Opinion on the frequency of the term "Marxist" nowadays

[John Dule]

Both Marxists and anti-Marxists tend to overestimate the degree to which left-wing revolutionaries are influenced by Marx. The communist movements in Vietnam, China, and Korea, for example, were surely led by people who were familiar with Marxist philosophy. However, the average peasant in any of those countries had obviously never read Marx, and cared more about a non-ideological fight against the landholding classes and imperial powers. I guess you could say that these sentiments are Marxist in a sense, but I think they're better described as populist rage and nationalism.