Post #3381535

Marxism is broad. There are correct lines, incorrect lines, and hotly contested lines. An expat from a socialist country that serves as an academic for a liberal university is going to have certain class interests and outlooks that set them apart from a communist building socialism in a socialist country. With only that information, there isn’t really anything else to help build a case for or against how Marxism was taught to you, through what frames, and in what manner and depth. As for you making an assertion, you did: It isn’t all correct. It has insightful points that should be incorporated into a more well-rounded worldview rather than slavishly adhered to. You don’t have to defend this assertion if you don’t want to, but this is what people who understandably want to defend Marxism are going to latch onto and try to address. This is what manifests in “dogpiling,” when you have a clear statement like this one, but with little backing it beyond your experience with Marxism in western academia, this understandably causes people to raise issue with your claims. Block if you want to, but this seems like you want to have your cake and eat it too, raise your opinion on a subject and shield yourself from talking about it on a social media platform focusing on discussion. Again, do what you want. Nobody should be forced to debate.