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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (OT): There is a deep and abiding ethical impulse under the political commitments that Marxism is associated with: socialism, communism and the fight against capitalism. When you ask people who are swimming in one of those seas what they’re up to and why, they give what sounds to me—as an analytically trained moral philosopher—like moral explanations: they think there’s something wrong with capitalism, something inappropriate about the way the system treats people.

The culture wars are back with a vengeance, if they ever actually left us.