I’m a Marxist for the same reason I’m a scientist. Of all the belief systems I’ve read into, it’s the least-wrong thing I can find to understand my surroundings. If I found something less wrong I’d believe in it instead. What I can’t justify is knowingly going back to believing in something more wrong. My life would be a waste of time if I spent it lying to myself and hiding my head in the sand. If revolution doesn’t occur in my lifetime, most of the neat sci-fi tech won’t either and I still try to be a happy Sisyphus studying the most rudimentary versions of those things because I know they’re the best option for survival.