Memes of Production

That IS what it meant. And if you read conservative monarchists like Edmund Burke, and his critique of the French Revolution, the criticism he presents is that. The Right. In support of monarchy for stability, much like Hobbes' Leviathan. Whereas classical liberalism was republican (with a little r), meaning equality under the law regardless of one's caste position. And if you go to Marx, I mean actually read the essays he and Engles wrote, you'll see he actually promoted democratic freedoms and worker owned coops. Not state communism. He'd have considered Leninism and particularly Stalinism and Maoism to be abhorrent. Because.... hear me out here, because dictatorships are but many forms of Kingship and monarchy. Which Marx OPPOSED.