Caleb Maupin

Caleb Maupin
Born	30 December 1987 (age 37) Orrville, Ohio, United States
Nationality	Statesian
Known for	Creating the Center for Political Innovation
Website
https://calebmaupin.net/

Caleb Todd Maupin (born 30 December 1987 in Orrville, Ohio) is a LaRouchite patriotic socialist journalist, political activist, and cult founder from the United States who came to national and even international prominence in August 2022 after accusations of manipulation and sexual abuse were brought to light by former members of his organisation, the Center for Political Innovation.

In 2024, Maupin renounced communism and began openly endorsing the reactionary movement of Donald Trump.

Center for Political Innovation

See main article: Center for Political Innovation

Maupin founded the Center for Political Innovation (CPI), a for-profit business that he called a think tank. This made him the sole owner of the CPI and allowed it to make a profit, which wouldn't be possible in an organisation legally registered as a political party. It also made all members legally employees, and not members of a party.

Dissolution and reopening of the CPI

After the accusations came out, the CPI decided its own dissolution. Their twitter account was deactivated and their website did not load any page. Maupin himself deactivated his own Twitter account and moved away from the public eye.

As the CPI was registered as a business with Maupin as the sole owner, he was able to overturn the dissolution. The CPI was then reopened later that same year, with a self-serving apology video published on Maupin's YouTube channel serving as the announcement.

Controversy and accusations

Caleb Maupin texting his wife "I'm going to set up a big compound in the woods where I [will] live with all the kids [CPI members]"

Cult formatting

Maupin ran the CPI from a hotel room in New York that cost $600 a week, where he forced the new and younger members to live and volunteer most of their time towards fund-raising and canvassing for new members. Members were supposed to provide for themselves during that time and pay for the hotel room themselves, while Maupin was living in his own home and had his own job.

In one instance, he told his wife over text messages that he would "set up a big compound in the woods where [he] will live with all the kids [CPI members]".

Sexual misconduct

Spanking fetish

Maupin's fetish for spanking is well-documented, and it is something that he brings into seemingly every conversation he has with people for his own sexual gratification.

In the call-out piece published on Medium, several of his former comrades speak about his spanking fetish and how he'd work it even in texts to CPI members.

In 2020, he defended the spanking (corporal punishment) of children by teachers and parents in a Twitter discussion with Sameera Khan, another noted reactionary and patriotic socialist.

That same year, when allegations of abuse in the Party for Socialism and Liberation came to light, Maupin instantly jumped to invoking COINTELPRO to defend the PSL.

He ran two segments on RT defending spanking and corporal punishment, one in 2016 and another in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Abuse towards CPI members

In August 2022, accusations of abuse formally came out in an article published by members and ex-members of the CPI on Medium.

In the now-deleted (but archived) piece, they accuse Maupin of pushing his spanking fetish on them unprompted and without consent. One of the members, identified only as Member 2, explained how Maupin essentially made her lose her job by requiring she give more and more time to the John Brown Volunteers (the precursor to the CPI), which led to her being fired. Afterwards, he used the 19-year-old's position of vulnerability to push her into prostitution. He seemingly achieved this because Member 2 was, at the time, in a vulnerable situation and had done such work in the past. By admonishing her when she wanted to get a new job outside of the CPI, Maupin eventually left her no choice but to return to prostitution. When Member 2 told Maupin she was picking it up again, his only reaction was that he "respects [her] decision", a much different reaction than he had when Member 2 would try to find other work. Maupin would later try to hire Member 2's services.

From there, Member 2 relapsed into heroin and Maupin used that to isolate her from the rest of the CPI, even lying about her addiction to other members (after she got better) so they would not associate with her.

Anti-communist activities

Caleb Maupin with Aleksandr Dugin and other far-right figures

Despite Maupin's claims that he is a communist, he has on many occasions heavily criticised communists for their views when they do not align with his strand of patriotic socialism. He has also been very close to many anti-communists and fascists, trying to rehabilitate their image to his audience.

In 2014, Maupin was present at the 2nd International Conference of Independent Thinkers hosted in Tehran, Iran. He was on a panel that also featured "Nazi-Maoist" (a short-lived movement in Italy) Claudio Mutti as well as other fascists who were funded by the CIA during Operation Gladio.

He was present at the Alternatives To Globalization Conference in 2018, sitting next to noted fascist Aleksandr Dugin and speaking alongside him. He defended this decision and spoke highly of Dugin (a mystical, metaphysical author) since that event. Notably, it was reported by attendees that the only books sold at CPI events were from Maupin and Dugin.

The CPI hosted a webinar which featured Alfred De Zayas, a Holocaust denier and member of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland. As the CPI is Maupin's own business, he is ultimately responsible for this decision.

