To be fair, while ignoring the social content is ridiculous, a central element of Marxism is that it doesn’t base itself on moral arguments, however morally passionate its authors obviously are.
Sure. They just pretty explicitly rejected the idea of reading anything else because they weren’t interested in what people interpreted form his work or anything. Like reading Marx was pure and appropriate to their finance degree, but reading anything based on his work was not because then it entered the forbidden realm of politics.
To be fair, while ignoring the social content is ridiculous, a central element of Marxism is that it doesn’t base itself on moral arguments, however morally passionate its authors obviously are.
Sure. They just pretty explicitly rejected the idea of reading anything else because they weren’t interested in what people interpreted form his work or anything. Like reading Marx was pure and appropriate to their finance degree, but reading anything based on his work was not because then it entered the forbidden realm of politics.
That person should really be encouraged to keep reading Marx, you cannot not learn anything from it :)