Most western European coms are leftcoms nowadays it seems. Older generations remember a soviet union and the communist resistance, the new ones are idealist and wish for bloodless revolution.
There’s still MLs in the Netherlands, they are in the CJB (Communist Youth Movement) though.
ROOD doesn’t believe in a bloodless revolution, by the way. It was one of the things they got attacked for in the media (in favour of things such as arming the masses).
CJB has the benefit of being part of the NCPN, meaning they’re actually organised. But they’ve got like , wat, 300 members? Pretty sure ROOD’s got 1900 or so.
ROOD doesn’t believe in a bloodless revolution, by the way.
I know Kemerink was chastised for his comments about gun ownership. All of these party’s actual leadership are communists (if often leftcoms). The Dutch left is in general, however, utopian.
the new ones are idealist and wish for bloodless revolution.
Can you really blame someone for wanting to live in peace? People’s consciousness doesn’t magically appear; nobody is born as a ML. Consciousness develops trough changing material conditions, and the active presence of a broadly organised marxist party is crucial for guiding that process.
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