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TrueEpic08 too. I didn't include any anarchists though.
Nah, it's not a No True Scotsman. Name a single attempt at Marxism in history that actually mirrors Marx's description of it, which is a very simple standard by which to judge them. I don't think Marxism as Marx described it would work, but it has never actually been tried, and so never been judged on its own merits.
The interesting thing about Marxist economic theory to me is this: I use it and believe in its theories more than I do any other theory, but I don't believe that it's goals can be accomplished in the State Socialist sense that Marx desired, but instead in a more anarchist sense. The history of states attempting to create the territory for (any type of) communism in the context of a state tends to either turn out like the descendents of the Third International (bureaucratic State Capitalism, as seen in Russia and China, which never quite decoupled from capitalist formulations of society and value, much less the international political economy itself) or usually take more anarchistic forms (Anarchist Catalonia, Ukranian Free Territory, Chiapas). Through more mutualist, syndicalist, and/or collectivist means, you could actually say that the more anarchist leaning communities actually have better results at achieving the goals behind Marxian economic and sociological analysis. How do you combat the tyranny of capitalist value formation and commodity fetishism if you're still part and parcel in a commodity economy, as the statists were? How can you combat alienation when Leninist bureaucracy has much of the same relation to a worker that a random boss in Capitalist society has to its worker?
To clearly answer the question (I haven't voted; not sure if I will like @
The Real), I'm more Marxist than anything, because I'm against the currency system and think that orthodox economics is largely junk science, based on the actual history of Capitalism. But I tend to filter it through more Anarchist modes of thought. Kropotkin, Dejacque, new Anarchists such as David Graeber, organizations such as Abahlali baseMjondolo even alternative modes of economics such as Potlach. For me, it's more about achieving the goals of Marxian economic analysis than being completely enslaved to its methods. And for that, you need to look everywhere, not just in economic theories (and I'm basically a theorist by trade at this point).
