EcoMaoism: Animal Liberationist, Environmental Mao Zedong Thought

I’ve heard before that The United States could never be socialist because “Those countries are homogeneous.” I don’t think those people are actually thinking that socialism has to be ethnonationalist and in reality Korea is the only homogeneous socialist state, with the other four having large ethnic diversity (Though with high levels of respect for minorities that we do not see in the west) and with Cuba being a colonial country like America with the native population not even being the majority. So how can it be that the average person associates socialism with homogeneity and conformity?

It’s individualism. The answer is that Individualist philosophies and attitudes dominate the United States. This creates a vicious cycle where nobody can support themselves let alone help someone else, and the bourgeoisie find ways to put the masses against each other through economic, social, or other ways that undermine the ability of people to function as a society. Unpopular or oppressive regimes also promote this behavior and attitude because individuals are less able to free themselves than collective groups of people with coherent ideologies.

Anarchism is a contentious ideology within the communist movement. It’s not because they are reactionary or do anything necessarily bad, but the individualist attitude that caused people to go down the path of anarchy as opposed to socialism. The idea that all power needs to be resisted assumes that the individuals cannot come together to ever create a collective that is fair, just, and upholds their interests. Society is like a castle, with certain oppressed people forced to live in dungeons, others forced to farm or be peasants of the castle while the billionaires of the world have miles of luxurious rooms to themselves, and safe places to hide during wars or storms. While communists would argue that we need to work together to take over the castle, anarchists opposing all kinds of power is like destroying the castle under the assumption that the people can never be in control of it. Obviously these ideologies will appease some dissidents but never result in a complete overthrow that would actually endanger and strike fear into the hearts of the bourgeois class.

However you define society, whether it is a country, nation, or even a group of people living together, individualism is the death of it. Humans are social beings and these paradoxical individualistic societies (Since the whole idea of countries or societies are collective in nature) just makes you support a government without it benefiting the members of the society. It just exists for the upper classes to exploit human labor. This kind of regime survives in various ways which you may have seen yourself such as mental manipulation of people, indoctrination, and physical force to protesters. The United States seems to have very little difference economically from feudalism, or even pyramid schemes.

The pandemic that took the world four years ago is a good example of how regimes such as the United States will sadistically expose their population to preventable disease in order to prevent their elites from losing any money. The regime allowed a great number of cases and deaths from COVID since they simply do not care enough about their own citizens enough to implement any kind of disease control or even measures to mitigate spread. They simply allowed the disease to run rampant, kept everyone working, and did not allow anyone to quarantine or provide food or resources to anyone at all. As if a war was going on, it was everyone for themselves and people rushed to the stores, buying food (And all the toilet paper, for some reason?) and stockpiling as if society was going to collapse.

The US lacks even the most basic social support, with most programs being completely worthless or only existing for prestige or to create the illusion of help. Rightists love that because it promotes eugenics and neoliberalism which they support, but even they are not immune to the disease (despite their religious delusions making them believe otherwise.) Minorities and the elderly are disproportionately dying from the disease, due to economic and social factors that force them to put themselves out in jobs for money to survive, since they are not paid enough to have any savings. We know now that when a human-ending pandemic comes into existence, anyone who cannot work from home is guaranteed to die. There will not even be any kind of mitigation of death for anyone below a certain income.

Despite most people considering COVID to be the main example of the government failing to control a disease and leaving it to fester among their population, HIV is a very good example of the US government being either unable or unwilling to prevent communicable diseases and allowing them to become a part of life for marginalized people who are at a higher risk for acquiring these kinds of illnesses. Of course, the societal distrust the public has for the government can be valid. The US government has conducted egregious human experiments on minorities or even members of their own military. The tuskegee experiments are an example where members of the black community were left to develop syphilis for their entire lives just to research the effects of the disease.

People may have the feeling that COVID is in the past and is no longer a thing. The medical system also behaves this way and vaccines for COVID-19 can actually go for a hundred dollars or more, which many people would not be able to afford. For many people, this is enough money for groceries basically spent on nothing. Despite the infrastructure and resources existing to prevent COVID from spreading, everything is locked behind a paywall of insurance. The American regime is too busy trying to censor the internet and murder their activists and journalists than actually control pandemics and disease. Millions died and the US regime has the blood of every COVID and AIDS death on their hands.

Modern political discussions across the world are dominated by reactionaries. This is because bourgeois society produces these kinds of people. A society full of reactionaries but devoid of economic and socialist theory creates social culture wars that is devoid of any economic politics, consisting exclusively of social issues and political rights of minorities. The people will talk about anything but class, anything but the economic system, the rigged political systems, or even the violence and genocide committed against people by the state are an afterthought and just background noise for the culture wars that they spend all day arguing online about.

