Judging by the like/comment ratio I’m sure people are trashing him plenty. Me personally? I used to love him a lot back when I was in a hazy, nascent Marxist/Trot/Marxist-Leninist sphere in my life. I like some of his cultural takes on what I would call Wokeism, some were a little cringey but some were right in line with a phenomenon I feel is underanalyzed. However, after solidifying my position as an ML I became to resent his views on China, “authoritarians,” his doomerism, his more weird takes…it essentially became a removed in the armor of his brilliance I couldn’t unsee and suddenly he became less and less of a brilliant thinker and more of a ignorant guy who was trying too hard to be unique and getting lost in the sauce of academic pretentions instead of focusing on the attainable goal of socialism and what useful things one could be doing in the now to pursue it.

I however don’t disrespect someone for liking him, believe me I get it I have been glued to his lectures before, and I’m sure if I gave them another try there would still be nice things I could say about his intellectual contributions to society. But solely on his contempt and misunderstanding of China alone I can’t fully trust his worldviews, analysis or prescriptions anymore.