Essentially do you see any big modern marxist public figures coming in as the “old guard” ages out? Who?

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    Hi comrade, is something wrong with bad empanada? I watched a few of his and thought it was pretty neat. I am asking because you mention him together with vaush.

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      362 years ago

      He doesn’t acknowledge PRC’s achievements, doesn’t support AES except Cuba (I think) and doesn’t align himself with other anti-imperialists. He attacks journalists critical of the west, I faintly recall a bona fide NED spook quote tweeting BE to attack the Greyzone.

      Insofar as he limits himself to attacking rightists, especially the ones claiming to be socialists, he’s fine.

      • QueerCommie
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        142 years ago

        He calls himself socialist, supports LatAm social democracy, and defended Stalin from holodomor lies, but he constantly has bad China takes, and his streaming channel is toxic.

      • @redpen
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        72 years ago

        Any chance you could tell me what those initialisms mean? Thanks.

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          2 years ago

          Not OP but I believe:

          PRC - People’s Republic of China. Self explanatory.

          AES - Actually Existing Socialism. Countries that are now operating under at least a form of socialist government.

          NED - National Endowment for Democracy. A front for US operations abroad, such as the Hong Kong protests.

          BE - Bad Empanada, obviously.

          • @redpen
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            52 years ago

            Thank you!

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      I don’t think he’s particularly well versed on politics. iirc he has a bachelors in Latin American history but otherwise he’s essentially just a shitposter with common sense like most of us here and admits as much. Not an intellectual by any means.

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      112 years ago

      As streamers go he’s far from the worst. He is not in the same league as Vaush in the slightest. But he’s not in the same league as Parenti either.