To which I say… bring it on! While I know the attack will be nothing more than red baiting, it would amazing if people actually started looking into what he’s actually been writing about and saying. My understanding is that he’s a Marxian economist and not, say, a Marxist philosopher or whatever. And - much like Marx himself - Kamala’s dad is far more focused on critiques of actually existing capitalism than how to bring about communism.

Hilarious if the GOP starts to make the campaign about him, then people actually see what he says and then they’re like “hang on a sec, let him cook this stuff he’s saying about how the economy actually works makes sense to me.”

Edit: I added the quotes around “has a Marxist dad” in the title because, now that I’m doing some research, I don’t see anywhere where he’s self-identified as a Marxist. It appears he uses Marx’s analytic tools and speaks highly of Marx, but I also wouldn’t want to put words in his mouth. There are plenty of academics in economics and other fields like history and anthropology who think highly of Marx and apply his methods but wouldn’t consider themselves Marxists.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I would almost bet a democrat will do that first. Some far right wing democrat like Josh Gottheimer is gonna hear someone sprinkling the most tepid criticism of Israel you can imagine and he's gonna have like a micro-rage induced outburst from all the roids he's on and frothing at the mouth be like "fhhhthhfhhfhfhh SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP TANKIES GAWWWWWWWWWHHHHHH" maybe flip a desk before grabbing his left bicep and falling on his knees

    Don't worry, his near death experience and blood clot directly to the brain will make him even more right wing and unhinged