“The idea that people utilizing their freedom of association to pool resources in order to influence politics is somehow corruptive of the political process stems from the unspoken idea that the country is one big commons owned collectively by us all and the government’s purpose is to decide how to fairly allocate the commons.”
Nonsense. The suspicion that political parties would corrupt government didn’t originate with Marxism, it’s something that American founders worried about before they even ratified the Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison can be seen discussing the issue in Federalist Papers #9 and #10. They call parties “factions”.
Where did the author say it originated with Marxism?