revolutionaries who came after marx and expanded on his work were not rejecting his method of analysis, they were using dialectical materialist thought to overcome the shortcomings of its origin in 19th century europe and make it useful to them. like essentially what “marx and lenin were irrelevant old white dudes but I’m going to pick and choose parts of global south revolutionary theory built on socialism to idealize” does is conveniently abandon the basic building blocks of historical materialism that would let you advance their ideas as they did for marx and lenin and make that theory impossible to apply to the task at hand
comrade huey newton said it the best. should we reject the law of gravity because someone who wrote it down held bigoted views? academia needs to start treating marxist framework as science it is.
