He seems obsessed that the errors of the USSR and China, or any other self identifying Marxist group/country are due to Marx's theory itself, rather than literally anything else. Really just shows he has no engagement with Marx or most Marxist theorists. Like if he doesn't like MLs theory, you don't have to blame Marx for that lol. Make him go read like Mario Tronti or another autonomist Marxist, or just actually read Marx.
Also, any even remotely decent Marxist should understand that material conditions dominate the reality of all presently and previously existing socialist projects, regardless of their opinions on said projects..
I'd say that's selling ideas a bit short but yeah, there's material and social and ideological conditioning on all systems, and you need a very strong argument to blame stuff on one thinker.
He seems obsessed that the errors of the USSR and China, or any other self identifying Marxist group/country are due to Marx's theory itself, rather than literally anything else. Really just shows he has no engagement with Marx or most Marxist theorists. Like if he doesn't like MLs theory, you don't have to blame Marx for that lol. Make him go read like Mario Tronti or another autonomist Marxist, or just actually read Marx.
Also, any even remotely decent Marxist should understand that material conditions dominate the reality of all presently and previously existing socialist projects, regardless of their opinions on said projects..
I'd say that's selling ideas a bit short but yeah, there's material and social and ideological conditioning on all systems, and you need a very strong argument to blame stuff on one thinker.
He writes extensively about how bad many other things are, and publishes a magazine and runs a podcast that boosts other people doing the same thing.
For example, he wrote an entire book on how bad Clinton-era democrats were on amplifying racial disparities in criminal justice.