Hello everyone, how is life? Ideally, I wanted to have graced this blog with three or four additional articles or blog entries by now, but I am afraid I have nothing substantial to submit. On a more positive note, I am still alive, so there is yet no need for my comrades to posthumously publish all the interesting articles and short stories I have in mind for this blog.

Nevertheless, I can confidently announce that I revisited Tonight We Riot and reflected on my thoughts and gripes concerning the game on a much deeper level. I still hope to finalize my political analysis–or “Maoist review”–of Tonight We Riot by the end of this month. While I initially mentioned that I want to keep reviews, especially reviews with regards to video games, at an utmost minimum, this might change. Hopefully, I can expand on my plans to read and review a plethora of communist fiction or stories written by communists during the revolutionary periods of the Soviet Union and China at a later date. While it is Red Spectre Writings‘ aim to prioritize, or at the very least emphasize, the investigation and elucidation of matters pertaining Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, it will also be a platform for culture–to be more specific concerning the latter: reviews, short stories, and novels that I wish to write. Given that my politics are omnipresent in both my scholarly and creative endeavours, I do not believe it would be all too inappropriate for this blog to also house personally written stories that deal with revolutionary subject matter.

Of course, I am curious to your feedback on whether this is a balanced or faulty approach. Should this blog exclusively be a platform of education and digging deeper into revolutionary Marxism, or should this be the second-coming of MIM’s Maoist reviews albeit slightly more self-aware? Please, by all means, email me or contact me through social media what you would like me to write about, investigate, or explain. And once again, if you are a fellow Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and are interested in contributing to this platform, feel free to contact me if there is something you wish to write about for this blog.

Until victory, always!

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