Can anyone confirm the facts about the guests in the article? I know it's on fucking medium.com, but the screenshots are fairly damning, and I suppose I'd just like to see if anyone knows if these claims are bad faith or not - I haven't been able to verify much myself.
I haven't heard anything from Brian Becker that I didn't agree with, though I haven't searched in depth. Can't really speak to the co-hosts or the connections.
But the idea that a Marxist Leninist is at risk of "platforming" right wingers is pretty funny. Honestly, in thinking about it, it's not a terrible idea to appear on the conspiracy-anti-gov-right platforms. Many that listen to Breitbart/Infowars are uneducated and not yet fascist radicalized, but deeply feel their alienation and will inevitably fall into one or the other. They seek an avenue for their distinct feeling of society being wrong, and in the US, the easiest access of radical politics they have is right wing media. A Marxist Leninist who knows how to speak to the working class will come across well and change perceptions of the evil communist ghost that right wing media proclaims. The degree of success from the method is for sure debatable, but I feel that the logic is sound if that is indeed the case. Like, anyone consistently watching/listening to Brian Becker stuff isn't gonna persuaded by the alt-right lol, so I don't see a threat of growing our opposition.
But if I'm off base here, I'm certainly open to hearing it.
EDIT: Don't fall for liberal BS about the white working class being impossible to work with. They feel the pain, and while they also benefit from this settler colonial state in ways, they suffer in their own ways from this system. If we can't pull people back from the reactionary drift, then our chances of winning is slim. That is not to say we tolerate any reactionary views. But people can learn and change, it's a foundation of our materialism. The US left is still young and small, and we need to do everything in our power to grow. Our platform WILL appeal to the working class if it is explained to them. The US white working class has been fed decades of reactionary/fascist media, and it continues to this day in new forms.
I think it's important to remember that in America people are so politically ignorant that the majority don't identify with any ideology. They just repeat the rhetoric rote of whatever prevailing ideology surrounds them. This is why the vox populi can change so rapidly; there is no foundation for which the majority are tied. They can be quickly and easily swayed by strong rhetoric.... but only if it confirms their biases. So, in some ways I almost feel like in America there is a good case to be made for right-wing outreach. This is especially true if the message is against "the elite" which the right-wing are already primed to oppose. The biggest element of political analysis the right is missing is as to how profit is made and why that goes against everything they believe about the right of the individual to earn the fruits of their own labor.