The early 2010s were so devoid of publically leftist intellectuals that bottom of the barrel people like him were latched onto.
Also, lots of the current terminally online left were baby leftists back then.
Zizek, Chomsky, Varoufakis, Richard Wolff and the like. Is there even anyone like that today, beyond the rediscovery of Michael Parenti? It feels like the 2h lecture by a usually radlib intellectual has been replaced by the podcast with usually equally weak politics.
I would put Varoufakis and Wolff into a different category. I feel like they don’t actively harm the left like Zizek and Chomsky often do. Like, they’re good for baby leftists and understanding the problems inherent in capitalism even if their solutions (which I think both spend very little time discussing) aren’t all that great.
The early 2010s were so devoid of publically leftist intellectuals that bottom of the barrel people like him were latched onto.
Also, lots of the current terminally online left were baby leftists back then.
Zizek, Chomsky, Varoufakis, Richard Wolff and the like. Is there even anyone like that today, beyond the rediscovery of Michael Parenti? It feels like the 2h lecture by a usually radlib intellectual has been replaced by the podcast with usually equally weak politics.
I would put Varoufakis and Wolff into a different category. I feel like they don’t actively harm the left like Zizek and Chomsky often do. Like, they’re good for baby leftists and understanding the problems inherent in capitalism even if their solutions (which I think both spend very little time discussing) aren’t all that great.
Political English literature is just a wasteland of trash