Sun Tzu says that a wise general will choose the battlefield. You can decide to attack where you enemy is weak and you are strong, you can pick battles where even if you lose you don't lose because you are facing an enemy already defeated.
The art of war is the art of deception. Where you are weak you want to appear strong, and when you are strong you want to appear weak.
In this sense, it makes sense for the rich to take up marxist causes twisted to suit their ends. They have chosen a battlefield where if they win, then their twisted form of marxism which says you must support megacorps and the establishment becomes law and they win; and if they lose then marxism loses and the megacorps see one of their ideological opposites fail and they win.
This is where populism becomes a dirty word. Populism is defined as separating the world into the common people and the elites and saying that the power should be held by the common people instead of the elites. Marxism should be populist, but they chose the battlefield so they're actually pushing a self serving non-populist marxism, and they're trying to set it up so it's non-populist marxism vs non-populist conservatism, and if it appears that someone is calling for people to have power over their own lives then both groups are supposed to attack that evil populist. That's how you end up with democrats and "normal republicans" and the Lincoln project types vs. the "evil" maga republicans.
The art of war is the art of deception. Where you are weak you want to appear strong, and when you are strong you want to appear weak.
In this sense, it makes sense for the rich to take up marxist causes twisted to suit their ends. They have chosen a battlefield where if they win, then their twisted form of marxism which says you must support megacorps and the establishment becomes law and they win; and if they lose then marxism loses and the megacorps see one of their ideological opposites fail and they win.
This is where populism becomes a dirty word. Populism is defined as separating the world into the common people and the elites and saying that the power should be held by the common people instead of the elites. Marxism should be populist, but they chose the battlefield so they're actually pushing a self serving non-populist marxism, and they're trying to set it up so it's non-populist marxism vs non-populist conservatism, and if it appears that someone is calling for people to have power over their own lives then both groups are supposed to attack that evil populist. That's how you end up with democrats and "normal republicans" and the Lincoln project types vs. the "evil" maga republicans.
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That's sort of my point. They're trying to appeal to certain people as part of the trick, but if they get everything they ask for what they really get is world domination by the elite class.