Drew ☭
@simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
perpetual good take haver, marxist-leninist, views my own
my writing: https://simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
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my writing: https://simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
links: https://linktr.ee/comradedrew
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How the CIA Killed a Democracy for Bananas: The Story of Jacobo Arbenz
YouTube video by Comrade Drew
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New Video Out Now:
The Tragedy of Jacobo Arbenz and Guatemala - A look into the United Fruit Company, a symbol of American interventionism and capitalist greed
A fruit company led to 36 years of civil war and genocide
Check it out if you can and let me know what you think
youtu.be/Ccq4gbdL3kY
The Tragedy of Jacobo Arbenz and Guatemala - A look into the United Fruit Company, a symbol of American interventionism and capitalist greed
A fruit company led to 36 years of civil war and genocide
Check it out if you can and let me know what you think
youtu.be/Ccq4gbdL3kY
so...what contradictions have y'all been dealing with recently?
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
so...what contradictions have y'all been dealing with recently?
Fred Hampton was 21 when the U.S. government assassinated him. Why? He organized.
56 years later, his lessons are still urgent: feed your people, educate your people, unite your people. Solidarity is power and the state has always feared it.
Full Piece: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
56 years later, his lessons are still urgent: feed your people, educate your people, unite your people. Solidarity is power and the state has always feared it.
Full Piece: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton and the Fear of Working-Class Solidarity
Why the Rainbow Coalition terrified the state—and what that means for today’s organizers.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fred Hampton was 21 when the U.S. government assassinated him. Why? He organized.
56 years later, his lessons are still urgent: feed your people, educate your people, unite your people. Solidarity is power and the state has always feared it.
Full Piece: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
56 years later, his lessons are still urgent: feed your people, educate your people, unite your people. Solidarity is power and the state has always feared it.
Full Piece: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Remembering Fred Hampton today, not as a symbol, but an organizer who understood that the only real answer to exploitation is collective power
Hampton knew that we all have a common, existential threat to our humanity: the status-quo. He understood that if we don't come together, we'll be destroyed
Hampton knew that we all have a common, existential threat to our humanity: the status-quo. He understood that if we don't come together, we'll be destroyed
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Remembering Fred Hampton today, not as a symbol, but an organizer who understood that the only real answer to exploitation is collective power
Hampton knew that we all have a common, existential threat to our humanity: the status-quo. He understood that if we don't come together, we'll be destroyed
Hampton knew that we all have a common, existential threat to our humanity: the status-quo. He understood that if we don't come together, we'll be destroyed
Reform isn’t enough. Change only comes when we organize and build power.
Don’t wait for politicians to hand you victories, create the power to win them yourself.
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
Don’t wait for politicians to hand you victories, create the power to win them yourself.
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
The Comfortable Lie of Reformism
How a gentler capitalism keeps the working class waiting forever
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Reform isn’t enough. Change only comes when we organize and build power.
Don’t wait for politicians to hand you victories, create the power to win them yourself.
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
Don’t wait for politicians to hand you victories, create the power to win them yourself.
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
You may have internalized a picture of the revolutionary as someone who: rejects all mainstream institutions, operates in a tight Leninist cadre, stays ideologically pure, and doesn’t touch reformist spaces.
But remember:
Revolutionaries work with the world as it is, not as they wish it were.
But remember:
Revolutionaries work with the world as it is, not as they wish it were.
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You may have internalized a picture of the revolutionary as someone who: rejects all mainstream institutions, operates in a tight Leninist cadre, stays ideologically pure, and doesn’t touch reformist spaces.
But remember:
Revolutionaries work with the world as it is, not as they wish it were.
But remember:
Revolutionaries work with the world as it is, not as they wish it were.
therapy, food, homework, print night 📰
a man with a beard is making a funny face and saying `` time to get lit '' in a kitchen .
Alt: a man with a beard is making a funny face and saying `` time to get lit '' in a kitchen .
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December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
therapy, food, homework, print night 📰
imagine being opps with marx and engels in the middle of the nineteenth century i'd kms 😭
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
imagine being opps with marx and engels in the middle of the nineteenth century i'd kms 😭
Every political journey begins with a page, a paragraph, a spark.
If you’re looking for a way into Marxism without the noise or the mystique, I built a reading list meant to guide, not preach.
Walk with me: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/basic-comm...
If you’re looking for a way into Marxism without the noise or the mystique, I built a reading list meant to guide, not preach.
Walk with me: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/basic-comm...
Basic Communist/Socialist Reading List
These 5 Works are Necessary Reads for Every Communist & Socialist
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Every political journey begins with a page, a paragraph, a spark.
If you’re looking for a way into Marxism without the noise or the mystique, I built a reading list meant to guide, not preach.
