Welcome to My Substack

What This Substack Will Be About

After years of neurotic hesitation, I’ve decided to start gradually releasing the large collection of my unpublished written work that I have been accumulating over the past few years. This includes essays, articles, and some video essays (before I turn them into proper videos). I will be publishing most of these written works here on Substack and some others on other media publications. Let me explain why this is happening now and what you can expect from this Substack page.

Over the past two years, I’ve been working on what has become a challenging project: writing a book that will be published by Revol Press titled “Freedom To Change Nothing: The Spectrum of Managed Democracy and What Makes the US Different.” I thought that writing this book would be a relatively easy process since it was supposed to be based on the work I did for my Political Science Master’s a few years ago.

Instead, I ended up completely changing much of what I wanted to say and became obsessively focused on research to make the book as good as possible. The book has taken on a different life since then. I am glad I waited to publish it, because I think the book genuinely adds something new to the discourse rather than just being another book about why American democracy is broken. My book was supposed to come out in December 2025, but due to all the delays, the release date has been pushed back. The deadline for the Final draft to be handed in is April, and the book will be published sometime in the summer of 2026 with Revol Press. It will be available for pre-order a couple of months before that.

Part of the delay was due to taking on various other projects all at once, including the recent massive YouTube video explaining every type of Marxism that has ever existed, which you should absolutely watch in its entirety if you haven’t already (or else I will give you 2 years in gulag!). This project was by far my longest video yet, and took time away from writing my book. I also have a problem with what I call “productive procrastination.” While procrastination is not uncommon, my version of it involves constantly taking on new, interesting tasks that distract me from my primary responsibilities. Aside from reading books every morning so I can put off my to-do list, the most common forms of productive procrastination I engage in are writing mini-essays, articles, and video essays that I don’t have the time & energy to turn into full-on YouTube videos.

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I often write about different topics that I’ve been contemplating for at least a few years, and have a sudden burst of inspiration to write about them, usually after reading something related to them or engaging in a conversation with someone about them. The sudden burst of energy, combined with a particular passion to write about a topic that I have been thinking about for a long time, is rare, so I like to capitalize on that flow state as soon as I have it.

This “productive procrastination” might sound like a good problem to have. After all, it would be worse to procrastinate by “doing nothing.” However, what my psychic drive to constantly procrastinate on what should be my main priorities by working on things unrelated to those responsibilities has left me with is essentially an entire archive of unpublished written material.

The fact that so much of my work is unpublished is due to nothing other than my own neurotic perfectionism. I am an extremely self-critical person. Every time I proofread anything, I end up spending twice as long adding and changing things. While I am proud of most of the video essays I have done, there are some videos where I look back and cringe at myself for missing something or not articulating something in a better way. There are things I would change even in my proudest works. But I have now reached a point where I would rather just publish what I have gradually on this Substack rather than waiting for each work to be “perfect” and giving it to a publication that would probably force me to cut 50% of what I wrote because articles can only be “bite-sized” because attention spans are so low nowadays. But I feel like the type of people who enjoy the 1Dime video essays and podcasts would be more likely to actually read what I write on here, or listen to it via a text-to-speech app like Speechify or Eleven Reader.

Anyhow, I have written a lot of essays, articles, and video essays that reflect the ways in which my ideas and opinions have developed in the past few years, some of which I have been articulating in the 1Dime Radio podcasts, interviews I have done, and through conversations with friends. I am especially neurotic about publishing my written work. Unlike YouTube videos, where people are more forgiving of grammar and spelling, written work invites more scrutiny. I strive for rigor in my writing, especially when making bold claims that require quite a lot of elaboration, and when articulating my own ideas, which I find much more nerve-wracking to express compared to teaching other people’s ideas, because I want to avoid having my ideas be misarticulated or misconstrued.

Rather than wait for these pieces to be “perfect” enough for academic journals or mainstream outlets, which would likely require me to shorten them or sanitize the original material, I decided to release them here on Substack, where readers can engage with the core ideas immediately.

What’s Coming

I currently have at least 15 unpublished essays that are pretty much finished and ready for release, which I’ll publish gradually on this Substack, so make sure you are subscribed to it! These written works attempt to flesh out ideas that I have articulated here and there through podcasts, interviews, conversations with friends and fellow thinkers. Those who enjoy my main channel videos and the 1Dime Radio podcast will find this material quite interesting.

To give you a glimpse as to what’s to come, here are some of the written works that I will be gradually publishing on this Substack page in the coming months (some of these I have alluded to in various 1Dime Radio discussions):

-My Theory of the Genealogy of Wokeism: A comprehensive framework for understanding the “woke” style of politics and where it comes from---not the simplified narratives you typically encounter, but a serious historical and theoretical analysis. I also have some philosophical pieces that discuss themes such as religion, myth, human will, artificial intelligence, and my views on various social issues, like the current gender political divide.

-The Forgotten History of US-Israel relations: An examination of the nuanced (and often forgotten) history of US opposition to Israel and conflicts of interest between Washington and Tel Aviv. It aims to provide advocates of Palestinian liberation with better ammunition to really make a case for why the US shouldn’t be supporting Israel. It shows how anti-imperialists sometimes undermine the Palestinians by inverting and mirroring Christian Zionist narratives regarding America’s relationship to Israel.

Essays articulating my Personal Philosophy: I have written some things more fully explaining the Civic Republican and (small c) conservative foundations of my Democratic Socialist philosophy, which I have discussed a little bit on the 1Dime Radio podcast, but not as much on my main 1Dime channel. I also have two polemics I wrote explaining why I consider myself a “socialist” but not a “communist” and some sophisticated critiques of the idea of Communism beyond the typical simple-minded anti-communist dismissals you are probably used to hearing. In addition, I have the video essay I wrote back in April last year on Radical Republican political philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli (and a summary of the ideas he proposes in his master work Discourses on Livy). After you read this, my “conservative” case for socialism & democracy will make more sense. Related to that, I also have a video essay on “The Christian Case Against Capitalism“ and another video script titled “Red Republicans,” which is on the radical, forgotten origins of the US Republican Party & Civic Republicanism.

Essays on Political Strategy: I will be publishing essays articulating the political visions that I believe are best suited for the United States and Canada context, in which I present two distinct political strategies and policy proposals tailored to the unique political contexts of these two countries. I will also be publishing articles I wrote about how to counter the far-right, building independent political organizations capable of influencing existing institutions, and the Dual Party Entryism Strategy (on why socialists should run candidates in both the Democratic and Republican Parties), originally floated by Benjamin Studebaker in his book The Chronic Crisis of Democracy. I also have a few essays regarding the failure of current leftist strategies, why the left has no power, and the root causes of these failures. This includes pieces on popular fronts and their consequences, ideologies of cope, the leftist industrial complex, the self-marginalization of the left, and the phenomenon of controlled opposition & self-contained opposition more broadly.

Each of these pieces represents years of thinking, research, and conversation. This is my attempt to move beyond the perfectionism that has kept these ideas locked away and instead engage in the kind of public intellectual work that our moment demands.

I want this page to be a platform not just for my own writing, but a workshop for the 1Dime community where ideas can develop through engagement, feedback, and discussion rather than in isolation.

So stay tuned and follow/subscribe to this page for updates & to get access to my writings for free, before I start putting things behind a paywall!