The Banning of Theory Underground's New Kirk Book from Amazon: Why such things have made me a 'Communist' Once More

10 November 2025.

Dear comrades, this will be a short, unscripted article, since I am currently working on the long-procrastinated commentary on the Constitution of the American Communist Party.

In the first ordinance, I must explain what I mean by becoming a 'communist once more'. This is a seemingly very strange thing to announce, considering Reform-Leninism itself is a reform movement within the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. How, then, can I have not been a communist during all this time of pushing Reform?

I have ever been a socialist, a Marxist, a Bolshevik, and a Leninist. But, much like Comrade Losurdo supposedly was, I have for a long time been a sceptic of the plausibility of producing a stateless, if not a classless, society. I may not have been a vanguardist anymore, but I was verily still a vanguardist in the belief that a vanguard-state of the proletariat, or a dictatorship of the proletariat, with all the potential ugliness and repression which in therein insinuated, was the best we might achieve.

On the other hand, I have never been so cynical as to give up my firmly held belief that at some point, to some extent, we should have to institute a system of direct (legislative power) democracy, that the masses can learn the befreeing sacred art of self-governance, outside of the mechanisms of the state. The bureaucracy will eventually always be destroyed, usually physically liquidated by Comrade Makarov, by a charismatic revolutionary leader cultist. If society at large is the bureaucracy, is the state power, then this becomes practically impossible. I have held this view much before I began formulating Reform-Leninism. It should not therefore be incorrect to state that this is a fundamental view, that is persistent, of my ideology.

As the title immediately suggests, over the past month or two, this has ceased to be the case. I am now a socialist, a Marxist, a Bolshevik, a Bukharinist, and a communist. Yet I am now a sovietist as opposed to a Leninist-vanguardist. Of course, this means little outside of my own ideology and any future analysis I will do. Comrade Lenin is still my party leader, and I still agree with him on 70% of matters, much as I agree so with Comrades Stalin and Mao. This is one of the mystical natures of Reform in ideology, as I have remarked previously.

What does this have to do with Amazon's barring of Theory Underground's new anthology on the response to the Kirk assassination? Only in that it reinforces the observations which have made me a communist once again.

I have come to the view that, in the sphere of state and class, socialists (not communists, mind) can merely ever have temporary utility for the object of their agenda. There will inevitably come a point where socialists will find that the avenues presented by various forms of organising power through state and class are nay longer of any use to their objectives. In fact, they will find quite the opposite: that the state and class modes of organisation prevent the accomplishment of socialist objectives.

When Amazon banned the first big Right-Wing book release that I had chance to hear about (I can not remember which title it was at this point), I was deeply concerned, and I was absolutely opposed to this travesty of liberty, where other Leftists celebrated the 'victory over fascism', where the public thought is privately banished to Buchenwald. This heralded the rising dictatorship of the proletariat, the class-base of Amazon, did it not?

Then the British state did some things, many things perhaps, in the same manner as this. That hateful, reactionary fascist manifesto 1984 was finally taken out of the state's education systems. 'Finally', these same Leftists said, 'the state is transitioning into a dictatorship of the proletariat'. I mocked them viciously for their delusions of despotism being conflated for the rise of emancipated proletarian power.

Again with Amazon, they banned the works of Aleksandr Dugin, and then promptly banned the publishing house named Arktos Media. Let me be open with my patronage of them: a comrade and I bought their republication of Sombart's Traders and Heroes, and I have personally bought a few other works of theirs, such as their Spengler selection and Thinkers Against Modernity. Many Leftists were Soc. High-fiving each other, but I crossed my arms in obstinate horror at the transpiring of tyranny.

I tried to warn comrades that first, they will come for the Rightists, but I was told that this is 'carrying water for the Nazis', and this was the transition to socialist reason in action. Now, the Amazon class power has struck against a group which, we might say, is adjacent to the Left, or is the 'alternative centre'. Will Amazon stop before the Left, or will it continue bull-dozing over it? Thankfully, in the US, the burgher founders (exclusively the Anti-Federalists) gave us two things which are very good, the First and Second Amendment. This protects us for the moment against the state power of the Federal Empire doing what that of the British Empire has done. 1984 can still be used in the class-room... for now.

Class and State are the two powers which hold the masses in bondage, which consistently terrorise us. Communism has become to me unnegotiable. Vanguardist excuses hold nay sway in assuaging my fears and hopes. Either we will have soviet democracy now, and soviet communism soon, or we will have the chance at neither ever.

My New English comrades ought to guard their town-halls well. As the final bastion of the germ which may sprout into soviet democracy within this whole Federal Prison House of Nations, state and class power will seek its ultimate destruction for ever. Such is the threat that the lowly New English town-hall, the infantile, primitive method of direct-democracy poses to the glorious supremacy of the republican state and the capitalist class powers, that they should yet tremble at the rival power within this humble social institution. Do take note, comrades who theorise regarding what is best for the future; there is a truly sacred power in these town-halls.

You may call me a fool for urging the primacy of the war for communist democracy over that for state socialism, but it is my firmly convinced opinion. Class and state are nay solution, they are just another snare.

Anywise, I must return to commentating the ACP Constitution now. I intend to pick up these thoughts again in the future, hopefully once I have had the time to further mature them. Until then, comrades!