I agree that an ideological struggle between two ostensibly anti-war ‘movements’ is more of a distraction than a benefit, as the principle contradiction is empire and we should be able and willing to unify around that common cause.

I take umbrage with some comrades’ pleas to attend gatherings that I believe are rotten from top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top. There likely exist more than a couple of well-intentioned individuals or even groups that will tag along and organize with the fascistic “anti-imperialists” and they should not be forgotten or discounted as potential allies.

I feel that for some reason principled MLs seem to understand that CPUSA constantly tailing and coordinating action with the Democrats is a failing effort and one that ultimately leads to not entryist success but the subsumation of the capital-C Communist movement into a political farce that does nothing outside of the paramaters of what their more powerful masters want them to do, so nothing outside of the confines of bourgeois legality. It turns a revolutionary party into a lame duck reformist party and more communists will be lost to democrats than vice-versa. So why do some call for us to actively participate in a “movement” that is so obviously astroturfed by the fucking Libertarian Party? While not as powerful as the democrats or the republicans, the Libertarians represent first and foremost bourgeois interests, including the military industrial complex. They will turn on temporary revolutionary allies immediately, and they will not be as kind as the democrats (who already literally kill us).

I don’t know. Maybe I’m off-base. But genuine anti-imperialism is already attracting huge swathes of people, of proletarians. It’s a work-in-progress, but it is working to a noticeable extent. Perhaps not fast enough, but that’s another issue.