Jason Unruhe
Jason Unruhe,[a] 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.[1]
Controversies
Chauvinism against First Worlders
Unruhe also believes First Worlders are "parasites" because their wages and social services come from value generated by Third World exploitation.[2]
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.[3] 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."[4]
Distortions of Marxism
Unrueh 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.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 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 Jason Unruhe.
Notes
- ↑ Pseudonym; real name is Jason Caden.