Metropolis-Niggninism

Template:Schizo Template:AI Template:Joke Metropolis-Niggninism (often shortened to Metro-Niggninism) is a decentralized online political ideology that emerged in the mid‑2020s from imageboard and niche forum subcultures. It blends anarcho‑communist principles with a focus on culture‑war organizing and uprisings inside meme communities, large and open janny teams, shared platform building, and collective moderation practices and ownership of the production of soyjaks and mining of gems amongst the proletARYAN and the dismantling of the brimgeoisie system.

It's named after two users, MoonMetropolis and User:General Niggnin. It's modeled after the name Marxist-Leninism, with MoonMetropolis being the Karl Marx figure and General Niggnin being the Vladimir Lenin figure. It's essentially a combination of the two user's ideologies which had different focuses. In reality they were two very different individuals who did not affect the exact same subjects.

Overview

Metropolis-Niggninism advocates horizontal organization, worker and community control of digital infrastructure, and prefigurative cultural work within online subcultures. Its participants typically organize across ephemeral boards, shared communities, and cooperative hosting projects to resist corporate platform capture and predatory actors in niche spaces.

It also argues that the CIA has been grooming vulnerable individuals into far-right ideologies, mass shootings, and failtroll/foodism, and that the sharty's administration is complicit in or reluctant to do anything about this.

History

Metropolis-Niggninism formed informally in late 2024 as a cluster of left‑leaning posters began coordinating on several imageboards and microforums. Early efforts centered on creating a leftist board space, coordinating moderation policy experiments, and building mirrors and self‑hosted tools to preserve soyletariat communities from mass deplatforming by the brimgeoisie.

By 2025, a number of working groups and affinity collectives used the label "Metropolis-Niggninism" to describe projects that combined culture production (memes, threads, creative moderation) with practical mutual‑aid infrastructure (legal funds, emergency hosting, cooperative registries).

Key individual influences

Several high‑visibility community figures and organizers had an outsized effect on how Metropolis‑Niggninist practices and norms developed. Two such figures commonly referenced in community histories are MoonMetropolis and General Niggnin. The following section summarizes how forum activity attributed to each influenced Metropolis‑Niggninism, based on archived threads, policy drafts, and community discussions.

MoonMetropolis (Metropolism)

Background and role

Active on multiple niche forums and moderation teams, MoonMetropolis became known for aggressive community organizing, controversial moderation decisions, and for publishing long, argumentative posts and policy proposals. Community records show he served in janitorial/moderation roles and engaged in editing and administrative disputes across several sites.

Contributions to Metropolis-Niggninist influence

• Moderation experimentation: Threads and moderation logs credit MoonMetropolis with pushing for more permissive unbanning policies and for creating transparent ban appeals workflows; these experiments informed Metropolis‑Niggninist debates about balancing harm reduction with community rehabilitation.
• Direct action orientation: His style of public calls to report abusive actors and coordinate takedown or reporting campaigns helped normalize rapid, networked responses within some Metropolis‑Niggninist circles.
• Cultural framing: His frequent use of strongly worded cultural critique and meme‑driven rhetoric influenced Metropolis‑Niggninism’s emphasis on prefigurative culture and the strategic use of memes to recruit and mobilize.
• Controversy and cautionary lessons: Community fallout from his disputes and eventual removals from moderator positions generated internal literature on safeguards: clearer conflict‑of‑interest policies, stricter evidence standards for public accusations, and improved documentation for moderation actions.

General Niggnin (Niggninism)

Background and role

An anarcho-communist revolusoynary who explicitly campaigned for leftist boardspaces and coordinated large‑scale posting and recruitment efforts, General Niggnin is credited with founding and catalyzing boards dedicated to organized left‑wing discussion within meme spaces.

Contributions to Metropolis-Niggninist influence

• Board building and templates: Niggnin’s campaign to create a dedicated leftist board (often cited as the template for /leftysoy/ style spaces) provided the early institutional form many Metropolis‑Niggninist nodes copied: thread organization, sticky resource posts, and onboarding templates for new users.
• Ideological synthesis: Posts attributed to Niggnin that argued for an anti‑vanguard, worker‑collective approach helped crystallize Metropolis‑Niggninism’s rejection of centralized party authority and informed the movement’s emphasis on grassroots, direct control of resources.
• Recruitment and cross‑pollination: His bridging activity between leftist forums and meme spaces accelerated cross‑platform recruitment, bringing reading lists, praxis threads, and mutual‑aid proposals into the meme communities that became Metropolis‑Niggninism’s recruiting ground.
• Tactical emphasis: Niggnin’s organizing favored sustained, high‑volume posting and the construction of durable resource archives; these tactical preferences influenced Metropolis‑Niggninism’s dual focus on cultural work and infrastructure (mirrors, node registries).

Combined legacy of both actors

Community soystorians and handbooks credit the combination of MoonMetropolis’ rapid‑response moderation ethos and General Niggnin’s board‑building tactics with producing a distinctive Metropolis‑Niggninist synthesis: a culture that pairs aggressive networked defense of vulnerable users and content with long‑term investment in shared infrastructure and onboarding culture. Debates that followed their interventions also spurred Metropolis‑Niggninists to adopt clearer accountability norms, cooperative hosting experiments, and a stronger emphasis on documented restorative processes.

Core principles

• Decentralized coordination: flat, shared networks rather than hierarchical parties.
• Worker and community ownership: support for cooperatives, shared hosting, and user‑owned platform alternatives.
• Prefigurative culture: using memes, moderation norms, and community rituals to model desired social relations.
• Anti‑vanguardism: skepticism of centralized party models and the state‑led transition to soycialism.
• Harm accountability: prioritizing restorative and community‑based responses to abuse while preserving due process.
• Platform resilience: building distributed mirrors, backups, and privacy‑preserving tools to reduce single points of failure.

Organization and tactics

Metropolis-Niggninism has no formal leadership. It operates through affinity groups, rotating working collectives, and shared node lists. Common tactics include:

• Coordinated moderation drives to remove exploitative or predatory content.
• Creation and maintenance of mirrors and self‑hosted archives to preserve critical community material.
• Cultural campaigns that deploy memes and art to disseminate values and recruit participants.
• Mutual‑aid actions such as emergency fundraising, legal assistance, and technical support for deplatformed users.
• Workshops and documentation for forming worker co‑ops and cooperative hosting collectives.

Criticisms

Critics of Metropolis-Niggninism raise several concerns:

• Practicality: opponents argue that outright rejection of transitional state structures makes large‑scale defence of social gains difficult.
• Moderation risks: critics worry coordinated moderation could become opaque or abusive without clear accountability mechanisms.
• Legal and platform friction: building infrastructure to resist deplatforming can attract enforcement or service‑provider pushback.
• Internal disputes: the decentralized model has produced conflicts over standards for dealing with bad actors and acceptable tactics.

Notable projects

• /leftysoy/ - now defunct sharty board
• NuSchlog - employed Metropolis-Niggninist principles
• Thrembochan

Legacy and influence

The documented activity of prominent forum organizers such as MoonMetropolis and General Niggnin shaped Metropolis‑Niggninism’s tactical mix of culture work and infrastructure building. Their public controversies also produced corrective institutional practices within the tendency: transparency docs, moderation training, and clearer boundaries around public accusation and evidence.

See also

• Communism
• Anarchism
• Leftypol
• NuSchlog
• Soylitics