An example of a real marxist would people people who write books. Lots of good critiques of capitalism come from marxist it’s just their solutions are braindead retarded and rely on a complete misunderstand of how human beings work. Yes, neoliberal billionaires like them because they know they are de facto pawns for capitalism. I don’t know if you know this or not but third positionists don’t like capitalism or communism. In the honest sense? Real marxists probably haven’t existed in decades in terms of the average person. There are people who write books critiquing capital that are marxists and it’s a recent phenomenon where this PC culture had bled into and merged with the “left.” You would find a legit marxist as disgusted as conflating him with the modern antifa faggot who likes niggers, minorities and is anti white as I would be disgusted for some shitlib to conflate me with a libertarian, conservative or ancap as being “right wing.” In reality the left-right dichotomy has been bastardized to the point where it doesn’t even mean anything anymore like almost all political words. This is why I’m hellbent on using the correct language so we can actually have a conversation. Nobody knows what anything means anymore. For instance corporatism is a part of fascism. The word has been literally conflated with its exact opposite today to mean crony capitalism. Nobody knows what anything means and it’s on purpose. That’s why I’m anal about the fucking language. But yes as the zeitgeist of the entire world has become more egalitarian meanings change. Stalin for instance would have 99% of people calling themselves “communists” today killed. People who think they are fascists but worship 1950s america are the same on the “right.” Essentially liberalism is the problem. So to answer your question, yes. They used to exist but they have always been useful idiots to help centralize power. Anyone pushing for woke shit is a fake. I think maybe zizek would be the only legit actual leftist I know of from the old left who is anti PC but he’s just a moron who isn’t race realist and doesn’t understand Darwin. Have you actually ever heard marx’s take on niggers? It’s a recent phenomenon that people assume everyone always meant all races when they said “mankind” and shit from documents hundreds of years ago. This happens with the founding fathers too. So yeah true to form marxist do not exist anymore because they are literally just footsoldiers of the establishment in a neoliberal global capitalist system. They are literally useful idiots but not for communism. All form of materialism (putting the distribution of wealth over race, blood and soil) are degenerate and this includes both capitalism and communism. Reject both and join the third position.