In reply to I mean, clearly he does know
No, he doesn't. He admitted to not having read most of Kaczynski before naming his group "FC". He's made a few sort of interesting arguments, but nothing groundbreaking: As in, Noble Savage is bullshit, but so is Hobbes. What else is new? And it doesn't matter what his definition of leftist is. If he can be co-opted by leftists, he is a leftist. A symbol can be changed easily, especially with time, but not the old line of thought along with it. If you want to change the thought, you have to undermine it, but Jacobi is just its antagonist. And you can only validate a thing by being against it, even if you are just for a different version of it.
No, he doesn't. He admitted to not having read most of Kaczynski before naming his group "FC". He's made a few sort of interesting arguments, but nothing groundbreaking: As in, Noble Savage is bullshit, but so is Hobbes. What else is new? And it doesn't matter what his definition of leftist is. If he can be co-opted by leftists, he is a leftist. A symbol can be changed easily, especially with time, but not the old line of thought along with it. If you want to change the thought, you have to undermine it, but Jacobi is just its antagonist. And you can only validate a thing by being against it, even if you are just for a different version of it.