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These land protectors are objectively doing more for anti-Imperialism than RAWM

They think European consumption being equalized with Africans means that they'll have to eat bugs, because this is their view of Africa...

And not shit like, chocolate being more expensive (relative to wages) and less available because African farmers aren't being superexploited by Neo-Colonialism.

Communists in the settler and Imperialist countries can't seem to grasp their contradictions. They need to step back and research the material conditions to find their actual mass base and primary contradictions.

For Brazil the settler population owns most of the property and the largest vehicle for "wealth creation" is expropriating and exploiting indigenous land and labor for international markets. This process is fueling the Brazilian middle class which has so far shown itself to be very reactionary. This is not coincidentally why Bolsonaro's camp has been destroying the Amazon and murdering activist land protectors (mostly indigenous). Communists in Brazil who don't see this will cause fractures in their parties and movements.

Relevant MintPress article: https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1692172891415269386?t=GbCYLCWXW3d-MxZWXg2rMQ&s=19

Authoritarianism isn't real. Every state aggressively defends its class base. If you don't face repression from your capitalist country, that says a lot about how the state sees you.

These socialist states aggressively defend the project of socialism in their countries because it represents the working classes.

thanks, will check it out

I'm updating to this one now, but honestly no it's not worth it. I'm on P6P and weird stuff like my call notification just not showing up and random gesture nav freezes has turned me off of participating in future betas. Missing phone calls because I can't see them has been problematic in multiple events these last few months. I'm going to reset my phone come the official update.

Kollontai is great but heads up FinBol has some credible groomer allegations directed at him

Tell them to explain their logic. They will either shut up or double down on more specific, easily debunkable logic.

For both the Syrian and Ukrainian wars you have to remember what each of the challengers to state power wanted to do, destroy anti-Imperialist forces. So I think the only way the US has another civil war is in reaction to a serious disturbance of Capitalism where a progressive force challenges the the sovereignty of the state/property order (like the German Revolution). The US police/militia forces would do what the French police threatened to do a month ago, break from the authority of the state to "restore order". I don't think this is a civil war as much as it is the property order recovering from a crisis. A civil war will only come from revolution.

I think we have to be prepared as a movement for serious disturbances to society from the environment. I don't think people realize how badly the Gulf of Mexico states collapsed during and after Katrina. Millions of people left the region, white supremacist gangs were lynching Black people. Only the military had the capability of entering the New Orleans. There are many disasters like this brewing in the US (fires and earthquakes in the west, Colorado River crisis, aquifers depletion in the prairies, tornadoes in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south and east). We need to prepare our communities for these crises, which Capitalism will actively attempt to prevent us from doing, this is where we can prove that Capitalism is holding us back.

I edited my comment at the trunk of this thread with context.

You'll never guess what he tweets the day after

For context, Winston said this in 1973 for the CPUSA. He's defending the party from when they dropped Black self-determination from the party platform in the 50s. Haywood put out this pamphlet in response right before Black nationhood was officially dropped from the party, detailing how and from where this revisionism is coming from (also in defense of Stalin). This memo got him purged from the party. Around the same time as the Winston essay, he puts out another piece about the collapse of the CPUSA from the 50s-60s.

Red Menace did an episode on the first Haywood piece, I think their criticism of the CPUSA even today is great.

The CPUSA dropped Black Self-determination from the platform to tail the Liberal assimilation movement and the conditions for Black people have never recovered. They did this in the same year that Emmett Till was lynched and his killers went unpunished. They absolutely failed to be the Vanguard.

I think everyone here should read the Haywood piece because it shows statements made by party members that just piss me off. Like this one:

The party capitulated to the Red Scare and settler nationalism using de-Stalinization by the CPSU as a cause to purge Black nationalists from the party.

Think about the implications of this event, a decade before the largest outburst of disobedience in the country's history and supposed "Vanguard" drops militant Black anti-colonialism from the platform. The civil rights act was passed under bourgeois leadership because the party capitulated to it, and then blames Black nationalism on white radicals as the brains behind it, pathetic. MLK Jr. and Malcolm X killed in the vacuum the party left behind. Black poverty skyrocketed as predicted by Haywood. Ghettoization increased as predicted by Haywood. Now we are in a situation where NATIONALLY 1/3 Black men see prison (1 of my brothers is in prison on his 3rd strike, there are 3 of us brothers). The majority of homeless people are Black as predicted by Haywood. The BPP had to rebuild a vanguard from scratch in the ashes of the failed CP and Civil Rights movement with even more contradictions than what the CP had faced. In the face of the CP embracing Americanism, AIM and the BPP had to rebuild any semblance of anti-colonialism in North America from scratch.

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