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Yeah I actually had Sellars' definition in mind when I said that :) Interestingly Sellars begain philosophically as a Marxist from time spent in Europe and then unfortunately moved away from this, but was always firmly on the left from what I understand. Not very different to Hilary Putnam if we're talking about yankie analytic philosophers. Obviously the value of their work is abstract not very socially or politically relevant. You can see a Marxist/Hegelian influence in his later thought though, and he put forward a process-based metaphysics at points.
I agree that I would never recomment someone to get a philosophy PhD but that's mainly because it will be a very stressful experience and not worth if jobs-wise unless they already feel they are getting selected by certain profs for future careers.
On the Baudrillard point I think it's also because, given his rejection of a scientific approach to philosophy as Marxism would ideally like to establish and be based on, there's necessarily also a rejection of concern for evidence and critically analyzing what the criteria or conditions for evidence, verification, confirmation, and systematic progress of the field are, and in Baudrillard I think this actually leads to an incoherent theory of signs. Obviously not important but it is for me a case study of the decline of critical though in many parts of academia, and which correlates strongly with the decline of Marxism in these places. I do also obvs agree that some of these (ahem, mainly French) thinkers are needlessly obscure. I'd add that they're not necessarily less obscure in French.
Also ofc agree with your last comment. It's a shame that there's a tendency you sometimes see where people associate those things with 'boring positivist analytics', but is weird as a supposed rebuttal by itself, but also speaks to an ignorance of not only analytic thought by also the history of Marxist philosophy.