I was born into the middle class, with Republican-voting parents. My teenage rebellion made me a libertarian, until online liberals and socialists persuaded me that the unregulated market was a utopian fantasy, so I became a liberal in college. There I quickly realized that the liberals are the embodiment of every libertarian dystopia in practice, an unaccountable elite with money, and around the time Bernie launched his first campaign, I became a democrat socialist. But then after his first loss, I realized that democrat socialism can't change anything, because it's structurally wedded to the same shitlib monstrosities up top that make the world terrible to begin with. While hanging out in the Green Party for lack of a better option, I got radicalized in the "real commie hours" by some "watermelon" comrades there for just that purpose. It made sense; I was writing my history thesis, and Marxism-Leninism helped me make sense of some otherwise inexplicable historical facts.
But then as I delved further into this red new world, as I learned about the history of our heroes and the various revisionists who tried to stop them, I noticed that the revisionists all arose from the middle class, and advanced shitlib arguments in different times and places in an attempt to turn us aside from the class war. I then turned around to the modern day, and found much of my comrades doing exactly the same thing for exactly the same class reason. I confronted middle class identity politics everywhere I found it, both in the fascist chans and the bad-faith bad-haircut halls of Leftbook. I pissed off a lot of gender studies majors and a lot of "why the South should've won the Civil War" history majors.
I also came to the conclusion that the revolution in America would, by necessity, have to look a whole lot different than it looked in the Soviet Union. No, we can't reform capitalism; Bernie tried and failed hard twice. Rich people won't peacefully let you vote away their money, they will stop you by hook or by crook, or by Pinkerton if necessary. But we also can't overthrow it in a violent revolution against our government; the Weather Underground tried that and failed, because even though it's a bourgeois democracy, the workers are taught to believe that it's theirs, and they will fight to defend it. Reading more history, this time about our Civil War, I realized that Abraham Lincoln had accidentally stumbled on the only way you can change the workers' relationship to the means of production in a bourgeois democracy. You have to have a platform moderate enough to get elected, simple enough that you have a clear mandate to implement one thing once elected, and too radical for the rich to abide peacefully. You can't overthrow a bourgeois democracy. You have to get elected to lead it and force the rich to try and fail to overthrow it, and lead the united working class, both socialist and conservative, into battle against them.
I'm now back at my parents' for the winter, setting up the internet infrastructure for my new career. The ideological tendency I'm pioneering is a new one, and needs explanation and elaboration. I need a place to post the theory I write. I also never gave up my love of history; I can do it better outside of liberal academia, but would still like to be paid somehow for the historical research I write and contribute to. I'm also an artist, and need a place to post the artwork I make so I can sell it. It would also be nice to do this somewhere that I can run ads, so that people without a dime to spend can nonetheless help me out just by being here and reading. I also need a place where I can post updates from the budding agricultural collective, to attract interest, donations, and eventually coworkers. For all of these reasons, I started this blog.
I think that's everything. Welcome to the blog.
I look forward to reading your articles. Thanks.
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