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==Controversies== | ==Controversies== | ||
===Chauvinism against First Worlders=== | ===Chauvinism against First Worlders=== | ||
Unruhe | Unruhe believes First Worlders are "parasites" because their wages and social services come from value generated by [[Third World]] exploitation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201027171835/https://maoistrebelnews.com/2016/05/16/jacobin-magazines-defense-of-the-white-worker-denies-the-reality-of-class/ Article by Jason Unruhe]. Archived from the [https://maoistrebelnews.com/2016/05/16/jacobin-magazines-defense-of-the-white-worker-denies-the-reality-of-class/ original].</ref> | ||
On the 13th anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks]], Jason Unruhe published a video which claimed that the thousands of victims of the attacks, most of whom being [[Proletariat|working class]], "deserved" their fates and condemned them.<ref>[http://youtu.be/JXriphg1Yqs Video by Jason Unruhe].</ref> After an arsonist killed 33 people and injured 36 at Kyoto Animation Studio in 2019, Unruhe stated on [[Twitter]] "Not all heroes wear capes. Anti-degeneracy gang rise up."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190718090451/https://twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/1151779834181443584 Tweet by Jason Unruhe]. Archived from the [https://twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/1151779834181443584 original].</ref> | On the 13th anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks]], Jason Unruhe published a video which claimed that the thousands of victims of the attacks, most of whom being [[Proletariat|working class]], "deserved" their fates and condemned them.<ref>[http://youtu.be/JXriphg1Yqs Video by Jason Unruhe].</ref> After an arsonist killed 33 people and injured 36 at Kyoto Animation Studio in 2019, Unruhe stated on [[Twitter]] "Not all heroes wear capes. Anti-degeneracy gang rise up."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190718090451/https://twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/1151779834181443584 Tweet by Jason Unruhe]. Archived from the [https://twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/1151779834181443584 original].</ref> | ||
Revision as of 00:22, 31 July 2025
| Jason Unruhe | |
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 Portrait of Jason Unruhe. | |
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2010–present[a] |
| Subscribers | 43,400 |
| Total views | 32,161,451 |
| Contents are in | English |
| Ideology | Maoism–Third Worldism |
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Last updated: July 30, 2025 | |
Jason Unruhe,[b] founder and contributor to Maoist Rebel News, is a Canadian revisionist YouTuber who is best known for his years-long promotion of Maoism–Third Worldism and other deviations disguised as "political" and "news commentary." As of July 2025, Unruhe's YouTube channel has over 43,400 subscribers and 32,161,451 views, although his recent content rarely exceeds 2,000 views.[2]
Controversies
Chauvinism against First Worlders
Unruhe believes First Worlders are "parasites" because their wages and social services come from value generated by Third World exploitation.[3]
On the 13th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Jason Unruhe published a video which claimed that the thousands of victims of the attacks, most of whom being working class, "deserved" their fates and condemned them.[4] After an arsonist killed 33 people and injured 36 at Kyoto Animation Studio in 2019, Unruhe stated on Twitter "Not all heroes wear capes. Anti-degeneracy gang rise up."[5]
Cult of personality
Jason Unruhe has been accused by former members of his community of maintaining an active cult of personality around himself, and placing himself in a messianic role over his community to which any criticism is suppressed.[6]
Distortions of Marxism
Unruhe regularly uses the term "first worldist" against his enemies, and claims the First World lacks revolutionary potential. He distorts Marxist class analysis by claiming the workers of the First World are not proletarians due to the superprofits they receive from imperialism, effectively arguing from a liberal position that class is based on income level as opposed to relations to the means of production.[7]
Plagiarism
Jason Unruhe has been known to plagiarize works from other left-wing creators in his earliest years, including from the World Socialist Web Site in addition to his own comrades.[8]
Anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry
Jason Unruhe has been vocal in denouncing "SJWs" and identity politics, which he believes is "garbage" and relegated to the "First World". He believes that identity politics is a useless diversion from class struggle and was malevolently introduced by "Western Maoists." He has regularly used homophobic and other bigoted language.[9]
By the 2020s, Jason Unruhe would relax his anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric for opportunistic reasons, seeking to distance himself from Caleb Maupin and other "patriotic socialists".
External links
- "Anti-Unrühe" (November 30, 2019), by Premier Matthew
See also
References
- ↑ Video by Jason Unruhe.
- ↑ Channel page. YouTube. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
- ↑ Article by Jason Unruhe. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Video by Jason Unruhe.
- ↑ Tweet by Jason Unruhe. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Video by Premier Matthew.
- ↑ Video by Jason Unruhe.
- ↑ Video by Zach. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Video by Jason Unruhe.