Even if a communist can colloquially describe themselves as being on the left, there’s a distinction between communism and “the left.” This is implied right in the title of Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder. Whereas the left, a big tent term for a myriad of incompatible ideologies, aims merely to act as an opposition towards the present order for the sake of it, communists have a coherent vision for how to defeat the system: by advancing history’s development to the next stage. The left, because of its lack of commitment to that central Marxist goal, naturally takes on an opportunistic role. Because when you want only to build a movement as an end in itself, rather than use this movement as a means for defeating the system, you become nothing more than an actor who benefits from discontent without helping solve the problems behind that discontent.
I don’t blame you. I think all prols should be free to practice what they please for culture, and religion too so long as it does not pose a threat to the DotP (referencing Christianity mostly here). America has never been a culture of the settlers, that is something they would advocate but this is not the truth of the matter. Many peoples have come to call this land home, it is indeed a ‘melting pot’. We should not aim to seperate these cultures nor pretend they do not exist as the settlers have, we should embrace multiculturalism however from a proletarian standpoint not cynically as the bourgeoisie have