Yeah, I thought I was alone in this, but I really thought he was the perfect vehicle for spreading leftist ideas.
He could give materialist analysis in a casual way without watering it down. He could deal with reactionaries in a calm way without hiding his contempt. He was funny and scathing. Incredibly well read and informed.
I always envisioned him and Matt Christman as a perfect duo. Matt’s heavily materialist viewpoint mixed with Michael’s heavily spiritualist viewpoint and their shared ability to be a force of personality and knowledge when they spoke would have really meshed.
Yeah, I thought I was alone in this, but I really thought he was the perfect vehicle for spreading leftist ideas.
He could give materialist analysis in a casual way without watering it down. He could deal with reactionaries in a calm way without hiding his contempt. He was funny and scathing. Incredibly well read and informed.
I really do miss him
“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems” is such a perfectly succinct maxim of how western socialists should operate
I always envisioned him and Matt Christman as a perfect duo. Matt’s heavily materialist viewpoint mixed with Michael’s heavily spiritualist viewpoint and their shared ability to be a force of personality and knowledge when they spoke would have really meshed.
The CIA must have thought the same thing.