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To which I say… bring it on! While I know the attack will be nothing more than red baiting, it would amazing if people actually started looking into what he’s actually been writing about and saying. My understanding is that he’s a Marxian economist and not, say, a Marxist philosopher or whatever. And - much like Marx himself - Kamala’s dad is far more focused on critiques of actually existing capitalism than how to bring about communism.

Hilarious if the GOP starts to make the campaign about him, then people actually see what he says and then they’re like “hang on a sec, let him cook this stuff he’s saying about how the economy actually works makes sense to me.”

Edit: I added the quotes around “has a Marxist dad” in the title because, now that I’m doing some research, I don’t see anywhere where he’s self-identified as a Marxist. It appears he uses Marx’s analytic tools and speaks highly of Marx, but I also wouldn’t want to put words in his mouth. There are plenty of academics in economics and other fields like history and anthropology who think highly of Marx and apply his methods but wouldn’t consider themselves Marxists.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is it with these people and being way less cool than their parents. Isn’t Buttigieg’s dad a Marxist professor?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Parenti's kid is a lib too iirc

When you live in the imperial core and your own material conditions are comfortable, you have to really make a conscious effort to break left, and you have to also understand that while you may be arguing for a slight worsening in your own conditions, you're arguing for a drastic improvement for many others. Coupling that with how American/western countries really try to beat into you that you're on your own/you are an individual against society, well...you have to beat your own self interest and the aggressive, constant barrage of brainwashing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Yup. So many people in the west with a hint of success (or just a job). Think they did it all themselves and they are built different. And if you're never hit with adversity, you can just go on thinking that. I'd say that white boomers have that problem in spades, the system just kept working for them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Yup. I can't think of anything more depressing than having a reactionary kid. Like I get the perspective of not wanting to "force" Marxism on your kids, but if this can be the result, then you probably should have.