Opinion on the frequency of the term "Marxist" nowadays

[Middle-aged Europe]

Meh... you mean the way it is increasingly applied by Trumpists to anyone who protests against police violence or racism as some form of all-purpose, but ultimately pretty unspecified, boogeyman description in order to avoid actually discussing police violence or racism?

Pretty moronic, I'd say. And annoying, which is maybe even the point: "to troll the libs".



As for the term "Marxist" itself irrespective of the recent political instrumentalization by the American Right: Seems to cover a pretty broad spectrum and therefore it really necessitates further specification which branch of Marxism a Marxist belongs to in order to carry any true meaning. Joseph Stalin was a Marxist. So were Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School. So were Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertolt Brecht, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. So were a huge chunk of the leaders of the Bauhaus. Mother Theresa was Catholic... so was Timothy McVeigh.