A striking post has been circulating in leftist social media spaces that deserves serious attention from anyone invested in building a genuine revolutionary movement in America.

X.com user @jccfergie (Fergie Chambers), a wealthy self-described “Tankie shapeshifter” has published what he describes as firsthand knowledge of the organizational structure of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), including a hand-drawn diagram by PSL leaders Ben Becker and Vijay Prashad themselves. The diagram maps PSL’s relationship to a constellation of organizations including The People’s Forum (TPF), BreakThrough News (BTN), ANSWER Coalition, the International People’s Assembly (IPA), and Cuba solidarity and international project organizations. Beyond these “external” organizations are references to United Fronts that PSL leads, rather than participates within. For many on the left who have engaged with these spaces in good faith, this is not entirely surprising, but the specificity and the sourcing of these claims demands that we take them seriously.

The core claims from Fergie Chambers are pointed and specific. The People’s Forum, widely regarded as an independent radical cultural and organizing space in New York City, is described as being “WHOLLY funded, staffed, and controlled by PSL, whose office is in the same building upstairs.” The monthly rent for that building was reportedly $90,000 as of late 2023. BreakThrough News, a media outlet with a significant following among socialist and anti-imperialist audiences, is similarly described as staffed and controlled by PSL’s central committee from within the same building. ANSWER Coalition, one of the most visible anti-war coalitions in the country, is identified as part of PSL’s broader formation. The International People’s Assembly, which presents itself as a global grassroots convergence, is described as “fully under their control.”

These are serious structural claims, not interpersonal grievances. The poster is explicit about this distinction: *”I would not divulge all this based solely on ‘beef.’ I do it because I firmly believe they are counterinsurgency, and a danger to our movements; in terms of containment and co-optation, they are THE biggest danger.”*

What makes this thread particularly significant is Chambers’ account of being personally courted by PSL leadership. He describes having land in Massachusetts where he was running small agriculture, a gym program, housing, and political education. PSL reportedly proposed building a country-based project modeled on The People’s Forum using those spaces. He writes:

They misplayed their hand, and I think they thought that I was a little stupider than I am, and maybe a little less reckless than I am. Because of that they showed a lot of their cards to me really fast, because they were enthusiastic about me collaborating financially with them.

This account of PSL figures approaching high net worth individuals and proposing to incorporate their projects into the PSL network under the banner of collaborative left organizing fits a recognizable pattern. The organizations in the diagram are not presented to the public as PSL front groups. They are presented as independent spaces. That gap between presentation and structure is at the heart of the concern being raised.

The mention of Vijay Prashad, a prolific writer, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and one of the most widely-read figures in the international socialist left, is notable. Prashad is beloved in many circles for his anti-imperialist writing and his work connecting Global South movements. His alleged role in drawing up an organizational diagram meant to court financial and material support raises uncomfortable questions about the relationship between his public intellectual work and PSL’s organizational agenda.

@HakawatiSunbird commented simply: “Prashad is not to be trusted,” to which Chambers responded: “Prashad has never had a principle that wasn’t for sale.” These are sharp words, and they reflect a growing frustration among leftists who feel that high-profile intellectuals functioning within these networks lend them a credibility that obscures rather than illuminates their actual structure and funding.

One of the most clarifying comments comes from @samhusseini, who described repeatedly attempting to engage PSL-connected organizations around UN protest actions, specifically around using the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism to overcome the US veto, a campaign that Colombian President Gustavo Petro eventually pursued in September 2025. The response from PSL-aligned organizations was “always a brick wall.” Chambers’ reply is instructive:

100% and beyond these kinds of shady things, their insistence on gatekeeping or at least totally dominating anything they’re remotely involved in is part of what made me turn hard on them.

This is a crucial point. The problem is not simply one of organizational opacity or funding sources. It is a political method, one in which a centralized party apparatus presents itself through multiple seemingly independent faces, while systematically blocking, absorbing, or marginalizing any organizing efforts it does not control. This is not movement building. This is movement management.

@thestustustudio made a comment that is worth pausing on: “This picture is going to live rent-free in my head forever now. It’s honestly wild how closely it lines up with my own research on the Singham Network.” The Singham Network refers to the financial and organizational network connected to Neville Roy Singham, a tech millionaire whose funding connections to various left and socialist media and organizing projects have been a subject of significant investigative journalism. The alignment between PSL’s alleged organizational diagram and research into that network is a thread that independent press should continue pulling.

A separate but related post from @notXiangyu raises a pointed question directed at both PSL and The People’s Forum regarding their promotion of Kat Abughazaleh (D), a recently progressive candidate for Congress. The post asks why Abughazaleh is being “upheld as some fighter for socialism” given her stated position on “defending Taiwan,” which is code for the continued US use of Taiwan as a geopolitical wedge against the People’s Republic of China. Whether or not one agrees with that specific framing, the question illustrates a broader concern: if PSL-controlled organizations are platforming figures whose politics are inconsistent with anti-imperialism when it is inconvenient, that reveals something about how these PSL spaces function as political instruments rather than principled movement infrastructure.

The word “counterinsurgency” is used deliberately by Chambers, and it deserves to be taken seriously rather than dismissed as hyperbole. Counterinsurgency in the domestic political context does not require government direction. Co-optation, containment, and the management of radical energy within controlled channels are functions that can be performed by well-funded private organizations operating within social movements. The history of the US left is full of examples — from foundation-funded nonprofits that absorbed energy from militant labor organizing, to sectarian formations that built impressive-looking infrastructure while ensuring that no independent radical force could consolidate outside their control.

