And it’s not like our status as a capitalist country has stopped us benefiting from Marx, either.
We beat slavery in part because England sat out the American Civil War. England sat out the war largely because the International Working Men’s Association decided England ought to sit out the war, (the South’s cheap cotton would have benefited English textile workers and other working class Englishmen, but the organization decided solidarity was more important). And the International Working Men’s Association was created by Karl Marx. Marx was giving speeches to them during the Civil War praising their solidarity.
Similarly, a lot of union organizers – who sacrificed their lives fighting for the 5-day workweek and the 8-hour day – were avowed, vocal Marxists.
Muckraker Upton Sinclair,-- whose book, The Jungle, gave us food safety standards – never hid his disdain for capitalist exploitation for so much as a single paragraph of that book.
You can work toward Marxist goals within capitalist countries and vastly improve capitalism in the process.
Yeah, but Fain is the first democratically elected UAW leader (prior leadership was chosen by delegations and was fraught with racketeering and embezzlement) and it shows.
The Greatest Estate Developer is about a civil engineer who gets Isekai’d into a novel (as one does in a webcomic) and is granted some magic powers (as often happens in webcomics).
He pretty quickly declares that his goal is to build enough modern amenities (and swindle enough of his neighbors) so that he can retire and relax for the rest of his life.
But, you know, there’s giant monsters (because it’s a webcomic) and rival dukedoms, and imperial intrigue, and he keeps finding himself in the middle of it all.
There’s a lot of comedy, and a ridiculous bromance between him and the novel’s main character.
It’s very Putin-esque to sully the reputation of every institution and democratic process that could inhibit your power… by shamelessly abusing those institutions and processes so much that ordinary people associate them with shameless, partisan abuse.