Typologies of the Drift Rightward Part 1: Outline of Typologies of Marxists, Part 1

I have been reflecting on typologies of rightward shifts among leftists, and so I am writing a few types of rightward shifts from the Marxian left. I am also planning to do the left-liberal and anarchist left shifts right:

• “Anti-Revisionist who becomes a NGO Democrat”

1. “Maoist who becomes an elitists trust fund liberal,” example: Bill Ayers 
2. “Maoist who becomes scared of the enthusiasm of the cultural revolution and becomes a neo-liberal,” example: Most of the French Maoists of the 1970s. 

• Ex-Trotskyist Neo-liberal

1. “Trotskyists who get frustrated with ideological purity and start to move either to neo-conservatism,’ examples: Max Shachtman, James Burnham, David Horowitz
2. “Trotskyists who get frustrated with reactionary leftism and start moving towards more and more neo-liberal positions”  examples: Christopher Hitchens, Brendan O’Neill of Spiked! magazine

• Western Marxist who gives in to Despair

1. “Critical Theorists and Western Marxists who cave to the Liberal Ideology,” example: Max Horkheimer 
2. “Avante-garde cultural Marxists who gives up on the possibility of revolution,” example: Guy Debord, Herbert Marcuse   

• Marxists who start to engage in believe in rigid typologies and not in the dialectical method

1. Marxists who drop the method and become teleological “revisionists.” example: Bernstein, Kautsky
2. Marxists who drop dialectical thinking and move rightward, example: Gregor Lukacs 
3. Structuralists Marxists who move towards popular right politicians, example: Luccio Colletti 

• Marxist Social Democrats Who Become Neo-Liberals 

1. Latin Variety: Daniel Ortega
2. European Variety: François Mitterrand
3. American Anti-Communist “Socialists”:  Sidney Hook