The question Chambers is raising, and that many in response are affirming from their own experience, is whether PSL and its network of affiliated organizations serve the function of absorbing, directing, and ultimately containing left political energy rather than building toward any genuine rupture with the existing order. @ThatKid1871 captured the absurdity of the dynamic with dry clarity: “Ben Becker and Vijay Prashad pitching socialist organizations to a rotating pool of ultraleft venture capitalists is such a funny image.” Funny, yes, but also a serious description of how organizational infrastructure on the left gets built and who it ends up serving.

@rainer_shea quoted Lenin in response, and it is worth sitting with:

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

The call for left unity is frequently weaponized to suppress exactly the kind of critical accountability being raised in this discussion. Genuine unity requires transparency about organizational structure, democratic accountability within organizations, and honest debate about political line. None of those things are served by a formation in which multiple organizations present themselves as independent while being controlled by a single party’s central committee.

The left does not need more managed spaces. It needs accountable ones.

This thread raises questions that cannot be answered by one post or one person’s account. They require collective investigation, honest conversation, and the willingness to follow evidence wherever it leads — even when it points at organizations and figures we have respected or relied upon.

Share your own experiences with PSL, …

… The People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, ANSWER Coalition, or any of the affiliated organizations described. Have you encountered the gate keeping dynamic described here? Have you seen these spaces function to absorb or redirect organizing energy? Have you been courted, pressured, or pushed out? Do you have information about the Singham Network connections or funding structures?

We cannot build what we need to build while navigating controlled infrastructure that we mistake for our own. The first step is naming what is in front of us clearly, specifically, and without flinching. Drop your thoughts, experiences, and research in the comments. This conversation is overdue.

All quotes in this article are drawn from the public X posts. Readers are encouraged to follow through to the original sources and assess the claims directly.

All of Marx's written material was literally financed by direct exploitation of workers in Engels’ Salford factory. During Marx's life, Engels gave Marx around the equivalent of $3 million dollars. This is just an inflation adjusted number—if we drill down into the PPP (purchasing power parity) aspect it was more like $6 million easily.

Engels inherited around $6-7 million, again adding PPP and other factors he was definitely the equivalent of a contemporaneous HNWI (high net worth individual - meaning a person with $1 million in fluid assets alone).

Engels had around $15-$20 million by the 1880's - that was his value adjusted for purchasing power. Without his patronage, Marx's theory would not have existed. Marx would have been likely a beat writer always a step away from the poor house.

Without Marx's distance from and isolation to proletarian labor, he would never have had the time to sit in the round reading room at the British library for 10 hours a day. He would never have had the mental dimension of separation from proletarian consciousness necessary to objectively analyze it.

Neither did Marx have to worry about administering production from the factory floor—this was Engels cross to bear. For nearly a decade Engels used his family stipend (salary basically) to give to Marx- around $200,000 a year.

Chinese Marxist Leninists, in the oddest way, do the same thing on a societal level—they isolate themselves within the party cadre from the national bourgeois class—they use their ability to seek out markets and competition and integrative ability in the global economy (dollar system). Then they take this "salary" and feed it back into a centralized industrial planning model. They exist both outside the system and right on top of it's command structure.

Engels is most likely the most important functional part of Marxism, his class betrayal is what gave us the civilizational movement of Marxism Leninism.

Just as Christians "win" by imitating Christ, the CPC "wins" by imitating the Engelsian process.

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The price of eggs, bread, and produce has been impossible to ignore at the checkout line lately. For many families, grocery bills have become one of the most stressful line items in the monthly budget. But what if part of the solution was sitting right outside your back door? The American Communist Party (ACP) is helping people rediscover an age-old tradition that helped communities survive some of history’s hardest times — the victory garden. And the good news is, you don’t need to be a farmer or have a sprawling piece of land to get started.

Victory gardens first took root during World War I, continued through the Great Depression, and reached their peak during World War II, when the U.S. government encouraged citizens to grow their own fruits and vegetables to reduce pressure on the public food supply. At their height, an estimated 20 million victory gardens were producing roughly 40% of the nation’s vegetables. These weren’t just practical measures, they were a symbol of community strength, resilience, and collective purpose. Today, as grocery prices climb and supply chains remain unpredictable, that same spirit is more relevant than ever.

Let’s talk dollars and cents. A single packet of tomato seeds can cost as little as two or three dollars and yield dozens of pounds of tomatoes over a growing season. The cost of tomatoes at the grocery store run a two or three dollars for one single tomato. Leafy greens like lettuce and spinach are among the easiest crops to grow and among the most expensive to buy. Studies have shown that a well-maintained home garden can save the average family hundreds, even thousands, of dollars per year in grocery costs. When you factor in the quality and quantity of food you can produce in even a small raised bed or container garden, the return on investment is remarkable.

Beyond the savings, growing your own food means you are in control. You decide what goes into the soil, what touches your plants, and when your food is harvested. No more wondering whether your strawberries were sprayed with chemicals you can’t pronounce, or whether your spinach traveled 1,500 miles before landing on your plate. Homegrown produce is picked at peak ripeness, which means it tastes better and delivers more nutritional value than anything traveling in a refrigerated truck. Once you’ve tasted a tomato still warm from the vine, it’s hard to go back.

Most of us remember the unsettling feeling of walking into a grocery store during a supply chain disruption and finding bare shelves where bread, canned goods, and fresh produce used to be. Those moments were a wake-up call for millions of Americans. A victory garden may not replace your entire food supply, but it will provide a meaningful buffer during uncertain times. When you have a garden producing zucchini, squash, beans, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, and herbs, you are less vulnerable to the price spikes and shortages that ripple through the corporate food system. That kind of self-reliance is not about paranoia; it’s about being prepared and empowered.