Building socialism is not just about changing laws or governments because in the past when that was attempted, the communist party just inherited the same problems of the society. Socialist Afghanistan had tribal factions in the communist party since their version of socialism was imposed upon them from the outside, and the people were not made into socialists and therefore could not have the mentality of socialists. They were not the socialist men and women that could struggle to build socialism. People thinking about socialism love the economic aspect and even reactionaries will want something similar (Even if only for their people) but many non-socialists forget that socialism is created through the application of Marxism-Leninism.

If we just increase social programs as the new left wants so nobody needs to work, that’s a form of leftism completely separate from socialism. Anti-work attitudes are good for disrupting the system and work is bad under capitalism since it is exploitative and provides funds and support to a war machine, but the goal under communism is not to avoid work. It is for the masses to own the means of production and to not be economically exploited by the bourgeoisie. The resistance we see comes from a mentality of reformism so they cannot truly pose as much danger to the establishment as they want to.

The socialist man or woman would not entertain extremist terrorist ideas such as harassing trans people in bathrooms or locking people up for slave labor. Let alone funding genocide in Palestine or imperialism across the world for the profits generated by the war machine. China (Despite its controversy) has shown the world that it is better to build and develop your own nation than to spend your resources, manpower, and effort in destroying others. The socialist man or woman is able to look at the mess going on in bourgeois society and immediately see how invalid it is.

Our people are specifically targeted by liberal propaganda. The same can be said for other minority communities that are especially inclined to end the current regime, but I am personally familiar with their attempts at meddling due to being in the community personally. While much of the community has involvement in pride parades and there exists activism to further the goal of inclusivity of gender minorities and non-traditional relationships and identities relating to the community, there is often very little said about economic issues because the activism comes from the perspective of liberalism. Many of us suffer from economic insecurity, have been homeless at certain times, or are disabled or even lose employment due to discrimination and firing due to either gender or perceived minority status. The CIA has us believing that the issue of gay rights is purely social. That means, they have us believe that gay rights is just about marriage, legal documentation, or other kinds of rights to prevent discrimination in other fields such as work or in the military. Nothing is economic and the focus is put on anything except class.

Also, notice how participation in the military is something the gay community in the US fights for. Why would they want this for our people? Going to the third world, bombing villages of people who may be queer themselves, or even participating in American atrocities and genocides. The American imperialists have the gay community trying so hard to get into their army instead of working to dismantle it or form their own militia that defends their people and serves the class interests of our people. This exclusivity is such an obvious manipulation tactic but our people are so desperate for food and shelter they go and join the terrorists. Even some drag queens have a military background and likely had to endure some indoctrination and brainwashing at the hands of the American regime. It seems like something that they would be blamed for, but these are such good people that just don’t realize how dystopian their society is or how brainwashed they are. Most would think, hand them the communist manifesto, hand them quotes from chairman Mao, but it really is not so simple. Deprogramming is a difficult, long, and intensive process that is difficult to achieve if the person is identified with their oppressor or benefits from the ideology of an oppressor.

It is a sad day when a member of the LGBT community betrays us to become a class enemy. Some are so far gone that we cannot reform them or save them. We must ally with real friends and defeat real enemies, even if those real enemies identify themselves with groups we would otherwise be sympathetic to. Some members of the community will inevitably join the landlord class, the warlord class, the bureaucrat class, or other sections of the bourgeoisie or even reactionaries. We cannot allow CIA-allied members of the community to confuse our people, or be revolutionary only in speech while collaborating with the regime. We cannot allow reactionaries to wash themselves in pink and manipulate our communities. We cannot allow ourselves to be ideologically undermined by domestic reactionaries in the community or sections of the community that are not as ideologically advanced as us. The protracted struggle against the US government for rights of the community can also not be stopped at any point, because this means we have become comfortable with the provisions given to us by the enemy. Reactionary and dangerous anti-LGBT ideology will exist for a long time, but we cannot allow it to infiltrate our communities or be weaponized in the destruction of our people.

It has to be stated that Elon Musk likely did not wake up one day and think the world would be a better place if social media websites were renamed to names that are awkward and difficult to use in everyday conversation. I also cannot imagine that he saw the issues going on with Twitter and thought “You know who should help out, me. A billionaire like me who already has too much influence on society.” These actions are about control, and the censoring of anyone who goes against Musk just makes it more obvious. Forcing everyone to refer to twitter by some ridiculous confusing name and then turning it into an echo chamber of musk-approved content is not very promising for people who do not want bourgeois domination of the world.

Social media is a battleground because it is where the masses express their opinions and thoughts about various topics, one of which is the current trends of power and governance of society. Social media can be a pacifier but over time as more and more people develop revolutionary ideas, it has the opposite effect and can be used to encourage activism and resistance against the regime. If social media becomes a place where people discuss western imperialism, class struggle, and where they seek justice for the wrongs of society, and where oppressed people can speak out on what is being done to them, then the people have successfully utilized social media spaces for positive change.

