To me, the key to understanding Marxism is not in the elaborate, ornate boilerplate, but in the reality of a secret police. The rhetoric is so grandiose that there’s nothing that can’t be rationalized in its service. If it’s not a pseudo-philosophy designed specifically in order to legitimize a secret police control of a population, then it might as well be.

The very term ‘secret police’ is all wrong –sinister tho it is, it seems to indicate little more than the mere extension of a familiar & socially needful institution.

But that’s not at all how it has always worked. And since every single Marxist state has had a secret police, unchallenged by regular police or national military and thus with power and reach unlimited, one wonders how any self-respecting and honest Marxist can justify restricting himself to socioeconomic theory alone.

Question for benj to consider: what is the difference between police and secret police; why the ‘secret’?

Question for benj to consider: since a cancer cell is wildly healthy (able to propagate and spread with great vigor), is it only a problem insofar as the host is concerned, but otherwise a perfectly ordinary historical inevitability?