Por Que o Marxismo Persiste com Sucesso nos EUA?

Excelente artigo de Bruce Thornton publicado na Hoover Digest: "In this country, the rise of progressivism successfully altered the constitutional order to create a technocratic regime of federal bureaus and agencies. This unelected, unaccountable apparat increasingly has encroached on the power and autonomy of states, cities, businesses, churches, families, and individuals by massive, intricate regulatory regimes. Like Marxism, its power was based on pretenses to “scientific” knowledge that in fact comprised scientism: ideolog-ical beliefs dressed up in the jargon and quantitative formulae of real science. The consequences are the “soft despotism” Tocqueville  predicted  when  Karl Marx was still a callow youth studying Hegel in Berlin.
(...) More important, this legitimizing of the redistributionist socialist-lite Leviathan created a political ecological niche for a Marxism, hard or soft, that had already found a comfortable home in universities, think tanks, and culture whether high, middlebrow, or low. Cultural Marxism, the idea that revolution requires altering cultural productions, mores, and morals, flourished in this niche, from which it trickled down into the public school curriculum. Indeed, Black Lives Matter ideology will soon join the ahistorical “1619 Project” and Howard’s Zinn’s historically challenged agitprop, A People’s History of the United States in American junior highs and high schools."