I haven’t read most of them and probably won’t. None of them are Marxist Leninist.

Bourdieu called himself “neo-marxist” aka. revisionist. He was an idealist not a materialist. He essentially wanted a kinder liberal capitalism. His work is less than worthless.

Adorno and the frankfurt school were not revolutionary. They were suc-dems “Change the system from inside.” Maybe they said some unique ideas but the heart of their work did nothing to challenge the status quo.

Said was an anti-imperialist but often hostile to Marxism probably because he learned about Marxism from the frankfurt school (anti-revolutionary navel gazers). He called Marxism “too rigid” which to me sounds like doesn’t really understand Dialectical Materialism. The only reason to reject Marxism is because you want to exploit people.

I did read a bit of Ecco’s Ur fascism but gave up. He was a liberal who was repulsed by the darker aspects of fascism but tried to pretend that it was something separate to capitalism. He dumps a lot of words to describe fascism when you can just say “fascism is capitalism when colonial style oppression is done at home.”

I read Said’s Orientalism which is a great critique thereof and how it affected and still affects the state of affairs in West Asia. I heard good reviews of The Question of Palestine (Said is Palestinian himself) but I haven’t read it.

Said is not a resource to understand the “East” he just criticize the “evil”, “backward”, “weak” “East”. So, he’s falling the trap to demonize the West and very anti-Marxist. His family were partners of colonial forces. He’s only good in anti-imperialist action but his ideas to understand the West or the East is not worth to read. You can read more about Edward Said critique from marxist scholar Aijaz Ahmad.

Adorno and Frankfurt school in general are bought by the CIA and their ideas only leads to a pessimist future. But, some Adorno’s work worth to read like Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life and Culture industry. So, read his sociological works and avoid from this assumptions about socialism and future.

Bourdieu is a revisionist but a good scholar to understand current politics and bourgeoisie class. Again, read his sociological works and ignore his marxist-socialist ideas.

I haven’t read enough Ecco’s work but his The Name of the Rose novel was good.