In regards to your edit, I think our best strategy is a professional party that hastens national suicide so the hegemonic empire will collapse. Only once this happens will the American masses be susceptible to radicalization. Before this there is too much material benefit from empire and any reformist movement will always turn social-chauvinist and imperialist.
this is it. The empire has to be taken down so that the rest of the world can breath.
Well it’s dialectical. The colonized world will need to have their own revolutions to throw off American hegemony, which will hasten American collapse. American communists need to fight imperialism (the primary contradiction) to assist those nations struggling for freedom. The two will feed off each other, and we will need to be linked to their movements materially and through solidarity.
A synthetic reformist chauvinist American left will not do. They will kill the communists at a moment of crisis and implement fascism before they let the empire collapse.
The materialist in me realizes the implications of a massive labor aristocracy subsidized by imperial loot.
As Marx put it about the labor aristocracy of England in the 19th century: The proletariat here are a more bourgeois proletariat without revolutionary potential. Only a few very bad years will fix this.
