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

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[-] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Who comes next? You do, comrade :)

[-] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

But in terms of "folks I've been reading that seem to have decent takes:"

  • Roderic Day of redsails.org has put out some really good pieces in my opinion.
  • Peter Coffin has a mixture of good takes and bad ones. He's stubborn on holding onto transphobia -- or at least, transphobia-adjacent comments -- and his "LGBTQ+ is a bourgeois ideology" take, which, so far as I can tell, may be one of those "okay, 'technically correct' under your framing of it, but thoroughly counter-productive seeing as literally nobody else frames the issue in this way." Unfortunately, he's recommended stuff from PatSoc Caleb Maupin before too. Basically, I see potential in Coffin, clouded by problems.
  • What I have read of Xi Jinping -- which isn't much -- has been solid.

So yeah, if you're looking for heroes, I wouldn't hold your breath. But there's life to be found in the world of Marxism.

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