• CommunistBear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    God damn. I feel like we need to collectively join the CPUSA and take the party back. There's only 10,000 people still in the party. It would symbolically be extremely important as the struggle to purge the feds and liberalism would mirror the struggle we'll have with the rest of the country. I genuinely feel shame as a communist that the communist party of my country is so thoroughly defeated. I understand there are many parties now but there is something romantic about "The Communist Party" that I just can't get over.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Here's a question. Do you think the leadership in charge are willing to hand over the keys if you tell them to? That they're willing to give away the millions of dollars the party is worth in property, stock dividends, rental fees, membership dues, etc. To whoever ousts them?

      There's been three generations of class-collaborationists in charge of the old party now, and I highly doubt they'll quit their cushy well-paying jobs of giving lectures and writing articles over the importance of voting blue no matter who and rejoin the proletariat by getting an actual fucking job. I know there's hundreds if not thousands of Communists that would be ecstatic too see that happen and move to join/rejoin the old party, but we're not holding our breath

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          There's sections in their party constitution that allows them to kick out troublemakers legally. So you're more likely to get ousted before you could oust the revisionists. At that point you might as well say you're gonna infiltrate the DNC on the grounds of turning it into a workers party. You'll have the same fun outcome lol

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Of course they won't. That's part of my point though. It's a microcosm of the overall problems that we'll face in the country as a whole. If we can't get the class-collaborationists out of the literal god damn communist party then what hope is there for a larger movement? What hope is there that we'll be able to resist the growing fascist threat if we can't even purge a bunch of bougie old fucks? I don't want to get all :jordan-eboy-peterson: but at some point we need to get our own house in order.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          we can’t get the class-collaborationists out of the literal god damn communist party

          My point too is that the national leadership hold legal control of all assets and information of the Party, if they won't surrender them willingly then there's literally nothing that can be done beyond staying in and doing what little can be done, quitting and reforming a new party or joining an existing organization fighting for the role of vanguard, or staying and going against democratic centralism and becoming a wrecker against the revisionists.