Your flippant remarks are the ones I find worthy of response. The rest is just the typical excuse hunt to not join any org because they’re bad, unlike my imaginary org which is good.

I would actually like an exposé on all the failings of these USA parties, would probably even agree with many criticisms. But that’s neither an excuse to do nothing nor related to my point that abstaining from liberal-leaning anti-estabilshment protests like this is a wasted opportunity for the sake of purity.

Only an Australian, Euro, or something of that variety would bother with this.

You managed to get every wrong continent. I’m impressed. Why is it you assume I’m from a white-majority country by default?

Coming up with an effective theory of action is a prerequisite for anything.

And using protests and wider non-communist upheavals as agitation is not an effective theory of action? There’s an economy of effort, sure, but you’re not presenting any alternatives here.

Clearly somebody hasn’t read their Lenin.

One of the most basic tenants of ML theory is the organisation of a vanguard party that will symbiotically support and lead spontaneous working class struggles through agitation, propaganda and building worker organisations until the dominant class can no longer exercise power. What part of that are you even close to advocating?

You must be some other variety of Anglo.

Erm, wrong again? It’s not even that hard to guess my nationality lol

Anyways, give me something real to care about. What are Marxists in the USA actually supposed to be doing instead of trying to use these protests for agitation?

Most trots I know do your exact pipeline of not preparing properly for contact with the masses, being shocked at how reactionary people can be, not doing self-criticism on preparation and methods of agitation, and deciding that the revolution is doomed because the masses are ignorant (unlike them, the smart Marxists). It’s idealism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch06.htm

I would understand if an org decided that participating in this or that protest was not worth the effort for some material condition. You, however, are just abstaining from organising and encouraging others to do the same.

You really thought you did something.

My sibling in Christ, I’m not nor have I ever been physically anywhere near the United States. Join an org or continue your lone crusade for Marxist purity, just don’t drag me into your hellscape.

Western Marxists: we need to organise the working class

Western Marxists when an opportunity to organise appears: damn, that working class too lib for me

Sometimes USA MLs sound too much like Trotskyists, seeking only to chronicle the revolution or lack thereof from afar, and to feel smug about it when proven right. It’s a country-wide protest with millions of people, you don’t get many opportunities like that to squander.

The vanguard party can try and steer these spontaneous movements (which are deeply linked with the ICE protests) towards revolution, or it can sit idly by and watch it get co-opted. Thankfully FRSO and PSL are not boycotting this one.

That applies to Zelensky too. Also to most states supported by NATO, or the portrayal of those antagonized by NATO. It’s almost as if it’s a worthless definition.

Do It and share it with us!

I think one part that is often overlooked about the French Revolution is its roots and impacts in colonialism. The rising bourgeoisie of the time was gaining a lot of political power specifically due to their massive profits through slave trade, privateering and plantations.

The bourgeois character of the French Revolution goes directly against the romanticised narrative of the Republic, and the fact that slavery was allowed to continue signalled the new order of the world.

The Jacobins abolished slavery, and Napoleon brought it back.

This is more or less the standard playbook for controlling Latin American and African countries, like Ecuador and Ethiopia or even Mexico. Haiti suffers more of this mostly due to its unique situation as both a Caribbean and “African” nation, providing easier justification for intervention (racism) while being right next to Florida.

Some preconceptions borne from this structure might be applied to unaligned Venezuela and Bolivia. Narcotraficking is just another instance of the international division of labour in imperialism.

I’m finding these editorials to contain a good amount of modern applied ML theory in English, which is usually very lacking, so I took the time to transcribe it here for ease of access.

I mean, Marx came from Germany so…

But I think it has to do with how both Germany and Italy were heavily industrialized while also not having as many colonies like Spain, Britain or France.

But Germany actually got a socialist government in the east after the war, so their western counterparts by necessity had to be social democrats. The Communist Party of Italy on the other hand went on existing for most of the 20th century, supported by the Comintern.

In all of Western Europe the last century, I think Italy and maybe (Northern) Ireland had the most consistent revolutionary potential until Eurocommunism doomed the peninsula.

