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the rampant misunderstandings of marx can largely be attributed to the common impoverished conception of normativity. marx as applied ethicist is a poor etiolated thing and easily dismissible. many pollute their thinking by imposing a public/private dichotomy as prerequisite for normative validity
i also think this comes from people simply not reading in general and being historically uninformed. the most common objections to marx are actually objections to to pre-marxist radicals and even liberals! even self-proclaimed marxists are often unknowingly just john stuart mill fans
this is why nietzscheans make for much more clear-headed marxists btw
also why i heavily dislike some in the radical realist literature for emphasizing a “distinctly political normativity”. like lol yeah sure bud, and there’s also a distinct type of normativity for anything you can imagine. don’t make it seem like Morality and Politics are the only two games in town