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  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
    15·
    17 days ago

    We liquidated because they were flaunting party line and were breaking DemCent. We never even brought up Black nationalism. I am Latina and a member of the CPUSA and have seen no racism against non-whites. In addition, the people who made those allegations were themselves mainly white racists.

    In addition, the org was in multiple protests and actions, including calling for a ceasefire officially in many city councils, I’m which we had part in, and even calling forn the divestment from apartheid Israel. The org continues to have many Palestinian members as well as other Arab members. You also cite an anti-CPUSA blog who don’t use their real names, and yet have worked with people who have threatened to dox, and have doxxed, other members within the Austin club, including someone I love deeply.

    Furthermore, Nat’l is multiracial and come from humble backgrounds. Joe Sims especially, who grew up rather poor. Since there is no proof that Black and Native people are pushed out, you should not go about spreading lies.

    Learn from the other side of the story instead of just believing one side. I can get you started on CPUSA literature.

    • StalinistSteve@lemmygrad.ml
      71·
      17 days ago

      A few things

      We liquidated because they were flaunting party line and were breaking DemCent.

      Because the party line is just an appendage to the fascist democrats

      I am Latina and a member of the CPUSA and have seen no racism against non-whites.

      Identity reductionist, many non-white people have said otherwise you need to lay an actual argument about upholding revolutionary indigenous and black led praxis with affected people in power which is not happening in the CPUSA. Also latina is a settler identity, and CPUSA is a settler org, so not that you’d be in a place to see this kind of racism when latinidad is a huge perpetuator of it.

      In addition, the org was in multiple protests and actions, including calling for a ceasefire officially in many city councils, I’m which we had part in, and even calling forn the divestment from apartheid Israel.

      Yet they consistently promote the communist party of Israel which had a direct hand in carrying out the Nakba and condemn Hamas, advocate for a two state solution, so as to make every instance of toothless “anti-zionist” words and phrases meaningless. This stems from their own circumstances as settlers and bleeds into their theory of conditions in the USA (Rejecting settler colonialism as the principle contradiction)

      You also cite an anti-CPUSA blog who don’t use their real names, and yet have worked with people who have threatened to dox, and have doxxed, other members within the Austin club, including someone I love deeply.

      You should understand why they don’t use their names. And fair, they did doxx Rickdabuffalo, an indigenous communist that left the CPUSA because his life was being threatened for pointing out the anti-indigenity in Chicanismo and had his work stolen without credit. Still sees CPUSA as a harmful settler org that upholds fascism above any effective communist praxis, and the group that was kicked out as being largely white and not radical enough.

      Since there is no proof that Black and Native people are pushed out, you should not go about spreading lies.

      Mf Harry Haywood got kicked out in the fucking 50s even redditor communists know this shit happens. You don’t get anywhere denying reality and propping up white people you just consolidate white conciousness in your settler org that all natives and black ppl that disagree are just “wreckers” or whatever while propping up the few other individuals to tokenize when criticized.

      Because of the class position of settler proletarians, they side with the settler bouigeoise to maintain their class in times of degrading conditions. They have to fight their class interest to be revolutionary and to side with the vast majority oppressed peoples of the world. CPUSA is a settler org with settler conciousness, explaining its long history of acting in tendem with settler labor movements which have always been at the expense of the greater and true proletariat. Decolonial communism is the only way forward here, in south africa, in palestine, in bolivia, and anywhere else these settler condition arises.

      During the new deal, when FDR expanded whiteness to include the Irish and Scottish and promised to make America great again on the backs of the losers of WW1 and the rest of the colonized population, the CPUSA supported him because it did good by their membership. This project, this new world order, breathed life into America as it was dying as to keep it going all the way into today, with unfathomable amounts of lives sacrificed so Americans could live lives far above the standard of the rest of the world.

      This is the conciousness of the CPUSA, the project they wish to perpetuate, what they mean when they look to organize and improve the conditions the American proletariat and what they mean when they oppose the republicans exclusionary racism in favor of the democrats. Integrationist racism is just the more rational form of sustaining the empire and the conditions our settler class is predicated on.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        14·
        17 days ago

        Because the party line is just an appendage to the fascist democrats

        It is clearly not and goes against them continually.

        Identity reductionist, many non-white people have said otherwise you need to lay an actual argument about upholding revolutionary indigenous and black led praxis with affected people in power which is not happening in the CPUSA. Also latina is a settler identity, and CPUSA is a settler org, so not that you’d be in a place to see this kind of racism when latinidad is a huge perpetuator of it.

        It is not identity reductionist and you are dismissing the arguments of other BIPOC members with the CPUSA.

