Left Communism

capital will dominate the globe

This week’s interview guest ran one of my all time favorite shitposting accounts and was the first poster I ever met up with IRL. I’m glad to say that we’ve stayed in contact ever since. He has anonymously contributed a few essays to

Do Not Research

over the last few years. I’m embarrassed to admit that at certain times I felt like I was learning political theory from someone a decade younger than me — the depth and rigor with which the younger generation now approach these topics is something that should inspire all of us.

Left-Marx
age 19
East Coast, USA
Instagram, Discord, SnapChat, SoundCloud, YouTube

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How would you describe your politics or ideology?

I am a Communist. (Marxist)

Who are your biggest influences?

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Hegel, Bordiga, Damen, Zizek, Debord, and Foucault and Baudrillard to an extent.

When did you first learn about or start visiting online political communities?

When I was like 15 or so and ran a non-political meme account

What was your ideology before entering these spaces?
Or how have your views evolved since you started participating?

well when I entered the space as a participant i was a marxist but when i first entered them as an observer i was a liberal. Since "joining" I have developed into an actual marxist from some red-social democratic activist falsifier of marx but this was more through my own study and only partially as a result of my presence in these spaces.

What changes do you think we are likely to see in the next 10 years?

In the next ten years, my generations general economic malaise will either stay the same or get worse. A more efficient and state directed Capitalism will become slightly more widespread (perhaps a good point of reference for this might be the People's Republic of China). Populist ideologues will be more of a norm in the "developed" world. The environmental situation will generally become more grim. The whole "starting a family" thing will not be as common as it was before.

What changes do you think we are likely to see in the next 40 years?

The United States and the dollar will exist and not be in any position to cease to exist, but it will not have the same kind of global hegemony that it does now. Indian, and Chinese, (maybe Russian but probably not), Capital will dominate the globe. Urban living and the population of cities will have increased immensely. Food will be expensive. Meat and fish will be considered luxuries. Living in places like Europe and the United states will become ridiculously expensive. Media and entertainment will become even more beautifully immersive and well executed than it is now but will remain just as, if not even more steeped in ideology than it is now. Asian culture is more popular in the west.

What changes do you want to see in the next 10 years?

I want to see the seeds of a real worldwide culture of working class consciousness to be planted. I want to see housing prices in areas where I have a lot of family and friends not become TOO ludicrous. I want to see new developments in sustainable energy that will slow our species' destruction of the planet.

What changes do you want to see in the next 40 years?

I want to see the little bits of ideological residue left over from 20th century revisionism (namely Stalinism and Trotskyism) finally just die out for good. Almost every country you can think of has a big national "communist party" that falls under one of these two labels. In this era of counterrevolution that would be enormous for the working class. I want to see real material expressions of proletarian discontent around the world. I want to see a second revolutionary wave similar to that of the early 20th century. I hope to see a real noticeably elevated level of proletarian class consciousness around the world.