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Classic "Non-Marxist Socialist" lol

What anticommunism does to your brain.

He's just another left-liberal who thinks THE solution is taxing the wealthy and having stronger unions, as if those are even viable options under a bourgeois democracy.

I stopped even paying attention to him when he first ran under The People's Party, a group of/closely-tied to LaRouchites. I assume the grift is to just get money from whatever Bernie supporters haven't moved further left since 2020? I dunno, anyone still falling for this song and dance should read "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder by

I think his communication style gets people thinking he's more radical than he really is, it also did for Obama in the beginning. Parenti would call out people like Hedges and Chomsky for sus logic or statements and they didn't go as far as this tweet.

He's got some good takes and some wacky ones. He also talks in a way that would suggest he's very radical, like he calls people brother and sister, and he's got a very powerful speaking voice. He's got a good sense of oration and he's not afraid to throw around words like imperialism, structural racism, stuff like that. I think if you wanna look into West's ideology, I think he's caught up in too much religious symbols and metaphysical stuff to ever reach what we'd call coherent leftism. He's a 1990s style leftist, when the smell of Marxism had drifted away, when any radicalism had been defeated, when everyone was a kind of utopian.

But you're right. He's another ivy league professor. They're always going to betray you, because they're at their core just some academics who write papers. It's the same with how people will occasionally get whiplash from something Zizek says.

So far the only ivy league professors who have never betrayed me have been Michael Parenti, Richard Wolff, Paul Buhle, and Jodi Dean. They're very cool and know what they're talking about. There's also Vijay Prashad who is possibly one of the best Marxist academics right now, at least among English speaking academia. China probably has some kickass scholars I've never heard of. I have a gut feeling there are some good academics who write in Spanish too.

Opportunist

His VP is going to be Peter Daou and on day one he will resign and chairman daou will lead the revolution.

So everyone here is voting de la Cruz, right?

And where did that lead you? Back to me

He is the latest grifter that the rubes on this website fell for now that Bernie and AOC are gauche and RFK let the mask slip

There was a good comment that had a rundown of the ways West helped undermine a lot of civil rights type stuff but I can't find it in the search and it's making me think I'm losing it.

edit: I think this was it

Fucking idiot, mostly.

scratch a lib

In this day and age can you sincerely run for president of the US and not be a liberal?

Look at my progressive movement Dawgggggg I'm trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death😫🤯🤣

I was willing to look past that WSJ op Ed he wrote recently but this is a deal breaker for me.

wake up Mr. West 😔

We have footage of the guy at an underground Zionist war council, so take that into consideration

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He used to go on Real Time a lot. So I've always found that sus

Taking him in complete good faith, I'd say he's a Bernie style social imperialist. Like Bernie its either some genuine left anti-communist stuff, or they've accepted that framing as the confines of US dialogue. And that's taking him in the most positive light possible. There's plenty of reason tobdoubt that.

Either way I'm inclinded to say the Bernie style social imperialism, free health care, legal weed phase of radicalizing has come to end of its usefulness, and that there's diminishing returns on this sort of campaign for the revolutionary left.

Fake...? Please