The insistence on adhering to 100+ year old texts, prestige-capping of newer works, and especially the insistence on using 100+ year old definitions of words despite 100+ years of language drift makes Marxism feel more like the domain of a bunch of know-it-all pedants who want something to lord over others than like a revolutionary movement focused on recruiting as many people as possible to the cause.

A serious movement focused on getting shit done would have rewritten the most popular works a dozen times by now.