        Yet they consistently promote the communist party of Israel which had a direct hand in carrying out the Nakba and condemn Hamas, advocate for a two state solution, so as to make every instance of toothless “anti-zionist” words and phrases meaningless. This stems from their own circumstances as settlers and bleeds into their theory of conditions in the USA (Rejecting settler colonialism as the principle contradiction)

        We promote the Communist Party of Israel because they are largely Palestinian and Arab as well as other minorities.

        You should understand why they don’t use their names. And fair, they did doxx Rickdabuffalo, an indigenous communist that left the CPUSA because his life was being threatened for pointing out the anti-indigenity in Chicanismo and had his work stolen without credit. Still sees CPUSA as a harmful settler org that upholds fascism above any effective communist praxis, and the group that was kicked out as being largely white and not radical enough.

        It doesn’t matter; it’s not about “being radical enough,” which is unscientific, it’s about what’s materially correct. Also, we never doxxed anyone, but you all doxxed several people and threatened to dox a friend of mine. Your accusations are contradicted by multiple members within the CPUSA.

        Mf Harry Haywood got kicked out in the fucking 50s even redditor communists know this shit happens. You don’t get anywhere denying reality and propping up white people you just consolidate white conciousness in your settler org that all natives and black ppl that disagree are just “wreckers” or whatever while propping up the few other individuals to tokenize when criticized.

        Don’t trust Reddit communists or get your communist philosophical outlook from Reddit. And Mr. Haywood is only one person and does not represent all the other Communist Party USA members that stayed or left the organization.

        And we’ve taken out lots of white people for being wreckers; the Austin club was largely white and had not a single Black person.

        Because of the class position of settler proletarians, they side with the settler bouigeoise to maintain their class in times of degrading conditions. They have to fight their class interest to be revolutionary and to side with the vast majority oppressed peoples of the world. CPUSA is a settler org with settler conciousness, explaining its long history of acting in tendem with settler labor movements which have always been at the expense of the greater and true proletariat. Decolonial communism is the only way forward here, in south africa, in palestine, in bolivia, and anywhere else these settler condition arises.

        This is contradicted by the experience of places like Bolivia (which I was in while it was getting coup’d by the fascists in 2019) and South Africa.

        During the new deal, when FDR expanded whiteness to include the Irish and Scottish and promised to make America great again on the backs of the losers of WW1 and the rest of the colonized population, the CPUSA supported him because it did good by their membership. This project, this new world order, breathed life into America as it was dying as to keep it going all the way into today, with unfathomable amounts of lives sacrificed so Americans could live lives far above the standard of the rest of the world.

        FDR didn’t expand whiteness and technically the civil rights movement heightened during his tenure as President and he included many Black and non-white peoples within the government, which was a big move toward de-segregation.

        This is the conciousness of the CPUSA, the project they wish to perpetuate, what they mean when they look to organize and improve the conditions the American proletariat and what they mean when they oppose the republicans exclusionary racism in favor of the democrats. Integrationist racism is just the more rational form of sustaining the empire and the conditions our settler class is predicated on.

        At least read the CPUSA literature that I can give you and you may decide or decide otherwise that it’s right for you. Learn the other side of the story. Don’t just get your viewpoint of CPUSA from Reddit or Internet communism.

        • StalinistSteve@lemmygrad.ml
          31·
          16 days ago

          It is clearly not and goes against them continually.

          Actions speak louder than words.

          It is not identity reductionist and you are dismissing the arguments of other BIPOC members with the CPUSA.

          No, I disagree with you. I gave my reasoning, you told me you were latina like it was relevant. This is dismissing the BIPOC arguments I am linking, by refusing to engage with them.

          We promote the Communist Party of Israel because they are largely Palestinian and Arab as well as other minorities.

          You said nothing of labor zionism’s awful and literally genocidal history and tokenized the few arab zionists in the party for legitimacy, what fun.

          It doesn’t matter; it’s not about “being radical enough,” which is unscientific, it’s about what’s materially correct. Also, we never doxxed anyone, but you all doxxed several people and threatened to dox a friend of mine. Your accusations are contradicted by multiple members within the CPUSA.

          Youre right it’s not about being radical enough. I am not in the Red Calrion and acknowledge their issues. I disagree on many things with Rick. Doesnt change that he was doxxed while in the CPUSA, by a at the time CPUSA member, who later split from the CPUSA because they were perceived black nationalists. Complicated contradictions among settlers in Amerika.

          Don’t trust Reddit communists or get your communist philosophical outlook from Reddit.

