As someone who has read those 5 books, and the next 5, and the next 5 and so on, those people never go away. I still recommend those books but in my experience they’re almost always in-group signalling and not coming up with a new synthesis of the material as understood through their own unique experiences as a worker. Actually those people will be the first to tell you that experience doesn’t matter its actually their experience reading books that matters.

“The traditions of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.” is as true for the left as it is any other tradition.