I also wonder if marxists are patiently waiting for the polarization to stop so that all mis-categorized moderates will cease to be stinking up their leftist agenda.

I read Tragedy and Farce: An Analysis of the book Free Culture as you suggested. Here is a link to Analysis of Tragedy and Farce:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080430-is-lessigs-free-culture-just-a-modern-das-kopyright.html

Here are two small parts of the analysis of the analysis:

Sydnor routinely plucks statements from context to give them a meaning different from, or even directly opposed to, Lessig’s fairly clear intent.

All of which is to say that Tragedy and Farce is a hyperbolic and stunningly dishonest screed, remarkable less for any contribution it makes to the debate over intellectual property and more for the fact that a well-funded Washington think-tank saw fit to publish it..

My opinion of Tragedy and Farce by Thomas D. Sydnor is not a favorable one. His arguments (if you can call his attempted character assassination of Lessig an argument), are extreme fanatical right wing propaganda at its worst. Instead of actually discussing intellectual property rights and the many ideas found in Lessigs book, Sydnor attempts to create a relationship, or corollary, between Lessig and various historical figures associated with the communist movement – Stalin, Castro, Marx. IMO its pretty shameful stuff that offers nothing to the debate.