Engels-style Marxist ideology weaponizes our typical in-group / out-group social dynamics to define those groups solely in terms of oppressor and oppressed. Onl

Engels-style Marxist ideology weaponizes our typical in-group / out-group social dynamics to define those groups solely in terms of oppressor and oppressed. Only the oppressed, the victims, are part of the in-group. It is visceral, effective, compelling, and utterly destructive to civil society. But that's the point: To construct an us-and-them narrative to excuse any evils done to "them" in the name of righteousness. Radicalization operates on the same pattern that gave us the Crusades, that gives us jihad, and that still drives people to full-throated defense of political purges. Defense of the individual, divorced from group dynamics, was the clear, shining achievement of classical liberalism. Personal rights, privileges, and equal treatment under the law regardless of which group you belonged to, or what your status in society is. Our school systems are vigorously working to pull that apart.