https://criticalresist.substack.com/

I thought to myself, you know, I have lots of things to say and people seem to like it, so why not try my hand at a substack? I’m gonna need some way to make a living very soon and they sell the potential of substack so well 😭

Right now there’s only the article I also posted on ProleWiki about Zionism and antisemitism, but another smallish one is coming Saturday. I’m aiming at publishing once a week. If you subscribe to the newsletter now you’ll be notified in your inbox when the 2nd article comes out (pro tip: I get to see your email so use a proxy if you don’t want to leak that). I’m still setting up a couple things (not sure on the name and I need a logo and stuff) but the blog is ready to be read so.

The difference with my ProleWiki writings is this is my own opinions and I can tear into patsocs as much as I want there, which would not be suited for ProleWiki. I’ll also talk ab what it’s like to admin prolewiki sometimes I think, and how this can be useful to anyone starting a project. I also want something that can be aimed more at newbies or general anti-imperialists than outright communists like Prolewiki is typecast as rn.

Anyway we’ll see where this goes, I make it up as I go along.

  • CriticalResist8OPA
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    8 months ago

    My first premium article is going to come out on November 23 (with two free articles between now and then). It’s gonna be about what working on ProleWiki has taught me and how you can use that to organize people and parties and get results.

    Originally, I wanted to make it free and not turn on subscriptions for some time, but this article grew really quickly and is now a masterclass on design-thinking, full of examples and immediately actionable methods. Like I legit feel this is one of my best articles on design (if you’ve read the couple I wrote for ProleWiki). It’s about as long as the deep dives Grayzone exposés, to give an order of magnitude.

    For this reason, I decided that it was worth paywalling (you still get free access to the intro which is 300 words long edit: you get access to the intro and the first tip, which is the biggest one), but I might change my model eventually. I’m torn between not wanting to paywall knowledge, but also offering something to people who pledge their money to my publication.