EcoMaoism: Animal Liberationist, Environmental Mao Zedong Thought

Communists must be able to channel the collective rage of the masses towards the bourgeoisie who are the ones who create issues for our society. Obviously it is against the law to advocate violence and that would be adventurism, but just make sure that the masses understand clearly and completely just how egregious the actions of these individuals are. Historically people rebelled when living conditions degraded to the point at which they are now, but the modern world has too many factors which serve as pacifiers of society. Employment is a pacifier because you can’t fight a revolution while trying to get hours in. The internet is a pacifier because people can argue online with strangers without ever actually being introduced to like-minded revolutionaries who could coordinate something with them. To truly channel revolutionary rage properly, you must know your audience and guide them towards a specific goal. Alter your message to the moderates and when you are talking to a real comrade, lay it on them completely.

Do you remember the protests after the death of George Floyd? People were mobilized, there was looting, fireworks were thrown at police, and the cities were on fire. It was beautiful. I was overjoyed to see large numbers of people resist the liberal regime for once in my lifetime. However, the masses of the United States did not achieve a revolution and opinions about the results of these protests were mixed. For a while, the police finally felt consequences for the slaughtering of our people. The people struck fear into the hearts of the pigs and the reactionaries, with the regime even struggling to put together enough enforcers to control it. People get scared and complain about property damage and civil resistance that happened during that time, but when you consider how oppressive the society is, doesn’t it just feel right for people to be rioting? I am honestly more concerned that they aren’t doing so right now despite the situation we are in.

If you protest and fight the regime from the perspective of liberalism, you will still live under apartheid and feudalism afterward, since liberalism is an inherently reactionary ideology. If you live in Nazi Germany or Israel, you would not be protesting for tolerant and/or inclusive Zionism or Fascism, because you would understand that the greater ideology itself is oppressive and any inclusion is performative at best. However, people find it difficult to realize this about the United States. Without cognitive dissonance and a fear of something new, it is very difficult to justify the continuation of the regime we live under. A lot of these people will identify with the regime because they are veterans, but supporting this government actually puts them at a debt to the society they helped to oppress.

Next time you’re talking to someone about the problems in society, let them know the truth about how it all comes from the bourgeoisie. Tell them how the bourgeoisie treat us like cattle and send their police to arrest us or murder us in the street if we resist. Tell them how the people of this country cannot even go to college or cannot afford to eat. Tell them how the masses cannot afford medicine because of companies causing our people to die preventable deaths with medicine prices that should have been affordable. Channel their rage towards the people who are deserving of it. Get them away from stupid reactionary conspiracy theories, and teach them the real Marxism-Leninism. Anything that works against the oppressed masses must be destroyed. When the weather is nice, think to yourself how it is a good day for destruction!

If you went into the American educational system like I did, you probably noticed how much focus was given to the holocaust. There were entire classes devoted to holocaust studies and the entire curriculum surrounding the second world war focused on the holocaust. Even in reading classes the diary of Anne Frank made its way into the reading so we ended up learning about the holocaust in multiple classes at the same time. Never really too in-depth though and it did not go into much detail about other groups of people who were persecuted besides those who were Jewish. It’s not bad to learn about the holocaust, but after some time you have to wonder, when are we going to talk about Leopold’s crimes in the Congo, Japanese crimes all over Asia, the brutal genocide of Native Americans on the land that we’re literally standing on, etc. The language used and the way that subjects are taught even reserves the use of the word genocide for the holocaust while referring to other brutalities as wars or not referring to them at all. American puppet regimes such as Taiwan, South Korea, or even South Vietnam never get their crimes revealed to the masses of the United States.

The holocaust is a valid topic to teach in schools especially history classes, but what the American government is doing is so obviously propaganda. In a country where Zionist billionaires are in control of the media and are allowed by the law to overtly lobby and pay politicians to do what they want, they have as much control over society as they do money. What we would consider overt corruption is the daily modus operandi of the United States. Even foreign governments such as the Israeli regime pay the politicians to push the narrative and create justifications for the crimes of their government, or even to make them ignore it entirely. They defend the war crimes of whoever pays them. They defend the genocides of whoever pays them. It’s not complicated.

