Good friend, I'll be spending all day with him tomorrow just the two of us.
He's smart and well-intentioned, but not necessarily politically coherent. He's been YouTube-brained and likes Rogan and the IDW dorks. I think he lost friends on the left through FB posting about Jordan Peterson a few years ago and maybe I'm one of his only remaining left friends.
I'm going to see if he is interested in joining a radlib bud and I in a couple of weeks to discuss State and Revolution, as the rad lib bud started reading it and likes it and wants to talk to me about it.
He just has no material analysis. Like he's trying to figure out why shit is all fucked up, but he doesn't quite have the tools.
Deciding that bougie "democracy" can't work is the first step, you just gotta make sure they leave it in the direction of the people's power