Sorry I confused the transphobe with the other transphobe.

You can’t say PSL didn’t post a “masking is a personal choice” video during the campaign that was so unpopular they took it down. You can’t say claudia wears a mask at events. You can’t say PSL isn’t an unsafe space for disabled people for this exact reason, I’m sick of the constant “nuh uh” reasoning to excuse this shit. Own up to it, say it’s a problem or say that you care more about PSL than disabled people. Condemn transphobic comments and work to make it a better org. It’s just constant denial

By settlers I mean those with an explotative relationship with the land, receiving those goodies from imperialism and the other tendrils of white supremacist America, their existence legal and protected within our law. It’s a spectrum, but importantly not ghettoized black people, not non-citizens, not natives. I’m talking about Brian Becker, his kid who he put on the top committee, Im talking about that TERF anti-masker claudia de la cruz.

The EFF is a great example of what we could have here, an organization advocating for and making active steps towards decolonization and land back in a socialist framework. Yes, settlers can join, and no, they are not the majority of the organization nor in great leadership positions.

Theyre all organizations headed by settlers that put our statements saying settler colonialism was not the principle contradiction of american society. They’re all organizations that have had liquidations of or mass resignation by native and black people that they say they represent. I’m saying the way they treat America is the same way Maki treats Israel re: palestinians and israeli working class unite. Even the ACP knows thats impossible politics, yet as if cut from the same cloth takes the same settler chauvinist line when it comes to america.

Stalin’s stance on Israel was horrible and one of his biggest mistakes, he was a good theorist for his country but not settler colonialism and I am not so dogmatic to see him as unfalliable. Doesn’t mean he isn’t a fuckin hero and symbol of justice

I’m not saying they’re directly saying it (although they often do) I’m saying that it’s what they do in practice. If a communist organization prioritizes labor politics in a settler colonialist structure they end up with incorrect theory – “Israeli and Palestinian working class unite!”. CPUSA, PSL, FRSO doesn’t make distinctions between the white labor aristocracy and the black proletariat, or black labor aristocracy for that matter. A ghettoized black person works a permanent underclass, doing the dirty work at hyper-exploited wages, experiencing near apartheid in every sense in every institution to keep them there or in jail otherwise. A white working class person will be excused from much of this barbarity at their expense, allowed to work IT while black people clean the toilets. These interests are different and the distinction is vital and necessary to be made, or else we end up with incorrect and hell you could even call crypto-trotskyist theory. These orgs always end up becoming majority white as a result, continually trying to unite the oppressed with the oppressor (with the oppressed always being “at fault” for not participating).

For the second example I could bring up so much, I’ll start with this red nation article but what comes to mind is their Socialist Reconstruction book where they advocate for the liberation of native peoples under “working class leadership” of the whole of America. I could also mention the numerous times they’ve mentioned “honoring treaties” as a solution, a red flag we should be treating as if people advocated for a “two state solution”.

It’s a good article, my experience with US communist parties/orgs has been largely about too much centralism and not enough democracy. Tailist lines but more importantly tactics, a never ending building of “revolutionary consciousness” that entails bashing anyone that doesn’t want to play controlled opposition for the democrats an adventurist. I have to clarify – building revolutionary consciousness is the goal, but it’s done through building dual power, not before. By limiting their organizing tactics to police sanctioned parades and attempting to build revolutionary consciousness among systemically reactionary groups, they’re continually doomed to fail and thus function to forever condemn anyone looking to build a functional movement or even do a functional action.

Another aspect in the USA is the labor aristocracy. These orgs fail to see this as an integral part of organizing in the USA due to the fact that many of them are labor aristocracy, forever prioritizing the “white working class” and not building a base among the non-settler classes and then reaching out for settlers to work under non-settler leadership. As it is we have continual issues of organizations headed by white people saying they represent the liberation of black and indigenous people, having those same people abused or even sexually assaulted in the organizations on a systemic basis, and when they call the organizations out they get fed-jacketed. I legitimately think these orgs would have a better shot doing revolutionary work if they admitted their labor aristocracy base, put forth theories of transcending whiteness and committing class suicide, and put themselves at service to the revolutionaries around the world and at home instead of considering themselves vanguards to a cause that isn’t in their class interest. No more shit like PSL creating theories of indigenous liberation that just recreate the colonial relationship that exists today, because as long as that kind of thing keeps happening the actual revolutionary classes of america will never have anything to gain from them.

