{"id":5248,"date":"2026-06-23T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:17:39","slug":"marxism-worldview-of-the-extreme-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"Marxism: Worldview of the Extreme Left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I was wrong. I just realized that some Democrats do share a common worldview and that would be Marxism. Of course, some of these progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists are much more subtle than outright Communists, but in essence many believe in Marxist ideology. I&#8217;m not saying all Democrats hate capitalism like Marxists, many just believe in reforming capitalism through regulation and taxation but they still believe in private property and the free market. I believe in capitalism wholeheartedly but it seems like an unbridled free market creates extreme wealth inequalities and leaves vulnerable people behind. However, I think these side effects can be easily remedied without resorting to Marxist ideology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I was wrong. I just realized that some Democrats do share a common worldview and that would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2198546136582398285.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}