I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief
I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief
In the United States? Right now, that’s how you end up on a list and secretly blackballed from gainful employment.
I just don’t know if it’s possible to “be a communist” in any effective way, according to your definition, in the US.
There is value in learning and having conversations with people. You don’t need to formally organize with and donate to some FBI honey pot to be the real deal.
why consider yourself a communist though in that situation? i feel like people should take it more seriously but it’s mostly semantics.
I think you’re being very ideological. Organizations have a bias towards growing membership. I used to be a devout Christian and EVERY church I went to had a reason why they were the correct church and how church membership was critical and you weren’t a real Christian if you weren’t a member of the right church. I see the same thing emerge with communists.
I’m not part of the vanguard. I’m not the next Fidel Castro. I’m not going to die for the cause. I have something to lose and I don’t want to be a martyr. I want to personally enjoy socialism in my lifetime. I have no ambitions of being a career communist.
What I’ll do is educate myself and others, and wait watchfully to understand the moment. In the right moment, when a non-grifter party emerges that doesn’t seem to be a 3-letter honeypot, I’ll lend my backing.
Until there is such a moment(there may never be in my lifetime in the US), I personally think the best thing a US resident we can do is oppose US imperialism and hegemony. It’s unsatisfying and makes you unpopular in both liberal and conservative spaces. Opposing the US war/finance machine from within the empire helps create room outside the empire. I don’t have to dive headlong into some revolutionary fantasy that ruins my life to make a difference.
In fact, I think gatekeeping communism, engaging in commie core aesthetics, judging people over what job they do to survive, fantasizing about violent revolution or generally engaging in talk about violence is counterproductive and turns people away and ultimately diminishes the momentum.
Ask yourself; would you rather have a tiny ideologically pure, but poor/dead/imprisoned vanguard or a large, educated, financially strong proletariat?
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i think only people on the internet would find offense in being called ‘not a communist’. if you don’t want to dedicate your life to building a communist party in your country that’s fine, but not communist. that’s not an insult. most people are apolitical and just want to live their lives.