A Poor Marxist Understanding of the Yellow Vest Protests

Just recently InDefense of Marxism republished a piece by a French page Revolution: International Marxist Tendency. The piece is in support of the Yellow Vest protests in France. Essentially, by using the words of Lenin they claim that France is on the verge of a communist revolution. Frankly, their view is wholly utopian and short-sighted.…

2016 Rio Olympics Fail from Corruption and General Malaise

The 2016 Rio Olympics have been an absolute nightmare, a total failure. Since day one the even have been inundated with corruption that has led to the worst conditions athletes have ever seen. Athletes are almost universal in their complaints about the poor quality of their dwellings. Many stories have come out speaking of exposed…

Spain’s Hologram Protesters are Not a Good Thing

I’ve expressed and demonstrated many times the refusal of First World people to actually engage in struggle against the bourgeois state. The hard left in the First World is near useless. Primarily this is due to its extreme sectarianism, great theoretical weakness, focus on identity politics, general delusion of revolutionary work where there is none,…

Cambodian Textile Workers Killed By Police During Protest

In the Third World, the proletariat are driven in the harshest conditions to produce the value that we proletariat in the First World appropriate. We should not be surprised in any way that the most radical of worker actions against exploitation take place there. With the resistance of the workers to that exploitation so high,…