Chomsky whines about the USSR and calls its collapse "a win for the left". Absolutely unbelievable. Of course he has nothing to say about 1993 protests or the fact that the majority of Russians who experienced life in the USSR want it back.
Zizek calls China a "bad model for the left". Of course no actual socialist experiment is ever good enough for the ivory tower intellectual. Even worse, he keeps saying he hopes that China will liberalize its government. So fuck the DotP, lets just give away power to the capitalists, because that is literally what will happen in a liberal democracy, and he knows it.
i was kidding lol, i dont really know all his takes
lol I should've known
keeping it serious, if someone considers you a 'thought leader' it's time for people to stop paying attention
ngl Graeber dying this year was rough but at least we won't see him endorsing Ivanka Trump as the democratic nominee in 2032
IMO the leftists on turtle island people should be paying attention to are all indigenous bloggers mostly writing about tactics and radlib criticisms on blogs that get probably 1000 hits a week
to avoid thought leaders, i simply don't read.
The anarchist way
got any recs
Mentioned somewhere else in the thread I keep forgetting to bookmark them
I was thinking of Zig Zag when I made that comment, though the specific criticism I was thinking of wasn't written by them.