I don't care about tankie comments, although I firmly disagree with his dismissal as modern day Stalinists being inherently denialists, especially given that Stalin was a theorist as well and you can take his work seriously without having to support all of his actions.
My main beef with him would be that in the past he's been very pro US intervention, for example he's taken the "Iraq war was right, it was just justified and executed poorly" in the past.
I can't find the tweet, maybe it was deleted. Here's an example of a soft pro-intervention stance (I'd let it slide because it's always tough to see suffering and not think that we ought to do something to lessen it):
I thought the Assad episodes he did were pretty interesting, but his pro-interventionism take is extremely myopic and buys into the "humanitarian war" bullshit propaganda that has been used to justify nearly every US imperial action in the past several decades. Assad might be a monster, but when has the US overthrowing a government ever made things better for the people of those countries?
I don't care about tankie comments, although I firmly disagree with his dismissal as modern day Stalinists being inherently denialists, especially given that Stalin was a theorist as well and you can take his work seriously without having to support all of his actions.
My main beef with him would be that in the past he's been very pro US intervention, for example he's taken the "Iraq war was right, it was just justified and executed poorly" in the past.
But generally I love him and his show as well.
Seriously, he said the Iraq war was just poorly executed? From what I’ve read and listened to I thought we was very anti US intervention.
I can't find the tweet, maybe it was deleted. Here's an example of a soft pro-intervention stance (I'd let it slide because it's always tough to see suffering and not think that we ought to do something to lessen it):
https://mobile.twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1029486646830358528
I thought the Assad episodes he did were pretty interesting, but his pro-interventionism take is extremely myopic and buys into the "humanitarian war" bullshit propaganda that has been used to justify nearly every US imperial action in the past several decades. Assad might be a monster, but when has the US overthrowing a government ever made things better for the people of those countries?