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every day I yearn for a Magneto movie where he is just straight up right about everything.
Under communism this will be the only allowed format of super hero cape-shit movie. Just a series of movies where Magneto is right and vindicated and eventually wins in the series with the help of his human communist comrades and a broad group of mutants. And it ends with him visiting his friend Professor X in a comfortable low security re-education facility (actually located in the professor's mansion for some reason) and playing chess with him in a 
homage to the old movies where Magneto is imprisoned and Xavier visits him to play chess. Then as the credits roll Magneto appears for a short message to remind the audience that in real life hundreds of thousands of ordinary people risked it all, sacrificed greatly and gave their lives to overthrow capitalism and that they are the true super heroes.
I need to renew my Magneto Was Right membership.
Example 58219 of Wanda being The Worst
sees people farming
SO I SEE YOU'VE BECOME A SLAVE OWNER!?
And much like my local organization, they also frequently fight evil robots from the future
Socialism with Ghost of Christmas WAAAAAY Future characteristics
I will find Ebenezer Scrooge
We will find Skeletrex
We will smash his head in with Scrooge's old man cane
COMMUNISM! 
MAGNETO WANTS TO KILL EVERYONE! 
I've only seen some of the movies, so forgive me if my understanding of the story is wrong.
That being said, I think it's a little harsh to call Xavier a sellout. He's providing shelter and education to young people who've been kicked out of their homes, who probably wouldn't survive for long on their own. The fact he's managed to make it financially solvent should be seen as laudable. And... more than that, Magneto wouldn't be able to cultivate members for his own movement without Xavier doing this! They're really not diametric opposites, so much as mutually dependent.
The relationship between Xavier and Magneto is both dialectical and homoerotic
Xavier is the well-meaning lib with money who sets up a shelter for gay teens, Magneto is Huey Newton.
Magneto is Marcus Garvey
Not exactly a sellout, just a lib
My biggest problem with Xavier is that he seems to be obsessed with respectability politics.
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I kinda feel like reading X-Men from the beginning to now, where would be a good place to do that
I'd recommend Giant-Size X-Men #1, which started the Claremont era and is responsible for most of what we would think of as the X-Men today. I recently got Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1 on loan from the library, which collects the first 30 or so issues. It's pretty expensive (and rare, I believe) so you might want to look into going through your local library as well. Mine got it through the inter-library loan system, which is nationwide, your library might have inter-library service as well if you ask them about it.
It's a bit hokey, with some mid-70s cheese, but it's fun to see the start of what defines the X-Men even to this day, arguably (I don't think many would object, really) more so than the Lee/Kirby originals. Although, I have been meaning to go back to the beginning when I get the chance, only because it's my least read version of the X-Men (ironic, I know).
Also, there are less...legal means, if you don't mind those avenues: Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1-3 Download
