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How does the U.S. fail in every way to have some sort of strong communist party. Each large one has so many issues and some are just too small or are clones of larger orgs. We've reached the point where a consistently red star controlled DSA is the best bet for a communist org, and while that's not a bad thing, DSA as a whole is still filled with libs.
100-ish years of the feds doing their best to prevent such a party from existing.
They're pretty damn good at their jobs 😓
Its easy when you have near infinite money and resources.
That's something every communist movement in every country ever has had to deal with.
Not every communist movement is in the country that is the imperial core hegemon.
exactly.. and they control all the levers here so it must be vastly easier to keep under wraps here
I would say both the
and the FRSO are doing decent but yea in size the DSA marxist caucuses do seem to have the most reach and influence
I feel like PSL and FRSO could have some potential, but they seem to have the same political line (not a bad thing) and (in my opinion) PSL leans way too hard into electoral politics (unlike FRSO). It's expensive to campaign and run a candidate, and I feel like there are better ways to spend that money. I also worry that they could eventually turn into trots or socdems in order to pick up voters, though I would prefer if they could grow without that happening. Maybe one day some sort of coalition could form between a Marxist DSA, PSL, and FRSO (possibly even a merger) but the odds of that happening are so slim with the leftist tendency for orgs to split themselves into oblivion.
I'm not opposed to a bit of electoralism but I think electoralism on the national level is a doomed project for the left, local and state level politics are what we need to focus on
Definetly, local elections can matter and do make a difference for communities. They're also easier to win, especially in smaller communities. Locally, it's possible for a party can gain popular support through other organizing efforts rather than just campaigning and asking people to vote for socialism.
Also, anecdotally, PSL members seem to spend a lot of irl time discussing their electoralist projects. I think electoralism is a valid vehicle but don't think it's strategic to dedicate that much attention to it.
In contrast to my perception of CPUSA, DSA hasn't devolved into false demcent (i.e. "bureaucratic centralism"). While DSA has big problems (and needs more centralism), it does actually have sufficient internal democracy necessary to engage in two line struggle, because of that it has the potential (however small) to build consensus among the US left cross-tendency.