• Thallo [love/loves]
    hexagon
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, I thought I was alone in this, but I really thought he was the perfect vehicle for spreading leftist ideas.

    He could give materialist analysis in a casual way without watering it down. He could deal with reactionaries in a calm way without hiding his contempt. He was funny and scathing. Incredibly well read and informed.

    I really do miss him

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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      3 months ago

      "Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems" is such a perfectly succinct maxim of how western socialists should operate

    • SchillMenaker [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I always envisioned him and Matt Christman as a perfect duo. Matt's heavily materialist viewpoint mixed with Michael's heavily spiritualist viewpoint and their shared ability to be a force of personality and knowledge when they spoke would have really meshed.

      The CIA must have thought the same thing.