Edward Smith - Revision history

CriticalResist: CriticalResist moved page Eddie Liger Smith to Edward Smith over redirect: moving back until there is a decision on it, if ever

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CriticalResist moved page Eddie Liger Smith to Edward Smith over redirect: moving back until there is a decision on it, if ever

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	'''Edward Smith''', who goes by the name '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> Despite calling himself a Marxist, Edward smith has been moving further to the [[Opportunism\|right]] with time.		'''Edward Smith''', who goes by the name '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> Despite calling himself a Marxist, Edward smith has been moving further to the [[Opportunism\|right]] with time.

Literallywho Ingodsname: Literallywho Ingodsname moved page Edward Smith to Eddie Liger Smith over redirect: To avoid confusion with other Edward Smiths

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Literallywho Ingodsname moved page Edward Smith to Eddie Liger Smith over redirect: To avoid confusion with other Edward Smiths

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CriticalResist at 20:02, 11 July 2025

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	[[File:Betterpicofedwardsmith.jpeg.jpg\|thumb\|Edward Smith circa 2024]]		[[File:Betterpicofedwardsmith.jpeg.jpg\|thumb\|Edward Smith circa 2024]]
	'''Edward Smith''', ~~more commonly known as~~ '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> Despite calling himself a Marxist, Edward smith has been moving further to the [[Opportunism\|right]] with time.		'''Edward Smith''', who goes by the name '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> Despite calling himself a Marxist, Edward smith has been moving further to the [[Opportunism\|right]] with time.

	== Positions ==		== Positions ==
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	Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref> following the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].		Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref> following the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].

	In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that [[Electoralism\|elections]] in a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois dictatorship]] only exist to benefit the [[bourgeoisie]].		In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that [[Electoralism\|elections]] in a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois dictatorship]] only exist to benefit the [[bourgeoisie]] and that communists will be targeted by the state sooner or later regardless of the opposition.

	In 2023, he made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].		In 2023, he made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]] in their time,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> the Black Hundreds being a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	=== Exploitation of the Palestinian genocide ===		=== Exploitation of the Palestinian genocide ===

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	In 2023, he made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].		In 2023, he made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	=== ~~Exploiting~~ the Palestinian genocide ===		=== Exploitation of the Palestinian genocide ===
	Smith once compared his self-imposed diet to the [[Israel-Gaza war and genocide\|genocide in Gaza]], as [[State of Palestine\|Palestinians]] are being intentionally starved by "[[State of Israel\|Israel]]" to accelerate their genocide.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Tweet by @jonnysocialism\|date=2025-01-20\|url=https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/1881182136151236995}}</ref> In a now deleted conceited tweet that contained two 'thirst traps' (selfies of him shirtless looking at the camera), Smith said that "anyone COULD do [a diet] & if you were born in Gaza you'd have no other option."<ref name=":0" /> He called his self-imposed diet that he undertook for aesthetic and athletic purposes an act of "solidarity with [his] brothers [in Gaza]", and further added that he was "honestly grateful [he] get[s] the opportunity to dehydrate and starve [him]self", despite being able to stop his diet at any time.		Smith once compared his self-imposed diet to the [[Israel-Gaza war and genocide\|genocide in Gaza]], as [[State of Palestine\|Palestinians]] are being intentionally starved by "[[State of Israel\|Israel]]" to accelerate their genocide.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Tweet by @jonnysocialism\|date=2025-01-20\|url=https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/1881182136151236995}}</ref> In a now deleted conceited tweet that contained two 'thirst traps' (selfies of him shirtless looking at the camera), Smith said that "anyone COULD do [a diet] & if you were born in Gaza you'd have no other option."<ref name=":0" /> He called his self-imposed diet that he undertook for aesthetic and athletic purposes an act of "solidarity with [his] brothers [in Gaza]", and further added that he was "honestly grateful [he] get[s] the opportunity to dehydrate and starve [him]self", despite being able to stop his diet at any time.

