His historical materialism takes (at least early on, before 29-31 - I’m basing this on some long rant ive read with some choice excerpts) are very meh, shades of mechanistism, and economic takes on problems of soviet union are rather inapplicable, unless you live in largely peasant country :shrug-outta-hecks: so broader philosophical stuff is bad, and focused stuff is interesting for understanding some of soviet union economic experiments, but again - inapplicable to anything currently existing