To which I say… bring it on! While I know the attack will be nothing more than red baiting, it would amazing if people actually started looking into what he’s actually been writing about and saying. My understanding is that he’s a Marxian economist and not, say, a Marxist philosopher or whatever. And - much like Marx himself - Kamala’s dad is far more focused on critiques of actually existing capitalism than how to bring about communism.

Hilarious if the GOP starts to make the campaign about him, then people actually see what he says and then they’re like “hang on a sec, let him cook this stuff he’s saying about how the economy actually works makes sense to me.”

Edit: I added the quotes around “has a Marxist dad” in the title because, now that I’m doing some research, I don’t see anywhere where he’s self-identified as a Marxist. It appears he uses Marx’s analytic tools and speaks highly of Marx, but I also wouldn’t want to put words in his mouth. There are plenty of academics in economics and other fields like history and anthropology who think highly of Marx and apply his methods but wouldn’t consider themselves Marxists.

  • rayne [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    I will put a check mark next to her name to vote against Trump.

    But unless she comes out against the genocide, I won't "vote for her".

    • Antiwork [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      She's literally the VP. If she was against the genocide of Palestinians. 1. They wouldn't even think about putting her on the ticket 2. She has the power to stop it.

      • rayne [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        That unless was doing a lot of work, I know :)

      • MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        The only 2 candidates I'd consider voting for are Claudia De la Cruz and Jill Stein. I think I'm going to go with Jill because if I'm not mistaken, technically there is chance she could get the electoral votes needed to be elected. It's like 1 in a million though, but there's a chance.