The victory garden story gets even better. Gardens have a funny way of producing more food than one household can eat on its own. That surplus zucchini, those extra tomatoes, and the overflowing herb garden don’t have to go to waste; they can become the foundation of something truly special in your neighborhood. When you bring a basket of homegrown vegetables to a neighbor, you aren’t just sharing food. You are building trust, starting conversations, and creating connections that strengthen the fabric of your community.

Imagine a block where five families each grow something a little different. Suddenly, those five families have access to a diverse, locally grown harvest that none of them could have achieved alone. This is the natural evolution of the victory garden spirit: from individual effort to collective abundance. Community gardens, neighborhood produce swaps, and local food sharing networks are all growing in popularity, and they all start with someone deciding to put a seed or potato in the ground.

One of the biggest misconceptions about gardening is that you need a large yard, expensive equipment, or a lifelong green thumb to be successful. The truth is, meaningful food production can happen in a five-gallon bucket on an apartment balcony, in a small raised bed on a patio, or in a modest patch of backyard soil. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, radishes, green onions, and herbs are all well-suited to small-space gardening. Starting small and building your knowledge season by season is the approach most successful gardeners take. You don’t have to do everything at once. You just have to begin. And the American Communist Party wants to help.

When one person in a neighborhood starts a garden, something interesting tends to happen. Curiosity spreads. Neighbors ask questions. Kids get involved. People start sharing seeds, tips, and harvests. What begins as one family’s effort to cut grocery costs quietly becomes a neighborhood movement. This is exactly the kind of grassroots momentum that has the power to reshape how communities think about food, resilience, and connection. A single raised bed can plant the seed — pun intended — for something much larger than itself.

The challenges we face today — rising food costs, uncertain supply chains, and a growing sense of disconnection from our neighbors and our food — are real. But so are the solutions available to each of us. A victory garden is not a radical act. It is a practical, proven, and deeply human response to uncertainty. It puts food on your table, money back in your pocket, and goodwill into your community. Generations before us understood this. Now it’s our turn.

ACP Is Here To Help

You don’t have to figure it out alone. The American Communist Party is here to help you take that first step, whether you’re a first-time gardener with no idea where to begin or someone looking to expand an existing garden and connect with others in your community. From guidance on what to plant and when, to connecting you with local resources and like-minded neighbors, ACP is dedicated to helping the people build the food resilience they deserve.

Ready to grow? Reach out to ACP today and let’s get your victory garden started. Because the best time to plant was yesterday. And the second best time is right now.

Part IV

Babylon Falls, Confusing Our Tongues

Let’s take a short breath. Things get tense in political discourse and we don’t want to say things we don’t mean so let’s collect ourselves and remind ourselves of who and what exactly we’re talking about because all this is complicated. There are a (figurative) million working parts to piece together and dammit if Joe Rogan and The Five are going to recontexualise and “just ask questions” until none of them connect in any real way or make any real sense. It’s best to make perfect sense here so that together, we can understand how we need to understand.

I mentioned that the Democratic Party was the party of the Ku Klux Klan. You’ll hear white supremacists parrot this same line. It’s a rare instance of truth from their ilk. A single grain of truth doesn’t sweeten the rest of the salt though and they either ignore or are wilfully ignorant of the intervening 180 or so years since, but even this position isn’t entirely genuine. It is true that the early Klanners were Democrat. Let’s recall though that the overt racism inherent in the southern tradition; codified in the Confederate Constitutions and Declarations of War had shifted intra-party sentiment so gradually, but totally that by the time Tricky Dick Nixon (President Richard Nixon) employed the Southern Strategy, the remnant Dixiecrats were primed and ready to jump ship to the new racist party. Modern in form. Where the Democrats of old enjoyed the privilege of white life in the high castle away from and above the ‘undesirables,’ off to suburbanize and gentrify. The new Republican Party, led by a fellow who isn’t afraid to lie about who the enemy was for his own gain, walked down a dead end path that had become so normal that other paths seemed absurd.

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The point here is that what one person may mean when they say, for example, “Democrat” can be entirely different, depending on with whom you are talking and exactly what you are talking about. This is not only unhelpful for us, it’s by design, because it is unhelpful for us. This is typified in the above scenario. Maybe you don’t believe me though. Dear reader. I try very hard not to make claims that can’t reasonably be proved and I don’t even have to try very hard with this one, let’s have Mr Lee Atwater, the Republican strategist architect of the Southern Strategy walk us into the outro for this series’ segueue. In a 1981 interview, he recalled,

“Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

In the next few parts, we’ll get Communist-level specific with our terms so that we can be certain that we understand each other. That’s how we build community right? Subscribe now to join us next time!

Been watching “Invincible” and reading some of the comics along the way. This damn thing is all about rentier capital and millennials and gen Xers dealing with their boomer land owning enfranchised parents. It’s really hilarious.

I do like how it makes the Viltrumites this complete shadow empire; one that is supposed to be the most powerful ever (dollar hegemony) that plays out as a dying husk without the ability to create anything, and their progeny realizing there are only 37 of them left and it’s this giant paper tiger.

It’s primary opponent is a multipolar consortium of aliens and earth desperately trying to kill off the last of the boomers (to inherit their wealth) but they just won’t die.

Too bad I know how it ends, with some form of reconciliation- another huge cop out. Would be one of the great comics if they just succeeded with the genocide of the Viltrumites and the Mark kid just flew into the sun and ended it.

Thaddeus is the Communist, the allusion to Jude the Apostle, and he is on a mission to simply destroy the financial oligarch boomers, himself one. He warns of corruption in the church.

Mark is the social fascist looking to make a deal.

Can’t help but read into the “Thragg” character as Freddie Mercury, the name also meaning the F slur, who represents the rentier realist position—the usherer of bourgeois socialism.

