u/ROMEROoscar - originally from r/GenZhou
As a US citizen it seems more and more every day that the time is now to join a Party.

I must admit though my uninformed view of being in a party is basically “go to zoom meeting, tweet out pamphlet the graphic’s team created, go to education meeting, join the biannual street demonstration, repeat”

What has your experience been? Has the practical application of theory lead to deeper understanding?

Archive.org Links:

Jmlsky on Why Marxists Should Be in a Party: http://web.archive.org/web/20220306190039/https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/t7hwl4/what_is_being_in_a_party_like/hzhtvg5/

Jmlsky on Party Structure: http://web.archive.org/web/20220306193233/https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/t7hwl4/what_is_being_in_a_party_like/hzhx27u/

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    u/Jmlsky - originally from r/GenZhou
    Absolutely. Any real marxist, who fully understood marxism should be in a party, period.

    And if there’s no proper party, then your duty as a marxist, and I mean it, your duty is to work to create one. One step after another, but still.

    Marxism take its full depth the moment you begin to apply it. I can’t even begin to explain it because I don’t want to spend hours, but for real marxism take all its sens only when you begin to use it.

    Marxism can’t and isn’t made solely for analysing things, it is made for the working class and the progressist element of a country to organize in order to fight back the ruling class in the class struggle, in order to change the social order. Ofc, to do so, analysing phenomenon is needed, but even this analysis shouldn’t be devoid of its end-mean, which is to take action.

    As Marx said, it’s time for philosopher to begin to change the world. And this is probably my main issu with nowadays “marxist” in América who use Marxism as an identity.

    Also, party life is just so fucking awesome man, for real. I dig it, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the worlds, I love my comrades and my work in the party. It is so enriching, intellectually and humanly speaking.

    For a bit of background, I’m French, so we do have a long communist and révolutionary tradition and culture compared to the US, but I am not in PCF and I myself work for rebuilding a proper marxiste-léniniste party “from scratch”. I have rebuild my town section, and I am the secretary of my chapter, which cover two department, so over a millions person, and after 2 years+ (for me) of hardwork we are finally a real political force that people knows, and it feels great, especially because I am putting myself in my town’s communist legacy path and I am proud to pay such a tribute to those who came before me too.

    I am about to leave the party tho, because of massive disagreement with the new leadership and others problem, but even then, we will continu our work.

    If you have any question, feel free to ask me comrade. If you want I can give you the concret basis of a proper party and how it work and what it does.

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      u/ROMEROoscar - originally from r/GenZhou
      Comrade thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m going to fix my life and join a Party.

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        u/Jmlsky - originally from r/GenZhou
        You are very much welcome.

        One warning tho, if you are serious, be prepared to indeed “fix” your life. You will find yourself not doing 90% of what you were previously doing in your freetime, no more wanking around, doing party everyday or drinking and smoking all day long and shit (if this is what you were doing ofc). The party life truly is uncompatible with our current neoliberal era’s “lifestyle”, and if you ask me, it’s very good. It’s time for communist to be responsible historical actors, and it ain’t compatible with the nihilistic void and emptyness that our era propose to the youth.

        Goodluck in your endeavour comrade, may you find good minded and hardworking comrades o7

        And as I said, if you ever have question, feel free to ask me anything, PM anything you will have question or remark about, i’ll be glad to be of any help possible.

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          u/Sir-Kerwin - originally from r/GenZhou
          Could you give some examples as to what you do when engaging in party activities?

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            u/Jmlsky - originally from r/GenZhou
            Ok I give you first half January as an exemple.

            We went to a protest against a EU and NATO "event’ in my town, organized by the Movement for Peace and others orgs, so we prépared a phamplet, we wrote it ourselves, printed it, then tracted it on market and in uni.

            We posted the phamplet on our media also, and we contacted the people who organized the protest to join the list of org that took part in the joint déclaration against EU and NATO.

            Then we went to the protest and we diffused our tract to everyone there. The whole idea was to push for a better criticism of EU and NATO, not just the kinda consensual position that was promoted. We criticised capitalism, French impérialism etc etc. For the record, of all org that were there, CGT were the best.

            In total, we diffused 1k tract about this event, and we organized our participation veeery fast and in a short timespan.

            This was in the first week of January.

            Then the second week we had a popular education event, we diffused for free a movie one night, in presence of the film maker, and after thé diffusion, we organized a debate.

            Here again, same thing, in addition to organize the diffusion itself (renting a municipal room, technical aspect such as projection, sound, microphones, or welcoming thé director…, which was already hard given the Covid restrictions), we once again had to produce the phamplet, print it, organising its diffusion on market, at factory door, in uni, etc etc, and so to planificate all this. We also organized press conference, and we had the two main newspaper local correspondant that came and made two good paper for promoting our event. One of the correspondant was very interested in the topic so it was good for us.

            Another important aspect is the cost of all this, we had to organize a way to pay the movie, cost for the film maker to come, renting the room, printing flyers, etc etc. We organized a small “shop” (More like a table really) in the room so we could sell some related content to people such as book, document we printed, etc.

            This night was succesfull, we had a little bit less than 40 people, which is honestly a lot given the topic and the covid, and also given our size and the size of the town. Even théâtre didn’t gather that much people, many time. Especially we had youth and this is unvaluably good.

            Have in mind that everytime, we had many reunion before, to decide all this and planify. We wrote the tracts, send to everyone for approval or criticism, corrected things, etc. For instance, in the phamplet about UE and shit, I asked to add the massacre of Odessa’s syndicalist of 2014, which we did. And as the OrgSec, I went to print the phamplet, and I organized tracting session. It was intense ngl, we had the press conference, then 4 days of tracting, some time twice a day, and then the diffusion night, so it was almost a full week of work non-stop.

            This is mostly town section stuff btw.

            I only give you the first half only because it’s already a lot of writting, and tbh, we had many other shit done, truth is that we got in trouble with the party leadership and we’re now being sued and shit so I would rather not expand too much about our activity. Have in mind that our PropSec post everyday on our blog and manage social network, we call each other almost everyday, and have a secrétariat a week, etc etc. Also this is not our regular activity, which consist more in tracting in factory door, uni and market, and sticking posters in the street, and this in all our territory, and in addition to this kind of activity.