this is what happens when you remove core concepts of marxist theory from public discourse. people can still easily come up with concepts like stolen surplus value and alienation by simply observing their everyday live, but they lack a greater framework that makes them understand other, not directly observable aspects such as the limits of reformism. they're basically stuck with the insurmountable task of having to come up with all of marxism by themselves.
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
this is what happens when you remove core concepts of marxist theory from public discourse. people can still easily come up with concepts like stolen surplus value and alienation by simply observing their everyday live, but they lack a greater framework that makes them understand other, not directly observable aspects such as the limits of reformism. they're basically stuck with the insurmountable task of having to come up with all of marxism by themselves.