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.
This person simply has no idea what he's talking about, as long as you've got a decent grasp of the very basic theory yourself it should be very easy to pick out the brainworms and help him come to some kind of coherent set of views, even if those views end up not being strictly communist.