Comparing the increasingly authoritarian state of the US to the mid 20th century Soviet Union there appear some superficial resemblances. But much of your critique seems to hinge upon the assumption that the USSR was in any way Marxist. Left politics can be subverted not unlike right politics can. This is how you can read about real democracy in works of Marx, and reconcile it with the oppressive tactics of people such as Mao or Stalin. And how promises of more business for Mom & Pop businesses in the west were used to undermine them for purposes of consolidation of wealth and influence.
If you think this has anything do with “equality”, intellectualism, or even (gasp) Marxism - then you probably have some pretty thick ideological glasses on. What you are describing is simple greed. There is a world of difference between “Ideological Subversion via Marxism” and “Ideological Subversion of Marxism”
