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Except its not.
Corruption is intrinsecally tied to the rule of law, ideologies that think that the "rule of law" is a tool of the burgoise to oppress the masses by its very definition promotes corruption.
https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/business-law/law-in-the-socialist-society.php
And i never said "The left", for someone who claims to be a liberal you still have the classic Americentrism in which you try to fit the entire world through the lenses of the American political reality.
You are simply too pampered growing up in a country where a strong rule of law is a given to understand what it is to live in a country where it is not.
The leftist view is that the CURRENT law is a tool of the bourgeoisie and needs to be REPLACED by something else. It's not that there should be no law and people should be able to do whatever. Things like abiding by contracts, positions being awarded on merit instead of personal relationships, etc., are all as much of Marxist/communist/Chavista/whatever thing you don't like as it is by centrist/right-wing/neoliberal government.
What's more, the pre-Bolshevik Russian movement, Yugoslavia in the 50s-60s, and anarchist Catalonia, (to give examples of governments that most closely followed a leftist/Marxist model) all had very clearly marked judicial systems. And corruption was punished in all those places. They weren't given a pass on the grounds that laws are a "tool of class oppression" or whatever.
So wrong again, Rod. No ideology looks kindly upon corruption.