Yeah the first part isn’t something i would hold against them today. It was a long time ago, i’d say let bygones be bygones, and there are more important things to focus on…

…more important things like that second part. That is a serious red flag to be honest and far outweighs any “revisionist” positions they may or may not hold on some historical country, leader or event. How are you going to call yourself communist if you constantly go to bat for a bourgeois imperialist party? “But the Republicans…” is not an argument. If communists adopt an electoral strategy it should be “vote communist”, not “vote for the blue fascists so we don’t get the red ones”.

See this is what i mean. This isn’t just name calling it’s a justified criticism and they absolutely should be called out on this boneheaded policy. And even so i would like to think that we can still find some common ground, especially with the rank and file members to work together, and maybe try to convince them that their tailist strategy is very misguided and not at all productive.