I don’t know if it’s just me or that I spend too much time reading YouTube comment sections or occasionally the enemy’s subreddit that is has given me a distorted perception of the masses or if it’s actually true that the broad masses are as reactionary and fascistic as they seem online and in media. It gives a kind of paranoia, a correct paranoia, that the Soviets felt in the 30s. I guess what I’m asking or looking for is whether my view of the American masses is distorted because of what I see online or if my view is correct. I prefer to be wrong on this.
Right, I come from a largely liberal state and you’re alot less likely to see Nazis walking around my city for sure. But despite that the internet you’re more than likely to be exposed to those fascists. It is bound to give a distorted view of the broad American masses but it is in fact those broad masses that are reactionary.
The black panther party is a party I as an American uphold to a very high degree. The Maoists among them had the right idea and they had the right idea of converting the Lumpen into proper Proletarian vanguards. The urban Lumpen seems to me the most revolutionary of the masses here; the ruining of their party by the reactionary government and the opportunism of the NAACP weakened the party. The BPP was in the early stages of building dual power. I fear that while BLM showed alot of promise early on -they pushed forward a radical line- they no longer have proper leadership since it’s been coopted. There is no centralized structure to BLM so there’s no way to join it and teach or influence. Being a Marxist Leninist I believe in joining as broad an organization as possible to fill their ranks up with really radical lines.
But I’m just rambling, I think I need to spend less time reading reactionaries online and just try and focus on the real world struggle.