Unfortunately, most people fail to accurately and appropriately critique the state of Israel and Zionism. Some people seem to hate Israel for reasons unrelated to the freedom of Palestine and more for the hatred or dislike of certain demographics. Some commentators equate Israel with Judaism or refer to Israel as “The Jews” while not taking into account that other demographics of people are actively supporting Zionism and genocide while even rabbis and professors in Israel are being arrested and tortured for expressing sympathy towards Palestinians. Not ideological comradeship or support for Hamas, just sympathy for people that are having bombs dropped on them 24 hours a day, and children who are starving in Gaza. Zionists will continue to die in Gaza but the most innocent people will continue to suffer as long as the terrorist Israeli regime continues its siege on Gaza.

The biggest irony of all seems to be how holocaust study classes tried to explain how something like this could happen, as if it took some extraordinary circumstance or it does not happen every day in various parts of the world. People support these atrocities simply because they are class enemies. I can split hairs and talk about human tribalism or grouping, psychological identification with the perpetrators of crimes like this, but at the end of the day that is just a long and drawn out way of explaining that they are class enemies and ideological criminals. The American bourgeoisie are selling weapons to Israel to use on Palestinian children, because their corporations benefit economically from genocide. They are in the business of ending Palestinian lives. If you truly want to study fascism or genocidal regimes, open up your windows and look outside at America.

As communists, it sometimes feels as if our ideology makes certain social movements obsolete since we must follow logic or we could not consider ourselves communists, and there are no logical justifications for the things reactionaries would do which makes them inconceivable for us. However, some issues such as the rights of women or social problems can cause controversy if they are not handled with a certain delicacy, regardless of how progressive your actual stance is on the topic. The oppression of women and their delegation to household tasks and certain kinds of labor comes from the beginning of the European family system where a family was considered to be the wife and children of a male. Because straight men were put above others, they were seen as the basis of the family. Christianity also contributes to a family structure of this type as opposed to polygamy, polyandry, or polyamory and open relationship styles we see more prevalently in the modern era. Other family structures have been thought to exist in history such as communal like what we see on communes, but those are so rare that Engels even had difficulty proving their existence.

To understand the oppression of women, look at the European family system and how it inherently empowers the men while working against the rights of women and children. It even works against gay couples since their existence is so alien to the family structures and subverts the entire point of putting a single man in economic control of a woman and their children. There is a reason that communists say that marriage is bourgeois, and it is because the family that marriage is intended to create, is heteronormative and is intended to make all members financially dependent on the man.

So looking at the entire society in regards to employment, opportunities, education, and even basic social interactions, the attitude of women being an extension of men either for being their wives or daughters has fostered attitudes that women are assumed to be less intelligent, competent, or stereotype them for traditionally feminine work. A woman who wants to break out of the constraints put onto them by society needs to do so much work and jump through so many extra hoops compared to a man, as well as find a working environment that is conducive to their success. It may be difficult to notice because women are such a large part of the population, but the differences are there and other forms of class oppression such as ethnic minorities, religious minorities, disabled and others feel compounding disadvantage over demographics. You hear talk of intersectional feminism that considers these other factors, but this is from a liberal perspective where the women involved are not as progressive and may attempt to turn the tide towards girlboss feminism or just try to make the system better for themselves while discarding the struggle for black or indigenous women.

Because feminism is such a large range of movements and anyone can call themselves a feminist, it is very easy for bourgeois or reactionary women to hijack the discussions. The United Kingdom has earned the nickname TERF Island because of all the trans exclusionary radical feminists dominating the feminist movement and turning against trans women. In America the reactionary tendencies also do this but are also more economically focused, where they desire to see women in offices and become the same bourgeois that exploit everyone else in society. This is called girlboss feminism and it is just as bad as you think it is. Various forms of feminism fail to address even the most basic forms of intersectionality or even include all women. Even some feminist theory written from a liberal (or Anarchist) perspective can be quite illuminating for those wanting to get a deeper understanding of the gender struggle and inequality.

We live in a world where Palestine is being bombarded by zionist missiles 24 hours a day, and then liberals come on the internet and say that all the people need is a people’s militia and anything else is authoritarian. Even when you bring up the threat of Israel, America, it’s all the same. Just a people’s militia is what every nation in the world needs. If only the people of Korea had a people’s militia when America and Japan were decimating their country’s population through genocide. If only the Palestinians had a people’s militia during the formation of the occupation taking up most of its land.

