EcoMaoism: Animal Liberationist, Environmental Mao Zedong Thought

Have you heard of The Washington Post? It is a website that produces liberal propaganda but does not allow it to be read unless the person consuming it pays for it. The bourgeoisie literally want you to pay for your own ideological indoctrination into their system. Other sites also exist which are intended to “give you a clear picture” of things going on in the world, and they follow a kind of logic that you must consume extreme rightist propaganda news sources like FOX alongside typical liberal American propaganda to “balance yourself out” in some way. The idea that I must listen to fascists and class enemies to understand their side of reality seems a bit out of touch with any real form of class struggle or understanding about why those organizations even exist. These rightists have to be either elites, paid by elites, or they are ideologically aligned with those kinds of extremist systems and political groups. The insane articles written under capitalism encouraging sympathy for landlords or defending the atrocities of the US regime against minorities and undocumented just shows how these people are in a completely different reality from everyone else who is sane.

So while the United States has a population that is screaming for human rights and freedom, you can’t even read their propaganda without paying, and their government is constantly committing indefensible atrocities both domestically and abroad, especially defending countries like Ukraine or Israel. Why do liberals think that the solution to this is to read the news of class enemies? Why would they consume right-wing propaganda? Do they want to become fascists? Do they want to become pro-Israel? They are giving way too much validity to malicious actors who deliberately want to radicalize their followers and spread hate. Fascist ideologies are historically incoherent and just exist to promote imperialism and whatever reactionaries and the ruling class wants.

The entire idea of diverse media is also flawed and it perpetuates the isolation of US political thought and political systems. If they truly cared for the masses, they would give them news that is backed by theory. Instead they give socially liberal pseudo leftism which ignores any form of class struggle, and they expect us to pay to read it. Give the people socialist news and theory, let them hear about Palestine from the liberation groups themselves who have boots on the ground, and let them take a break from the state ideology of the US regime.

This theory is for mature audiences only. I avoided saying anything graphic and touched on this from a purely economic angle since other aspects are irrelevant to this discussion.

Marxism-Leninism historically sees sex work as something women, men, or whatever other gender identities are forced into. This does happen, but the term sex work has evolved and it means so many different things to so many different people. Especially in the modern world where people are willingly and voluntarily deciding to partake in this kind of work. There are some very bad things happening with sex work, but human trafficking and coercive practices exist in any type of work. In Dubai their economy has a backbone of people from rural parts of the third world that have no rights or payment due to them. Despite this, people do not put the same emphasis on trafficked labor as sex work.

So why does sex sex work have this huge asterisk on it when communism is being discussed? Trafficking is a lot less likely once people are given education, means to survive and the wealth they produce, as well as democratically control the economy. However to imagine sex work disappearing entirely is to have a very narrow 19th century understanding of sex work. Attractive women or men can engage in this type of labor as a hobby or to make a bit of extra money. Communism historically had many great philosophers and revolutionaries who wrote theory, but to be honest they did not have exposure to the world of sex work that we exist in now. We don’t even have brothels anymore, and everything is online where people are independently deciding what kind of content to produce and where to show it. Content websites under capitalism are inherently exploitative in our current economy where people need to produce content to make money just to survive, but without the element of economic necessity to engage in that, the element of exploitation no longer exists.

If we take away the stigma or the sexual element of this, modern sex work (In most cases) is just content production. It is like being a Youtuber or being a person that posts content online. This kind of interpretation that all sex is exploitative makes me think people get lost in the sauce of upholding orthodox Marxist ideas and they’re viewing it as a matter of ideological purity. Nothing exists in an ethical way under capitalism so sex work under capitalism is unethical, but we can say that for any kind of work under capitalism as well. The fixation on sex work also rings of social conservatism. Why don’t we consider adult films a kind of product that is produced just like music or cinema? Are we upholding a double standard due to our own judgements and societal stigma of some types of media? You do not need to promote the consumption of it, but you also do not need to ban it entirely because it does not fit neatly into your idea of what society should look like. You need to take a level-headed approach to the issue. In modern society, only radical bible thumpers would be happy with such a decision anyway.

The solution to sex work, just like any other type of work, is to unionize those involved in it and defend them from exploitation. Why are we unionizing the masses and abandoning the sex workers, many of whom are trans, BIPOC, or unable to make a living in other ways for various reasons? It would even be logical to take things a step further and keep representatives from the party around in those establishments to make sure no person is exploited or being mistreated in this type of work. Stop looking in old textbooks for solutions to problems that did not exist back then. The best thing you can do for sex work is to stop being so unwilling to touch it as a subject, and fight for the rights of the workers in that industry the same exact way you fight for the rights of any other kind of worker.

