I was all into electoralism up until the 1-2 punch of Corbyn and Bernie getting screwed (and just straight up losing) within the span of 2 months. From there I thought electoralism still had it’s place but was thinking more about how we’ll never get to “vote” for socialism, and started leaning towards being an ML. And then recently, I’m just really down on the hope for any sort of internal change within the imperial core. I think change is going to have to be forced upon the global north by the global south. And even though Iive in the US, I just feel more and more disconnected from this place. I find I’m way more interested in what’s going on in places like Cuba, China, Good Korea, Peru, Bolivia, India, etc. I find myself not even really caring about US politics except for when it comes to issues of foreign policy.
And in my observation, it feels like a lot of comrades here seem to be following this trajectory.
Of course as I move along this path, I still don’t seem to have a really good feel on what I’m supposed to do, you know?
Actually, ML + Third Worldism for me. Zak Cope’s books on labor globalization and labor aristocracy in addition to John Smith’s imperialism in the 21st century and Nkrumah’s Imperialism books all made me increasingly believe in the Third Worldist analysis
Mass Line 👍
Third Worldist, eh it’s probably a little easier to build revolutionary potential the further you are from the core but it isn’t enough by itself. It also shouldn’t be an excuse in the core to do nothing too.
Mao’s takes in On Practice, On Contradiction, on opposing book worship, dogmatism, eclecticism, and liberal behavior within the party 👍
This combined with what Lenin built on the shoulders of Marx and Engels, whatever label you want to put on that, yeah. Breht O’Shea (rev left radio) has come around to this sort of position and I’m here for it.
No I’m an adult so I don’t really play these sort of silly games, in the real world there is only ‘communist’ and ‘other’
Theres people living third world lives in the imperial core right now, the chicanos, lots of black people, american Indians, excons and the incarcerated, undocumented workers, etc. etc.
I’m not totally blackpilled on the revolutionary potential of the American working class but who I count as that is probably different from marx’s conception or a lot of leftists - I count it as the above rather than the more traditional workers working along side one another in close proximity in factories and working class residential districts. But I get the vibe that our comrades internationally are doing better than us, just makes me want to make them proud of us though. If we can get one western country to become socialist that’s game over for capitalism and they know it.
