Being strongly associated with the authoritarian, social-conservative politics of Vulgar Marxists, would have been damaging to left of the time. Just as being assimilated into the authoritarian, liberal politics of Clinton and Blair has been for the broader left in the last decade. Throwing working class people under the bus to get more Black CEOs in corporations that ought to be abolished, or a female President of an utterly corrupt empire in decline, is short-sighted at best.
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