And when most workers were industrial workers, it's not totally surprising that (say) the Soviets and the Maoists) turned him into a kind of angry patron of worker-deified industrial revolution.

If there's a lacuna in Marx, it's exactly that absence of realistic post-industrial alternatives.

There's not a lot of nature in Marx. There are people, and there are machines and resources, but he knew nothing about eco-systems or symbiotic embedding, so they're not included as original Marxist concepts.

Of course, no free market propaganda mill pays to get large numbers of cheap copies of Theory of Moral Sentiment reprinted.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.