WASHINGTON — Maine Senate hopeful Troy Jackson this week endorsed a former Democratic Socialists of America co-chair who urged Jesus was a communist and has characterised himself as a “revolutionary socialist” calling for the far-left to “overturn the system.”
The previous lumberjack threw his weight behind Portland Metropolis Council hopeful Todd Chretien, who had backed Jackson in each his gubernatorial and Senate bids, serving as a delegate for him on the slapdash conference after Platner dropped out.
Chretien has been a scholar of socialism and far-left ideology, having beforehand written fondly of infamous father of communism, Karl Marx.
“Marx was hardly the primary critic of society, although, and he was not even the primary communist. Jesus of Nazareth was among the many many to sentence ‘wealthy males’ lengthy earlier than Marx,” Chretien wrote in a 2018 piece for the SocialistWorker.org.
“What makes Marx distinctive is that he was the primary to suggest a traditionally particular path for profitable equality that mixed defiance of oppression and exploitation with a social power probably able to changing the elite,” he added.
The aspiring metropolis council hopeful additionally edited a ebook titled “Eyewitnesses of the Russian Revolution,” with insights from Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin.
A member of the Worldwide Socialist Group, Chretien described Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as having “comparatively tame social-democratic beliefs” and predicted that many socialists have been aspiring to a “extra revolutionary reckoning with the system.”
“Todd will rise up for working-class individuals in metropolis corridor. That’s why I’m proud to assist him and name him a buddy,” Jackson mentioned of Chretien in a latest endorsement.
The 2 males have campaigned collectively regularly all through the 2026 midterm election cycle, at one level, noting how the 2 males “share the identical mission.”
Along with backing Chretien not too long ago, Jackson appeared to reminisce over disgraced oyster farmer Graham Platner, whom he stepped in to interchange because the Democrats’ decide for Maine’s Senate seat.
“I want nothing would have occurred with Graham,” Jackson lamented throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Belfast, Maine, final week.
“I want, you understand, issues would have continued like all that. It could have been a lot better. However when it did, I simply didn’t need to see all these individuals which can be searching for any individual to combat for them go away as soon as once more damaged and hopeless.”
Jackson had been talking in part of Maine the place Platner constructed a very sturdy base of assist.
The Put up reached out to each Jackson’s and Chretien’s campaigns for remark.
Platner was compelled to drop out of the Maine Senate race after dealing with a disturbing rape accusation, which got here on prime of quite a few allegations of abuse and misconduct by former lovers.
He has vehemently denied accusations of bodily or sexual abuse, however acknowledged he wasn’t at all times an awesome boyfriend.
The sexy oyster farmer had been a magnet for scandals, along with his Nazi tattoo, which he later inked over, and prolonged Reddit historical past the place he urged a Purple Coronary heart veteran deserved to die, mused about pleasuring himself in porta potties, defended urinating on lifeless Taliban fighters, and extra.
Moreover, Platner confronted accusations that he sexted with not less than half a dozen ladies whereas married, regardless of tying the knot fewer than three years prior, in 2023. Platner was additionally discovered to have had a Kik account, which is an nameless platform that has a fame of getting used for hookups.