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Food insecurity in Sacramento has been a major focus of research for ACP Central Valley members over the past year. We found that in Sacramento, more than 300,000 people now rely on food banks, up from about 150,000 before the COVID pandemic. Among them are over 80,000 children, along with a similar number of seniors. Churches and food banks where we’ve volunteered report an unprecedented surge in people seeking food assistance, while also facing growing challenges in trying to meet that need.

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Over roughly a dozen volunteer visits at church-run food banks, we’ve watched lines of cars wrap around parking lots for hours. Volunteers move quickly, handing out boxes filled with essentials: canned goods, protein, fruits, and vegetables. For these congregations, this work grows directly out of their religious commitment to serve those in need. Yet, these church-run food programs seem caught in a difficult balance of delivering essential help while functioning within a system that continues to create the need for that aid.

Church food pantries are rarely standalone operations. They are embedded in a multilayered system of public and nonprofit support. At the federal level, programs source large quantities of food, while state systems augment and coordinate distribution through regional food banks. These food banks, in turn, partner with local institutions (churches), who rely on volunteers to deliver food to communities. Churches serve as critical access points within this network. By hosting food programs, they become visible and trusted community hubs, building relationships with families, schools, and local organizations. These activities also strengthen institutional credibility with donors, partners, and public agencies.

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While both The ACP and the ministry leaders agree on the importance of providing immediate help, perspectives diverge when addressing the causes of poverty. Some religious leaders we have interviewed emphasize that poverty is a persistent, even inevitable condition, and that the primary response and solution are spiritual rather than political.

At The ACP, we do not see poverty as a permanent feature of human society but a product of specific economic arrangements. Wealth is created collectively, yet concentrated in the hands of a few. From this perspective, treating poverty as inevitable risks overlooking the structural conditions that give rise to it.

Contrary to common misconceptions about Karl Marx’s views on religion, he approached the subject with care and nuance. He saw it as a source of comfort and meaning, particularly in a system that leaves millions in hardship, while also recognizing how it can be used to divert attention away from the material causes of suffering. Applied to modern food distribution systems, this critique suggests that while food banks provide essential relief, they often operate within a framework that discourages deeper questioning of the economic structures behind food insecurity.

Food banks, including those run by churches, clearly meet urgent needs, and that work deserves recognition. However, if the conditions that create food insecurity remain unchanged, the demand for these programs will continue, and likely grow. This, again, does not diminish the value of the work being done. Rather, it highlights a structural dynamic: relief efforts can coexist with, and sometimes stabilize, the systems that produce the need for relief.

When asked how the local government could better support their programs, we noticed some leaders were hesitant to offer even constructive criticism. That hesitation makes sense when we consider the realities they operate within: many church-based food programs depend on partnerships with public agencies, access to government-supported food supplies, and close coordination with regional food banks and nonprofits. These relationships provide the resources needed to sustain large-scale distribution, but they can also create incentives to remain cooperative rather than critical in interactions with local authorities.

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Additionally, the internal priorities of religious institutions, such as maintaining stability, serving their congregations, and focusing on pastoral care, often shape how political issues are approached. An emphasis on values like humility, patience, and endurance can support individuals facing difficult circumstances, but may also encourage a less confrontational stance toward their underlying causes. It is important to note that religious responses to poverty are not uniform. Both historically and today, different movements have interpreted religious teachings in ways that call for systemic change alongside direct aid.

Liberation theology in Latin America, which combined religious doctrine with analysis of economic inequality and support for social movements is one obvious example. At home, faith-based participation in labor organizing and civil rights campaigns have been the key components of some of the brightest moments in our country’s history. Church-run food banks play a vital role in addressing immediate needs. They provide food, stability, and a point of connection for thousands of individuals and families. Their work is grounded in genuine commitment and deeply held moral convictions.

At the same time, their position within a larger system raises important questions. When poverty is treated as inevitable and political engagement is limited, relief efforts risk becoming part of a cycle in which symptoms are managed while underlying causes remain intact.

The challenge, then, is not to question the necessity of feeding those in need, but to consider how such efforts relate to broader discussions about why that need exists, and whether it must continue at its current scale.

From the Overton Window to the Wall

We can examine the decomposition of societal discourse by examining it through the framework of the Overton Window. Identified in the 1990’s by political observer Joseph Overton, it was supposed that what we accept in society is indeed reflected in politics. While a large antisocial act would instantly have an actor vilified, smaller acts of unfavorable behavior in high frequency will inure the public to larger and larger feats of tragedy.

The year 2000 saw Presidential candidate George W Bush readying a stump speech in Naperville, IL. He spied a journalist with whom there was some apparent animosity and was heard on the hot mic remarking to Vice-Presidential candidate Dick Chaney, “There’s Adam Clymer, a major league asshole from the New York Times.” Despite the “backstage” nature of the remarks, this was big news. He was asked about it several times in subsequent articles and interviews. He refused to offer apology.

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In the 2004 Presidential campaign, Democrat Howard Dean was seen as a shoe-in not only for the Party’s nomination for Presidential candidate over rivals John (Swiftboat) Kerry and a man you’ll only ever remember forgetting, John Edwards; but indeed the Presidency itself. It seemed increasingly likely that George W Bush would again enter the race as the incumbent on the Republican side and the prevailing wisdom was that Dean would eloquently wipe the mat with the coked out bumpkin. Whether he would have won is anyone’s guess (he would not have, America doesn’t replace a President in what we can be convinced is a war and he wasn’t historically unpopular enough to change that yet), but Dean was unable to recover and was mocked out of the race due to an odd rallying cry he tried out at the end of the Nevada primary, which he had lost to both of the above.

