I thought Bhaskar was tolerable when he
recently debated a guy who doesn't know about the extant debate in trade unionism between the service and organizing models even though he has books published on capitalism and gets an economics column in the newspaper that doesn't negatively report on Amazon.com owned by the guy who owns Amazon.com (no relation) for the amusement of Ezra "I can't believe Paul Ryan was a liar" Klein.
He asked questions like, "Define middle class," and, "How can you get money out of politics with public financing when public financing will be paid for with taxes paid by bourgeois?" and the guy was straight shook, then started ranting about how great the Communist Party of China and / or measuring poverty at 1.90 a day is when that stat is questionable. He didn't even do the wacky Chartalist "it's free real estate" routine!
That said it was pretty funny when the DSA Twitter account recently tweeted something that should have been tweeted from Jacobin's Twitter account because 1 person has access to both accounts.