We can be idealists on this site if we want, but if we’re being realistic with ourselves, the socialism that’s possible in the current American context is going to be socialism with burgerland characteristics
I understand and agree with you
But I don’t just pay attention to what a group says, I care about material impact
Organizing labor against the American bourgeois weakens the hold of the American bourgeois, which in turn is good for the nations oppressed by the empire
They also organize irl and do physical work in communities across chapters
“The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.” -Mao Tse Tung “Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership” (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 118.
Patriotism is a tool Communists can use to bring the backwards masses forward. One doesn’t even need to feel the patriotism themselves to see the gains in class consciousness amongst the conservative members of the working class.
You don’t have to like the ACP, but it’s undialectical to ignore what they actually do
Good analysis on this article, I read it this morning thinking basically the exact same conclusions.
Walmart as a demented example of central planning is always a funny counter to capitalists claiming it doesn’t work
Private prison labor is the last piece of the profit puzzle
Rightfully so imo, the US has committed genocide and slavery on a massive scale and is actively aiding a genocide as we speak