SocraticGadfly: Branko Marcetic's latest cluelessness, ignorance or stupidity: Woody Harrelson and RFK Jr.

August 14, 2023

Branko Marcetic's latest cluelessness, ignorance or stupidity: Woody Harrelson and RFK Jr.

So, Jacobin staffer Marcetic was surprised that Woody Harrelson would endorse RFK Jr.?

Per my tweet below, derp!

First, Woody's been a nutter long before he became an antivaxxer, as I noted.

Second, yes, as blogged three years ago when I removed Jacobin from my blogroll, he and the mag really aren't that far left.

Third, to the degree they approach being that far left, them and others? I'm a non-Marxist leftist. Not even a post-Marxist; I reject his dialectical materialism starting point.

Fourth, it may actually have been Sunkara who felt that was on Bernie, butt-hurtness and the Greens, but I know it was somebody at Jacobin.

Update, Aug. 20: Eric London of World Socialist roasts Branko's fellating of AOC in this Twitter thread. (London probably won't like me being non-Marxist, but you dance an individual dance with them what brung you to the first slot on the dance card, to modify Darrell Royal.)

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