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"Western Marxism" can be distinguished as a discreet ideology because it's literally Marxism with only Western thought. Marx was carried forward by so many non-Western thinkers into a more revolutionary and more complete theory, but Western Marxism avoids all those yucky extremists so it can be taught in Western Universities.
It's where you get so-called Marxist who support every failed revolution but who denounce actually existing socialism.
The only people I know that call themselves marxist but fit this description now are either trots(not all of them though) or r/ultraleft.
I apologize, it's a gut reaction, I'm just uncomfortable with now using the term "baizuo", when it has such reactionary brainworms... you know
I am opposed to western leftism, due to its anti-AES, idealist tendencies, and pro-western foreign policy, but I don't like it when homegrown reactionaries use the term to not only bash them but us as well...
That's why Western Marxism or Western leftism is actually the best thing to call it. Leaves no room for confusion for reactionaries to use for their cryptofash bullshit
I've been partial to 'settler-leftism' as a term for it.