Americans fundamentally don't understand community in the same way as people in early AES and the former USSR understood community when organizing their revolutions. This is why I made my big post in /c/effort yesterday. Westerners are up against alienation, cybernetics, and a military industrial complex that allows states to kill without exhausting manpower.

Since the ComIntern in Western Europe and the US failed in the wake of WWII, communists in the global north have been spinning their wheels, running into the same problems, succdemery, and factionalism that kept the revolutionary spirit from growing even back when the government chokehold on information was weaker and workers movements were in every town across the country in one form or another.

They failed because they couldn't look far enough beyond liberal individualism, to empathize with the suffering of people unlike themselves who would be the fuel of the movement. Instead they appealed to middle class whites and social democrat politicians AND WE STILL DO.

In order to fix the mistakes of the past, and follow the direction of Mao, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Che/Castro, and even Subcommandante Galeano, we must empathize with the suffering of the lowest and most pitifully abused rungs of society. They hold the seed of revolutionary spirit and they will spread it to everyone else if given the opportunity. But first they have to see that it's a community for everyone and not just a book club for intellectuals to talk about deciding their lives for them. Liberals already do that enough.