Ignoring all the context as to if or why this is said, it can’t be a good look calling yourself by a school of thought by your own name.
Obviously he’s not denouncing his own work. The problem with “bad” socialists isn’t new. Marx had a problem with it before he became Marx. Lenin was railing about it all the time.
What did Lenin say, something like; “everyone’s a socialists these days and none of them know what it is.”. Something like that.
We still have the same old problems today. Every other liberal pretends to be a socialist so long as it doesn’t affect their beliefs.
Ignoring all the context as to if or why this is said, it can’t be a good look calling yourself by a school of thought by your own name.
Obviously he’s not denouncing his own work. The problem with “bad” socialists isn’t new. Marx had a problem with it before he became Marx. Lenin was railing about it all the time.
What did Lenin say, something like; “everyone’s a socialists these days and none of them know what it is.”. Something like that.
We still have the same old problems today. Every other liberal pretends to be a socialist so long as it doesn’t affect their beliefs.