How are we to begin a concerted ideological attack against liberalism and capitalism? Without control of any mass media and at the whims of corpos deleting our posts, we have no sure way to reach the masses. We of course always have direct access to the masses through direct conversation and meetings. However, at this time, there are not enough committed communists to influence the masses throughout the country. Could we focus on one area of the country? Have as many communists move to one territory and attempt to wedge our way into local politics? This is an option, but will require sacrifice from comrades right from the start. It will also take comrades away from their communities and families, leaving those areas with no resistance. It seems to me that remaining in our local territories is the better strategy long term. This means we must reproduce communists locally until we have enough of us to establish communes all round the country. The fascist capitalist class is currently developing and building "cop cities" where they will train in urban warfare. This not only reveals what they expect but also how they plan to escalate against the people. The fascists always escalate first. But now we need to be the aggressors. The commune can be a direct response to the police state. An armed collective sprouting up from the latent rebellion always present in our oppression.
The commune can be a short term goal. The direction our ideological war must work toward. It's an expansion of the student camp. It's an expansion of the anarchist occupy movement. This time however, we will not leave the momentum to naturally grow like weeds through pavement. The communist vanguard will cultivate the seeds of revolution and ensure they receive water and sunlight. The commune is the people and the party is the vanguard. The vanguard will coordinate and direct the communes. This will make the communes the mass base which holds the sword against the bourgeoisie, while the Party as the sharp sword tip holds strong at the neck of the Empire.
How can we reproduce communists? This must happen ideologically and materially. The first stage is to establish reading groups or intellectual circles. Comrades must study first and foremost. Without the direction of science, we will fall into mythology. We will begin to believe that as communists, all our actions are correct, based on nothing but our identity of communist. But not all praxis is correct praxis. When we fail to reproduce the movement, we fail the future of humanity. All actions we take must be reproducible by the entire movement. This is the essence of science - reproducible results. All comrades must be raised to a certain level of knowledge and must be able to reproduce other comrades. This requires many comrades working together as we will all specialize in different field and we all must train each other in all fields. In the early going of revolution, we do not have the luxury of having high level of division of labor. As there is a small number of us, we all must attempt to be trained to a high level in all praxis and theory that will progress the movement. But we will all show affinity to certain aspects of revolution and we individually should work to be masters of those things. Either way, we all must be prepared to be the "next person up". All of this begins with studying the science written thus far, understanding the historical conditions which led us to our current conditions and in conversation and ideological struggle with comrades. The aim must be to raise all comrades to the highest level of readiness.
The second stage is the beginning of the revolution. We must begin to escalate a culture war against liberalism. There is a bulwark against socialism built into the ideology of capitalism and we must begin to break down this wall. The first issue to overcome in reproducing more communists is this very ideological bulwark. Deciding on specific aspects of liberalism to attack. A concerted effort against one aspect will be more effective than random ideologically disconnected attacks.
Both of these stages will be happening simultaneously. To grow the movement, we must begin breaking down liberalism. To break down liberalism, we must grow the movement. The better we do on one stage, the better we could do on the other stage.
I will write more about communes at another time, but I'll say now that we are dealing with an American population that is backwards and defaults to a settler imperialist ideology. Despite american society being corporately advanced, the people are backwards. We have to begin as if Americans have no political knowledge. This more so means they do not understand the ideology they reproduce as politics, but rather they believe it is human nature which produces capitalism and capitalism meditates human nature to produce civilization. Without mass media, communists do not have a way to educate the people. But the establishment of communes, experiments in different social organizations, can show the people a different way and demonstrate the antagonistic contradiction between the proletariat and bourgeoisie on our terms.
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