Since late 2024, Maupin has started to openly distance himself and the CPI from Marxism and communism altogether. Instead, Maupin has used the term "innovationism" to refer to their tendency. He denounced opposition to capitalism (erroneously trying to separate it from imperialism), and expressed support for Donald Trump after his victory in the 2024 election. He announced CPI's new aims as being "to push Trump to enact a pro-American and pro-working families agenda, despite being surrounded by Neocons,^[sic] globalists, and free-marketeers."

Works

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Articles

• OWS movement & the 'Global Class War' (2012-07-17).
• A million Spanish workers resist unemployment cutbacks (2012-07-27). Spanish translation
• We don't need superheroes (2012-08-06). Spanish translation
• 'Jobs & rec centers, not political terror!' (2012-08-09).
• China, Britain, the Olympics and capitalist media (2012-08-18).
• Montclair students fight tuition hike (2012-08-27).
• Why you should join the '11%' (2012-08-29).
• One year after Occupy began: Class war on Wall Street (2012-09-19).
• On Occupy Wall Street anniversary: 'The anti-capitalists are here!' (2012-09-27).
• Paul Ryan's lies: The truth about 'central planning' (2012-10-15).
• As capitalists' response fails, activists mobilize relief aid (2012-11-05).
• Achievements of Korean socialism (2012-12-20).
• Syria & the global class war (2013-01-20).
• Jones, Hitler & gun control (2013-02-08).
• Hurricane Sandy & the road to socialism (2013-02-22).
• 'Profit comes before human lives and ecology for oil companies' (2013-04-02).
• Film vividly shows how Angela Davis was freed (2013-04-18).
• Intimidation act against AP shows 'real fear in House of Power' (2013-05-14).
• Cooper Union students seize president's office (2013-05-22).
• Occupy Wall Street 'From Zuccotti to Gezi' (2013-06-03).
• New U.S. ambassador to U.N.: Selling military intervention as 'activism' (2013-08-27).
• Occupy protests mark movement's 2nd anniversary in NYC (2013-09-20).
• Capitol Hill tragedy shows worrying trend in crumbling US society (2013-10-05).
• Harlem, N.Y., anti-racist fighter runs progressive election campaign (2013-10-20).
• Communists oppose war, organize resistance and fight for revolution (2013-12-02).
• Anti-imperialist youth meet in Ecuador (2014-01-03).
• 1934: When low-wage workers fought back (2014-01-09).
• 'US corporations should pay for destruction of Afghanistan' (2014-01-16).
• Pete Seeger: Folk musician, anti-capitalist fighter (2014-02-03).
• Protect Syria: Will Samantha Power's words fool us again? (2014-02-19).
• 'Human rights' attacks on DPRK will not bring peace (2014-02-26).
• Who are the Anti-Fascists? Hillary Clinton and historical confusion (2014-03-12).
• US leaders reject democracy, once again (2014-03-25).
• Xi Jinping's fears and liberal anti-China crusades (2014-03-28).
• Austerity terrorism: From Kiev to NYC (2014-04-09).
• Report indicates that US aligned regimes are preparing for war (2014-04-18).
• Elections in a time of civil war: America 150 years ago, and Syria today (2014-04-25).
• McMillan case: Two kinds of protesters (2014-05-06).
• Cecily McMillan, OWS activist, faces seven years in prison after sham trial (2014-05-12).
• Fascist violence and the value of human life (2014-05-12).
• Unspoken alliance between US govt & fascists (2014-05-14).
• The Pentagon moves to keep Nigeria locked down (2014-05-28).
• Venezuela, capitalism & climate change (2014-06-03).
• The United States will not accept peace (2014-06-18).
• 'In Iraq the US is getting exactly what it wants' (2014-06-20).
• Syria election observers at UN: Elections 'big defeat' for U.S. (2014-06-24).
• 'US needs Poland just as a base area through which to threaten Russia' (2014-06-24).
• Anders Rasmussen, 'Moscow gold' and America's forgotten past (2014-07-01).
• Appointing 'Sovietologist' as a new US ambassador to Russia not the road to peace (2014-07-04).
• 'US allies begin to question value of relationships with Washington' (2014-07-08).
• Occupy activist exposes Riker's Island (2014-07-10).
• The 'Border children' controversy: Fascism in Central America & USA (2014-07-14).
• 'Russia is trying to protect itself from US economic warfare' (2014-08-07).
• Scapegoating immigrants: The global strategy of Wall Street (2014-08-07).
• Racist horrors at Rikers Island (2014-08-13).
• Prisons, poverty & socialism: An interview with Cecily McMillan (2014-09-11).
• Scottish independence and the struggle against austerity (2014-09-23).
• Who are the "Iranian dissidents?" US media promotes bizarre terrorist cult (2014-10-15).
• 'Growing number of people filled with rage at the US' (2014-11-13).
• 'Ferguson riots – frustration at injustice' (2014-11-25).
• Fighting imperialism, come hell and high water (2014-11-29).
• Low wages, police terror, and the need for revolution (2015-01-06).
• Social media deception: Venezuela exposes "La Salida" conspiracy (2015-02-27).
• 'US can't afford more war and aggression, people want peace with Iran' (2015-04-14).
• 'Why I'm aboard the Rescue Ship to Yemen' (2015-05-12).
• 'Let us help the Yemeni people!' – Message from U.S. solidarity activist in the Persian Gulf (2015-05-16).
• Rescue Ship to Yemen forced to dock in Djibouti (2015-05-26).
• Attacks on Yemen intensify after medical volunteers turned away (2015-06-01).
• Leaders of high finance make real decisions; G7 'hired actors' (2015-06-08).
• Ghosts of America's past: Reflections on Independence Day 2015 (2015-07-04).
• 'US society conducive to insanity' (2015-07-24).
• Collapse that never happened: China bounces back, discrediting Western analysts (2015-07-26).
• 'Human life doesn't matter in US in 2015' (2015-08-27).
• 'US 2016 race: People sick of politics of personalities, want substantive debate' (2015-10-14).
• Letter from Caracas: Spirit of anti-neoliberal 'chavismo' alive and well (2015-12-06).
• Bernie Sanders' supporters 'frustrated with emerging low-wage police state' (2016-01-25).
• 'NATO considers Syrian troop deployment fearing ISIS may be defeated' (2016-02-11).
• Yemen's Forgotten War (2016-04-08).
• US hypocrisy on the high seas (2017-03-14).
• New Silk Road in Auckland: Shares values as the basis for cooperation (2017-03-30).
• UA and Western human rights hypocrisy (2017-04-13).
• US should not politicize the Belt and Road (2017-05-16).
• In 2017, China wins friends & influence people (2017-06-09).
• Tibet rises from poverty: fantasy and reality (2017-07-16).
• Blaming regulation for financial woes? Western analysts are mistaken about China (2017-07-21).
• Charlottesville and the Battle for American History (2017-08-17).
• Despite new hardships, Angola votes for independence & development (2017-09-08).
• In UN speech, Trump overlooks achievements of Chinese socialism (2017-09-24).
• China deepens ties with America's heartland (2017-10-06).
• China & World Focus: Chinese Dream is universal (2017-10-18).
• Communist Party moves to address China's housing concerns (2017-11-09).
• Chinese soccer players were right to take a stand (2017-11-24).
• Dangerous myth of 'economic nationalism:' Bannon's deceptions about China & US (2017-12-16).
• Human rights hype isn't good for US or China (2018-05-02).
• Tech unicorns and socialist innovation in China (2018-05-10).
• Joining the AIIB would benefit the American people (2018-05-23).
• Why should American youth study Xi Jinping's writings? (2018-06-01).
• Xi Jinping presents the science of statecraft (2018-08-08).
• Talk of socialism stirs controversy in the US (2018-08-23).
• China has real growth, not debt-based illusions (2018-10-30).
• We are the city-building tendency (2022-05-04).
• The Masses Are The Water: Understanding the Failure of Late-Marcyism (2022-05-04).

