CPUSA has a long but simple history. The principal contradiction within the party has been and continues to be revisionism. For now, let's leave the history behind and look at what is transpiring here today. The national convention was recently held and besides the fact that an Israeli labor zionist spoke to the convention and condemned Hamas and the Palestinian resistance, the main take away was the debate on how the party will move forward in regard to the 2024 election. The question of pursuing reform of the capitalist system is the driving contradiction that must be solved before we can move forward toward revolution. As it stands, CPUSA leadership is a counterrevolutionary force. They are advocating for the communist party to support a genocidal capitalist president. They claim the party has the opportunity to unite a people's front to counter Donald Trump and the GOP.
If you are a dialectical materialist, you must examine the forces at work which move us and change us. How does supporting a genocidal president change the CPUSA? We know the arguments against revisionism, and I do not have the energy to lay it out here. I'm sure at some point in this blog, I will because it is extremely important that communists understand the dangers of collaboration with our enemy (Bourgeoisie). For now, this is what I am thinking about. Joe Simms and Rossana Cabron are pushing an agenda that leads to a massive waste of time and energy, deceives the membership of the party and amounts to traitorism to the working class and the masses.
Let's take these one at a time. Why is a waste of time? Time is not infinite. In fact, we live in perhaps the most urgent time in human history because we are dealing with global crises which will affect every human, animal and plant on Earth. Capitalism and its ruling class are pursuing a zero-sum game. We either acquiesce to their demands that we dedicate our lives to enriching them or we organize against and overthrow them. To continue to participate in the grand delusion of Bourgeois democracy not only steals away our chance to organize revolutionary action and theory, it also actively harms our relationship with the people. Our relationship with the people is not something we will have time to correct. The longer we waste time lying to the people about our influence on the capitalist dictatorship, the longer it will take to convince them otherwise.
Secondly, CPUSA leadership is deceiving the membership of the party, hence the masses, by claiming electoralism will help build a base we can organize from. This is ridiculous. Once you fail and fail to achieve a damn thing from electoralism and believe me you cannot achieve one thing from this pursuit except the leaderships safety as they direct our energy back into the capitalist system rather than against it, the membership and the people will feel cheated and lied to. This is because they have been. You cannot build a foundation on the lies of revisionism. It is quite the opposite reaction you are accomplishing. You will push the people away. Millions of people in the country already are disillusioned from presidential elections and they already know there is no democracy found there. Democracy is found in organizing ourselves and beginning the long and arduous task of self-governance.
Finally, for today, as I'm not feeling all that well today and I want to relax, how does this all amount to traitorism? Who does electoralism benefit? Who controls the economy and its political superstructure? If you are reading this, I suspect you already know. What is the main argument for voting for one candidate over another? Lesser evilism. The argument relies on the claim that the people of the US are better off under one individual or Bourgeois party than the other. The key for the argument to make any sense is how our international comrades must be ignored. There is not a single ounce of internationalism in the argument for US lesser evilism. So, the argument is not simply that US citizens are better off under democrats. The hidden premise is US citizens are better off under capitalism/liberalism. This not only forsakes the world's people but reinforces the lies of our political system.
To be clear, I am a member of CPUSA. However, my main pursuit is not party careerism. It is liberation from capitalist dictatorship. We must sweep away the forces working against us.
I will call it there for today. Thank you for reading.
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