VaqueroRed

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t disagree with you. In my mass org, it’s understood that immigration is in essence, a national struggle since in Aztlàn it’s Chicanos and Mexicanos who make up the majority of the deportations going on.

But I also need to stress that while the class struggle and the national struggle profoundly influence each other they are still distinct processes. It’s technically incorrect to say that the national struggle is the class struggle.

The goals of national liberation and the class struggle are non-antagonistic but distinct. The goal of the national liberation is to ultimately upend national oppression. The goal of the class struggle is to gradually abolish private property and the class system.

Since nationalism is considered progressive in oppressed nations, proletarian nationalism is partaken with the ultimate goal of superseding all nationalism, all borders and all states. Proletarian nationalism is a nationalism which is interested in rendering obsolete itself.

In true dialectical fashion, the national struggle and the class struggle are both the same and also not.

Edit: I also want to stress that actually, many issues we deal with in our everyday life is a particular manifestation of class struggle. The struggle against climate change is a pretty good example since in terms of technical know how and resources, we know how to decarbonize but it’s capitals supremacy above all else with it’s avaricious greed for profit which stalls such collective action.

Edit2: Homelessness is another particular manifestation of class struggle. Firstly in that it maintains a reserve army of labor and secondly in that the logic of commodity form compels construction companies to build too much luxury housing to take advantage of larger profit margins. This comes at the expense of shortage of cheap and affordable housing for the working class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wish the Communist Party of Kenya the fortitude to do what needs to be done to realize real relief for the people.

Organizing in the streets is very stressful. The hyper-vigilance never really goes away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I’m a Communist but my family very much supports my activities because I focus on protecting immigrants.

They don’t care too much about Communism, but undocumented immigrants in particular have been thrown away like trash by every major political party in the USA, so they have to accept the help of Communists.

In my opinion, I don’t think most people will arrive to Communism directly through class struggle, but rather through a particular manifestation of it. The trick we as Communists have in our mass work is to connect the universal with the particular to help them connect the dots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I recall reading somewhere that the Communist party can be viewed as one big complaint bureau. It seems like the GDR took this to heart pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A multi-polar world would allow more unfettered development of the economies of the global south. Over time, this would allow more and more of the population to become proletarianized which should enable more opportunities for the Communist parties of these countries to organize.

A multi-polar world would also disrupt the flow of super-profits from imperial periphery to core which would necessitate a deterioration of the standard of living of the working class in order to maintain the rate of profitability. This would hopefully shake the American working class out of complacently and give more opportunities for mass work by Communists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Looks like it’s time to go on strike!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

The folks in Florida should follow the example set by Los Angeles, CA and Alvarado, TX and banish these fascists back to the snake den they came from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m not scared. The folks in Alvarado, TX know how to deal with fascists!

VIVA LA RESISTENCIA

VIVA LOS HIJOS DE AZTLÁN

VIVA EL SOL PROLETARIO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The true guarantor of rights are the masses, not a useless piece of paper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This will continue to happen unless workers unionize to save themselves and their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This will keep on happening until the people finally say enough and organize.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This would probably radicalize DSA people.

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