This week, IHS’s political clubs experienced an unexpected realignment. The Communalist Center Party (CCP), a club founded two years ago with the goal of spreading the theories of late theorist Murray Bookchin, was decimated by a split within its ranks. Claiming that the old party’s leaders were out-of-touch misogynists who loved pretending they can read theory, roughly half the Party quit and founded a rival group. The new Party, which they christened the “Progressive Communalist Alternative,” instead follows the teachings of Debbie Bookchin, labeling her father’s work counterrevolutionary and boring.
A representative of the CCP told The Tattler that the breakaway group was comprised of foolish “live action role players” (LARPers) who have no idea how to start a revolution. For their part, the CCP has declared they do not consider Debbie Bookchin heretical; they simply hold that she is “for good or evil, the Joseph Goebbels of our time.” Both groups have soundly denounced Murray Bookchin’s former mistress Janet Biehl for her sexual distraction of the thinker, which they contend led to his eventually correct dismissal of so-called “lifestyle anarchism” because he was so disgusted with his own vices. This is the second split the CCP has been involved in, since it itself split off from the Revolutionary Communalist Confederation over a dispute with the pro-Abdullah Ocalan faction.
On Twitter, many obscure left-wing minor celebrities felt the need to weigh in. Writer Amber A’lee Frost protested that “these Trots and their identity politics are getting out of control,” seemingly unaware of any context at all. Perhaps she was simply commenting on her own hateful obsession with immigrant horse girls. Frost’s ally Anna Khachiyan decided that the communalists’ focus on “the bogus bourgeois concern with global warming or whatever is really damaging their credibility with young people” and her podcasting co-host Dasha Nekrasova added “lol i wish bookchin was more sexist.” As always, the last word was taken by President Trump, who mocked the parties, asking if “these silly children know that the best Murray is Rothbard, I really like his position on slavery, very smart guy!” The 1,355 students at IHS not in either party could not be reached for comment, since they presumably had better things to do with their day.