Contrast this with NC Representative Joe Wilson taking the opportunity during a televised Presidential address to inform the country what he thought of the President (yelling, “You lie” during a rare speech for a joint session of Congress during the ACA debate). Contrast again with TX Representative Jasmine Crockett’s request for clarification of whether describing fellow Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (who had since resigned because it turns out that Donald Trump is probably a child predator) as “bleach blonde, bad built, butch body” would be considered “engaging in personalities” which is against the rules for the minority party.

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While we see example after example of this phenomenon, we still have not really discerned a cause. Let us consider with this the paradox of tolerance, especially in the context of American political discourse. Whether you’d like to think of America as a melting pot (a thought exercise that supposes that very different peoples come together, assimilate down the same path as a cohort and become one, homogeneous mass), or a salad bowl (in which all elements live among the others but maintain their own characteristics), it seems evident to me that the ability of the different people to live together in some sort of harmony rests with the ability of the society to exude and practice a level of tolerance. People will come and be different. At least leave them alone.

But how much is too much? This is the question asked by our MAGA cousins. If the differences lead to societal detriment, at what point do we abandon the failed regime of accepting any and all comers, regardless of their desire or ability to assimilate. Is this even a valid concern? The answer to that is a matter of opinion. What we must examine are facts. Let us come to understand that the paradox of tolerance is that we must allow maximum participation by all interested parties except the intolerant. There is in fact, no paradox here. It is an answerable assertion. The intolerant marginalize those eligible for marginalization. Who that is may change, but whoever it is cannot be left to the whims of those who would casually extinguish human life due to dislike of change.

But what of our Democrat cousins? Surely they’ve mounted vigorous defense against the forces of bigotry. After all “the Party of the Klan” has experienced a near universal turnaround since drunken traitor Nathan Forrest tilted at slavery’s stupid windmill right? Subscribe so you can join us next time and we can discuss what the Democrats see from the high road.

Oh Shit! Barack Obama! (Continued)

The identity based choice of candidate for Vice-President in the 2008 Presidential election saw the rise to national prominence, a woman we may identify as a sort of proto-MAGA, pseudo-trad-wife, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She was often derisively (if not misogynistically) referred to in the media with dismissive nicknames as Caribou Barbie (due to her combination caribou hunting and plain white woman persona). She would have had a massive barrier to break had she been competent. She was not. Gaffe after silly gaffe soured the legitimacy of the campaign.

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The major factor that we are interested in here was the finding through the post mortem that minority and marginal groups were largely of the opinion that the Republican Party excluded them. Their identities and thus their votes were unwelcome so they either voted Democrat or didn’t vote at all. The Republican Party ultimately concluded that in order to win future elections, they would need to “widen the tent;” become more outwardly welcoming to offended demographics. A contingent within the Party went the opposite direction and the so-called Tea Party was loosely formed. A coalition of Right Libertarians, outward conspiracy theorists and self described racists, the Tea Party coalition was the infant form of today’s MAGA movement. The tent widened, it just went the other way.

Donald Trump himself was ascendent, adamant that not only was Barack Obama not born in America (using as evidence, the undenied fact that Barack’s father was Kenyan), but that his wife Michelle was transgender based on her musculature and that their children were either adopted or purchased to sell the illusion of a traditional, American marriage. Regardless of your opinion of the accuracy of this nonsense, we will operate as if it is false as we are unable to find evidence that it is true.

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What of the Reds?

At this time in history, your humble author was an active member of the CPUSA (the Communist Party USA) in Minneapolis, MN. The Minneapolis Chapter of the CPUSA at the time was led by Doris and Erwin Marquidt, a spousal couple of the most ideological educated Communists. The mission of that Party at that time was smothered and almost entirely anaerobic as the central leadership had long since abdicated any sense of Communist revolution or indeed even evolution. Reactionary incrementalism soaked every aspect of the Party to an extent that against the better judgment of our ideologically correct, but materially bobtailed chapter leadership, America’s foremost Communist Party, during wildly unpopular imperial military action raging, went door knocking and sat phone banking for the Democratic Party’s nominee. Excited like college students finally able to buy a beer and cast a ballot for the potential of America’s first Black President, like it would matter in the slightest to the material conditions of the working class being sent to rendition and slaughter the peasantry and working class in the Middle East. As we saw, Barack Obama won that election and the proletarian revolution was again retroversed and thwarted by the CPUSA itself. The Party had fully thrown its lot in with the modern democratic socialist idea of incremental change (incrementalism). Push the Democrats left after electorally defeating the right. An apparently sound strategy unless the Democratic Party and its enablers represent manufactured, controlled opposition, built to obfuscate and lubricate Liberal exsanguination of the proletariat. Can we determine whether that is the case?

Go ahead and subscribe so that you can join us next time and we’ll come to understand more about how the CPUSA and Obama’s election informed our discourse and why that discourse is so damned vitriolic!

On April 8, 2026 an employee at a Kimberly-Clarke warehouse in Ontario, CA started a Facebook Live, (allegedly) remarked that, “all you had to do was pay us enough to live,” struck a windproof lighter and set the inventory ablaze. One hundred seventy responders from 11 jurisdictions extinguished the blaze.

The underlying crime (arson) we can reasonably assume that, like most crime, was based on a need, perceived or real. Our alleged perpetrator discerned the absence or removal of a necessity and acted in a way to alter or eliminate the situation.

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The phrase quoted above is repeated time and again in the article that we’ve gathered to analyze, this I believe is a deliberate choice. We are given a contrast in the article. The irrational, grievance based folly of Mr Chamel Abdulkarim is counterbalanced by the voice of reason. Co-worker Alejandro Montero is in the article to help our author make a little sense of what happened.

