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This person is so confidently wrong it's actually gotten under my skin. I wouldn't call myself a Marxist, anyway his ideas have been built on and corrected in places in the ~180 years since he wrote them down, but his work is massively influential and it has been represented so badly here.
It's baffling to lie about a theory because it's not written by someone "on your team" or something. Like a fuckload of his work is dry as shit historical analysis and economic theory which still shapes thought today and the poster is acting like all Marxism entails is a few pamphlets about taking power.
It's as weird to me as someone being like "Adam Smith loved violence and poverty" because the wealth of nations talks about thr impotance of military control and some of the causes of poverty.
It really shouldn't but it's gotten under my bloody skin with how irrational and fervent they are being.