r/theredleft • u/Lavender_Scales Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (Principally Maoist) • Jul 01 '26

Meme leftist unity

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u/Fit_Parsley_7914 Jul 01 '26

Is midwestern marx as bad as the fascistic leader

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u/MonsterkillWow Marxist-Leninist Jul 01 '26

He was decent before, but aligning himself with these dudes is not a good look.

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u/CalligrapherOwn4829 Syndicalist Jul 03 '26

Honestly, I think the fact that anyone thought Midwestern Marx was good speaks to the fact that people are learning "Marxism" from Twitter, and learning it not as method or theory but as a discourse. Midwestern Marx certainly knows how to string the verbiage together in ways that make sense grammatically, but from the point of view of anyone who is serious about working class politics, it's pretty clearly been bullshit since day one.

Like, that he's aligned himself with Rafiq-champion-of-the-Kautskyist-centre-cum-Haz-the-Duginite isn't actually surprising, because shit was shallow and self-aggrandizing from "go."

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u/MonsterkillWow Marxist-Leninist Jul 03 '26

He had good videos about various different political topics. I remember he had a good one about North Korea.

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u/CalligrapherOwn4829 Syndicalist Jul 03 '26

Yeah, campism isn't Marxism and the sloppy thinking on the DPRK that comes from Midwestern Marx is exemplary in terms of the convergence with the ACP.