Whither the left between radical de-policing and corporate de-politicizing?

Comment published on New York Times blog in response to essay by opinion writer Ross Douthat, “The Second Defeat of Bernie Sanders", June 23, 2020:

Corporate capitalism is a managerial culture, its elites often quite liberal. They tend to believe in all kinds of symbolic solutions to real social problems, to the point of eradicating injustice by changing uses of pronouns and gender inflections. With students at universities feeding this elite in the lead, this has brought a reduction of racial inequity to verbal transgressions and policing of insults and politeness. Its intersectional politics trades on inflated notions of oppression and irresponsible bashing and baiting of 'privilege'. (There are left-wing pogroms; should we hate violinists?)

The capitalist state is a police state of good manners for corporate offices, but it also has a nastier side. Including misuses of 'mental health' practices as social control, and violent, militarized policing and a criminal justice system that causes great harms and cures few.

Sanders rebooted the Democratic Party with a true left wing that it has not had in decades, putting capitalism itself and the possibility of a more democratic society in contrast once again on the agenda. The left now is largely a coalition between urban minorities and university-educated elites. Winning the old white working middle class is indeed a strategic challenge.

Is the only solution the corporate sham of equality as politeness? We can roll back the police state by becoming less capitalist. We all know now that Stalin didn't patent socialism. A future will be invented.