This has become absurd.
Charles is correct on this matter.
I am a member of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. I pay dues. The section includes traditional Marxists and cultural Marxists, (class, race, gender folks like me). There are communists, socialists and progressives. We all see the value of some form of Marxist intellectual tradition.
Folks can whine that we are not "real" Marxists, but it is idiotic to suggest that we do not exist. I have presented papers at the Marxist Section sessions. We exist. We get to call our group the Marxist Section whether folks like it or not.
Furthermore, most people in the Marxist section, and most other members of the ASA, will tell you that three of the early major intellectual founders of sociology are Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.
Two people debating this matter absent any material basis of knowledge is bizarre.
Dialectical materialism?
Jeez...
-Chip Berlet "I'm not a sociologist but I play one on TV."