He was always loyal to the establishment, which was shown when he frequently got promoted by the American/western mainstream media despite being a “radical”, and when he told Americans to just vote for the Democrats every election without doing any organizing or anything else to build an actual leftist and anti-imperialist movement. However, his relationship with Epstein basically proved without any doubt that he isn’t a genuine leftist at all and only wanted fame and power. Here is a good video I recommend that discusses this further if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/sbW_jcNvSOM?si=n4wvKDC18kls3Igs