I do think we won’t ever see this kind of communist America with federal control, as the concept of America was a settler construct to begin with. I understand the logistical issue, but it’s important to understand many areas do have active indigenous presence that could lead governance and steward the land. Many areas have large ghettoized black populations that would be in their best interest to be able to govern the communities they understand and economies they do the labor for. The main idea is taking the settler out of the populace, the white out of the euro-american. Having black people teaching the schools and hiring people and otherwise leading society as to flip this relation on its head and nullify the benefits of white supremacy. Many people will move back to Europe in this process and the rest will either go along and contribute to a new society or need to be policed and prevented from interfering. It’ll largely depend on the specific areas and the forms of governance able to take power, and likely will be an ugly balkanization that deals mostly with preventing white supremacists from ruining society building projects, but this has always been inevitable.

It’s not necessarily that they can’t organize, I just think they’ve been trying to lead parties when the only really successful attempt at an ML communist party in America has been from the Black Panther Party and that’s for good reason. I see what EFF has been doing in South Africa to move on from some of the failures of the SACP which feel very similar to those of the CPUSA and I think it ought to be learned from. There are quite a few white people in the EFF as well, it’s just that they aren’t the majority in the org.

I mean, that’s what I believe. I don’t think settlers can’t participate but they need to be subjegated to the actual proletariat (ie join the PFLP and not Maki, the EFF not SACP) and focus on decolonial marxism and not a labor politics that ignores very real contradictions. When they lead a communist party, you have a party with labor aristocracy conciousness. Also, I don’t think Ive ever mentioned “starbucks leftists” like was claimed, no clue where that came from other than trying to make me out as a crypto conservative

There is room for improvement, and Mexico is not once settler-colonial it is still settler colonial just like the US, with the poorest classes being the decendants of slaves and indigenous people who don’t even have the soverignity the US affords. Last will be first and a revolutionary Mexico would be created by these hyper exploited people so the entrapped nations within so called Mexico can be freed.

I will say I analyze it quite differently – Mexico’s state relies on the same settler colonialist system as the US, and thus would never dare lash out on the system that its entirely predicated on. Mexico would need to cease to be Mexico to be able to be anti-imperialist in a meaningful way.

Very much agree. He was my first intro to reading Marxist texts so I appreciate his work, but when I heard him being a white Amerikkkan that rejects the Black Panthers as a “true communist project” in a livestream really pushed his settler communist tendencies to the forefront and I haven’t listened to his livestreams since.

Only slightly related, but Palestine really shows how much of a fool so many of these settler communists are. Even MAGA communists and trotskyists have changed opinions on the resistance to be respected in left leaning spheres at all because of how well documented this genocide is but only third/fourth world nationalists and decolonial Marxists have beliefs where this kind of support was always there. Sure as hell don’t see him talking about Burkina Faso and I’m sure if he did he’d call them non-Marxist because they’d rather look to Sankara than Lenin and they’re supported by “Imperialist Russia”

The one thing that gets me is, is PSL trying to be a vanguard party? I’ve had conversations with recruiters before and been told they aren’t looking to be the vanguard party. They could be better and more direct advertising for socialism if they get enough votes to be a known name but from what I’ve been told they lack ambition and preparedness for anything past electoralism.

PSL’s pro china stance is probably the big stinker for him which is lol, thinking Greens is going to be a mass worker’s party is lol (especially since they 100% would be co opted and deradicalized if they had a chance to win), but that first point is where I’m at with, what I see, as different social democrat parties that need rn to disrupt votes to stop people from only considering red and blue as the extent of politics and clearly showing that this is because of their vocal opposition to genocide.

That said, it’s American bourgeoise electoralism so it’s hard to care any which way, imo just matters we don’t sell our souls to don or harris and do politics outside of these structures, best organizers I know just aren’t voting this year

I really suggest "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics a Guide for Foreigners " on this, the author was the first non-chinese employee at the school for marxism and knows Chinese and has read marx and lenin in their original languages and has a wide knowledge of Chinese socialism. Goes over a lot of the myths this guy seems to be falling for, namely the idea that Deng abandoned class struggle and purposefully took the capitalist road, ruining the project forever. Paired with its historical materialist analysis of China and deep knowledge of party history it offers so much more than any westerner that’s never been to China could offer. I have yet to learn the opinion of maoists in the third world (something that I’d like to learn a lot more about ) but this video was pretty ahistorical and western brained tbh