When a YouTube Chat Turns to “Ciao!”: On the Cowardice of Caleb Maupin

Caleb Maupin is an ex-Occupy Wall Street activist, ex-Workers World Party member that previously worked for Russia’s RT news and is now an “independent socialist”.

I admit that I haven’t read much of his writing nor watched more than two of his YouTube videos as I neither felt intellectually enlargened nor amused by the. And yet I decided to jump onto his live YouTube chat when I read an announcement of it on Facebook as I wanted to, like I did with Ajamu Baraka and Abby Martin, inquire about any relationship to funding networks manag.ed by Venezuela

Amusingly enough within 3 minutes of my asking him a question about his relationship to funding and assistance networks for American aocialist activists that are connected to Venezuela’s state intelligence apparatus he ended the live broadcast. 

That right. Only 25 minutes into a live chat that was supposed to be an hour long and he cancels it!

I was a little bummed as I was hoping to get a definitive response – but also not surprised.

The only information that I got came from the one “person” that shared Caleb Maupin’s announcement of his upcoming YouTube Talk.

I put “person” in quotes as a quick look at his profile, which is public, and a number of the qualities indicating coordinated inauthentic behavior connected to the Kultural Marxism network became evident. These are:

Links to TeleSUR
Links to Black Agenda Report
Praise of Julian Assange
Links to Counterpunch
Multiple links praising China
A link to a foreign language website (in this case Chinese) website