Workerpoet said > > Why start from scratch when there are already communist and socialist > parties in existence? None may be perfect but nether will anything new. > Better to join and work to make better the Communist Party (CPUSA) or the > Socialist Party. Factionalism and sectarianism have always held us back. > Time we unite and settle our differences after the revolution. Beyond > Marxist parties there is a movement for a broad left "People's Party."
There is much to unpack in this brief paragraph,first let me say that the CPUSA has become so ossified ,and has lost so much credibility in recent decades because of repeated endorsements of the Democratic Party, as to become irrrelevant, a joke, and a shadow of what it was before WWII. Anybody who doubts this need only to examine the history of the CPUSA in the last seventy years. While those behind the Movement For A People's Party have their hearts in the right place, I have yet to hear any of the advocates for this address any of the root causes of the mess the US in in. That being capitalism, and the class structure, and imperialism capitalism creates. While there may be some in the Movement For A People's Party who believe this, those I have not heard do not directly address capitalism/imperialism as the culprit. Even Dr. Cornell West, in my opinion, dances around this subject. The People's Party advocates I have heard, use the same wishy-washy rhetoric of avoidance we heard from Bernie in 2016, and continue to hear from the likes of AOC and "The Squad". I disagree with the assesment Marx and Marxism has become irrelevant. In a multopolar world, with new forms of opression in the de-industriaized west (Amazon ,fast food, Wal-Mart, gig workers, etc.), we need Marx and Marxism more than ever. I agree that a big problem, as far as I see it, at least in the US, is the fact the Marxist left is too divided among the sectarian lines. I wish we could somehow get the PSL, Socialist Alternative, Worker's World, and openly Marxist elements of the DSA, to join together in either a new party, or at least a coalition, I think we could accomplish a lot more. Another problem I see is too many self-identified Marxists, socialists, leftists, etc are too busy posting on the internet, blogs, social media, etc. This is often the case with younger people. We need to convince more people to get off their computers and phones, and get out in the streets, and organize. As someone in their sixties,who is seriously disabled, I say no matter your age or limitations, you can join a movement, or get out in the streets and do something, if you are really motivated. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6854): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6854 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80900386/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
