"This academia failed to connect the dots between three world events which have formed the modern phenomenon that Michal Buchowski calls Neo-Orientalism. The first world event is the fall of the Soviet Union which created the post-Soviet lumpenproletariat in Eastern Europe, the orphans of the collective farm. The second world event is 9/11 and the migration crisis which made the world stumble upon the Muslim lumpenproletariat. The third world event is the election of Trump in 2016 after the complete deindustrialization of America, not different in its historical form from the desovietization of Eurasia, which created the American lumpenproletariat, or what Hillary Clinton called “the Basket of Deplorables.”

“…the ‘Bolivarian process’ despite all the drama and legitimately fascinating and significant social experiments…was never anymore “revolutionary” than Mamdani’s mayorship of NYC (or for those with memories longer then a Ticktock reel-Lumumba’s mayorship of Jackson).”