I've seen him talk a couple of times (through youtube, not in person). I haven't read him though.
I find him to be a decent Marxist and he's good on many issues. I understand his main focus is mostly on Western imperialism and settler colonialism.
I understand that leftists sometimes criticize him because he's part of the Communist Party of India, which is viewed as perpetuating misogyny (I don't really get the reasoning for this accusation, but I haven't studied it to be honest). There's also accusations of first-campism, which I also don't get as he's pretty much against US imperialism, and has been very supportive of China.
I understand that leftists sometimes criticize him because he's part of the Communist Party of India which is viewed as perpetuating misogyny
I'm definitely not an expert on this issue. But I've read through the footnotes of people critiquing him for this, and it just seemed uber disingenuous, both in the attacks against CPI and Prashad. It ends up being a string of circumstantial evidence, with A leading to B leading to C leading to D. And each link in the chain is tenuous at best.
There's also accusations of first-campism
As far as I've seen, it's always just comfortable liberals making this really generic and unfalsifiable accusation. Not that I'm critiquing the commentor above.
As far as I’ve seen, it’s always just comfortable liberals making this really generic and unfalsifiable accusation. Not that I’m critiquing the commentor above.
Yeah, that's what I pretty much surmised and thus never paid much attention to these accusations.
I've seen him talk a couple of times (through youtube, not in person). I haven't read him though.
I find him to be a decent Marxist and he's good on many issues. I understand his main focus is mostly on Western imperialism and settler colonialism.
I understand that leftists sometimes criticize him because he's part of the Communist Party of India, which is viewed as perpetuating misogyny (I don't really get the reasoning for this accusation, but I haven't studied it to be honest). There's also accusations of first-campism, which I also don't get as he's pretty much against US imperialism, and has been very supportive of China.
I'm definitely not an expert on this issue. But I've read through the footnotes of people critiquing him for this, and it just seemed uber disingenuous, both in the attacks against CPI and Prashad. It ends up being a string of circumstantial evidence, with A leading to B leading to C leading to D. And each link in the chain is tenuous at best.
As far as I've seen, it's always just comfortable liberals making this really generic and unfalsifiable accusation. Not that I'm critiquing the commentor above.
Yeah, that's what I pretty much surmised and thus never paid much attention to these accusations.