I also think that Kolakowski was tagged anti-Marxist because in the 1980s such critiques as his (i.e. "within" and erudite) were relatively rare. But there is no doubt that he had huge admiration for Marx.
"He [Marx] has profoundly affected our understanding of history, and it is hard to deny that without him our researches would be less compete and accurate than they are.
It makes [for example] an essential difference…whether the history of Christianity is presented as an intellectual struggle about dogmatic interpretation of doctrine, or whether these are regarded as manifestations of the
life of Christian communities subject to all manner of historical contingencies and social conflict in successive ages."
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