Bonafide western leftist. I remember him celebrating the fall of Assad, praising the headchoppers that took power 😐
I’ve seen this tendency from the entire left-“leaning” “al-Assad bad!” crowd. Claiming to oppose imperialism yet serving its narrative.
Serves a purpose in the lib to left pipeline, much like a Sanders or Corbyn. Ultimately a western sucdem with all the problems that poses.
He should go back to making economic experiments on Team Fortress 2.
At best Mr Technofeudalism is a stepping stone to discovering the actual science of liberation for westerners (Global Southerners generally don’t have that pathetic privilege). In practice, once one understands ML one wonders why he refuses to. He’s a reliable “western-leftist” pushing imperialist talking points (neither washington nor moscow claptrap… which favours washington)
3/10 Would not recommend. He uses leftist language to push for friendlier capitalism.
Very divisive, but also interesting.
He’s in a similar boat to Zizek nowadays. Coming from socialist / leftist backgrounds, but supporting liberal progressive movements. But at the same time not completely opposed to more “authoritarian” means to shackle neo-liberalism.
They’re distinct from your general liberal movement though as they’re far more populist, anti-establishment and especially anti-neoliberal. They don’t advocate for socialism or even social democracy outright. But many of their goals are to build towards a more grassroots and less elite dominated system. There is an argument for such populist movements as vehicles towards a revival of Marxism in the west, similar to for example Wagenknecht’s new political party in Germany (although Varoufakis movement is a lot more liberal than that).
That said they’re still reformists at best. They’re pro-EU, not opposed to US hegemony and for the most part have the same political outlook on foreign affairs as other liberal movements, though they’re much less important to them.
