The extreme academic nature of groups like GSP (
https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/) and their associates (Gruppen, Cristicuffs, etc) becomes readily apparent when they move from the realm of criticizing pure ideology, which they excel at, to more practical spheres. Pic related is a load of shit, for example.
Most low-wage earners are already painfully aware of the fact that they are cogs in a larger accumulation machine. The idea that a "proper critique of capitalism involves telling them about their position" (by pencil-pushing academics, no less) is completely detached from reality. There is not a single word about the practical consequences of being reserveless or the organs that proles associate with each other in to preserve themselves from the deleterious effects of competition. Consciousness is not mediated by struggle, they just need to read more essays!
< He wants to establish consciousness of this fact, that is to say, like the other theorists, merely to produce a correct consciousness about an existing fact; whereas for the real communist it is a question of overthrowing the existing state of things.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm