I figured with all the talk about the People’s Republic being abound, it would be a great time to pull this handy infograph out to help illustrate how a communist party functions in a socialist state.
Also FYI this is also - plus or minus details here and there - how the CPSU operated as well.
This is a great interactive guide for both newcomers unfamiliar with how communist parties in socialist states are organized and for educated Marxists who can use the opportunity to both brush up on old info in a shiny new form and help educate anyone with questions.
That said, for anyone new to hexbear’s Marxism page, please don’t be either annoying, pedantic, or a combination of the two. Productive and educational discussions good. Nitpicking sophistry bad.
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Very good infographic tbh
Communism is when you have a committee over a committee over a committee over a committee over a co…
Very nice for being able to organize people at the local level to actually do shit rather than sit around with a thumb up your ass
The higher up you go it becomes meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting af-
Honestly it’s the best and worst part of being in a communist party is how structurally dry its run. Note-takers records of every meeting, when publicized, reveal how banal and tedious the work to build a functioning society really is makes me appreciate the red workaholics that make up the movement across the world.
i know, i listened to a translated version of a mid-level CPC meeting and it made my butthole pucker from how boring it was
the low level work looks very rewarding and fast reacting though, saw a similar meeting in a medium sized but poor town, had like 50 people in it, the council leader made mention that one of the sewer mains broke near some guys house, affecting maybe 2-3 families, and they immediately called a guy and all walked out of the building to make sure it was done immediately and showed up at their houses and oversaw the beginning of construction lmao. basically a communist party flash mob to fix infrastructure
It’s a beautiful democracy I’d love to see, all the more beautiful in the fact it’s real and achievable.
The tales left behind by the Soviets and the contemporary stories of the Chinese peoples are stories that aught to be more widely spread. From - I wish I archived this - the tale I read here years back about how a local Soviet pressured a foreman to tell his workaholic Miner to take his entitled days off and vacation instead of letting him work non-stop because the dude didn’t feel like taking days off, to the tales of Chinese cadre being sent to the rural parts of China to help modernize and rebuild rural villages regardless of the cost.
the implementation portion blew my mind. i have been doing that sort of work for over a decade, most of it in historically underserved communities and some even in those obama federal “promise zones”. i have gotten so jaded and burnt out over these years. people just need some really basic shit. like roads repaired. and safe/affordable housing. healthcare. or like non-exploitive organizations to help them aggregate and access market channels for their agricultural products.
but they don’t get any of that here. maybe a few thousand is allocated so someone can buy something from a national vendor. or a shitty company gets big federal money to build out their infrastructure and cement themselves as a monopoly on some critical resource. maybe some dogooder gets an insecure, but liveable salary to run around and not be able to accomplish anything because the grants they can chase to actually do material things are tiny while the big money grants are for only doing studies and other institutional navel gazing.
any money for organizational development is always shaky and subject to the whims of political economy. and in my experience, no empowering organization that may actually change things and threaten the stranglehold of powerful middle men is ever allowed. everything is quarter-assed and the big money never goes where it needs to go. the money flows in and then right back out, with very little to show for it at the end. and all anybody cares about is how much more money can get passed through, so the stories about what was done are churched up with juked indirect stats to avoid talking about how poverty, disease, and unemployment are the same as when we started or worse. so everybody with the necessary give-a-fuck-itis to do this work burns the hell out after enough years of seeing nothing get fixed but tons of money being made by the people who made the mess in the first place.
and then i read this thing and it’s like, “oh we just did the thing where we build housing for people and give it to them to use / rent for tourists, connect them with non-exploitative markets, and radically improve infrastructure.” and like it said something like half a million for that whole deal. they did all that with that. we would use 20x that and build like one showcase thing that doesn’t do whatever the people asked for and then walk away to let it rot.
Wild when we see what’s possible when there’s a government that’s run of/by/for the working people, isn’t it.
Also thank you for sharing this. If you or anyone else has more info like this, please do share it.
Cool infographic, just wish it didn’t have issues loading on my phone.
Nice try, tankie, I opened up this link but my phone was smart enough to crash before I could read your COMMIE propaganda. thank you, Google Pixel, for taking a stand against this evil C²P infiltration
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this isn’t really SWCC, but how a communist party in a socialist state is organized. This is how the Soviets did it, and I’m going to guess how other AES states organize as well with minor changes depending on their own peculiarities.
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