There are too many self-proclaimed "Marxist-Leninist" who have zero understanding of german idealism, and as a result the Marxism that naturally comes after.
"Hegel is so complicated and too hard for me to read so I will avoid it. " I can't believe there are people who have the audacity to call themselves Marxists and refuse to engage with its fundamental building blocks.
Why not boy aristotle? Or neo-platonism? Why not trying to understand how out there berkeley was? Maybe descartes?
Or, why not to expand your understanding further, and go in depth into theory of phlogiston? To appreciate modern chemistry and thermodynamics more? Maybe study aether as well? Or swing by humor theory of 4 liquids?
personally i'm a fan of miasma theory
not only that, the marxist must perform a critique of christianity from that posture
The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it.