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	[[File:Betterpicofedwardsmith.jpeg.jpg\|thumb\|Edward Smith circa 2024]]		[[File:Betterpicofedwardsmith.jpeg.jpg\|thumb\|Edward Smith circa 2024]]
	'''Edward Smith''', more commonly known as '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> ~~He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]]~~,<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[~~Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics~~\|~~far-~~right]] ~~[[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]]~~.		'''Edward Smith''', more commonly known as '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> Despite calling himself a Marxist, Edward smith has been moving further to the [[Opportunism\|right]] with time.

	== Positions ==		== Positions ==
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	In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that [[Electoralism\|elections]] in a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois dictatorship]] only exist to benefit the [[bourgeoisie]].		In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that [[Electoralism\|elections]] in a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois dictatorship]] only exist to benefit the [[bourgeoisie]].

			In 2023, he made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	=== Exploiting the Palestinian genocide ===		=== Exploiting the Palestinian genocide ===

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	'''Edward 'Liger' Smith''' is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].		[[File:Betterpicofedwardsmith.jpeg.jpg\|thumb\|Edward Smith circa 2024]]
			'''Edward Smith''', more commonly known as '''Eddie 'Liger' Smith''', is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	== Positions ==		== Positions ==

			=== Tailism ===
	Smith has been increasingly [[Tailism\|tailing]] the [[reactionary]] segment of the [[United States of America\|Statesian]] population. On December 20th, 2023, he published a post on his Twitter account adopting the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections"<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.		Smith has been increasingly [[Tailism\|tailing]] the [[reactionary]] segment of the [[United States of America\|Statesian]] population. On December 20th, 2023, he published a post on his Twitter account adopting the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections"<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.

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	Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref> following the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].		Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref> following the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].

	In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that elections in a bourgeois dictatorship only exist to benefit the bourgeoisie.		In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that [[Electoralism\|elections]] in a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois dictatorship]] only exist to benefit the [[bourgeoisie]].

			=== Exploiting the Palestinian genocide ===
			Smith once compared his self-imposed diet to the [[Israel-Gaza war and genocide\|genocide in Gaza]], as [[State of Palestine\|Palestinians]] are being intentionally starved by "[[State of Israel\|Israel]]" to accelerate their genocide.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Tweet by @jonnysocialism\|date=2025-01-20\|url=https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/1881182136151236995}}</ref> In a now deleted conceited tweet that contained two 'thirst traps' (selfies of him shirtless looking at the camera), Smith said that "anyone COULD do [a diet] & if you were born in Gaza you'd have no other option."<ref name=":0" /> He called his self-imposed diet that he undertook for aesthetic and athletic purposes an act of "solidarity with [his] brothers [in Gaza]", and further added that he was "honestly grateful [he] get[s] the opportunity to dehydrate and starve [him]self", despite being able to stop his diet at any time.

	== American Communist Party ==		== American Communist Party ==

CriticalResist: CriticalResist moved page Eddie Liger Smith to Edward Smith: his real name is Edward Smith

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	'''Edward Liger Smith''' is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" of [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].		'''Edward 'Liger' Smith''' is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" at [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	== ~~Tailist support for Donald Trump~~ ==		== Positions ==
	On December 20th, 2023, ~~Smith wrote~~ a ~~tweet espousing~~ the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections."<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.		Smith has been increasingly [[Tailism\|tailing]] the [[reactionary]] segment of the [[United States of America\|Statesian]] population. On December 20th, 2023, he published a post on his Twitter account adopting the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections"<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.

	The State is a dictatorship of the ruling capitalist class… If you think that State is going after Trump because it has the best interests of the American people in mind, you’re either delusional or ignorant about the true function of the State.		The State is a dictatorship of the ruling capitalist class… If you think that State is going after Trump because it has the best interests of the American people in mind, you’re either delusional or ignorant about the true function of the State.
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	We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.		We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.

	Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref>		Have some principles and learn to engage in a sober materialist analysis… enough of the Trump derangement syndrome, Marxists should be smarter than that.}}</ref> following the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].

