Salutations, everyone! I will spare the apologies concerning my absence and not meeting the promised deadlines, but I want to wish everyone a Happy International Workers Day. May this day be a yearly reminder of the working class’ struggle against the myriad of injustices imposed upon them, which are both indirectly and directly in the interest of bourgeois class power and the continuation of the Azathothian “God” known as Capital.

While the global pandemic continues, it is truly inspiring to witness numerous people still going out on the street to stand up for justice, dignity, equality, respect—and above all to push for the definitive victory of the exploited and oppressed people of the world, which ultimately necessitates the need to wage struggle in the public sphere. As we have witnessed last year—in places such as the United States of America, the headquarters of Western capitalist-imperialism—the desire for justice and the rage towards ongoing injustices are too strong to be dulled by the bourgeoisie’s desperate and semi-conscious attempts to control the pandemic and prevent the world-system from rupturing once more as a result of inevitable crises that have only been accelerated as a result of this pandemic.

Hopefully, I will have my review of Tonight We Riot finished within the next fortnight because I am rather eager to write about many other issues on this blog.

Until victory, always!

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Image: Fibonacci Blue. International Workers Day March for Immigrant and Workers Rights, Flickr, Minneapolis, 26 Apr. 2016, www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/26627332332. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.

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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Image: 龔 月強. Suburban District Buildings Decorated with Hammer and Sickle Emblem, Pexels, 16 Nov. 2019, www.pexels.com/photo/suburban-district-buildings-decorated-with-hammer-and-sickle-emblem-3233924/.

A spectre is haunting our world—the spectre of Communism. All the powers of the old world have united in a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre. The capitalist imperialists, the bourgeois reactionaries, the fascists, the pork-chop nationalists, the social opportunists, the academic post-structuralists, the radical liberals and the philistine eclectics.

In an era of capitalist decay, in which the contradictions that plague society intensify day-by-day, there is an ever greater need to harness scientific socialism—i.e. Marxism—in its highest and most up-to-date form, which is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. In a period during which revolutionaries in the Global South have made great progress in their individual protracted people’s wars whereas communists in the Global North have disintegrated under the iron heel of tailing the labour aristocracy, abandoning the communist objective to seize class power by all means necessary and succumbing to idealist metaphysics, there is a greater need of bringing everyone—communists and those who are not yet communists—to a qualitatively higher stage of consciousness, to finally understand what needs to be done. Red Spectre Writings is a blog that hopes to play a positive, albeit humble, role in catering to these needs.

Granted, the real struggle exists beyond the virtual. In order to struggle towards greater unity, we are bound to organise—to struggle, to polemicize, and to unite as a result of conscious struggle—in the material world, i.e. that what cannot be reduced to keyboard activism. With all that being said, being a communist online or disseminating communist critique and analysis through the internet are not without merit. We should just not lie to ourselves that our online activities are ‘enough’ on their own. Nevertheless, I do sincerely hope that this blog will positively contribute to our collective journey of broadening yet deepening our understanding of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

This blog has three goals:

1. To help those new or unfamiliar to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism understand certain concepts or historical circumstances integral to scientific socialism and its development throughout time and space.
2. To address or discuss various issues or questions from a scientific socialist perspective. This can range from matters pertaining physics and biology to matters pertaining history, ethics and philosophy.
3. To contribute towards a communist, or at least pro-communist progressive, culture. This goal has two aspects: to analyse and criticize previous works of communist art or works of art that insist on embodying “radical leftism”; and the creation of new stories that aspire to embody the revolutionary class struggle or communist principles in a sincere yet conscious manner.

This will not be an easy task, for sure. However, I do believe that this will, at the very least, make the most out of this blog. To those who have certain questions with regards to Marxism, feel free to contact me through contact@redspectrewritings.com, and perhaps I will be able to answer your questions in future blog posts or essays. To other Marxist-Leninist-Maoists out there, if you are interested in contributing to this blog—whether by submitting an essay or short story—feel free to contact me as well.

Unfortunately, I must end this article on a rather cautious note. Personal circumstances might impede me from writing for this blog on a consistent basis, so I cannot promise I will be writing for this blog on a consistent schedule anytime soon. I will try to keep everyone informed about new updates and articles through social media, so do not forget to follow Red Spectre Writings on Facebook and Twitter.

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Image: Smirnov, Jenya. Communism Wallpaper, Deviantart, 19 Feb. 2012, www.deviantart.com/jenissimo/art/Communism-wallpaper-285822675.