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I'll take a shot but I'm not a die hard X-Men guy. If someone has a little more precision please correct me.
Basically magnetos driving idea is that people (and their governments) are out to get mutants and won't ever change, so it's up to him to lead mutants to fight back. Basically if they want respect and fair treatment, they have to take it for themselves. He tries many times in many ways to pull down the establishment by, for example, attempting to convert all people to mutants.
The premise of the post is basically that, since Reagan, social support is diminishing and power and wealth are concentrating in such a way in the upper class. Ergo, taking an... uh... active approach in advocating for ourselves is looking increasingly like a good idea.
In my opinion,
Magneto being a victim / survivor of Anti-Semitism , has made him have
a severe black-and-white justice complex.
a severe inferiority complex.
a do-or-die / either friend-or-foe complex.
a guilt for being powerless to save himself or his parents.
All these things are a complex brew in the psyche of any human being.
It made Prof.X seem somewhat naive or Magneto too brash/risky.
The balance of things either Prof.X or Magneto depending on the scenario plays out. Neither of the results or methods are satisfactory or acceptable but it is a quandary.
No one can predict at the moment of action/in-action where is the correct path.
That is what it means to live your life. Regrets or no-regrets no one can say but you.
Your lived-experience IS NOT a solution for the entire planet or universe. DO NOT apply your solution on others.
Let them live their life.
And that is sometimes very very hard to let-go or adopt.
This is my opinion. You may or may not agree with me. Im good.
That seems about right, except for the inferiority complex.
Magneto has always had a superority complex the size of a continent, and it leaks, making him see not only himself but all mutants as superior... to the point that in Marvel continuity he seems to have been the one to coin the term “homo superior” to refer to mutants as opposed to homo sapiens, or at least he was the first one to use it in the books, in the very first X-Men issue, in the second panel in which he ever appeared (in the real world the term was coined by Olaf Stapledon).