“I just met him that night. He was helping me load my trailer,” Montero said. “I was working together with him right there for two hours before break and then right at break... I went to my car, and that’s when it happened.”

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We have in this news story two of the clearest examples of Proletarian individuals reacting to material conditions. The tale sounds almost like a thought experiment for its perfection of detail. Mr Abdulkarim is the example of a worker with no Revolutionary direction toward a wider future. The exact person that the American Communist Party desperately must reach and redirect. If he is guilty of the arson at his workplace, Mr Abdulkarim engaged in an individual act intended to bring about wider material change. What Liberals would brand simple terrorism, Communists recognize as useless adventurism. I would love to suppose that had the proper recruitment effort met with him, that he would be today, unfettered and even more effective an agitator. I cannot accurately suppose that because of our other archetype…

The disgustingly lumpenproletariat Montero rushes to the defense of the wounded $32b corporation. His mystified lack of understanding is typified with his insistence that he is personally well paid, presented for either added context or to counterbalance the violent grievance. There is always a contingent within the workforce that has attained a level of comfort from which any change, let alone violent change, represents only negative. They have erroneously identified with the very system creating lethal friction in the people present with him in his same cohort. The contradiction between upholding the system and the system being designed to harm you becomes entirely fantastical if the victim can be convinced that he is in fact in conspiracy with the oppressor and that is what we hear in Montero’s complaint that they are now out of work because of Mr Abdulkarim’s actions. Let us not waste time trying to remind Montero that there is no scenario in which a company worth $32b is unable to help its workers, displaced by the actions of a lone malefactor.

Part I

Let’s have an honest discussion about the ACP. Herein I’ll address many of the concerns our potential Comrades have about the new Marxist-Leninist organization whose members claim to be the de facto voice of modern Communism while nearly simultaneously taking on the demeanor and at times even the diction of the avowed enemies of the same. How can we claim the Red Mantle while seemingly attracting and cultivating outwardly revisionist elements? If you’ve come to this series with an open mind, I believe that you can be persuaded with the application of material dialectics and we will engage our topic from that perspective.

To begin our dialectic, we must define our contradictions. The Communists of the ACP, represented here by your author, will prove that our Party is the best to represent the People and best chance for positive change. The contradictions we face are accusations of either harboring, or even ourselves being detrimental to the Communist cause and that we indeed represent Revisionism and Reactionism.

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The forward media figures of the American Communist Party have engaged in polemic and have even at times seemed to echo right-wing talking points. The official position of the Party, for example, is one of opposition to the furtherance of identity politics by Progressives, Democrats and their kindred, but also Republicans, Conservatives and their ilk. How does it make sense to equate all these 4 groups on this topic? There can be no doubt that the Conservative element of our system relies on miseducating the working class to prevent the spread of popular ideology (our ideology) and I will explain why.

Oh Shit! Barack Obama!

At the end of GW Bush’s second term, America was fed up with Conservatism. This was part of the predictable cycle that had been identified in Communists circles long ago. Progressive administrations focus on balancing budgets and pragmatic approaches to electioneering. They use their administrative energy governing like fools while Conservative opposition operators sabotage their policies, poison popular discourse and seriously curtail policies ratified by previous Progressive administrations.

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Let’s simply take for example Mitch McConnell’s vow upon the eve of the midterm elections during Barack Obama’s first term. “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Understand that this man was an active legislator at the time. A man whose single most important achievement is Constitutionally required to be in service to his state. There is no way to argue that the failure of the President does not represent the failure of the country.

When John McCain lost the 2008 election to the first Black President, the Republican party openly panicked. They conducted an “post-mortem” of the election in which they would determine exactly what had happened. How did they lose? The determinations were sobering and largely demonstrated. John McCain was a great candidate hindered by the Party’s misguided, identity based decision to field then unknown, but moderately attractive and willing to say whatever she needed to enough; Governer of Alaska, Sarah Palin.

In Part II, we will delve further into the aftermath of the 2008 election, driving toward our ultimate goal of delivering to you the causa vivendi of the American Communist Party. Subscribe now and join us next time!

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Donald Trump is an unconscious appetite that burrowed its way to the surface, where it became encrusted. His first go-around (2017–2021) marked liberal democracy’s final attempt to conceal its driving force. Europeans feigned ignorance, while the U.S. ruling elite tried to reassure both itself and an exhausted public that Trump was an anomaly, not a revelation of what the ruling class has always been.

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During the phase (roughly 1870s–1970s) when profit depended on the manufacturing and sale of tangible goods, patience still mattered in liberal democracies. Without composure, persistence, and restraint, no production can be organized and no commodity is made. Those same qualities enabled the ruling class to craft and maintain a polished facade, complete with persuasive justifications for why dissenters needed remodeling.

The effects of the shift from production to financialization (roughly 1990s–present), coincided with Bill Clinton’s Oval Office scandal, leaving stains across the pages of the NAFTA Implementation Act. George W. Bush’s presidency was marked by regression to Neverland, while subprime lending surged forward. Obama was a gold-star recruit who popularized fancy terms like quantitative easing to pacify and obscure. Biden was a literal butt vapor fuel for monetary policy’s liquidity that powered financial markets during his four-year slumber, while deeper structural issues remained untouched.

As the economy evolved from making things to hocus-pocus illusions, the ruling class became increasingly restless. The earlier facade of moral legitimacy in liberal democracies has given way to clip-on justifications that are no longer persuasive. The transition from production to financialization stripped away restraint and methodical plotting, revealing the limbic goblins who now openly blow up schools in Iran.

