Rome: Empire of the Eagles 753BC - AD 476 by Neil Faulkner

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Well, defining for the first time in detail such political/sociological/economic phenomena like class, capital etc. isn`t such a bad achievement.

That's exactly what Faulkner was caricaturing as an incorrect methodology. It's like saying that the Nazis were mixed because they had the autobahn along with the mass killings. One can't say that, he argues. And you can't say the same thing about Marxism. Along with causing death of millions, it was thoroughly discredited on every level, and introduced a thousand obfuscations into every field it touches -- into economics (labor theory of value), into history (dialectical materialism), into philosophy (determinism), art (class expression), etc etc. If after devastations such as that, they added a handful of a few tiny words, there is no harm in still judging the whole philosophy as utterly detrimental to mankind.