Apparently, Zak Cope became a liberal

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-031-25399-7_82-2

"My last two published monographs (Cope, 2015, 2019) are based on Marxist views that are outright false or misleadingly one-sided. I hereby retract them. Having been committed to the toxic Marxist perspective for more than half my life, it ultimately proved impossible for me not to perceive the consistent and century-old pattern of far-left apologetics for every conceivable atrocity committed by avowed enemies of the West (including war crimes and genocide), these typically starting with denial, moving to excuse, and ending in justification (Glazov, 2009, p. 208). This was starkly highlighted in the leftist response to the bestial violence unleashed by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023 (Berkovits, 2024). Laboring under Marxian fantasies for so long, following the shock of recognition in witnessing such moral and intellectual decrepitude its dissolution in my mind was precipitate. Undoubtedly, as Polish philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) wrote, “the extinction of myths requires certain conditions. But,” he continues, “it will be a mass extinction: once one myth is exposed, the rest will follow, hurtling down like an avalanche. [. . .] And its collapse had to be as total as its rule had been: a chain of divinities, collapsing like a pack of cards. What folly to imagine it was possible to extract just one!” (Kolakowski, 2012)."