I was disappointed yesterday to see that the most popular resources on class struggle are rightist talking points about how people need to stop spending their money on coffee and invest in their own business if they do not want to work for other people. This is completely naive and it ignores so many aspects of the class struggle that it is just liberal propaganda. Class struggle does not end inside of a factory or a workplace. When you go home, you go home to an accommodation you can barely afford, and pay for food and rent and whatever else you can with the poor wages given because the masses have no recourse when inflation hits. The politicians and the business owners tie their income to inflation but fail to do the same for the workers, which allows them to scalp their salaries when inflation inevitably gets high from government mismanagement. If you try to protest this, they throw tear gas at you or simply throw you in jail on some charges that are incoherent and invalid and usually have no correlation to anything you have actually ever done.

The bourgeois point of view is given to us almost exclusively in any mainstream media or news. We are not given viewpoints that come from our own interests because all of the major news outlets in the US are funded by billion dollar corporations that also lobby the government. Even if you never step foot in a factory, you will be forced to work either directly or indirectly for the bourgeois class to survive assuming you live on the grid. Even laws that you are forced to follow on threat of violence or police that can murder you with impunity exist because the bourgeois class wants them to exist in the way they currently do. The bourgeoisie decide everything about the political system and only occasionally yield when the pressure put on them by the masses exceeds what they can withstand.

Modern people are complacent compared to people of the previous eras. During times of slavery, people would escape into the forest and make encampments of maroons, who fought the state for freedom and lived in secrecy away from society and outside of capitalism. Nowadays, what is the modern equivalent of a maroon? A commune of people living off the grid? There are less and less possibilities available for those who desire to exist outside of capitalism, and even oppressed people have given up in a way, resigning themselves to living in a bourgeois society forever. Instead of seeking freedom from the system they just settle for comfort. They have forgotten class struggle and they refuse to follow it. The internet helps them learn liberation ideologies, but they cannot be forced to read or accept enlightenment. Many even choose to adopt ideologies that do not fix or would exacerbate the struggle between classes. They even defend the actions of regimes that have monarchies like The United Kingdom or liberal regimes like Canada, France, or The US.

Class Struggle inevitably leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat, but many people are so scared of paper tigers that they do not engage in any kind of praxis or even analysis of society for fear of becoming alienated. However under such a system existence is meaningless anyway and reduced to numbers and profit just to keep yourself alive. People think that socialism is an alternative to living under capitalism, but the real relationship between socialism and capitalism is the future vs. the past. Many of the same issues that led to the decline of historical societies such as rampant inequality, unequal rights, or even access to food and shelter are being reflected in the west. The people can build socialism or go extinct from starvation when the bourgeois class has accumulated all of the wealth and resources in society.

As a member of the LGBT community, I feel very frustrated that LGBT activism and the ideologies of our people are appropriated by liberalism and pro-America sections of the community to legitimize or justify imperialism by the western world or its puppet regimes in Israel, Japan, or other parts of the world. Especially during this revolutionary time for the Palestinian people, so many ridiculous statements come from distorted LGBT ideas such as “Leftists shouldn’t support Palestine because they don’t have gay marriage” or takes such as those which shift blame of genocide to the victim because they are not socially liberal enough to have the same kinds of social environments that are friendly to our community. The LGBT people of the third world were so much better off before western imperialism and evangelism which I must note. Many modern countries that exist today traditionally had acceptance or no historical reason for hating the LGBT members of society before their human progress was basically reset by evangelism. Ironically, the eurocentric and chauvinistic ideology that these liberals are engaging in is the type of behavior that caused the issues. It is a poorly disguised form of imperialism that obviously comes from the CIA so they can get their people to support Israel. When LGBT people are given propaganda to look down upon people who are suffering under genocide, it’s even a form of rightism ironically enough.

Pinkwashing of Israel is also a very real phenomenon. A zionist, fascist regime that regularly engages in the murder and imprisonment of innocent civilians and children is not a model for pride. The fact that I even need to articulate something like that, just shows how divorced liberalism(By that I mean Western ideology, not social liberalism) has become from actual reality. Mainstream media and the propaganda machine of the United States has damaged the minds of so many people beyond repair, to the point that even the LGBT community is under the ideological entrapment of the white house. People who are clinging to religious or cultural ideas of homonormativity will not have their minds changed by sending drones to blow up their homes and schools. We cannot allow the military industrial complex to distort the struggle for LGBT rights into a militant ideology that seeks to bomb and imperialize any country that does not have a gay president.

The community also needs to stop pinkwashing people in foreign governments or attributing good qualities onto them only because they are members of the LGBT community. Some of the worst collaborators of the United States manipulate the public with their identity simply to create a movement for themselves and to hide the actual nature of their ideology. Even some rightists in America are technically members of the LGBT community despite working with dangerous extremist organizations and parties that seek to take away the rights of our people. If you support people becoming leaders in America simply because they are members of the community you will have rainbow fascism, because the political systems of this country exist specifically so the people cannot have control of their own economy or threaten the interests of the major corporations.