there are no textbook marxists, that is for sure... which seems to give the right license to call anyone they want a marxist. Marxism is not a piecemeal philosophy that operates well with other elements of other political philosophies or economic theories. It really is an all or nothing sort of system and, what is equally important is that the method of achieving it - through the dialectic process and the dictatorship of the proletariat vanguard - is very important in the process OF reaching it. In a capitalist society, if the people decide to set up public ownership of the electrical grid, that is not Marxist... if they want to publicly own the collection of trash, or the provision of security, or... even the provision of medical services, those pieces, established by democratic means in a capitalist system, are not "Marxist". Classic Marxism is the whole enchilada and the establishment of that enchilada through a very well defined series of relatively abrupt and cataclysmic events. When people label folks with whom they disagree as "Marxists", they merely misuse the word and highlight their own ignorance of it.... but I know full well that, for those folks who are on the "right" frequency, the dog whistle of the epithet "Marxism" is a powerful rallying cry.