Would you call yourself a Merxist? In that case, we have a standing challenge that you might be inclined to respond to:

techno: let's organize a debate about the future.  You find someone who has a traditional Left / Marxist / Socialist worldview, and I will act as closely as possible like a 19th-20th century Minnesota Populist.  Since Populists taught that every example used in organizing should be something anyone could confirm by looking out a window, I will insist that I can use modern examples.  Otherwise, I will attempt to be a completely authentic Populist.

I predict that even with the "handicap" of 100 year-old political theory, my historical Populism will better explain current political / economic / environmental / technological reality and offer more constructive ways of addressing our civilization ending problems than any other form of leftist / progressive thought.

Are you interested?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?