There’s a basic article of faith in leftist thought, held especially dearly by most among the U.S. left. It is so entrenched and so seldom challenged that it has attained the status of myth, an unquestioned origin story on par with the Book of Genesis, as the latter must have been regarded within Christendom during the Middle Ages. (I retain a link to this article on the site for historical purposes only as I have long since rejected Marxism and now oppose it vigorously.)