It is absolutely on the same level though. Marxists are supposed to analyze the world through a class lens, and standard weights and measures were created over thousands of years by peasants and artisans making actual objects - while metric was forced on them by bourgeois institutions so that it would be easier to create "free trade" by making everything in the places where workers are the most exploited and shipping the goods across the border.
Please don't put "you can remember there's 5280 feet in a mile by going five to-mate-oes" on the same level as calling America turtle island
It is absolutely on the same level though. Marxists are supposed to analyze the world through a class lens, and standard weights and measures were created over thousands of years by peasants and artisans making actual objects - while metric was forced on them by bourgeois institutions so that it would be easier to create "free trade" by making everything in the places where workers are the most exploited and shipping the goods across the border.