The bourgeoisie obviously are scared of this happening, so what they do is they literally just buy social media as if it was groceries or some object that you can just own. In the modern era, owning the internet is almost like owning land because it is such a commodity and it has so much potential to harm or help society. Land produces crops and websites produce propaganda. In the past it was difficult to find free land for maroons or rebels to organize, but the internet is infinite which makes it hard to stop the masses from having their own spaces on it. The reason the bourgeoisie are scrambling to control and dominate the internet is because it provides so many people with a way to communicate ideas that harm their control over society.

The US military is pissed. Zionists are pissed. A US service member just burned himself alive as a martyr for the cause of the Palestinian people, and pro-Israel reactionaries cannot cope with that fact that a US soldier, someone who is supposed to represent the power of the regime and its ideology would go to such lengths to protest the genocide committed by them. They’re blaming echo chambers and anarchism, and trying their best to make it seem like his actions were somehow illogical. Zionist media is even claiming his actions were comparable to a suicide bombing.

I never thought I would see a soldier of the regime go to such lengths to defend the masses of another nation. However it seems this man came to understand imperialism and the evils of the United States while serving in the military. In a way, he did one of the logical things that someone can do when they realize they exist in a way that advances imperialism and human suffering, which is to self-destruct. This man is a comrade, despite what his uniform may have said. Some people may take issue with the fact that he was a soldier for the US, but this seems stubborn. Wouldn’t you want more soldiers to do what this man did? Or something even half as good? If rogue US military soldiers defend Palestine, why would we go against that? In fact, we should encourage more service members to go rogue so the people of this country can have a formation that actually defends their freedom.

All over the web, people are telling this hero to rest in power. The gods will certainly reward someone who sacrificed everything and was willing to physically burn to death for the people of Palestine. This was almost like self-crucifying. We will most likely hear slander and smear campaigns from the propagandists of the regime soon trying to discredit his actions just as did for George Floyd or any person who became a symbol of resistance. However the masses and our comrades cannot be fooled so easily by bourgeois media. The day of judgment will come for the zionists, and they will be made to pay for their crimes.

From the river to the sea!

Under capitalism, it’s no surprise that billionaires are simply allowed to buy the media and propagandize whatever garbage ideology will make them the most money and increase their control of society. Even some liberals realize this, but they are so mentally conditioned to the viewpoints and news they have received throughout their life that they do little more than complain that billionaires should not own journalism companies. In the modern US billionaires even control the government so a state-owned media company is just a zionist bourgeois propaganda news network with extra steps, even if it provides the liberals with varying, diverse flavors of alt-right so they can find compromise between them.

When people are being poisoned by liberalism and want you to drink the kool aid so you are not a threat to the establishment, what are we all supposed to think? The media and the politicians stay in power by gaslighting the entire society by taking focus away from real problems to whatever the next distraction is from the economic disasters and humanitarian catastrophes caused by liberalism. They worship billionaires and bring death and suffering to the world so that billionaires can become richer and exert more control over society and exploit us more efficiently, but anyone who speaks against their crimes is considered extreme and unreasonable.

Even the war crimes of bourgeois regimes and their puppets are painted in a positive light due to how extensive the propaganda system is. In extreme cases such as the genocide being committed against Palestinians right now, the media simply goes silent and moves the population on to the next distraction to prevent dissent from happening. Even during riots which are ultimately good for the masses because they teach them how to struggle and fight against the regime, the media constantly portrays the people’s self-determination and protest against oppression as antagonistic to living in a peaceful and happy society. Even when fireworks are thrown at police, the media immediately defaults towards siding with the police despite their reputation and known habits towards abusing civilians and minority groups.

Besides the actual news, Facebook and other social media censors any information regarding groups that fight against capital. Hamas is considered a dangerous organization by Facebook, but not Mossad or the United States military which has objectively killed more people throughout its existence. They even allowed neo-nazis fighting for Ukraine to be glorified because they wanted to guide popular support towards NATO and the US even if it meant violating their own rules and empowering Nazism. Even reliable sources such as Redfish news network are censored by the Europeans and Americans for being “Russian state media” and quite literally just get shut down by governments with no real justification.

As Lenin said, freedom of the press under capitalism means freedom of the bourgeoisie to buy writers, bribe, and fake public opinion for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. Freedom of the internet in the modern era also means the freedom of the bourgeoisie to censor and label as disinformation anything that damages their stranglehold of the working class. The masses need their own media, their own newspapers, and their own information network that is not corrupted by bourgeois interests and that is not vulnerable to meddling by the capitalist class. Form your own networks with the people you know and ideologically align with, and do not allow the zionist billionaires controlling the media to feed you their viewpoints or distort your understanding of the world.