Checking in on Socialism 2025 Conference

You won’t be shocked to know that socialists have conferences dedicated to spewing hatred at the United States and laying out their plans for its destruction. 

Nor would you be surprised that most of the speakers are academics making six-figure salaries while shouting about “decolonization” and destroying the universities that pay them exorbitant sums. 

It’s all revolution all the time, and no doubt, Politifact will write about how it is all in good fun. They are just a bunch of especially nice people wishing us all well, and if you don’t believe that, you might just be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes. 

Up next: a supercut from Abolition & Reconstruction Today at Socialism 2025.

These aren’t fringe activists — these are the self-styled intellectuals laying out a blueprint to burn it all down: the Constitution, the police, the courts, and the very idea of America.

They… pic.twitter.com/YZLxh3N8fe

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025

It would all be funny, except that they are both serious and dangerously influential. Their goal is to create revolutionary cadres, and if you look out onto the streets of America, you can see that they are having some success. 

Communists have infiltrated not just the universities–although they are beginning to dominate the discourse there–but also our public schools. 

CTU President at Socialist Conference: “Ain’t No Damn America”

At the Socialism 2025, Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates delivered a speech that mocked the Fourth of July and promoted militant activism—raising real questions about her focus as an education… pic.twitter.com/3kkiNMqH1Y

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 4, 2025

“Fireworks? Ain’t no damn America.”

“You build a militancy… if it has to go down, it goes down. You call the strike.”

“So the reimagination of this place that we are trying to save—but kinda not, because we ain’t out here saving it.”

Rather than discuss schools, students, or academic outcomes, Gates praised CTU’s role in radical coalition-building and framed public education advocacy as just one piece of a broader revolutionary struggle.

Does this sound like someone committed to teaching—or tearing it all down?

She is part of Randi Weingarten’s American Federation of Teachers–the folks who tweeted out that reopening schools was part of a racist, capitalist plot. 

At Socialism 2025, organizer Sherry Wolf openly reflected on how campus radicalization shaped her—and how it’s central to the broader leftist movement:

“How many people in this room radicalized in college?”
[Hands go up in the crowd]
“Exactly, exactly… What is that? 80%,… pic.twitter.com/iC9SctX4Hm

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 4, 2025

They don’t even attempt to hide their contempt for America and their desire to destroy the country from within. This has always been the plan, and they are so confident that they have captured the commanding heights of our culture that they can lay out their plan for all to see and expect to get more money and kudos to implement their vision. 

Socialism 2025: High School Teacher Urges Earlier Radicalization of Students

“Everyone who raised your hand and said that you got radicalized in college—imagine if you got radicalized four years earlier?”

Tina, a high school teacher and union organizer from Madison, Wisconsin,… pic.twitter.com/nKIOC2G1gn

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 4, 2025

Tina, a high school teacher and union organizer from Madison, Wisconsin, urged attendees at Socialism 2025 to focus on radicalizing students before they even reach college:

Now working in K–12 after leaving higher ed, Tina emphasized the need to “train high schoolers how to organize” and called on college activists to build stronger ties with public schools and teachers unions.

The rest of her remarks touched on book bans, unpaid club advising, underfunding, teacher diversity, and declining standards in teacher prep programs. But her message was clear: don’t wait for college—start the political work in high school.

And why not? Zohran Mandani is likely to be the next Mayor of New York. The plan is working. They own the schools, the universities, more and more of the newsrooms, and several major cities in America. Brandon Johnson, the Mayor of Chicago, used to head the Chicago Teachers Union. 

At Socialism 2025, Janene Yazzie—a Navajo Nation member and Director of Policy and Advocacy at NDN Collective—delivered a sweeping, uncompromising manifesto that fused climate radicalism, anti-capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, and racial justice into a singular demand for total… pic.twitter.com/OinMmyF0Yw

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 7, 2025

At Socialism 2025, Janene Yazzie—a Navajo Nation member and Director of Policy and Advocacy at NDN Collective—delivered a sweeping, uncompromising manifesto that fused climate radicalism, anti-capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, and racial justice into a singular demand for total systemic dismantling.

Yazzie declared that climate action must include the abolition of the military, police, and security infrastructure:

“Abolition is a core part of that strategy. Dismantling military, police, and security state is a part of that strategy.”

She rejected the idea of prioritizing one issue over another:

“There’s no give or take. There’s no focusing on one thing over the other. All of this is part of the necessary climate action… to confront this climate Armageddon.”

