A corollary: the move from liberalism to Marxism is marked by a change in worldview as a whole. Like ‘paradigm shifts’ in the Kuhnian conception of scientific revolutions, ‘disruptive innovation’ under capitalism, or the qualitative character of change in dialectics, this transition is marked by a kind of incommensurability between two things, in this case the consensus point of view in liberal societies and the Marxist point of view.

Marxism isn’t a liberal, capitalist framework with a series of factual misapprehensions and faulty analytic judgments corrected, and for that reason, winning people to Marxism isn’t a matter of correcting liberal bullshit. Taking up Marxist thinking involves movement from two directions: realizing that liberal, capitalist ideology is defective, an inadequate way of understanding or changing the world; and entertaining a Marxist perspective on its own terms. Correcting liberal errors can play a role in the former but does nothing for the latter. And today, there is already a widespread sense that the consensus narrative is bankrupt.

The final consideration in explicitly embracing Marxism is that a Marxist framework does a better job of making sense of the world and orienting oneself towards political action within it than a liberal, capitalist framework does. The largest part of motivating such a judgment in favor of Marxism comes from engagement with Marxism itself, both analytically (theoretically) and practically (i.e., working with Marxists and Marxist organizations).