cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2331989
I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol
Yey or ney for him?
As someone said in the post
As far as I can tell, he’s a guy who spends all his time posting about how all leftists do is post.
And this ain’t the first time, Roderick’s a bit terminally online, arguing against other progressives like JT (Second Thought) and Michael Hudson…
Edit:
Ok I’ve made a right-deviationist mistake in saying that Michael Hudson is a progressive, and indirectly agreeing with the views of the former…
I’ve not investigated into JT’s MMT videos nor looked carefully into Hudson (I thought he was also against capitalism, turns out, only finance and feudalism…, just cares for industrial capitalism)
I encourage you to listen to his geopolitical hours with a critical lense. I have found great errors in the past ones, but I decided to listen to the recent interview with Jill Stein. He seems to think Stein actually has a chance of winning the election with the dissimilarity of Biden and Trump. They suggest the US is not currently democratic but previously was. They also imply that if elected, Jill Stein could legislate out neoliberalism and bring back good jobs (as under industrial capitalism!?). Desai think Stein could fundamentally change the nature of the state. Read state and rev lmao. I’m still listening, but it’s a little off. They really sound like social democrats far more than any Marxist, and I don’t even know if Hudson calls himself a Marxist.
Edit: who’s his audience that makes it ok with the Nazi website someone mentioned above?
I’ll take a listen if I can. But I’m not sure how much domestic US politics I can stomach.
Desai tends to be good, too. She says a few things that make me wince. I thought she was a Trotskyist. Her book is based on Trotsky’s lines on uneven and combined development, although she keeps the praise kind of academic. Like Trotsky is just a good source/starting point for this idea. But then when I hear here speak, I get the impression she isn’t overly keen on China/AES, hence the stronger Trotskyist vibes. A lot of academic ‘Marxists’ are like this.
Remember that my claim was that Hudson had clearly read Marx. You challenged that claim. I’m not arguing that he is or claims to me a Marxist. I’m not trying to ‘defend’ further than to say that his economic analyses shouldn’t be ignored. I’m arguing that there is evidence to suggest that he has read Marx. Maybe that is only Theories of Surplus Value, maybe more, but Hudson has almost certainly read Marx.
Come on now, let’s keep this in good faith. I was responding to your comment, not theirs, and in a different context. My point was that if Hudson is in an interview with e.g. Norton, assuming a US audience interested in a different view but which usually gets it’s news from other US sources, he might appropriately say things trying to persuade the audience that XYZ is a good idea, leaving it to the audience to decide how to implement that idea. We’re talking about an audience that largely doesn’t seem to understand that neoliberalism isn’t the only option. It’s going to need a lot of work to shift the overton window.
They’re both at best trots.
Maybe he’s read a little bit of Marx. He doesn’t seem to put it into practice. He basically has is own niche fusion of MMT, Keynesianism, and seeing China working without understanding that much.
Fair, he might be assuming Geopolitical Economy Report people are baby leftists or something, but honestly I’m not sure if that assessment’s true. Plus they go in depth a lot of the time and idk if they’re expecting the same people to understand. Anyway, the nazi website including his rhetoric is inexcusable.