Frome is generally a really good marxist writer (they are very much anti-western-marxist, very much a materialist and has an excellent article in defense of “tankies”) though sometimes their writing can be a bit dense for me as I do not have a background in philosophy. I have not read this article before and after the first read I definitely need to re-read this given the author’s generally excellent insights elsewhere. They usually deepen my dialectical materialist understanding further.

For example I really like:

https://redsails.org/the-problem-of-recognition-in-transitional-states/

Though this is not by Frome I can potentially see parallels in terms of learning - this article helped me better understand “identity politics” and to use it better:

https://redsails.org/on-identitarianism-a-defense-of-a-strawman/

The parallel here would be to develop our understanding of how we consider moralism (amongst other things) as marxists. I do need to re-read the article more deeply though.

Maybe because writer goes on about something that’s not well defined?