"And then you see it. as it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world," he's silent for a second.

"You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*... that the bourgeois are not human."

If anything the things Marx described have only accelerated, with a smaller and increasingly richer section of society dominating how we work, live, what education we get, what our opportunities are, etc. And more and more people are proletarianized with no options outside of wage slavery

Employee ownership/stock options are not the same as bourgeois ownership just simply due to the scale. You may own some small part of a company, maybe even the one you work for, but that ownership does not give you the options to determine your work conditions, your pay, what the company does, etc.

Do you have any questions I could potentially answer?

Its quite simple. If you sell your labor for a wage to meet your needs, you're a prole. If you use money to buy labor to generate more money, you're bourgeoise.

The bourgeoisie lied to you about israel but I bet they're telling you the truth about past socialist experiments

Upstream
Socialist Program
Rev Left Radio

I would ignore the cool zone stuff personally, I know some people like them and I did too but they take a very horseshoe theory view of history and repeat a lot of state department propaganda. They supported the US backed attempted coup in Bolivia, for exa.

China isn't adversarial unless you are drinking the CIA kool aid

Especially these two chapters which are like 40 pages total.