Populism vs. Socialism

| October 20, 2017

Populism and socialism on their surfaces may seem similar, but they are not the same.  Populism advocates for “the people” against the elites in a national context.  Socialism is international and in certain forms vanguard oriented (which means its more about a cadre of activists than an organic bottom to top movement). Populists may object […]

The Cost of Right Deviations on Anti-Imperialism

| October 16, 2017

Note: This post was originally posted on a “Demo” website on 2/28/2016 and has been moved over. Right Deviations A right deviationist is a person who is a dissident against America policing the world, but focuses exclusively on the “culture war” and at least is reluctant to make materialist observations and at most openly “denies” […]

Liberators or Invaders?

| October 16, 2017

Quotes It is important to show that the average Iraqi – not just the extremist – and not just the Saddam Hussein supporter wanted us out of Iraq. Here is the data. Apologists for the invasion will argue that American troops were welcomed as liberators against a dictator, but polling data in 2008 indicates otherwise. […]

Blogging in the Modern Era

| October 15, 2017

In the past, the main way to measure the outreach of a blog was by the amount of views and amount of comments.  However, we are now in the era where social media has gained influence, therefore the influence of a post can extend far beyond its own domain name through shares and copy/pastes.  Much […]

Lenin on Lincoln

| October 15, 2017

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch09.htm In the United States, the imperialist war waged against Spain in 1898 stirred up the opposition of the “anti-imperialists”, the last of the Mohicans of bourgeois democracy who declared this war to be “criminal”, regarded the annexation of foreign territories as a violation of the Constitution, declared that the treatment of Aguinaldo, leader of […]

The Labor Aristocracy

| October 14, 2017

The labor aristocracy is the “pet” group of workers which gets bought off and spoiled by the business owners. Opportunists and “free marketers” like to use a merit based argument to divide the labor aristocracy against the average worker, which implies that those who are paid more work harder and are more productive and those […]

False Hope and Democrats

| October 12, 2017

What has to be understood is that the Democrats had three main reactions to George W Bush’s Iraq invasion (we will leave out Afghanistan here): 1) One group pretty much went along with Bush 2) Another group opposed the invasion, but said it was a “mistake.” 3) Yet another group opposed the invasion not as […]

Intersection and Class

| October 12, 2017

What do the Weinstein scandal, the firing of people who argued against the build up to the Iraq war, the blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick and the threat to remove Goldman Sachs employees who supported Trump have in common?  It is not politics.   Trump supporters are not politically aligned to Kaepernick.   It is class. The […]

The LinkedIn of the workers and unemployed?

| October 11, 2017

Termite Underground may go into territory that other websites do not enter and openly advocate for interests of the people who do not own the means of production (such as the proletariat, peasantry and lumpenproletariat).  Other websites will make make various side attacks that are either conspiratorial (Alex Jones types) or racialist (Occidental Dissent types) […]

Introduction

| October 11, 2017

Hello, my name is Metal Gear and I am the designer of this website, Termite Underground.   I had taken a long break from web based design and posting because I got into social media.   That wave, however, appears to be dying down and it seems time to get back into making a website again.   You […]