Walk with me: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/basic-comm...
If you’re looking for a way into Marxism without the noise or the mystique, I built a reading list meant to guide, not preach.
Walk with me: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/basic-comm...
Where is this coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all?
There’s 750,000 people who don’t have adequate shelter and food in the richest country that’s ever existed.
There’s 750,000 people who don’t have adequate shelter and food in the richest country that’s ever existed.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Where is this coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all?
There’s 750,000 people who don’t have adequate shelter and food in the richest country that’s ever existed.
There’s 750,000 people who don’t have adequate shelter and food in the richest country that’s ever existed.
New piece in my American Socialists series is out.
Daniel Hoan is proof that Americans don’t fear socialism, they love it when it shows up as clean streets, honest governance, and a city that actually works for the people living in it.
Read here: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/american-s...
Daniel Hoan is proof that Americans don’t fear socialism, they love it when it shows up as clean streets, honest governance, and a city that actually works for the people living in it.
Read here: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/american-s...
American Socialists: Daniel Hoan
From WWI to WWII, Hoan is the longest serving American Socialist ever elected to office.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New piece in my American Socialists series is out.
Daniel Hoan is proof that Americans don’t fear socialism, they love it when it shows up as clean streets, honest governance, and a city that actually works for the people living in it.
Read here: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/american-s...
Daniel Hoan is proof that Americans don’t fear socialism, they love it when it shows up as clean streets, honest governance, and a city that actually works for the people living in it.
Read here: simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/american-s...
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But every donation buys me a few more hours to breathe, read, think, write, and keep this whole thing going.
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But every donation buys me a few more hours to breathe, read, think, write, and keep this whole thing going.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you like what I do and you want to help me keep doing it while I drag myself through college, you can toss a buck my way on Ko-fi:
ko-fi.com/comradedrew
Everything I write stays free.
But every donation buys me a few more hours to breathe, read, think, write, and keep this whole thing going.
ko-fi.com/comradedrew
Everything I write stays free.
But every donation buys me a few more hours to breathe, read, think, write, and keep this whole thing going.
If the ruling class didn’t fear you, they wouldn’t spend this much money convincing you to fear yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If the ruling class didn’t fear you, they wouldn’t spend this much money convincing you to fear yourself.
libbed out successfully
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
libbed out successfully
I don’t want left and right to reconcile. I want the exploited to wake up.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don’t want left and right to reconcile. I want the exploited to wake up.
Get to go with a college classmate to a Young Democrats of Michigan conference tomorrow in Lansing.
Maybe I can convince some of the college kids to join the good fight…off the record, of course.
Get to get my lib on 🤭
Maybe I can convince some of the college kids to join the good fight…off the record, of course.
Get to get my lib on 🤭
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Get to go with a college classmate to a Young Democrats of Michigan conference tomorrow in Lansing.
Maybe I can convince some of the college kids to join the good fight…off the record, of course.
Get to get my lib on 🤭
Maybe I can convince some of the college kids to join the good fight…off the record, of course.
Get to get my lib on 🤭
People say socialism is unrealistic. I say infinite growth on a finite planet is a fairy tale for adults.
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
People say socialism is unrealistic. I say infinite growth on a finite planet is a fairy tale for adults.
Just made this for my . . . interpersonal communication class.
I'll update when I receive my grade 👍
I'll update when I receive my grade 👍
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just made this for my . . . interpersonal communication class.
I'll update when I receive my grade 👍
I'll update when I receive my grade 👍
Would the Epstein Files Break the Two-Party System?
Don't hold your breath.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Got in trouble for standing up to that Republican candidate from last week. I was told it was poor behavior as someone who represents the organization.
I DO NOT represent the college or the paper. I represent myself 100% of the time in accordance with college and organizational guidelines.
I DO NOT represent the college or the paper. I represent myself 100% of the time in accordance with college and organizational guidelines.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Got in trouble for standing up to that Republican candidate from last week. I was told it was poor behavior as someone who represents the organization.
I DO NOT represent the college or the paper. I represent myself 100% of the time in accordance with college and organizational guidelines.
I DO NOT represent the college or the paper. I represent myself 100% of the time in accordance with college and organizational guidelines.
Legend
Hero of Stalingrad Igor Mykhaylov. Only 8 years old, Igor carried cartridges and water, collected and handed over German leaflets to the command, and more than once tracked down German spies. In December 1942, together with his father, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad".
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Legend
Reposted by Drew ☭
"The Discovery of Imperialism" - Soviet Poster (1964)
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"The Discovery of Imperialism" - Soviet Poster (1964)
I'm bored and I have free time in the newsroom. What should I write?
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm bored and I have free time in the newsroom. What should I write?