivileged"[2] to fix the inequities of history by any means necessary.
[1]: aka "white-looking" men who can't be easily sorted into a "BIPOC" affinity group of "oppressed" persons. The jury's still out as far as where Asian-Americans, who largely out-perform and out-earn whites, for example, or white South Africans belong on this imaginary spectrum. Because "diversity" is inherently subjective, one's privilege rating is dynamic and can change at any time.
[2]: aka maybe women or people "identifying" as a woman, people with maybe slightly darker skin (unless they "identify" (which shouldn't be an intransitive verb anymore) as such, immigrants, morbidly obese, trans-identifying, gay-identifying, mental-illness-identifying, two-spirit-identifying, indigenous-identifying (Elizabeth Warren tried this), plus whatever cool new identities will be discovered from now to eternity.
And let's not forget that diversity of political viewpoints or opinions _never_ counts. (Yes, even if you grew up in east Germany, son/daughter of Soviet citizens whose parents were killed by Stalin and you are accordingly wary of new, trendy ideologies - when applying to work at a DIE-adhering corporations, you may be shoehorned into the "privileged" group, based on skin color or a subjective measure of relative "diversity" compared to current employees.
It's Marxist because it explains inequality by claiming (with no direct evidence) that society is split into two sides, and there's a conspiracy by one group to oppress the other which justifies the use of unfair tactics to take the wealth of the oppressors and give it to the oppressed. If some members of that latter group stand up and say they aren't actually being systematically oppressed, it is explained as treachery or that they are unaware of their own oppression.
IOW if you replace class with race/gender then it's the same world view, teachings and moral code.
