I’m endlessly gracious for his extensive library and making revolutionary texts accessible (it’s how read this book before), but his opinions as a Marxist are definitely… unrefined I guess I would say. He has read mountains of text compare to me, yet some of his mistakes signal to me a lack of actual engagement with practice. It’s not the absolute worst I’ve seen, my university has an Ultra/trot (it’s hard to tell) group that I think does this much worse while providing less praxis.

I also find him unnecessarily petty. His evaluation that American Marxists should support the greens over PSL comes off as an egotistical position based off of the PSLs support of “dengism” (in his words). His arguments aren’t even entirely bad, and he makes points worth contending with in regards to the necessity of a Mass party vs a Vanguard atm, but it’s obvious that his opinion of the China question is taking precedent on that conversation, which devalues the rest I’d his argument.

Again his audiobooks are genuinely an amazing resource for comrades and I’d argue it has done much more in spreading class consciousness then a bunch of others, but it’s sad to see the amount if caveats that exist within nearly every western leftist.

I am aware. I hope that he kicks that mentality as his work with getting theory widely available cant be understated.