          My point was that theyre a very low bar I havent been on reddit in years

          This is contradicted by the experience of places like Bolivia (which I was in while it was getting coup’d by the fascists in 2019) and South Africa

          Bolivia’s current “socialist” president (now kicked out of the party) has police attacking organized indigenous workers and peasantry in an attempt to prevent indigenous Evo Morales from coming back to power. And where is South Africa right now? Apartheid functionally still in place just less obvious, many disaffected with the larger settler population in the SACP joined and formed the EFF. This decolonial communist politic is where the radical communist movement in South Africa is right now, and is something we desperately need to build in America. Lwazi Lushaba’s lectures on youtube are something I recommend and covers some of this history.

          FDR didn’t expand whiteness and technically the civil rights movement heightened during his tenure as President and he included many Black and non-white peoples within the government, which was a big move toward de-segregation.

          He campaigned greatly for Irish Americans and integrated Catholicism into whiteness, this is where white skin tone fully took over as the indicator for whiteness and preferencial economic treatment. And fuck the idea that the civil rights gains were gracefully given by the colonizers, those were due to militant action and untenable circumstances that the ruling class saw it in their best interest to remove formal segregation. This white supremacist does not get credit for doing something in his class interest. It’s not often it’s the first book I recommend, but read Settlers.

          Learn the other side of the story.

          CPUSA has had 105 years to show any kind of usefulness or revolutionary politic and has nothing to show for it besides running tail for and funneling resources to the greatest evil the world has ever seen. I have done my research, read their platforms articles and books, I have talked to the organizers, I have seen all the excuses. It’s just a dead end.

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
            13·
            15 days ago

            “No, I disagree with you. I gave my reasoning, you told me you were latina like it was relevant. This is dismissing the BIPOC arguments I am linking, by refusing to engage with them.”

            You are being class reductionist and you should not bring up BIPOC peoples in your original argument like it’s relevant to the CPUSA, which has many BIPOC peoples.

            “You said nothing of labor zionism’s awful and literally genocidal history and tokenized the few arab zionists in the party for legitimacy, what fun.”

            I didn’t because they’re not labor Zionist. And most of the org isn’t even Jewish or Israeli, it is Palestinian, including the leadership.

            “Youre right it’s not about being radical enough. I am not in the Red Calrion and acknowledge their issues. I disagree on many things with Rick. Doesnt change that he was doxxed while in the CPUSA, by a at the time CPUSA member, who later split from the CPUSA because they were perceived black nationalists. Complicated contradictions among settlers in Amerika.”

            Except CPUSA never even brought up Black nationalism and there are many people within the org that deny this. Also, you are uncritically quoting and linking to Red Clarion.

            “Bolivia’s current “socialist” president (now kicked out of the party) has police attacking organized indigenous workers and peasantry in an attempt to prevent indigenous Evo Morales from coming back to power. And where is South Africa right now? Apartheid functionally still in place just less obvious, many disaffected with the larger settler population in the SACP joined and formed the EFF. This decolonial communist politic is where the radical communist movement in South Africa is right now, and is something we desperately need to build in America. Lwazi Lushaba’s lectures on youtube are something I recommend and covers some of this history.”

            Bolivia’s Luis Acre is Indigenous himself and so is Evo Morales. The problem is that the party MAS is split on them and it’s wrong for them to split the party over personal ambition. But the socialist project in Bolivia is sound. South Africa has done away with apartheid, but was freed during the 1990s, when there was no one to support them further.

            “He campaigned greatly for Irish Americans and integrated Catholicism into whiteness, this is where white skin tone fully took over as the indicator for whiteness and preferencial economic treatment. And fuck the idea that the civil rights gains were gracefully given by the colonizers, those were due to militant action and untenable circumstances that the ruling class saw it in their best interest to remove formal segregation. This white supremacist does not get credit for doing something in his class interest. It’s not often it’s the first book I recommend, but read Settlers.”

            I already read Settlers. Do you want me to give you book recommendations too? Regardless, the civil rights gains were not given gracefully, but were won by the working-class with blood and sweat and death. Also, JFK integrated Irish Americans and Catholicism into whiteness.

            “CPUSA has had 105 years to show any kind of usefulness or revolutionary politic and has nothing to show for it besides running tail for and funneling resources to the greatest evil the world has ever seen. I have done my research, read their platforms articles and books, I have talked to the organizers, I have seen all the excuses. It’s just a dead end.”

            We won many reforms and victories, including being a big part of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, which lead up to the sanctions against South Africa. We were behind NAARPR and NAIMSAL. In addition, many unions are here today because of us.