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[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I thought I was alone in this, but I really thought he was the perfect vehicle for spreading leftist ideas.

He could give materialist analysis in a casual way without watering it down. He could deal with reactionaries in a calm way without hiding his contempt. He was funny and scathing. Incredibly well read and informed.

I really do miss him

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

"Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems" is such a perfectly succinct maxim of how western socialists should operate

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

I always envisioned him and Matt Christman as a perfect duo. Matt's heavily materialist viewpoint mixed with Michael's heavily spiritualist viewpoint and their shared ability to be a force of personality and knowledge when they spoke would have really meshed.

The CIA must have thought the same thing.