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The rupture in the rules-based order we are witnessing now stems from a long, winding crack when Serbian grandmas were mooning the skies during the 78-day-long NATO humanitarian intervention in 1999. The language used to legitimize the aggression was noble; the explosions killed Milica Rakić.

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P), refined in this period, became a doctrine through which intervention was moralized. In practice, it destabilized regions and opened space for criminal economies in the Balkans. It helped drug trade and prostitution thrive. Today, the Iranian diaspora is urging the Epstein class to bring the same kind of liberation to Iran. The difference is that in the 1990s, Serbia faced isolation: no social media, limited global scrutiny, a geopolitical environment shaped by unchallenged Western dominance, and Epstein was worshiping Baal in secret.

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What was also missing was the Soviet Union. Without it, the collective West was able to crush Yugoslavia with a sadist’s delight while congratulating itself on its virtue. Yugoslavia’s miscalculation was its belief that nonalignment could still guarantee autonomy.

As Iran faces attacks from the same forces that once targeted Yugoslavia, it does so in a different historical moment. Nearly three decades later, the global balance has shifted. The hegemon shows signs of strain and overreach. Since the Yugoslavia episode, the logic of a speculative, fast-profit economy has permeated culture and political institutions alike. The result is less concern with coherence and fewer attempts to sustain the narratives that once justified intervention. As dire as the daily toll of death and destruction may be, Iran must recognize and amplify the paradoxical (some might say dialectical) advantages that have emerged as financialization of the hegemon’s economy has matured and exposed its gilded carcass.

On January 11, a sewage pipe broke near Robin Lane in Clearlake California, spilling nearly three million gallons of sewage onto the streets. Six weeks later and the Clearlake city council is still waiting to resolve matters with the hundreds of residents affected.

The sewer and water utilities are not owned or operated by the City of Clearlake, but by the Lake County Special Districts. The agency manages infrastructure that serves more than 40,000 residents across the county, including pipelines and water systems that in some cases have not been significantly upgraded in more than 30 years.

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During a recent February 19, 2026 city council meeting, two members of the American Communist Party (ACP) California Chapter attended to deliver public comments and questions, yet received dismissive and deflecting answers from the city council. Adam from the ACP asked why the initial report of 2,000 gallons over two hours was only revised to 2.9 million gallons over 40 hours after a reporter inquired. City Manager Alan Flora responded that the incident management team had concerns and “it wasn’t something that we really wanted to reflect in our messaging.” He stated that the Special Districts were responsible for reporting to Cal OES and he thought “there deserves to be scrutiny of the numbers that were reported.”

Josh from the ACP made a public comment requesting “how are you going to ensure the people are taken care of and how are you going to ensure this doesn’t happen again?” Mayor Dirk Slooten provided an answer shifting responsibility to the Special Districts and stated that “the only reason the city got involved is because we felt we could do a better job organizing the testing.”

As of this last city council meeting, the city had ordered 100 filtration/sanitation systems to be installed at affected properties. They were aware of 164 affected properties and required residents to apply to receive these systems, of which they had received 79 applications, up from 26 in the previous city council meeting. Adam noted when leaving the city council meeting that the smell of sewage was still in the air six weeks after the initial spill.

ACP California will continue to monitor the situation and report on the conditions.

Recent reports have raised concerns about a potential Iranian threat to California. The Associated Press reports that the FBI circulated a warning to California law enforcement agencies stating that Iran had “aspired to conduct a surprise attack using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California.”

The alert was posted on X on March 12th by an FBI spokesperson following a report by ABC News. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later said on X that the message to law enforcement was based on a tip drawn from “unverified intelligence.”

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Donald Trump also referenced the intelligence publicly. “It’s being investigated, but you have a lot of things happening. All we can do is take ’em as they come,” Trump said. California Governor Gavin Newsom responded as well, stating that California officials were aware of the report and were monitoring the situation while coordinating with federal law enforcement. On March 13th Karoline Leavitt further criticized the ABC News report, stating, “No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did.”

The American public’s response to this flurry of claims has been sharp, noting the convenience of the report and how it could be a false flag operation to provide the pretense for a further escalatory response by the U.S. military. Even mainstream talk show host Jimmy Kimmel opined, “he [Donald Trump] might even bomb us himself and blame it on you [Iran]”. The response on X to Leavitt’s second statement has been even harsher with many users criticizing the government for confused messaging and walking back its claims.

The follow up statement also suggests the Trump administration may be testing public reaction to dramatic intelligence claims before deciding whether to stand by them or quietly retract them. Alternatively, the conflicting messages may reflect a broader communication strategy in which ambiguity itself becomes a tool for managing public perception. This affords officials the ability to float possible threats while retaining flexibility over future military actions, much like how the sudden January 2026 U.S. military operation in Venezuela surprised both the public and members of Congress.

In either case, the reaction to this news and broader opposition to the new conflict with Iran showcases a deep skepticism among many Americans toward intelligence claims used to justify military escalation. That distrust is shaped by earlier controversies, such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped escalate the Vietnam War, and Iraq War intelligence failures surrounding claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

I tell you all we are still deep in the Epstein psyop, and I will tell you exactly how it's working and how to navigate it.

Epstein's case represents a rare look into the depravity of elites, itself simply the one appearance and form of a much much deeper pathology of rentier economy. This has gone on for centuries in the form of the subconscious realization of the Ancien régime, European aristocracy, and the legacy of the real "Nordic model" of land ownership.

Epstein's Island becomes the MacGuffin, a magical place where people confront the depravity concretely only to have it disappear before their eyes in real time. Epstein was involved deeply in many many financial scandals at Bear Sterns, Towers Financial Corporation, The Limited, offshoring money, asset price inflation scams through real estate, etc. for decades and no one concentrates on these shady deals at all.

