What is a Marxist?

Communist, democratic socialist, social democrat and liberal are all different terms for different political understandings. Of course there is some overlap between [i]adjacent [/i]terms. For example, Paul Krugman is a liberal but [i]some [/i]of his ideas are social democratic. There are different distinctions on the right too. Ron Paul is not the same as Paul Ryan, who is not the same as Trump, who is not the same as Mussolini, who is not the same as Hitler. Though again there is some overlap.

Karl Marx wrote nothing about the specifics for a future society and his focus was on critiquing the developments of capitalism. Marx was of course a revolutionary socialist though he would have hated what regimes of the 20th century did in his name. I have read some of his work and I agree with some of his analysis, even though I myself am a democratic socialist.

No folks, CNN is not Marxist. To call something 'Cultural Marxism' is an insult which is baseless on about fifteen different levels. Marx would have hated 'Cultural Marxism', both in any real sense and as the utterly imagined post-McCarthyite straw-man argument.