It’s mostly the memes that has invented this persona around Marx, by people who have never read Marx and by academics who dislike him.

Freud(interesting reactionary thinker) is also lambasted the same way.

Marx is unclear for 99% of people and pretending it’s easy makes you look like a big-brained elitist.

There are plenty of PhD fucks in the academic institution who cannot figure their way out of Freud and Marx, so no, it’s not because of elitism.

Grad school media studies read Hegel/Lenin challenge.