Honestly I rarely read him and I only did so because of the usual word of mouth association the current "geopolitics" little circle(Mercouris/Nakedcapitalism etc), he is good /ok at that. Maybe he said something about Marxism in the past, but he is definitely right wing. This is just typing woke on their search bar.
Plenty of Marxists complain about wokeness. It is brain worms but doesn’t mean they are a “conservative”. They are a Marxist with a particular brainworm