The little Marxist stoolies in Portland and elsewhere are dangerous, but not as dangerous as their leaders.
The common thug doesn’t understand not care about Marx or any of the “great minds” before them. What they care about was mentioned in the readings above, but the ability to be as bad as they can be while blaming anyone else for causing them to act so.
Their leaders at least know about Marx or the philosophy of socialism. As such they direct the thugs accordingly .
Its a pretty good chess game, if the cops respond they are facist tools of the .gov. If the cops don’t respond they are weak and the public hates them for the inaction. In either case, the anti .gov sentiment grows. Add to that a Mayor and council who hate the police to start and it gets more interesting day by day.
These thugs are entitled to everything, just ask them. And the problem is that they have been getting their way. They are emboldened by it, others join to get some of that. It’s growing and will continue until the revolution eats its children, or someone squashes them like pests.
They will return later, another place, another day. Marxism doesn’t go away, just continues.