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.
One step closer to a Republican calling a Democrat “tankie” on live TV.
What is it with these people and being way less cool than their parents. Isn’t Buttigieg’s dad a Marxist professor?
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
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.
This isn’t a Reverent Wright situation, they aren’t on good terms. Her dad dunks on her, and the GOP wouldn’t give Kamala a free chance to disown a Marxist, which she would be all too eager to do
No they won’t. They’ll just call her a Marxist. There’s no need for them to confuse the hogs with the details. They can just say Kamala is a Marxist.
I mean chuds hate Mayo Pete too but I’ve never heard them mention his dad, who was not only a Marxist but was also considered the foremost expert on Antonio Gramsci.
That’s pretty cool I wish my dad was a Marxist. Better than a conservative. She still has my vote!
I will put a check mark next to her name to vote against Trump.
But unless she comes out against the genocide, I won’t “vote for her”.
She’s literally the VP. If she was against the genocide of Palestinians. 1. They wouldn’t even think about putting her on the ticket 2. She has the power to stop it.
That unless was doing a lot of work, I know :)
They always do make the Dems sound so much cooler than they actually are.
Fox News has already released the antigen into their viewers. My parents told me maybe 2 years ago that Kamala was a Communist. I remarked that that was an insult to Communists.