Definitions by Dumu The Void
Proletariat Freedom Index
A proposed alternative metric to indices like the "Economic Freedom Index" (which equates freedom with deregulation). This index would measure the substantive freedom of the working class based on factors like: job security, union density, access to healthcare and housing, free time (leisure vs. work hours), workplace democracy, and power over community decisions. It redefines freedom from "freedom from the state" to "freedom from exploitation and insecurity."
Example: According to the Proletariat Freedom Index, a Scandinavian country with strong unions, a generous social safety net, and codetermination laws would rank highly, while a US state with "right-to-work" laws, no paid leave, and rampant gig economy precarity would rank near the bottom, despite scoring high on a traditional "economic freedom" index.
Proletariat Freedom Index by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Foundation for Communal Education
An educational project rooted in anarchist and libertarian socialist traditions, focusing on the practical and philosophical knowledge needed to build and sustain autonomous communes, intentional communities, and directly democratic assemblies. It teaches conflict resolution, consensus decision-making, ecological stewardship, and communal economics, emphasizing prefigurative politics—building the new society in the shell of the old.
Foundation for Communal Education Example: The foundation might operate a "Communal Lab"—a network of rural and urban land projects where participants learn hands-on skills in permaculture, off-grid energy, cooperative management, and horizontal assembly governance, embodying the education it preaches.
Foundation for Communal Education by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Foundation for Communist Education
A more ideologically specific and radical institution focused on the theories of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and later thinkers, with the explicit aim of preparing cadres for revolutionary struggle and the construction of a communist society. Education is rigorous, dialectical, and combines theory with practical organizing skills. It is unapologetically partisan, seeing education as a key front in the class war.
Foundation for Communist Education Example: The foundation's flagship program could be a clandestine, intensive "Cadre School," where students live communally, studying Capital by day and practicing digital security, community defense, and agitational propaganda techniques by night, viewing themselves as future architects of a revolution.
Foundation for Communist Education by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Foundation for Socialist Education
An institution promoting a broad understanding of socialist principles, history, and models beyond the Soviet clichés. It covers democratic socialism, market socialism, anarcho-syndicalism, and the successes/failures of various experiments. It aims to demystify socialism for a general public steeped in anti-socialist propaganda and to provide a robust intellectual toolkit for envisioning a post-capitalist future.
Foundation for Socialist Education *Example: Its popular online course, "Socialism 101: Not Just Stalin," might include modules on the kibbutz movement, the Yugoslav workers' self-management model, Bolivia's plurinational socialism, and modern participatory budgeting schemes, presenting socialism as a diverse, living tradition.*
Foundation for Socialist Education by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Foundation for Proletariat Education
An educational organization dedicated to raising the class consciousness of the working class. Its curriculum teaches Marxist theory, labor history, the mechanics of exploitation (surplus value), and strategies for organization and solidarity. Its goal is not neutral education but ideological armament, transforming workers from a "class in itself" (defined by economic position) to a "class for itself" (aware of its collective power and revolutionary potential).
Foundation for Proletariat Education Example: The foundation might run "Solidarity Schools" in deindustrialized towns, teaching not just the history of union busting, but also how to analyze their own workplace for leverage points, how to use mutual aid networks, and how digital platforms extract data as a new form of proletarianization.
Foundation for Proletariat Education by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Victims of Anti-communism Memorial Foundation
An institution that inverts the typical Western memorialization of communism's victims. It documents those killed, persecuted, or whose progressive social projects were destroyed by anti-communist violence: victims of US-backed right-wing dictatorships in Latin America and Asia, victims of the Red Scares and blacklisting, and casualties of wars (like in Korea and Vietnam) framed as necessary to "contain" communism. It argues anti-communism has been a more prolific and less-accounted-for killer.
Victims of Anti-communism Memorial Foundation Example: The foundation's archive would highlight figures like Salvador Allende of Chile or Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, not as failed leaders, but as primary Victims of Anti-communism, assassinated with Western complicity to crush socialist experiments, with the subsequent dictatorships producing millions more victims in their wake.
Victims of Anti-communism Memorial Foundation by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
Victims of Neoliberalism Memorial Foundation
A modern-focused entity documenting the casualties of the late-20th-century ideological turn towards deregulation, privatization, free trade, and the dismantling of the welfare state. Its memorial extends beyond direct deaths to include victims of deindustrialization, the opioid crisis, for-profit incarceration, student debt slavery, and communities left behind by globalization. It portrays neoliberalism not as an economic theory but as a lived, lethal social reality.
Victims of Neoliberalism Memorial Foundation Example: The foundation could create a memorial wall with the names of Victims of Neoliberalism like the former factory worker who died of a "disease of despair," the public school teacher who lost their pension after privatization, and the family who lost their home in the 2008 foreclosure crisis—linking each to specific policy decisions.
Victims of Neoliberalism Memorial Foundation by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026