It is amazing to see a good chunk of a certain intellectual tradition affirming that, somehow, the enormous amount of cash that trickles down from Fortune 500 corporations to left-wing causes and ideas is not representative of anything, because they are not subverting whetever structure that Marx theorized two centuries ago

Living in a country that is not a part of the Atlantic Imperial Centre (southern Europe), you see clearly that Capital has clearly a side, and that side is not the free-market-provide and the reactionary one.