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One of its directors, [[Eddie Liger Smith|Eddie Liger]], frequently engages in [[Tailism|tailist]] and [[Class collaboration|class collaborationist]] tactics by defending association and partnership with open [[Fascism|fascists]] akin to the [[Black Hundreds]], rather than trying to win over misguided [[Proletariat|proletarians]] away from their leadership.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@EdbieLigerSmith|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409|archive-date=26 Jun 2023|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> | One of its directors, [[Eddie Liger Smith|Eddie Liger]], frequently engages in [[Tailism|tailist]] and [[Class collaboration|class collaborationist]] tactics by defending association and partnership with open [[Fascism|fascists]] akin to the [[Black Hundreds]], rather than trying to win over misguided [[Proletariat|proletarians]] away from their leadership.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@EdbieLigerSmith|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409|archive-date=26 Jun 2023|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> | ||
Eddie deliberately misrepresents [[Marxism]]. For example, in a February 3 Twitter post, he said that "[he] had 10 farmers on [his] college wrestling team, and they all f**** love Trump".<ref>{{Web citation|author=@EdbieLigerSmith|newspaper=Twitter|title=This person does not live in Iowa lol. I think I had 10 farmers on my college wrestling team alone 😂|date=2024-|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1753789852334629195}}</ref> User @bidetmarxman replied to this post, | Eddie deliberately misrepresents [[Marxism]]. For example, in a February 3 Twitter post, he said that "[he] had 10 farmers on [his] college wrestling team, and they all f**** love Trump".<ref>{{Web citation|author=@EdbieLigerSmith|newspaper=Twitter|title=This person does not live in Iowa lol. I think I had 10 farmers on my college wrestling team alone 😂|date=2024-|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1753789852334629195}}</ref> User @bidetmarxman replied to this post, nothing there is a difference between farm owners and farm workers that Eddie didn't make, and that "farmers" usually refers to farm owners specifically. Owners are a "petty bourgeois reactionary group", while workers are "are much more numerous and are proletariat, thus forming part of the revolutionary subject". They go on to explain that Eddie, being a director of Midwestern Marx, should or would not be making such a basic mistake if he were not being disingenuous on purpose to cater to the reactionary tendencies of his audience.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Professional hog groomer|newspaper=Twitter|title=“Farmers” is typically short hand for farm *owners* (or in Eddie’s case the sons of farm owners)|date=2024-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/bidetmarxman/status/1754059983640261026|retrieved=2024-02-05|quote=“Farmers” is typically short hand for farm *owners* (or in Eddie’s case the sons of farm owners). They’re a petit bourgeois and reactionary group. Farm *workers*, otoh, are much more numerous and are proletariat, thus forming part of the revolutionary subject. | ||
Confusing the two is a very basic error that you might expect from someone first grappling with Marxist concepts of class and relations of production. But not from someone positioning themselves as the director of an org teaching Marxist theory.}}</ref> | Confusing the two is a very basic error that you might expect from someone first grappling with Marxist concepts of class and relations of production. But not from someone positioning themselves as the director of an org teaching Marxist theory.}}</ref> |