Besides Karl Marx being generally held in high regard among people who are criticizing the mocking of those predatory practices, it's just an analogy.
It's like getting angry about mockery of the tobacco industry using feminism at some point to get women into smoking, because it puts feminism in a bad light and punches it down or whatever. Or China using feminism to pacify, if not outright genocide Uyghurs[0], for the same reasons.
>Karl Marx being generally held in high regard among people who are criticizing the mocking of those predatory practices
I really doubt this, The only communist game devs I know are ZA/UM (Disco Elysium (amazing game)) and they are as far from being exploitative game devs as you can get.
> It's like getting angry about mockery of the tobacco industry using feminism at some point to get women into smoking, because it puts feminism in a bad light and punches it down or whatever.
That would be more like the kind of wake-washing that "you people" (what's the equivalent of marxist? Adam Smith), you Smithes also dislike?
> Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
It's from his book "On the Jewish Question". If I didn't knew any better, I'd say that it was written by a Strasserist or something like that.
And I'd imagine that most left-wing people would strongly object to this.
