A lot of people don’t, it’s not unique to marxism of course but you’ll also see the type of person who quote-mines a lot (posting quote after quote after quote), just unable to make their own analysis/synthesis outside of what marx et al. precisely said.
marxism is a living science and must be properly placed back in its social component. People endlessly arguing over the minute meaning of a single word that might have been mistranslated and takes away from Marx’s ‘intent’ are just splitting hairs imo, practice will look different to the theory regardless in any social situation. Even early Christians synthesized aspects of ‘pagan’ beliefs/rituals to make conversion easier, and they’re the dogmatic ones! But that’s Western MarxismTM I guess.
A lot of people don’t, it’s not unique to marxism of course but you’ll also see the type of person who quote-mines a lot (posting quote after quote after quote), just unable to make their own analysis/synthesis outside of what marx et al. precisely said.
marxism is a living science and must be properly placed back in its social component. People endlessly arguing over the minute meaning of a single word that might have been mistranslated and takes away from Marx’s ‘intent’ are just splitting hairs imo, practice will look different to the theory regardless in any social situation. Even early Christians synthesized aspects of ‘pagan’ beliefs/rituals to make conversion easier, and they’re the dogmatic ones! But that’s Western MarxismTM I guess.