It's based on the functional, tactical, and strategic suppression of all production through a byzantine web of financial derivatives and ponzi schemes, all of which collude contemporaneously to concentrate power and money within a tiny HNWI and billionaire class, primarily in the USA.

This is what we call "dollar hegemony", of which Epstein is a vulgar spearhead. Imaginations run wild about Satanism and pedo islands, all of which provide popular perception with a particular form that is easily understandable. Pedophilia is the worst possible crime; one of torture of children and symbolizing the ability for elites to manipulate and take away the very basis of life itself.

It would take days to read about the history of fully floating fiat dollar reserve hegemony and fractional banking and the evolution of financial oligarchy, you can quite easily explain a satanic Island of ritual murder and deprivation to anyone in 5 minutes. Both illicit a response of outrage, but only the former has ever been historically actionable.

Similarly devices like Israel's torturous oppression of Palestine serves the same purpose and function. It focuses the anger and disillusionment that comes as a result of proto-class consciousness onto a concrete example of it (one that increasingly is unmistakable for the primary contradiction itself) and allows performative "politics" to be done in the west: it becomes the focus because the underlying overall problem of global Imperialism is not mentionable (or knowable).

The entire original concept and history of anti-Semitism is also reducible to this dynamic: another prime example of the structural economic problem of Europe's struggle to deal with the more predatory and unproductive machinations of rent based economies since the middle ages. Here "Jews" become the focus, the device to endlessly debate because of it's partial "mystery" and ability to deflect from the fundamental issue.

Michael Tracey simply plays the role of Alan Dershowitz (who he repeatedly defends as well these days) on the Epstein issue. Dershowitz is famous for pioneering the "genocide is not happening" in Palestine arguments, that it's a fictitious nonsense perpetuated by "those that hate us" that collapses as soon as the reasonable standards of bourgeoisie formal legalisms apply.

The real "Epstein's Island" could more accurately be described as Israel, where there actually has been a mass killing and rape of children over the last 2 years, one in which the western world has agreed in the aggregate to completely ignore. How many have been killed? Low estimate is 50,000. I doubt Jeff's island posted anywhere near those numbers.

As Tracey devolves into the basic argument of ethos of the elites: "prove it! where is the evidence! it has not been adjudicated!" - we are again given a clinic in the master slave dialectic: the slave desperately wants an official recompense from the master; a payment of sorts for the exploitation and oppression- a payback for all of the "rents" extracted. But the master, like any good ponzi scheme operator, does NOT HAVE IT to give. They spent it long ago. The bank does not have your money...

All Tracey has to do is cling to the structure of the bourgeois formalisms, which themselves are the only structure in town- there is nothing officially outside of this, no ethos, nothing to lean on. So you are stuck with the emptiness of the slave demanding the master atone, which the establishment cannot provide. It doesn't matter to Tracey that it is precisely these mores and norms that are what is being challenged in the first place.

"I want you to be judged by the power of justice!"

"I am the justice and the power, there is no form higher than me, and I say there is nothing to see here!"

Dealing with these derived epicyclical methods of projection from the establishment will always fall into this trap of the master slave dialectic, and there is no other dialectical moment other than actual revolution that can break the wheel.

Been watching people like Alan Dershowitz do this for years with Gaza. People yell genocide, and all he has to do is say "what genocide?" It's as simple as this. And every time the establishment succeeds at robbing the masses of their anger and hatred, they increase their power level indefinitely.

Problem is for the establishment, even as they quash and strangulate the proto class consciousness that leads to a plea for mindless reforms, the stakes go up and up and up...

Tara Palmeri asks Michael Tracey if he's being paid by Mossad

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Walz, other MN officials served subpoenas amid protests, ICE raids

USA Today reports that the federal Department of Justice served Minnesota state officials, including the governor, with subpoenas. The nature of the subpoenas remain unclear, though the article notes tensions related to federal immigration enforcement. Federal officials assume supremacy while state officials disagree with their methods.

Analysis: For freedom loving Americans who have ever paid lip service to the notion that our dexterity as a people come from the ability of states to (within reason) govern themselves as their environment and populace dictate, we take notice of these overreaches, however minor. This is not the worst thing that has happened in this administration, but it is indicative of how far the bar for acceptability has fallen. If America had ever been great in a way that allowed for American style freedom, such impropriety within the government would have been rooted out preventing wider rot. Such as the example of Nixon’s petty, crime-city style fiefdom; being a racist piece of shit notwithstanding.

A non-distinct judicial subpoena from the feds to the state should be cause for alarm. Why have we allowed it to be just another Tuesday?

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“Three Sisters Gardens is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization bringing community members together to grow food and lives in West Sacramento, California.”

-Three Sisters Gardens. Mission & History. Accessed 1/31/26

With the keen understanding that these organizations are made necessary not by accident, but by the very system against which we struggle, our fine revolutionaries were guests at the organization’s annual fundraising dinner.

Members of the partner group recapped the year at the Garden, with special note to how they produced 40,000 lbs of produce this year, beating their record of 30,000 lbs of produce year-over-year. The active community pillars of 3 Sisters rightly touted their hard work.

During the presentation they thanked all their volunteers, including mentioning the American Communist Party by name expressing appreciation to us for helping this year. Preceding the presentation, a middle aged couple engaged our Comrades and asked if they knew another Party member by name as the husband was gym buddies with him. It was confirmed that he is a Party member and in that way, yet another connection in the collective minds of the disaffected Liberal populace was made.

The intentions of our American Communist Party are shown in our actions. The people in our communities come to know us and our sincerity and they will be convinced to join us and help solve these issues. Keep up the great work Comrades!

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