If these people really built the society they wanted, it would be invaded or destroyed in a few years like revolutionary catalonia or the free state in Ukraine. The paris commune lasted 64 days, that’s not enough time to build socialism. If you want a country to exist in this bourgeois dominated world, you need to defend it and you need to be armed to the teeth to do it.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is actually the perfect model of socialism because reactionary forces cannot invade or easily work against a nuclear power. Everybody thinks that Korea is bad because it’s a “Dictatorship”. To the Korean person living in the DPRK constantly under the threat of genocide or having their lives ruined by becoming part of the southern puppet regime, they would see the militarization of the country as the better alternative to genocide or enslavement. Despite the impression liberals have of their country, it is extremely reasonable and pleasant to live in. The reason they have issues is because they think that Korean people are just brainwashed and they need to personally go in to become a white savior and teach them the glory of capitalism. They literally ask their tour guides why they don’t abandon communism and unify with the south. They aren’t going to argue, but they’re probably thinking “Why does this westerner want us all to live under landlords in a regime that is basically a puppet of the United States?” Liberals just don’t realize the immense amount of suffering unification under South Korean systems would cause for the people in Korea who would have no civil, no food, and not even a place to sleep. If a person does not understand or does not care about why the DPRK needs to defend itself, they are probably the same kind of person that their country that their person needs to be defended from.

Don’t set yourself up to fail if you truly intend to dismantle the regime of the country in which you live. Political power is upheld through physical force, and failure to defend the revolution is as good as death for you, your comrades, and even your people. It may be authoritarian, but authoritarianism is better than dying or being tortured by the CIA. I’m an authoritarian because I don’t want to die and I want to have a future. Authoritarianism and militarism is how you build a society safe from American drones, Israeli missiles, or Japanese warships.

No person in the world is as likely to fight their liberator or actively work against them as a liberal. Ask them about rising up against their oppressor, and they tell you it’s authoritarian. Ask them about the economic system and how to improve it, it’s class reductionist and idealist. Ask them about Palestine, and they are scared to voice an opinion because of the mainstream media. Do they trust the mainstream media? Of course not, they know it is all controlled by billionaires. The lack of dialectical materialism creates emotional-based reasoning that is justified afterwards with logic, even if the position is itself illogical. An example is anarchists or Western pseudo leftists when they defended the actions of the Ukraine regime and dismissed anything unfavorable to Ukraine as Kremlin propaganda. Even government surveillance has deemed anarchist groups safe and not a threat to anything because they are extremely unlikely to do anything or even challenge the status quo.

They listen to the mouthpieces of the regime such as state departments, news, and even politicians actively collaborating with the American government. They fail to realize that all warfare is based on deception and they get deceived by the class they are at war with. They understand that the regime is the enemy but still trust the news and the propaganda of the enemy. The enemy says that the people of Vietnam, China, or Cuba are oppressed by socialism, and they believe it. They never set foot in those places and may never even leave the United States, but for some reason they prioritize these ideas so highly about foreign government systems being oppressive despite not even doing the basics of research or even listening to anything non-western because it is authoritarian.

Another point that kills revolutionary thought before it can even begin is the fixation on specific non-economic issues that people see as being inherently incompatible with socialism despite it not necessarily having any correlation. Thailand is literally a monarchy and is known for progressive LGBT rights while America is an imperialist state bombing the world and funding genocide in Palestine while also having a society where pride festivals and parades are held. The government of a society does not inherently dictate the social trends of the society. Socialism is mainly economic with a predisposition of ending all kinds of exploitation, so this actually is more likely to lead to liberation of minorities and especially gender minorities since there would be a dialectical understanding of how gender, race, and class relate to the organization of labor and the distribution of resources in a society.

However, if all of the socially liberal people abandon socialism, it can be hijacked by reactionaries and patriotic socialism types who will distort the ideology. Failing to defend the ideology from revisionism allows it to become a breeding ground for revisionists, fascists, and class enemies. This is where strasserism comes from and it will continue to get worse if these people are given more and more control over the ideology. When you are in charge of such organizations and find yourself purging so many members for this reason, it will give you more perspective on why previous communist leaders may have expelled so many people from their parties in the past.

If you choose to come over to revolutionary ideas, you need to abandon liberalism entirely and completely. Forget about bourgeois parties as well because they are a manipulation tactic and a way of controlling the masses without actually giving them agency over the system. The state department and the mainstream media should be treated almost like a foreign entity because at that point it is. You will end up needing to realize that everything you have ever been told about the world is entirely wrong. You will be viewed like an alien by society and maybe even shunned, but you will never be alone in struggling, because dialectical materialism is universal and socialism is inevitable. It is better to actually know something than to stay with a blank mind to fit into society.