Tom Alter
Posted on 09/11/2025 11:53:18 PM PDT by Libloather
A professor at Texas State University was axed on Wednesday after a video of him allegedly advocating for political violence during a socialism conference went viral.
Tom Alter, a now-former associate history professor at TSU and member of Socialist Horizon, spoke at the online Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2025 on Sept. 7, according to screen recordings shared on X.
During his brief talk, Alter launched into a tirade about the “US Capitalist crisis” that he claimed is exacerbating issues like education, mental health and even basic infrastructure.
“What makes the current crisis an extra problem for capitalists is the willingness of people to fight back,” Alter said.
He presented a rough pitch for how socialists could organize a stronger base within the US and criticized various parties, including the Chinese Communist Party, Democrats and “insurrectional anarchists,” for their half-baked methods of organizing.
Alter wished-washed on his approach and praised other anarchists who had been detained or even convicted for participating in protests
“While their actions are laudable, it should be asked, to what purpose do they serve? Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?” Alter said in the full clip posted on YouTube.
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Nobody is more money hungry than a Socialist.
Surely they didn’t use a venue for this conference built by capitalists?
Excellent!
Of course not. It was built by a group of food stamp recipients and welfare queens.
The nutjobs are multiplying.
Tom has to alter his life and find a new job.
On the bright well disciplined commie ticks who burrowed into the cushy life of academia are canceling themselves. It will be hard for them to be revolutionaries while working the third shift at a 7/11.
I hate it when a speaker does that!
Regards,
I always assumed that it was built on "rock-n-roll."
Wasn't that shortly after "video killed the radio star?"
Regards,
"praised other anarchists"???????
So.......the anarchist in him wants enough anarchy to tear the system down, and rebuild it in his socialist utopian pipe dream.
Socialist Horizon was launched on August 20, 2024 at a meetup held in Chicago during the protests against the Democratic Party’s continued funding and execution of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people. The call to meet was made to analyze and oppose capitalism and the bourgeois two-party system, to oppose US imperialism and genocide in Palestine and support full Palestinian liberation, as well as to understand and prepare for resisting the drive towards global war. There was a further emphasis on the urgent need to begin to organize with working class people to engage directly in class struggle and develop working class organizers, leaders, and fighters.
The meeting was attended by over 40 people, representing several different organizations as well as individuals in different parts of the country. There was a consensus that we need to begin to build an ‘organization of organizations’ as well as involve individuals who are interested in getting organized in their locales.
Special emphasis was placed on the need to build solidarity between socialists and organizations as a means to create trust, to develop and apply Marxist theory and analysis to the struggles in which we are engaged, and to construct a democratic and non-sectarian organizing method and political culture in which all members and participants fell welcomed, are included, and feel confident to contribute in our collective organizing processes.
Socialist Horizon affiliated with the International Socialist League in 2025, and is currently working to organize Socialist Horizon-affiliated locals in different cities and regions in the US. We are also working with other groups and individuals who are committed to building a renewed revolutionary socialist organization that can regroup revolutionaries into a larger unified force to engage in the class struggles of today and tomorrow. ...
—— from the Socialist Horizon website “about page”.
The amusing thing about the left is that being natural power hungry narcissists, each and every one of them seems to have a belief that they are leadership material, so they tend to create their own individual organizations to lead, so much so that I would not be surprised if there are at least as many socialist organizations as there are socialists...and probably even more than their numbers could justify. I figure the bipolar ones have at least one self-led organization for each personality.
Socialist Horizon needs to be sunset. Or smashed.
Meet Kristen Eve. Her real name is actually Kristen Wabuge. Her Facebook says she is a PRE-K TEACHER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. She teaches military children at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. She posted on Facebook yesterday that she isn’t going to mourn Charlie Kirk’s assassination because “he was a garbage human”. She celebrated his death in her Facebook post. eet Kristen Eve. Her real name is actually Kristen Wabuge. Her Facebook says she is a PRE-K TEACHER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Libs Of TikTok, Catturd and several others on X are calling out educators, health care workers, active duty military, public safety officers, local government officials at a rate I’ve never seen. Lots of “update: xxxx fired” posts. They’ve clearly chosen their way to fight back.
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