	~~This~~ tweet ~~came in response to the decision by the~~ [[~~Colorado~~]] ~~Supreme Court on December 19th, 2023 that Donald Trump could not<blockquote>...appear on the Colorado Republican presidential primary ballot~~ in ~~2024...~~ [~~because~~] [a] ~~majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the~~ [[~~Constitution of the United States~~\|~~United States Constitution~~]].<~~ref~~>~~Colorado Supreme Court [https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300~~.~~pdf 2023 CO 63]</ref>~~</blockquote>~~This decision from the court was made because of Trump's actions~~ in ~~aiding and abetting~~ the ~~[[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]]~~.		In the tweet, he dismisses critics (including [[Marxists]]) as "living in a [[liberal]] echo chamber", but doesn't go against [[MAGA movement\|MAGA]] supporters for their conservative echo chamber. He further adds that:<blockquote>We should condemn lawfare being used to manipulate elections on principle… because if they’ll do it to Trump they’ll do it to us… just look at how Lula da Silva was jailed before the election in 2018.</blockquote>Despite that Marxists are well aware that elections in a bourgeois dictatorship only exist to benefit the bourgeoisie.

	== American Communist Party ==		== American Communist Party ==

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	'''Edward Liger Smith''' is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] [[~~Socialism\|~~socialist]]~~. He is a member~~ of [[Midwestern Marx]] ~~and a wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville~~.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].		'''Edward Liger Smith''' is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] "[[patriotic socialist]]" and an "Institute co-director" of [[Midwestern Marx]].<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Midwestern Marx\|title=Staff\|url=https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011214738/https://www.midwesternmarx.com/staff.html\|archive-date=2022-10-11\|retrieved=2022-10-16}}</ref> He made the absurd claim that the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Bolsheviks]] were "reaching out" to members of the [[Black Hundreds]],<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=If Modern day Western communists lived in Russia\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626023258/https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1673102904436113409\|archive-date=26 Jun 2023\|quote=If Modern day Western communists lived in [[Russian Empire\|Russia]] they would have tweeted pictures of the [[Bolsheviks]] reaching out to the [[Black Hundreds\|black hundreds]] and demanded that people cancel them for it.}}</ref> a [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] [[Monarchism\|monarchist]] group in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)\|Russian Empire]].

	== Tailist support for Donald Trump ==		== Tailist support for Donald Trump ==
	On December 20th, 2023, ~~Eddie Liger~~ Smith wrote a tweet espousing the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections."<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.		On December 20th, 2023, Smith wrote a tweet espousing the idea that [[Donald Trump]] was being unjustly affected by "...[[lawfare]] being used to manipulate elections."<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|title=Twitter Post 2023-12-20\|date=2023-12-20\|url=https://twitter.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1737580869206921463\|archive-date=2023-12-23\|quote=If you admit to unfollowing us because we don’t support lawfare against Trump you’re admitting to living in a liberal echo chamber with no alternative analysis of Trump allowed.

	The State is a dictatorship of the ruling capitalist class… If you think that State is going after Trump because it has the best interests of the American people in mind, you’re either delusional or ignorant about the true function of the State.		The State is a dictatorship of the ruling capitalist class… If you think that State is going after Trump because it has the best interests of the American people in mind, you’re either delusional or ignorant about the true function of the State.
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	This tweet came in response to the decision by the [[Colorado]] Supreme Court on December 19th, 2023 that Donald Trump could not<blockquote>...appear on the Colorado Republican presidential primary ballot in 2024... [because] [a] majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the [[Constitution of the United States\|United States Constitution]].<ref>Colorado Supreme Court [https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300.pdf 2023 CO 63]</ref></blockquote>This decision from the court was made because of Trump's actions in aiding and abetting the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].		This tweet came in response to the decision by the [[Colorado]] Supreme Court on December 19th, 2023 that Donald Trump could not<blockquote>...appear on the Colorado Republican presidential primary ballot in 2024... [because] [a] majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the [[Constitution of the United States\|United States Constitution]].<ref>Colorado Supreme Court [https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300.pdf 2023 CO 63]</ref></blockquote>This decision from the court was made because of Trump's actions in aiding and abetting the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection]].

			== American Communist Party ==
			Edward was a founding member of the [[American Communist Party]], a patriotic socialist project. There, he calls himself an "Executive board member".<ref>{{Web citation\|author=@EdbieLigerSmith\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Proud to announce that I’ve been selected to the executive board of the American Communist Party.\|date=2024-07-22\|url=https://x.com/EdbieLigerSmith/status/1815447344973779099\|archive-url=https://archive.ph/wip/KOmis}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==