Midwestern Marx is a US-based socialist educational online publishing house. Its content includes online articles, book series, academic journals[1] (ISSN 2769-1055), and online videos. The organization erroneously pushes patriotic socialism, and thus supports U.S. imperialism.[2][3] One of its foremost spokespeople, Eddie Liger, frequently engages in tailist and class collaborationist tactics by defending association and partnership with open fascists, rather than trying to win over misguided proletarians away from their leadership.[4] Midwestern Marx agreed with Jackson Hinkle, a notorious PatSoc and Revisionist, that Marxism-Leninism was compatible with loyalty to the United States.[5]
Staff
The staff consists of 6 members of the editorial board, 20 writers, and 3 Spanish-English translators. Additionally, there are 10 writers for the Youth League.
Editorial board
- Thomas Riggins: Chief Editorial Counselor, retired philosophy teacher, and 1960s-era activist and writer
- Carlos L. Garrido: Cuban philosophy graduate student focused on Marxism, Hegel, and early 19th century US socialism
- Edward (Eddie) L. Smith: US political scientist.
- Alex Zambito
- Mitchell K. Jones
- Calla Winchell
Ideology
Midwestern Marx generally supports patriotic socialism and is against the decolonisation of the United States.[6] It accuses the opponents of patriotic socialism of being American exceptionalists[2] even though they also oppose patriotism in other imperialist countries.[7][better source needed] It also incorrectly defines nationalism as loyalty to the state and patriotism as loyalty to the people and absurdly claimed the Statesian Settler Project is not a product of genocide[2]
Library works
Censorship
In 2020, after the CIA-connected company Oracle bought TikTok, it banned Midwestern Marx's account that had 375,000 followers.[9] In 2022, the video sharing platform TikTok banned Midwestern Marx's second account,[10][11] and it has banned five more accounts since then.[9]
Content
Midwestern Marx covers many different topics. They have discussed how the CIA was involved in promoting the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory ideology.[12]
Links
- YouTube
- LinkTree (Their curated list of links)
- @EddieLigerSmith on TikTok (censored)
References
- ↑ Journal of American Socialist Studies (JASS)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “Put simply, the United States, as every country, is not a product of genocide and slavery, nor is it a product of freedom and liberty, it is a product of class antagonisms and struggle, in this regard it is not exceptional.”
Kayla Popuchet (2021-12-05). "In Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotism: A comradely response to Danny Haiphong’s “Marxist” Polemic on Patriotic Socialism." Midwestern Marx. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. - ↑ Roderic Day (2023-06-06). "Untitled Twitter Thread" Twitter.
- ↑ “If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia they would have tweeted pictures of the Bolsheviks reaching out to the black hundreds and demanded that people cancel them for it.”
@EdbieLigerSmith. "If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia" Archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023. - ↑ @MidwesternMarx (2021-09-06). "The ultra-left reactions to this tweet show they’ve never read any Marx, Engels, or Lenin - and perhaps worst, they’ve never met a working class American in their life."
- ↑ “That is because the mass of the direct producers in the USA are not from the indigenous population. Under these circumstances where [sic] they to acquire ownership of all land[,] they would inevitably become and [sic] exploiting minority.”
Paul Cockshott (2021-10-03). "Marxism and the Nationalisation of Land" Midwestern Marx. Archived from the original on 2023-06-06. - ↑ “The specific content of patriotism is determined by historical conditions. There is the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler, and there is our patriotism. Communists must resolutely oppose the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler. The Communists of Japan and Germany are defeatists with regard to the wars being waged by their countries. To bring about the defeat of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler by every possible means is in the interests of the Japanese and the German people, and the more complete the defeat the better...For the wars launched by the Japanese aggressors and Hitler are harming the people at home as well as the people of the world. China's case, however, is different, because she is the victim of aggression.”
Mao Zedong (1966). Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: 'Patriotism and Internationalism'. [PDF] Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. [MIA] - ↑ Library - Midwestern Marx
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Carlos L Garrido (2023-06-02). "The U.S. censors Dissenting Voices: On the attacks against the Midwestern Marx Institute" Monthly Review. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ↑ Eddie Smith (2022-03-03). "Tik Tok BANNED us. Freedom of Speech under Capitalism."
- ↑ @MarxMidwest on Twitter: "Tik tok banned our second account today. They are completely silencing us. Not letting us have any kind of voice on their platform. Creating a neoliberal echo chamber." (Archived)
- ↑ "The Frankfurt School and the CIA - Interview W/ Gabriel Rockhill". Midwestern Marx.