I'm not sure what exactly you're responding to, here, but I'm certainly not disallowing this kind of criticism or claiming that the top-level comment validates

I'm not sure what exactly you're responding to, here, but I'm certainly not disallowing this kind of criticism or claiming that the top-level comment validates Marxist analysis because it's poorly thought-out. I don't use Marxist analysis myself, at least not deliberately (I am not myself an academic), either. I don't know what you mean by: >content-free, being equally applicable to everything and I think that: >brings little or no insight to any topic outside of economics ignores the fact that a large amount of history, culture and contemporary society has been profoundly shaped by economics. >Not everything anyone says can be correct and it isn't bullying or snobbery to say so. It's not even personal. Yes. There are a lot of things I agree with in your post, the problem is that they are "equally applicable to everything", so I feel like I've joined an argument halfway through, and I have no idea what you are responding to or why.