So many just on the edge of becoming principled Marxists get lulled in by a lack of extreme critical thinking combined with cooptation of leftist sounding rhetoric unfortunately. Stopped listening to Blowback, even though it’s a valuable resource for libs and some communists, because they misinterpreted a lot of details regarding Hussein’s rise (painting him as some sort of cartoon villain) and their comedic tone left me feeling dirty. I haven’t listened to more than one or two episodes, but S3 deals with the Korean War and talks about Kim Il-sung at some length – I’m uninspired in believing that they don’t have some whacky, off-colour remarks about him or the Korean revolution sourced straight from the state department.

Maybe it’s unfair, but my bullshit detector was going off the charts. Some comrades of mine treat it like it’s the second coming of socialist Jesus, not realizing that they’re being fed insidious misinformation from folks merely pretending to be experts. There are much better and more informed resources for this kind of stuff, and I’m confident in principled Marxists’ ability to find it. It’s just that shit like this pushes well-meaning people in way the wrong direction.