Accurate social analysis benefits even those who publicly oppose its author.

Evidence

Another aspect of the question is the practical lesson in the science of politics which the philosophy of praxis has given even to those of its opponents who contest it bitterly on principle, just as the Jesuits contested Machiavelli in theory while remaining in practice his best disciples. … This would not be in any way surprising, for if [Marx] has analysed reality exactly then he has done nothing other than systematise rationally and coherently what the historical agents of this reality felt and still feel in a confused and instinctive way, and of which they have a clearer consciousness as a result of the hostile critique. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1393

Categorization

• XREF: Jesuits-as-Machiavellians parallels the dynamic where Islamophobia critics deploy frameworks derived from anti-racist theory while denouncing its politics.