>>549824imitators try to be just as good as the thing they try to imitate.
imitators don’t fully understand the ideas they’re talking about. Their knowledge is shallow. As a result, when you ask about details, first principles, or nonstandard cases, they don’t have good answers.
Imitators don’t know the limits of their expertise. Experts know what they know, and also know what they don’t know. They understand that their understanding has boundaries, and they’re able to tell you when they’re approaching the limits of their circle of competence. Imitators can’t. They can’t tell when they’re crossing the boundary into things they don’t understand.
Experts can tell you all the ways they’ve failed. They know and accept that some form of failure is often part of the learning process. Imitators, however, are less likely to own up to mistakes because they’re afraid it will tarnish the image they’re trying to project.
Marxists are not "imitators". They don't want to replicate the system of oppression and oppressed that existed for thousands of years. They want to eliminate completely class, they want communism, which is different from any form of structure that existed a priori. Not a imitation of "primitive communism" of the past, but something completely new.