Some good ideas in here, but like so much Marxist writing it's written for other Marxists, and in an increasingly outdated pseudo-academic style.<p>Class relations are just not as simple as Marxists make them out to be, and the insistence of shoehorning everything into a Marxist theoretical framework (and writing style) loses probably 90% of the audience within the first few paragraphs. People are busy, at least make the effort to state your claim up front and sketch out what makes it different and worth someone's valuable time.<p>Most working class people do not have an appetite for pseudo-academic polemic; conversely, most Marxist-influenced writing comes off as fan fiction which is utterly uninteresting to people who are not already fans of original works. Also, only drawing from within that pool is a negative signal to most readers, as is uncritical reproduction of things like Juche monuments in North Korea (a nominally communist country that in practice is a highly repressive monarchy).<p>Like I said, a bunch of interesting ideas that get lost under antique dogma and some questionable assumptions.