They would be right to suspect, there is a lot of performative leftism. In my case, at the beginning of this forum, you could say that this is what I was. It the kind of leftism that you do without really knowing which ends up reproducing a lot of domination. I believe that I have worked on that enough to remove any kind of performatism from my praxis.
Hmm, interesting...
What made you so suspectfull of leftism?
It's not completely incompatible. As I said, I don't believe my praxis will evolve by reading marx, what I will understand are the underlying layers, but the logic of the materialist and anticapitalist thinking process will be quite similar, perhaps just a bit more radical.