I think this was obvious a while back when the mod did that terrible interview, followed by redditors trying to migrate to another sub (workReform) only for the new subs mods to get kicked out by the reddit admins, and replaced with mods they want.

There was several posts about it in a short timeframe, but I think they tried to bury them.

At this point I'm convinced that ALL of Reddit had become compromised. It's been that way for at least three years, possibly longer.

Let's face it: whenever there's a point (online or irl) where millions upon millions of people would congregate to exchange ideas and discourse - ESPECIALLY anti-establishment rethoric - that point was going to be a frontline for the clash of ideologies.

And we all know which ideology has all the capital and elects to co-op everything, including criticism against itself.

r/antiwork censors all discussion of violence as defined by reddit ToS. (which is to say excluding state violence and institutional violence more generally, but including non-actionable guillotine jokes)

This in itself is only to be expected in order to not get the subreddit itself banned.

However, they also have an automod message to accompany this censorship which justifies it in leftist language, citing Against the Logic of the Guillotine, a perfectly valid leftist position, but far from the only one.

If they were honest, they'd just say it was about reddit ToS.

I feel like I'm watching an office burn down from a bus outside the property

More like a self parody. The memes they post are garbage tier Facebook memes, and the discussion would be dumb for a high school politics course.

Given that it is reddit though, it wouldn't surprise me if it really is just dumb teenagers who think "communism is when no work."

A screenshot/link or any other evidence would add credibility to this post.

r/workreform definitely was

Any subreddit with more than a dozen users should be assumed to be moderated, and at the very least observed, by Reddit employees.