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PCUSA2016 ? That a splinter account or something? Created in August 2022, why don't they have older accounts for an org that's been around a while?
Smh just group-quit and form into a new psl branch with a pcusa refugee program or whatever. You're communists, organise.
Of course they would re-emerge on a dunk thread about red-browns. Good riddance, may they permanently take their leftist-flavored neoconservatism elsewhere.
yeah no.... PSL has had a large number of sexual assault scandals and it overall reflects that they are a broken and largely irredeamble organization
no interest in hearing out other people on the simplest of issues
that's like half the website
I really have no idea what to think of the communist parties in Russia. They seem all over the place. They have impressive numbers and clout, but what good is that if they're also incoherent?
Everything I hear about the main party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), makes them sound like they're controlled opposition. They're equally as socially reactionary as United Russia. This party that interviewed the Haz idiot, the RKRP-KPSS, they seem slightly better strangely but I only know about them organizing strikes and anti-war protests. They don't have any elected officials I think. Then there's the Communists of Russia party (KPKR) and the only thing I know about them is they had a platform in 2016 that called for implementing the death penalty for criminals who commit large enough financial fraud and that actually sounds pretty cool.
Is the situation just kind of hopeless for leftists in Russia right now?
It's pretty bad. The RCWP (remnants of the Hardline Soviet faction that tried to coup Gorby) that platformed Haz is pretty robust in numbers but banned from elections. Also their coalition "Rot Front" disbanded awhile back from internal splits and political oppression. I think talking to Haz was just a faux pas where they didn't understand the nuance. They have pretty good LGBT poltics, by Russian standards, anyway.
The two parliamentary parties are considered to be captive opposition, especially the smaller one which is only tolerated as a way of ensuring that the CPRF never gets in power.
The CPRF has a bunch of shit positions and is arguably not Marxist anymore, but is restricted in what it can say or do anyway. I suspect they're biding time, and that if Putin seriously started to lose power they'd make a move.
Jesus RCWP-CPSU I just want one Russian Communist Party that doesn't suck and you were the front runner.
There is no more obvious psyop than a group of national socialists
Yeah...but we've all been in a party that's a bit shit on policy from time to time. If you're fighting the chuddery and tailism internally I think its ok, though certainly you should be open to a bit of critique and the occasional dunk.
Heck, a lot of us from the old days had to join Trots because they were the only game in town.
And not normal Trots. Neo-Cliffites and Spartacist League offshoots and others with double digit split numbers from the 4th International who have takes like "the Saudi Arabian monarchy is the true road to communism or something."
This is the guy they made sure to send so we'd look bad on an international stage. Imagine if he broke his consciously-thought out furrowed brow manlet expression for one second. He's so pathetic he looks like a 9 year old trying to look "tough" and you can see the anxiety in his eyes. If you have to "look tough" like this you are already nothing and know it deep down. Just get over your ego and be something
so we’d look bad on an international stage
they don't exactly need help with that tbf
For all this talk about how "you have to have strong leadership", look how much American communist parties have gone wrong with exactly that.
what, you don't think the Big Strong Leader Brower didn't lead to a better CPUSA? /s
I'm saying, how many times are we going to have our leadership comped by the CIA until we learn to organize without concentrating power in a few hands?
This is not even sectarian, anarchists are also bad at letting informal hierarchies and de facto leaders slide. "Leadership" is a bourgeois concept and I will die on that hill, because if we can't quit organizing ourselves as mirror images of the capitalist powers, we won't succeed.
The idea of "leader" is like the idea of "generalized intelligence"- it's not a real thing, and only kept in consideration by huge amounts of propaganda.