As someone deeply involved in Indigenous organizing, Yazzie called on her own community to continue challenging internalized oppression—while scolding would-be allies:

“We can’t keep doing that for y’all. We are actively trying to protect our homelands and our peoples from further genocide. We can’t do that labor for other people.”

She then made her view of the U.S. political system explicit:

“This democracy has never worked for us.”

“When did this democracy work for you? Let’s be truthful about that.”

From there, she offered a sweeping political program:

“Land back for Indigenous peoples, Black reparations, and migrant justice is a core part of that.”

“We have to be anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial.”

And with dramatic flair, she raised the stakes further:

“Maybe the focus doesn’t just need to be about phasing out fossil fuels… A part of that is: how do we phase out fucking billionaires?”

Yazzie, who works on international advocacy for Indigenous rights, closed by insisting on a total “paradigm shift” to overthrow systems of dominance and restore “right relationship” between people, land, and life.

In sum: tear down capitalism, erase colonial borders, reject American democracy, and abolish billionaires—all in the name of climate justice.

Most or all of these people are living off of government salaries and/or grants as they work assiduously to destroy the system from within. Taxpayers are subsidizing their own destruction–which is ironic, in a way. It used to be the joke that capitalists would sell you the rope with which you are going to hang them. 

Princeton Professor: Use University Money to Dismantle the University

At Socialism 2025, @Princeton professor Lorgia García Peña openly encouraged academics to use institutional funding to work against their own universities:

“Get the university’s money to do the work you wanna… pic.twitter.com/wCVnh8XeGB

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 5, 2025

Now we learn that the capitalists are donating their own money to buy the rope. 

At Socialism 2025, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health Communism, warned:

“We are in a moment—an ahistorical moment—where the state is asserting that it is cisgender.”

She explained that the U.S. government is retroactively inventing a binary past to justify repression… pic.twitter.com/Za6Fndlq4I

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025

They are all quite clear about their desire to destroy everything–and that eventually the means they will use is violence. 

At Socialism 2025, Geo Maher—who was fired from Drexel for tweeting “all I want for Christmas is white genocide”—gave a talk that sounded less like a lecture and more like a soft-sell on political collapse.

Though booted from Drexel, Maher still lectures at UPenn and runs… pic.twitter.com/CX471pb6vh

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025

“The state… is a historic artifact of European capitalism and colonial expansion. It is neither inevitable nor immutable.”

“We may need to engage with… this institution now, but that also is not forever.”

“We will never successfully dismantle police and prisons if we haven’t rebuilt our society on new foundations.”

He even favorably compares modern abolitionists to Lenin, praising their shared vision of the state “withering away.”

This wasn’t fringe at Socialism 2025—it was the intellectual core: destroy institutions, abandon reform, and build something unrecognizably new.

Maher talks of “reconstruction,” but make no mistake: this is revolutionary rhetoric wrapped in activist branding. The end goal isn’t justice—it’s a teardown of the democratic state.

Ordinary Americans have no idea that their tax money is going to people who see it as their mission to destroy America, and the Pravda Media goes to extraordinary lengths to shill for these people by describing revolutionary ideology as nothing more than benign social justice activism. 

Princeton Professor: Ethnic Studies Radicalized Me—and My Students

At Socialism 2025, Princeton’s Lorgia García Peña described ethnic studies not as a neutral academic field, but as a transformative and radicalizing force:

“It transformed me and it definitely radicalized me and… pic.twitter.com/vrn24USklf

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 5, 2025

“Ethnic studies… is the only site within the university where I have found a tradition of intentionally centering the collective—even in defiance of power, meaning sometimes in defiance of our own employers.”

Her loyalty, she says, lies with political identity groups—not with the university, scholarship, or academic norms:

“My loyalties and my commitment are with Latinx people, with Black Latinx people—not with the university, not with the publisher… not with the funders.”

And of course, it is not just tax dollars. Millions of families struggle to pay for their children to attend these schools. Schools that are dedicated to destroying the very families and institutions that are paying their salaries. 

At Socialism 2025, @UPenn lecturer Geo Maher says the U.S. won’t be a democracy until the “neo-Confederates sticking their heads out of their snake holes” are “decapitated.”

Let’s be clear: in this space, neo-Confederate means anyone to the right of Bernie. pic.twitter.com/vcAuIG4WOq

— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025