>bourgeois currents thrive within Marxism
Well of course, since this is bourgeois society. The bourgeoisie control the means of ideolgical production, and anyone who wants to be a serious intellectual or political Marxist has to mix it up with bourgeois writing and thought. Isn't there even a strand in Marxism, one that includes Lenin even, that regards the universalization of bourgeois culture and education as part of socialism? What about Marx and the civilizing aspects of capital? I think there's a certain kind of militant who posits an authentic, autonomous proletarian culture that doesn't exist.
Doug