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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 29, 2025
Charlie Kirk has been presented as something of a conservative star “out of the grass roots”—a kind of “self-made young man.” A posting published in Forbes shows the reverse. Kirk has been sponsored by a section of the ruling class since the beginning.
Kirk founded Turning Point USA, his political organization for spreading right-wing, Christian nationalist ideas, in 2012. He attended the Republican National Convention that year, and impressed Foster Friess, a fund manager and conservative politician, who gave him $10,000. That’s how Kirk got his start.
Since then, Turning Point has raised close to half a billion dollars. It raised 80 million dollars just in 2023. Much of it comes from multi-million-dollar donations from billionaires, as well as big contributions from donor funds, which allow the wealthy donors to hide their identities.
Turning Point’s funders include a founder of Home Depot, Jimmy John Liautaud; the founder of a sandwich restaurant; the founder of Waste Management; the Chair of Univision; an ex-chair of Marvel; and Richard Uihlein. Some may remember Uihlein as the billionaire Wisconsin packaging capitalist (Uline) who funded Darren Bailey’s failed far-right, Trump-aligned campaign for Illinois governor in 2022.
Why so much money? What do these wealthy people get for their money?
Turning Point offers ideas directed largely at young white men, who may be frustrated with this society. It consciously directs that anger against black people, against women, against LGBT and trans people, against immigrants. This is nothing new of course—these kinds of reactionary politics go back centuries in this country.
Turning Point’s “point” is to turn anger in this society against different sections of the population—especially the working population. And to direct that anger away from the capitalist class, whose exploitation has driven society into the dead-end that we all face.