Taking the Struggle from the Rittenhouses to the Financial Houses

When I first got the idea to write an article addressing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, it was only a few days ago, and I figured I would be able to publish the article within a day, because I'd already written a couple posts examining the issue from my perspective on Facebook, and it would only be a matter of editing to consolidate them into one.

But Marxism is a science, not a dogma, and when our understanding of the facts change, our application of Marxism must change as well.

Some news about the ads around here.

Apparently my previous ad service has been doing browser crypto mining without my knowledge. They paid next to nothing anyway, so I've fired them. For all none of you who'll miss the opportunity to get shitcoins pitched to you, I feel your pain.

I could just as easily not have ads at all; it would certainly make my life easier. But, as funny as this may sound, there's a certain legitimacy in advertising. Ads say a lot of dumb capitalist things, but they also say, in essence, that the advertiser believes in the medium it's advertising in. It's a declaration of solidarity of sorts. To a certain degree, a website that has a select few tasteful advertisements looks more established and legitimate than a website that does not.

After reviewing the advertising situation, I'm convinced that I will have no luck whatsoever selling ads through any established agency. First off, literally nobody is catering online ad sales to a communist market. That's just not a thing. If I sell ad space to any currently existing ad company, it'll be a wild mismatch of product and reader. I can't imagine any of my readership actually bought any of the shitcoins being hawked, and I certainly hope they didn't.

"The New Deal and the Fifth Party System" is up on the bookshelf!

I gone done did me a theory again, y'all. It's called "The New Deal and the Fifth Party System" and I hope you'll do me the honor of reading it.

I've mentioned in previous essays, and in Class Analysis and Rev, that I think that communists who actually want to die in a communist America ought to be Republicans. There are so many different arguments for it, and I have only begun to make them. Nevertheless, this notion flies in the face of mainstream socialist theory, which still maintains that we should all be AOC simps. I'll leave that job to Chuckles Kirk, however.

Mostly I've made the historical argument for our involvement in the GOP: that it was once a Marxist workers' party that did cool Marxist workers' party things, and can be made to do so again. I've also pointed out that Trump proved it is manifestly the easier of the two big parties to take over, and that it's already become an anti-imperialist party again of its own accord.

Well, in this essay, I delve more deeply into the history of America's party systems, what question our current party system is designed to answer, and the proper communist orientation to this party system. So please, check it out!

Kent Chamberlain and the Red Rock Forests: Pictures

I kept alluding to this thread in the main thread. Indeed, this might be the worthier of the two. I got me some pixels that day, y'all. I'm going to break it up into sections, so you can know what you're looking at. It's hard enough for me to keep it all together; it's been long enough now that I have to group the pictures by date to even know what I'm looking at.

First was some scenic area I stopped at before even getting to Highway 89. It didn't make it into the main narrative because there isn't much to tell besides the pictures. Anyhow, after you make the jump, here's that:

Kent Chamberlain and the Red Rock Forests

It's been a while since the last installment of this series, and I'd better write it up while my memories are still relatively fresh. I never did get back to it, because life has a way of going sideways all at once, especially in Nevada. But here, in the autumnal tranquillity of the Omaha 'burbs, I've got coffee and I've got jazz playing in the background, so let's do this.

I woke up in a Utah rest area off I-70 just shy of Green River. I pulled into Green River soon after that, in search of some gas and coffee. I paid for the gas with my quarter supply, and I made my own coffee with their hot water and some soup cans I've kept for this purpose (usually the hot water comes from my fireplace though). Refuelled, I got back on the interstate, getting back off of it on Highway 89 headed south. I was not yet aware of the price of admission at Bryce Canyon, so I was headed in that direction.

Racists criticizing theory

Critical race theory is a chimera. It's been banned in various states by Republican politicians responding to their voters, but Democrats respond that those schools weren't even teaching critical race theory, and their opponents don't even know what it is.

So, nobody can agree on what it even means, yet the conservative working class is utterly enraged by it and that's all the proof the middle class and bourgeois radlibs need to dismiss them all as irredeemable Klansmen.

What the hell is going on? What should we as communists uphold in this situation?

Let's start with a personal example. As a teenager, I was a libertarian. Member of the Libertarian Party and everything. I wasn't greedy, I wasn't rich. I had a hard childhood where I felt unfree, and this was the party that seemed to believe in human freedom the most. So I joined. Having still been brainwashed by the false consciousness of capitalism, I also incorrectly figured their economic platform of extreme free market capitalism would liberate the workers if ever truly implemented (as opposed to the "crony capitalism" that libertarians blame capitalist problems on).

I was a reactionary on a theoretical level when it came to economics, but my heart was in the right place. On just about every other issue, I upheld the correct line as I understand it now: I was anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, anti-cop. And even economically, I had similar praxis to today: I wanted to start businesses to employ people at good wages. I just hadn't realized all of communist theory yet, and those businesses were going to be capitalist ones run by a really nice boss instead of the collective enterprise I'm starting now, where we're all equal and vote on everything.

The good intentions were there, but the theory wasn't.

Then I went to college.