"This doesn’t have anything in the least to do with anything I am saying"

And yet it pushed your Marxist button. How could I possibly have known?

Nearly 100 years ago, John Reed returned from the Soviet Union and announced that he had seen the future, and it works. So it's hardly news that some people think capitalism is done. The rumors of its death have always been exaggerated, but you are in good company.

I wish you a world in which you feel less rage and more hope. That is essentially what White Privilege amounts to, and you should have it, too.