Anders Maybeck is a political philosopher, writer, musician, and politician that currently resides in Rochester, NY. He originally ran two write-in campaigns as a perennial candidate for Sheriff of Ontario County in 2014 and for Rochester City Council East district in 2023. He also ran a campaign for House of Representatives NY-25 in the 2024 Democratic primary election against incumbent Joe Morelle, but dropped out of the race in late February. He is the author of three books - Cannabis Communism: The Politics of Consciousness, Cannabis Communism: The Revolution of Everyday Life, and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (which is being re-released as Fear and Loathing in Rochester, NY).
He has also recorded and produced six albums and three EPs as a singer/songwriter and guitarist. His most recent releases are The Jam-Punk International Tape Vol. 2 and Zapatista under the new band name The Sons of Babylon.
Philosophically, he has endorsed and advanced a worldview known as "transcendental historicism" (defined as "not a rarefied version of comparative politics, but a typology of ideological regimes"), identifying his political philosophy as libertarian socialism/Marxism with the characteristics of "libertarian Leninism", "libertarian possibilism", and the materialist and orthodox Marxist notions of economic determinism and dialectical materialism, falling short of class reductionism and understanding the need for an intersectional interpretation of the sociopolitical forces at work in the existing system of capitalist domination.
In terms of religion, Maybeck is a follower of both Rastafari movement and Mahayana Buddhism, considering himself the reincarnation of the Maitreya Buddha and the second coming of Jesus Christ, with the titles Bodhisattva of Monroe Ave., Jam-Punk, and Transcendental Historicism, or known as the Buddha of Transcendental Historicism, and also being given the title by Rochester locals of 'the Haile Selassie of the Rochester Commune'. He presides over the Pure Land of the Inner Court of Tushita, which he also calls the Pure Land of the Buddhist Groundation, a reference to Rastafari movement. He is the founder of the Transcendental Historicist School of Mahayana Buddhism - The 5th Mansion of Rastafari.