In a 2008 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, he described himself as a "communist in a qualified sense," and in another appearance in October 2009 he described himself as a "radical leftist."
Godine 2008. u intervju s Amy Goodman na Democracy Now!, opisao je samog sebe kao "komunista u kvalificiranom obliku," a u drugom pojavljivanju u listopadu 2009. opisao se je kao "radikalnog ljevičara."