I didn’t think I needed to explain that getting hit by a car is more injurious than getting hit by a bike, but sure

But also cars, at least where I live are not ignoring all traffic laws while I’m trying to cross the street so a bike hitting me is much more likely

I don’t like being the anarchist in this analogy

Ideally pedestrians and cyclists put aside their grievances and team up to kill their common enemy, the motorist

Honestly I have to go with OP if I’m taking a side, as an NYC apartment dweller myself. Like yeah, you have to make compromises and get along with your neighbors etc, but this guy has just permanently annexed the hallway. It’s a fire hazard and an all around dick move. Part of living with limited space is looking the other way when people fudge the rules, sure, but the other part is not taking more than your share of the common space. At the very least this guy has inconvenienced everyone else on his floor (assuming it’s an elevator building) or everyone living above him (if it’s a walk up)

Maybe it’s my bias as a pedestrian, but cyclists can be nearly as entitled and dangerous as a motorist to people on foot. The number of times I’ve almost gotten run over by cyclists blowing through red lights is uncountable. And if my neighbor was like actually it’s my inalienable right to block the hallways with my bikes, I would not like that one bit

It is oft said that “fascism is imperialism turned inwards,” no? Again, it is a material difference of the conditions in which we mobilize the masses and build a revolution.

It is a failure of solidarity to ally, even tactically, with a genocidal regime, simply on the assumption that domestic conditions will be better for organizing. Moreover, yes, the Democratic Party has shown time and again that they are willing and eager to use the full, repressive force of state terror on the left. The numerous links between the military, the police, the intelligence apparatus and the genocidal regime in Israel are exactly the fascism coming home from the frontier and it is happening under the merely class collaborationist Democrats

Finally, we do not see the Democratic Party as a fascist organization. We define fascism using the comintern’s definition as presented by Georgi Dmitrov: “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital”.

I fail to see the distinction, particularly, when the Democratic Party is in full support of the genocide in Gaza.

This philosophy of “Social Fascism,” where modern social democracy and fascism are equated

Are we equating the Democratic Party with social democracy now?

Thank you for an actual response. Your party has a god-awful reputation and stuff like this looks disgustingly unprincipled on its face

I ask again however, as I did elsewhere in this thread, who exactly is in this “People’s Front” against fascism aside from CPUSA itself? The Democratic Party, itself a fascist organization, surely cannot be included

Well your commitment to democratic centralism is commendable at least

They are not.

Okay I’m convinced

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Communists will give full united support and participation in the broad front to defeat Trump, Trumpism, and the MAGA Republicans.

The party is here committing itself to electoralism on behalf of the Democrats with the thinnest figleaf of a self-declared “broad front” (who else is a member of this front exactly, btw?). Let’s see here, who exactly is at the top of the ticket, and would be elected upon the defeat of Trump, and Trumpism. It’s noted war criminal, Genocide Joe Biden! Guess you didn’t endorse him, just fully committed yourselves to electing him.

There is no Bidenism.

WHEREAS the corporate/financial extreme right and the extreme-right coalition have a strategy to disrupt, demoralize, and splinter the growing unity in the anti-fascist and people’s movement. Principled unity in action is an asset Communists bring to the table. Communists and our friends have a strategic role in building and maintaining unity within the anti-extreme-right coalition.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that to defend the working class, people’s movement, and democracy, the Communist Party issues this urgent call to action to build a broad People’s Needs, Not MAGA Greed Campaign, an all-people’s front to win victory. We must go all out to support the all-people’s front for a maximum voter turnout on the critical issues affecting our lives.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Communist Party is committed to year-round organizing and mobilizing on the issues facing the working class, to build a broad-based grassroots movement on its behalf, and will encourage our members to work in their local communities with labor and other forces in targeted voter registration, education, and mobilization efforts, in support of the issues to help elect Communist and progressive candidates, support voting rights for immigrants, and support progressive ballot initiatives. We call on our members to work on neighborhood-based canvassing and to get out the vote with labor and allies for the strongest pro-worker and progressive candidates at every level.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a victory over rightwing candidates will be a decisive defeat for the corporate rightwing and fascist forces. This will help change the balance of forces and clear the way to change the direction of our nation–to slash the military budget, end the sending of weapons to Israel, tax the rich, win quality healthcare for all, strengthen the right to vote, strengthen union organizing rights, restore Roe v. Wade, and end police murder of people of color.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Communists will give full united support and participation in the broad front to defeat Trump, Trumpism, and the MAGA Republicans.

Y’all are to the right of DSA on this election lmao

In what way is CPUSA better than useless?

Didn’t the leadership just dissolve an active chapter for, in part, dissenting at the convention over Bidenism?

https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-07-16-austin-moving-on/