CounterCounterpoint: the attention economy has rotted the ability of modern people to focus enough to read dense text in hundred-year-old vernacular that references issues that were contemporary when they were written but that anyone today, outside of niche history nerds, has zero context for, and rather than get with the times and publish updated versions or contemporary applications and contexts, the modern left would rather bully people for not being able to muster the attention required to digest it because they derive more smug satisfaction from having read theory than they would get from helping people who won't or can't read ancient academic texts to understand the core principles discussed in them
rather than get with the times and publish updated versions or contemporary applications and contexts
Note that revolutionaries like Lenin, Mao, and Che didn't just translate Marx into their local languages -- they did exactly what you're suggesting and updated the core concepts for their time and place. They weren't dogmatic, they were practical.
CounterCounterpoint: the attention economy has rotted the ability of modern people to focus enough to read dense text in hundred-year-old vernacular that references issues that were contemporary when they were written but that anyone today, outside of niche history nerds, has zero context for, and rather than get with the times and publish updated versions or contemporary applications and contexts, the modern left would rather bully people for not being able to muster the attention required to digest it because they derive more smug satisfaction from having read theory than they would get from helping people who won't or can't read ancient academic texts to understand the core principles discussed in them
Note that revolutionaries like Lenin, Mao, and Che didn't just translate Marx into their local languages -- they did exactly what you're suggesting and updated the core concepts for their time and place. They weren't dogmatic, they were practical.
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