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I've literally never ever met a person who vehemently opposed Marx and thought he was an idiot... that actually ever read Marx. I still remember when one person said things like "oh he was homeless, oh he cheated on his wife, he couldn't provide for his daughters, why would you root for someone like that?" but... why would that matter?
furthermore I know of someone who was a genuine full on nazi for more than a decade I think, and it all started falling apart for them when they actually genuinely read Marx, they had just never ever done it, only other people critiquing him, not what he actually said
if anyone on the left has to root for Marx's infidelity, do all capitalists have to root for Perdue pharma's intent to fatally supply Oxy? Or slavery?
The idea is absurd, and yet...
For one thing Marx's infidelity isn't actually very well proven also we're saying listen to his economic philosphy you don't have to let him marry your sister
I guess libertarians are lucky it's not called Hayekism or something because then they'd be subject to a bunch of inane comments about adultery, infidelity, and "how can you support someone who married his cousin?"
Though on second thought that would be kind of fun and funny.
Libertarians always were the shelbyville of ideologies with the whole thing being predicated on a false mythos of the development of commerce based on just-so stories.
Doesn't stop them from worshiping him. Hero worship among marxists is bad, but it's not a tenth of the dickriding that right libertarians do with their Favorite Guys.