They believe socialist states should prioritize creating revolutions in other countries in order to ensure those countries can be fully socialist. A popular slogan is "communism can only be global."
They hold socialist projects to very high standards, and care a lot about the class composition of government, the communization of the mop, etc.
They prioritize the potential for socialism over anti imperialism, for example a lot of them supported the Syrian revolution because workers councils took over sections of the economy.
They often maintain international communication with specifically Latin American communists. I knew a few folks whose branch was basically: a newspaper, a reading group, and a weekly fundraiser / penpal group for a mexican political prisoner.
A lot of them do this thing called a "transitional program" where they get elected to school boards and city councils and advocate reforms that are impossible under capitalism with the hope that people will attack capitalism in order to realize them. This is Sawant's strategy.
Also in my experience they have a parasitic relationship to social movements where they see them only as access to a platform and potential new members, and will prioritize those goals over the goals of the social movements.
They believe socialist states should prioritize creating revolutions in other countries in order to ensure those countries can be fully socialist. A popular slogan is "communism can only be global."
They hold socialist projects to very high standards, and care a lot about the class composition of government, the communization of the mop, etc.
They prioritize the potential for socialism over anti imperialism, for example a lot of them supported the Syrian revolution because workers councils took over sections of the economy.
They often maintain international communication with specifically Latin American communists. I knew a few folks whose branch was basically: a newspaper, a reading group, and a weekly fundraiser / penpal group for a mexican political prisoner.
A lot of them do this thing called a "transitional program" where they get elected to school boards and city councils and advocate reforms that are impossible under capitalism with the hope that people will attack capitalism in order to realize them. This is Sawant's strategy.
Also in my experience they have a parasitic relationship to social movements where they see them only as access to a platform and potential new members, and will prioritize those goals over the goals of the social movements.