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First he purged rightist employees (even his friends) working at Current Affairs to consolidate an editorial line under his leadership, now he reposts in support of Dengist developmentalism.
The libertarian socialist to Leninist pipeline is real.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/04/attempting-to-understand-north-korea
8 years ago he was calling DPRK red fascist authoritarians. Maybe he has improved since then, many of us have, but don't pretend he's been reasonable or consistent. That's revisionist history, he still hosts this article on his website despite 'wrestling control from the rightist friends' or whatever bullshit made up about palace intrigue at the petty bourgeois revisionist substack. He's a chauvinist and social fascist. None of these people are principled communists, they are social democrat 'left libertarian' lesser-evil chomskyites. He's tailing Dengism because anybody with eyes can see China is better than the USA, it's becoming irrefutable. He's an opportunist tailing a revisionist lmao.
If we want it to mean anything, we have to stop using "social fascist" so loosely. It means someone who supports social-ish policies in the imperial core while supporting fascism in the periphery. Whatever else you think of the guy, he isn't that:
He's far from Parenti when discussing the merits of AES states, but he's also far from supporting basically any part of U.S. foreign policy.