Long term goal of any proletariat in any country is to overthrow the national and international bourgeoisie.
Medium term goal in the imperial core should be building the power of your national proletariat to a level where it can get the boot of imperialism even slightly lifted off the throats of the third world.
In the immediate term that means building a Marxist-Leninist party and leading the masses of workers in the class struggle, raising their class consciousness.
A party in the IC can win over workers not through petit bourgeois adventurism or purely “social work as revolution”. A communist party should differentiate itself from the thousands of liberal (and even avowedly capitalist) organisations by not eschewing confrontation with capitalist state power, but doing so tactically and always with the mind of fighting for and alongside the workers.
Essentially, build a party while avoiding adventurism but also economism.
The premise of your question is slightly flawed, at the moment there is no American proletariat in the sense Marx and Engels used, that is to say “a class FOR itself”. The American working class is currently in the less developed stage of being “a class in itself”. Further enhancement of the subjective forces of revolution is impossible without the development of a self-conscious revolutionary proletariat - it is the job of a dedicated and ideologically sound (and well-resourced) communist party to develop that consciousness.
Build a party. Raise consciousness. Educate, agitate, organise.
Educate, agitate, organise.
Long term goal of any proletariat in any country is to overthrow the national and international bourgeoisie.
Medium term goal in the imperial core should be building the power of your national proletariat to a level where it can get the boot of imperialism even slightly lifted off the throats of the third world.
In the immediate term that means building a Marxist-Leninist party and leading the masses of workers in the class struggle, raising their class consciousness.
A party in the IC can win over workers not through petit bourgeois adventurism or purely “social work as revolution”. A communist party should differentiate itself from the thousands of liberal (and even avowedly capitalist) organisations by not eschewing confrontation with capitalist state power, but doing so tactically and always with the mind of fighting for and alongside the workers.
Essentially, build a party while avoiding adventurism but also economism.
The premise of your question is slightly flawed, at the moment there is no American proletariat in the sense Marx and Engels used, that is to say “a class FOR itself”. The American working class is currently in the less developed stage of being “a class in itself”. Further enhancement of the subjective forces of revolution is impossible without the development of a self-conscious revolutionary proletariat - it is the job of a dedicated and ideologically sound (and well-resourced) communist party to develop that consciousness.
Build a party. Raise consciousness. Educate, agitate, organise.