Mamdani Makes More Enemies | June 30, 2025
The Revolutionary Horizon | Vol. 1, No. 1
The Current Struggle
News & Analysis
As the dust settles from the recent spat between ‘Israel’ and Iran, the issue continues to be ever-more divisive on the home front; Mamdani’s come-up splits the Dems in half; and the newest deployments of the National Guard continue to escalate.
—In a bizarre motion of imperialist aggression, ‘Israel’ has bombed the Evin prison in Tehran, resulting in at least 71 deaths and innumerable injuries. While purportedly designed to target ‘instruments of state suppression’, a number of the deaths were indeed those of inmates, assumed to be largely imprisoned as dissidents and political prisoners. I suppose it’s inherent to ‘Israel’s playbook; they bomb people to save them?
—Zohran Mamdani has invoked a presidential response as he continues to make waves out of NYC; in a recent announcement, Trump proclaimed that he would cut off federal funding to New York if Mamdani didn’t ‘behave himself’ — should he be elected. Continuing to childishly meddle in the affairs of literally everyone on the fucking planet, we find no surprise in this behavior from Trump, but it’s reaffirming to find that everyone has an issue with Mamdani. If nobody in our current ruling class likes him, maybe he’s not such a bad guy. (Don’t quote us on this. I don’t trust democratic socialists! Thanks Bernie!)
—Making another flex of militant power, the National Guard has been deployed to Florida to defend the construction of a new migrant detention center, nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ It’s like they can smell the movement coming, and are steeling themselves months and months in advance. I find optimism in this, too; the more they continue to escalate, the more our numbers will grow. It’s also possible that they’re deploying the soldiers due to a threat that already exists — exciting!
—On the Domestic Front (this newsletter is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah), Sim Gill’s petition to keep Arturo Gamboa in jail until the 23rd thankfully has been ignored; he was released on the 20th, as I’m sure you’re all aware, but in regards to his sentencing it’s important to remember the forces at play. Sim Gill has been a voracious enemy to the left in Salt Lake for as long as he’s been in office; if someone’s going to cause an issue for Gamboa, other than shooting him, it’s going to be Gill. Keep that in mind.
On Digital Labor & Marxism | The Theoretical Front
Rhetoric & Discussion
This short work is borrowed heavily from a longer essay that I posted here:
The primary enemy to the broader movement is global imperialism, in both its digital and physical apparatus. In this we find the true ‘principal contradiction’, and it is indeed founded in class contradiction.
However, a United Front is developed in response to stimuli more specific than the broader ruling class (depending on the present stage in the People’s War).
An example of a force to be united against is Meta, and other platforms like it. Foucault said:
A body is docile that can be subjected, used, transformed and improved.
These massive collections of what we are well-aware of to be monitored surveillance systems are also serving a second interest to the state — they keep you deadlocked-in to your shit-brick of a cell phone, for as many hours of the day as you can possibly get away with.
In practice it is in the formal rejection of these platforms that we find an approach weldable with revolution. We must recognize the inherent contradictions within the consenting and unfruitful use of things like Instagram, Facebook, and even ChatGPT; the environmental impact alone is enough, but it comes along with the repression of the Global South for computational hardware and its resource extraction, mass exploitation of laborers for training LLMs and other monstrous models, all not to mention the researched numbing effects on the revolutionary mind put forth by this media. It has to stop. It’s literally not stable enough to continue.
The capitalist system requires a docile and disciplined workforce that can be subjected to the demands of production, exploited for its labor power, and “improved” in terms of efficiency and obedience. Surveillance (as a component of disciplinary power) helps to create and maintain these docile bodies, making them amenable to the rhythms and demands of capitalist production.
Some of the most significant forces at play are the Big Tech monopolies, being instruments of capital control and ideological dissemination. In their collaboration we see the sophisticated nature of modern imperialist propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
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We contend that, through both the massive extraction of resources to build computational hardware and the numerous efficiencies, new techniques, and adaptations that result from successful software modifications, there exists a digital proletariat that produces real material/economic surplus from purely digital labor.
It then goes without saying that, under our current late-imperialist framework, the so-called digital proletariat is indeed heavily exploited. Along with it is the class structure of those marginalized by algorithmic capitalism, including the disabled, queer, poor, and those of color.
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It must be reiterated that the United Front is not merely a tactic, but a fundamental principle of revolutionary power. It is the buffer between the fight and the people. It is the support of all logistical chains not internalized to the People’s Army.
The party has the indispensable role in leading and guiding the United Front, ensuring its revolutionary direction. The ultimate aim is forging a collective force capable of challenging and dismantling global imperialist hegemony.
It can and must be done.
Community & Solidarity
Shout-outs & Local Focus
SLCBakersforPalestine feeds people on two fronts; SLCMA does it again; Ken Sanders Bookstore and their organizing panel host Marxist-Leninists!
We give our first salute to Salt Lake City Bakers for Palestine, who have been tirelessly working to supply the Palestinian people with flour, cooking oil, vegetables, and other aid, since Fall of last year! This hyperlocal group of bakers, tablers, and other supporters comprises an incredibly powerful mutual aid network, and their fundraisers are a wholesome and satisfying method of contributing to a directly beneficial movement. Check them out on Instagram!
Salt Lake City Mutual Aid (SLCMA) managed to hold what I assume to be a successful event on the 15th, called Pride Without Police, in Fairmont Park. There was food served, music, speakers, and naturally, drag! While I wasn’t able to attend this year, I’m hoping they had a good turnout (they usually do) and if you’re interested in the widespread and positive efforts they make in the valley, check them out!
Ken Sanders Bookstore, in downtown Salt Lake, is holding a panel on Sunday, July 6th, titled “How to Organize in Salt Lake City”. They’ll be hearing speakers from four organizations: United Drag Alliance, Flourish Therapy, Stonewall Self Defense, and notably, Armed Queers Salt Lake City. This group of Marxist-Leninists is the most disciplined and well-practiced collective in the Valley, bar none. I encourage you to attend.
Further Study for the Committed Comrade
Recommended Reading & Media
A section including some texts and other works to boost your theoretical background.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé — provides a valuable background to the Nakba, of 1948, which is the historical foundation of the entire clusterfuck of genocide happening in the area since then. To combat Zionism, you must understand this history.
Reform or Revolution, by Rosa Luxemburg — though written from a perspective distinct from Lenin's, it critiques the theoretical and practical limitations of social-democratic reformism. As Mamdani is a proclaimed democratic socialist, we must understand these limitations.
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade — a contemporary book exploring the history and practice of mutual aid, emphasizing its role in revolutionary movements. Solid read.
Creator Highlight:
is a notable author that I’m incredibly glad to have come across. Their recent work is something I really enjoyed. Find it below:
Though we find ourselves in a time of great and hopefully positive change, we must remember the dire nature of our situation; the climate is collapsing, our rulers are laughing, and fascism is coalescing in the West. It is through our collective labor and mutual benefit that we will achieve liberation. Any other solution is bullshit!
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