Did Rawls Kill Analytical Marxism?

Joseph Heath says so in his essay, "John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism." But the core of his argument makes very little sense.

In his essay “John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism,” Joseph Heath writes that when he was an undergraduate “by far the most exciting thing going on in political philosophy was the powerful resurgence of Marxism in the English-speaking world,” following “the publication of Gerald Cohen’s Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence” in 1978 and the be…