The left is far to divided and needs a central leader. The advantage the liberals and conservatives have are that their parties are not fractured. The two party system also prevents any way to win democratically so the only way to do this would be a revolution. But to have a revolution you must have the people on your side and Americans tend to look at a central leader like a president as the representation of a movement. How should we unite all of the different leftists under one leader so that there can be a united opposition. We also need to get more people to understand that currently America is not a true democracy and that the only way to fix this is with violence. Currently we need far more comrades like Luigi to remove the bourgeoisie with violence. If there are people with nothing left to lose some brave comrade should give them a weapon so they can do something.
For those of us living in the USA discussing theory won’t change anything. Only action will. United we will win, fractured we will fall.
I relate to your frustration. I felt the same, just months ago.
It stems from lack of knowledge in the face of overwhelming threat. If you stare at a tiger and dont know how to get away or make it leave you alone, thats a strong motivator for panic.
So let me try and set this straight as far as I can:
There is no need for violence, moreover, comrade lenin warned against “adventurism” as it has detrimental effects. Then, having a strong leader is looked at very different all over the world and within communities. Asking for someone to fix your shit is learned helplessness. We communists need to teach people how to fix their own shit, not fix it for them.
Reading and educating are the way to bring about the revolution. For it to happen you need to first exhaust - publicly - all other methods. You need to show the people without reproach that their government and their election system is funamentally broken. Lenin and Stalin wrote that.
Taking out billionaires or CEOs does jack shit for you. There are thousands of them and people dont just shoot them. This happened in germany too about 50 years ago with the RAF. It doesnt help.
I know it seems like if we dont do this and that right now everything will be lost but that is not the case, nor will it help to do this and that right now. You’re panicking, which is okay, but neither is it needed or helpful. Shit is hitting the fan at a great rate and it needs to get even worse. Cpaitalism brings about its own demise. It always does. And with china on the rise, its bound to speed up even more.
What the books say, and what I personally am trying, is to help locally (i run mutual aid stuff) and educate people wherever you can (at work, at the union, etc). What they also suggest and what I’m thinking about is an actual newspaper but I’m still working on that. The most important part imo is to educate yourself to keep from adventurism and keep revolutionary optimism. Otherwise we just lose people to either burnout or adventurism which also doesnt help.
If you havent, please read. I suggest state and revolution by lenin as a first. It is short and pretty good, then the communist manifesto because also short, and then the basics and questions of marxism leninism by stalin. That sums it up pretty nicely and its also a pretty good read. After that, you should have a guide how to topple a government and install a dictatorship of the proletariat. Of course very roughly outlined.
TL;DR: Toppling governments is a difficult process and there is a way to do this. It has been laid out by many great people. Please read.
I totally agree with you. What you pointed is should be put on the walls to warn new arrived comrades.
I also wish you best for efforts comrade; I’d like to help you with building a newspaper. Count me on If I can help you comrade
But you have to realise the soil we are operating on is extremely dangerous the reaction knows how to handle communists ever since Hitler, Franco and Mussolini came to power how can you tell a comrade to organise when the next meeting he goes to could land him in a concentration camp things weren’t this bad previously so its clear that new strategies and methods are needef
I dont have to do anything.
Nobody ever knew how to handle “communists”. They handle all dissent the same.
That is why I STRONGLY advise to organize. Because they will come for you either way and they will kill you, either way.
“Going to a meeting” for example isnt the only form of organizing. If you start reading, you understand that, otherwise you dont.
Adventurism (which is my original point) is the least effective form and the one that gets you killed the fastest. It is pure bougois defeatism to state otherwise. Please read lenin and/or stalin. Both are clear on this.
So depending on your material conditions, you have to make a persec decision what to do and what not. But there is absolutely no argument against organizing. Organizing can mean a lot of things. None of them need to mention the word fascists or communists, nobody needs to fly a red banner. Organizing means you give out soup for example. Helping your community to survive is organizing. There even is a meme on here somewhere that says “resistance needs everyone” and then you see multiple things depicting multiple jobs like medics, cooks, propagandists, etc. That is what is meant by organising.
If you live in a place where working in a soup kitchen can get you killed for being a dirty commie, you need to flee ASAP and not complain to some rando on the internet.
I was trying to raise a point that we need to change our methods If you’re gonna be insulting about it you may as well give yourself to ICE
Feel free to point out insults. I’m ready to learn. What I’m not ready to is getting told what to do and what to think without a hint of evidence. Thats just reactionary nonsense then.
Best answer here. This is 100% correct.