Dude, I like you, and I like Kashmir, but it's shit like this that pushes people out of politics. How many years ago was the \m/ debacle? None of us have a spotless past, and I know Marx rather well. He wasn't a coward, things were complicated beyond what anybody on the outside may know.
Even if he were a coward, his record of the past few years has been anything but cowardly. Let's drop that sort of crap and move on, please.