> left. I've never encountered a group of Marxists where this kind of nonsense
> was not happening, and I believe it has something to do with Marxism itself
> on a very fundamental level.
Well, it's quite simple, really: anyone who comes out and says, over and over again, that "I'm a Marxist", instead of debating the issues, is obviously not one. It's not really about Marxism, it's about dialectics, the thought-mode endemic to this crazy economic system we live in called capitalism, which means thinking through social contradictions instead of loudly proclaiming that "I'm right and you all are wrong".
-- Dennis