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
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.