Part of the reason it's important to criticize far left ideology is because it remains intellectually respectable in a way that's not true of far right ideology.
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There aren't many - if any - fascist sociologists. There are plenty of sociologists who would self-identify as Marxist, despite the absolutely appalling history of Marxism as praxis.
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Of course, as systems of thought fascism is reprehensible, whereas Marxism is just daft - but as praxis, in the real world, Marxism, in its various guises, has been an utter, immoral disaster.
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As Edmund Burke might have put it, beware of bearded academics selling you utopian dreams from the comfort of their tenured towers of ivory.
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Yes, that's probably true. But... the history of politics driven by strong notions of collective identity, left and right, is not glorious. If you're on the right, then you need to take that seriously.
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Can you criticize Marxism without discussing praxis? Calling it daft isn't much help.
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Yes, I think the Marxist inversion of the Hegelianism, which posits that humans become themselves through the collective transformation of nature is reductionist, maybe not nonsense, but results in a fatally flawed conception of our species being.
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