According to
Friedrich Engels, who worked alongside Marx,
socialism is the first phase of the revolution, in which the government plays a prominent role in economic life, and class differences begin to shrink. This interim stage ultimately gives way to communism, a classless society where the working class no longer relies on the state
Like impeaching a president. Marx himself suggested that Capitalism must be overthrown for a Socialist (Communist) economy. We're watching it right in front of our faces and people don't see it. People think Socialism is fire trucks and Germany lol.
With that said. I'm out.
even "communism" can only exist under the management of a "Great Leader' and his little clique of privileged officials.... and usually it is an unstable clique, where any rising star who seems to be inconveniently popular, must be done away with somehow, to keep "The Great Leader" the only one who is idolized.
Marxism is a false vision of something that cannot ever be real, because it fundamentally denies human realities.
"Capitalism" in some quarters is another false ideal, but in some usages it refers to simple "freedom", the fundamental human right to act in one's own best interest in commercial relations. People can, and sometimes do, care for one another, and do great stuff in the interest of some common good. Sometimes we can benefit from organized benevolence in society, but there is no fundamental necessity that trying to do that means people can't still be individually "free". Voluntary cooperation fills the gap.
I think JazzyFresh is basically right in seeing the Trump impeachment on the same vein as a political overthrow of "Capitalism".
Pretty much, at its root, the TrumpDumpster crusade is an attempt to overthrow historical American "freedom". A lot of pointy-headed, pointy-nosed, pencil-necked "True Belivers" in Obama's sort of idea of fundamentally transforming America into the grand communist ideal..... displacing a constitutional republican form of government reliant on local power sharing with a top-down elitist dictatorship.
I'd be as worried about Trump "fundamentally transforming" the world by slick deal-making as by Obama's, except I noticed that Obama was consistently selling America short, and enriching himself and his good buddies like crazy, while Trump has been doing things that actually benefit the ordinary interests of common Americans.
That might change, overnight perhaps, but nobody is going to sell me the elitist load outright.