He's changed his mind. At the end of the day he does seem like a committed academic (even if he's a bit uh... slow) and has realised that his theories on the "End of History" and the like were plainly incorrect. He said the following in 2018:

This extended period, which started with Reagan and Thatcher, in which a certain set of ideas about the benefits of unregulated markets took hold, in many ways it's had a disastrous effect. At this juncture, it seems to me that certain things Karl Marx said are turning out to be true. He talked about the crisis of overproduction… that workers would be impoverished and there would be insufficient demand.

That said he's still a lib, and a #slavaukraine lib at that; he even met with the fucking "Azov Brigade" fascists.

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Probably worth keeping in mind that he also has (had?) deep ties to U.S. intelligence