An awakening is happening in the imperial center. Half a century of progressively severe attacks against the working class; the construction of a war machine that preys on working class young people for recruitment; an intelligence apparatus that works to undermine racial, environmental, antiwar, and labor organizing efforts; a government that’s been willing to place us under the threat of nuclear war and
  • Makan ☭ CPUSA
    53·
    1 year ago

    What split are you referring to?

    PCUSA literally has PatSocs in their organization.

    • cfgaussianOP
      82·
      1 year ago

      Again, i don’t feel like this sort of thing is productive. I’m sure that PCUSA has its issues and people with problematic views. By the same token there are probably people on their side who will say that CPUSA has too many radlibs in their organization. The name calling by both sides can go on all day and what good does that do? That just stops any real work from getting done and in the end those who benefit are the feds whose wrecking work is being done for them.

      We need to stop being so dogmatic if we want to have a chance to actually succeed in building a mass movement. That does not mean compromising our principles but it does mean knowing how to pick our battles. Which are the primary contradictions and which are secondary for the time being?

        • cfgaussianOP
          6·
          1 year ago

          Correct. These are just two examples. I personally don’t have much faith in the ability of any current communist party in the imperial core to be the vanguard of the revolution, but at least they’re doing stuff. Doing something is still better than doing nothing. And since my expectations of them are not particularly high i am also not too bothered by their various flaws. So long as they keep organizing, agitating, and educating instead of wasting their energy and time on fighting with other leftist groups.

          That is what annoys me the most about Maoists and Trotskyists, it’s not that they are ideologically wrong (which they are) it’s that they act like wreckers and often seem to be more hostile to other communists than to the bourgeoisie and the reactionaries.