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The23rdMagus posted...

I'm sensing some very black-and-white thinking here. It's very much possible to acknowledge the cultural significance of a philosophy towards society as a whole, while at the same time acknowledging that the whole-hog implementation is impossible, impractical, dangerous, and questionably viable.

Some parts of its influence, in the vein of workers' rights, have turned out to be good for capitalism. It's okay to just take the good parts out of an otherwise flawed idea.

I think you're giving far too much credit to Marxism for introducing things like workers rights to capitalism. The US having democratic elections would ensure workers got their rights, Marxism had little to no effect on that. In fact communism was so despised that suggesting the US adopt some of it's policies was more likely to end up with you in a prison cell (or worse) than enacting any progressive change.
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