There is no left in the US.

There is. The jails are full of them. The ghettos are full of them. The service sector wouldn't exist if you tried to get by without anyone expressing leftist political views.

But they have very little capital, no open lines of communication, and no legal means of political organizing. America does not lack for Marxists. What it lacks is a vanguard party that can operate in full view of the public.

Any time you see a hint of party formation - from the WTO protests to OWS to BLM - it's smothered to death by hostile police, mass media, and private grifters preying on any ambient social good will.

They’ve built an entire suite of technologies that are designed to quash dissent. Now with AI, you can’t even get your rhetoric out there because they can correlate your writing style and find out who you are

More insidiously, find you and echo your message from a hundred different knock off organizations that exist exclusively to spread FUD.

Bernie Sanders memes blasting from every corner, drowning out any actual organizing message while signaling nothing.