I agree with most points but I don’t think allowing a West Ukrainian rump state to still join the EU and NATO is a palatable settlement for Russia. If this state was left to its own devices it’d just be waiting for a second war.

I think the best-case scenario for Russia would be to negotiate a joint appointed government for the western half for a few years before allowing elections. That’d take a total victory to be able to demand, so a more likely middle ground is a permanent ceasefire that would provide justification to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO with the “can’t join while at war” article.

I think it’d take a major colapse European Union core states for Russia to ever be able to demilitarise that border safely.

The real damage is in channelling what could be a millions-strong grassroots movement directly into the graveyard of the Democratic Party. All that energy, all that hope, are funnelled into meaningless action like phone banking and canvassing for a party that is structurally, irrevocably dedicated to preserving capitalism. Instead of building real, independent power through unions, strikes, and community networks, people got a cult of personality around one candidate.

Reforms under capitalism are always conditional and designed to demobilize the masses. Imagine if all that energy had been directed toward unionizing every Amazon warehouse, organizing mass rent strikes, and building community mutual aid networks that create real dual power. Look at movements like MAS in Bolivia to see what’s possible.

I think this point is key in learning how to tell a socialist from a “socialist”. If one’s political activism is dedicated to building popular power structures that transcend themselves and held by sectors of the working class, that’s a socialist.

But if one models their political activism around getting themselves into office and builds only structures to position themselves as “the socialist alternative” that just needs to “get elected”, that’s not a socialist. That’s a charitable liberal carrierist.

I take daily notes in general as a mental health exercise, so whenever I am reading an interesting text I add some notes about it.

Since I’m actively organizing, I also try to draw some conclusions (or even disagreements) from the text related to things I’m currently involved.I should also make some hypotheses to test later, but that part takes more work.

I also follow a brutally materialist perspective on my texts: my time is limited, so if a piece of theory has no application to my material reality, it’s not worth the time. That helps me filter out actual theory from just reading for curiosity’s sake.

They might test the waters “disappearing” a lesser known activist first. The flotilla fleets are going to keep coming, and executing some activists “by accident” will probably be a tactic used for intimidation.

Seems similar to how Trump is disengaging from Ukraine, unilaterally announcing negotiations with Hamas without consulting with “israel”.

I doubt “israel” will hold up their end of the negotiations, as can already be seen by the reporting of increased bombing since the announcement.

Can’t say I’m surprised or even disappointed. It’s a social-democrat running through the D party proposing some reforms. It’s the bare minimum, and even if he was some sort of secret communist he would be expelled from the blue party very quickly if he had a good take there.

On the other hand I still think he’s worth supporting critically over his proposed reforms, while criticizing harshly on his failures. NorthWesterners expect too much from electoralism and individuals and forget about parties.

The current Haitian government is a provisory council appointed by the OAS, armed with Washington-paid Kenyan police, and some of the “gangs” are demanding new elections since the president was assassinated in 2019, and also calling for a more sovereign Haiti.

It’s a mess, but also seems inline the renewal in focus on the Caribbean. Control the Sea around Venezuela, isolate Colombia and Mexico’s East while retaking the Panama Canal and Ecuador.

All I know is that she’s the deputy director of the information and publicity branch of the WPK. That’s a pretty influential post in any ML organisation.

But at lot of this “ruthless sister dictator” thing came from Americans staring vacantly at pictures and guessing. She is thinner and less smiley than her brother, so American Hollywood trope brain immediately went “she’s cold, calculating and evil”.

We probably have a resident DPRK expert in here somewhere, but if not it might be a nice hobby to develop. Consider starting at the WPK newspaper: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/

PCBR is the result of the PCB-RR movement. It’s been over an year now.

And I have heard of PCO. I’ve just never seen PCO in any rally, strike, protest with broad participation. It has an electoral register, it’s hard not to notice, but I’ve met more Marxists somehow still in PT than PCO militants in my whole life. That’s a bad sign for the “most correct party”.