Vijay Prashad
They’re both good in their own ways, though I don’t think either is ML. Hudson will straight-up tell you he’s a Trot.
Literally Trotsky’s godson, but yeah Hudson is great regardless.
i could have sworn they called themselves so in the podcast interview were i first learned about them; i’m going to re-listen to see if i got it right since i’m been meaning to anyways
Richard Wolff often just calls himself a Marxist/Marxian Economist, listened to him a lot but can’t say I’ve ever heard himself a Leninist, but he always seems to be in “professor mode” so who know what he truly believes. He always speaks positively of the USSR
Gerald Horne writes a new book every other year and they just keep getting better. He’s essential reading for American communists, not a hitler particle or liberal brainworm to be had.
Would recommend The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in particular.