Books

• The Road To Liberation: A Message To the 99% (2011).
• Satan at the Fountainhead: The Israel Lobby & the Financial Crisis (2015-10-27).
• Oil and the Global Capitalist Crisis (2016-04-27).
• The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Communist Party (2016-07-09).
• The 2016 Elections and the Crisis of American Liberalism (2017-02-27).
• Getting Rich Without Capitalism: America's Way Out (2018-02-21).
• City Builders and Vandals in Our Age: Articles and Essays on Socialism (2019-07-04).
• The Green Book With a New Introduction by Caleb Maupin (2020-06-11).
• We Are City Builders: The Center for Political Innovation Educational Manual (2021-02-07).
• BreadTube Serves Imperialism: Examining the New Brand of Internet Pseudo-Socialism (2021-06-20).
• Jesus is a Socialist (2021-09-19).
• The Ideological Foundations of the City-Building Tendency (2022-01-27).
• Fidel Castro Exposes the Synthetic Left (2022-05-20).
• Capitalism Must Be Destroyed: The Early Writings of Caleb Maupin, 2007-2015 (2022-10-04).
• Where is America Going? Marxism, MAGA and the Coming Revolution (2023-03-05).
• Letter to Bob Avakian (2023-08-27).
• Kamala Harris and the Future of America: An Essay in Three Parts (2023-08-31).
• Who are the Houthis? What are they fighting for? (2024-01-25).
• Journey of Hope: Building A Movement for Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula in America (2024-02-12).
• Russia is Not Our Enemy! Notes from Americans who stand with Donbass against NATO (2024-02-12).
• Out of the Movement, to the Masses! Anti-Imperialist Organizing in America (2024-04-20).
• Do You Believe in Growth? Why Russia and China Keep Rising While US Society Stifles Innovation (2024-06-25).
• To the Marxists: Long Live Innovationism! (2024-11-18).
• Money and American Injustice (2024-12-10).
• The Killing of Brian Thompson & the Danger of an American 'Years of Lead' (2024-12-27).