From what I saw he's a "Orwell is a great socialist author" and "the USSR was fascist" kind of terminally white bourgeois British dude. Did he, like, watched a Hakim or JT video before accepting?? I hope it's because he's having a redemption arc or something
Reminder that neither Moscow nor Washington was a CIA position pushed by them and their compromised left. Neither Washington nor Beijing is the same weak, nihilistic, arm-chair, false-equivalence garbage designed to fragment the left, prevent a laser-focus of criticism on Washington and the NATO global capitalist hegemony they lead, and all in all be ineffectual. The bourgeoisie are not and never will be threatened by people who have objections to capitalism but also object to all existing socialism and successful methods of attaining it as those people are mere discontents who on some level have accepted the status quo.
Ultimately I agree with you, but I think it's important to keep in mind that the current propaganda system is really hard to get through and that we can't expect everybody to grasp all the counterintuitive realities at once.
You rightly shown how reactionary those positions were when analyzed with historical knowledge and within a scientific framework but we need to identify when something stems from genuine ignorance, idealism, and positive core values. If we don't do that then 90% of the imperial core population are "card-carrying" fascists, when the reality is, a majority genuinely don't realise how some of their positions are in fact pro capital