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And if you say you want to simplify things you're vulgarizing Marxism-Leninism, you simply can't win.
Meanwhile I have got tons of people to actually read and engage with ML theory because I understand it well enough and have spent a life time working retail and service jobs that I know how to talk to people in ways they will understand. It is important to read the source material so that you can do that but it also makes little sense to just regurgitate 100+ year old vocabulary. Once we have the concepts and ideas of Marxism fully absorbed into our analysis it only makes sense to explain things in terms normal people understand.
This is why (for its time) the manifesto was written in fairly plain language that the average worker could get through intuition. We gravely need more approachable theory for modern generations.
That said there is also a time and place and certain audiences that may be swayed by someone speaking like an academic authority. You just gotta kinda read the room.
If you're not arguing over the vulgarizing of the theory of political economy by the mechanists in every minutiae possible detail then you're a worse revisionist than
This is also why I enjoy utilizing or retooling elements from the pamphlet 'why communism' by Moissaye J. Olgin when I talk shop because it's already got the plain talks down but occasionally needs a tweak to make it applicable to whatever I'm talking about at the moment