• marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    This is ahistorical and dogmatic. Lenin is not a sage whose words and calls for action can be transplanted into America 2021 and you do exactly what he says to do; he wasn't perfect, and in some places he was wrong. I mean State and Revolution is just shitting on Kautsky and discussion of the failures of the Paris Commune, nothing specifically speaks about America; but there are principles that can be ascertained, such as arming of the proletariat, finding programs of improvement, the ultimate end goal of communism.

    Communist compromising and collaborating with liberals gives powers to the Liberals. It dispersers revolutionary potential from the working-class demands, and diverts action into electoralism. Into a system that is rigid and unyielding to said demands. It allows the survival of opportunists.

    In America, your actions are, or ought to be, local and revolutionary. Agitate, throw bigger and bigger regions into disarray from unionization efforts and strikes. Cultivate the power of the masses into an actual working-class party.