Comradeship // Freechat

I disagree, and I think there is a lot of assumptions about what the CPUSA does.

We are not allowed to endorse Democrats and even had a brief schism about the whole thing which resulted in the ouster of Sam Webb back in 2014 (which, I mean, good riddance).

We have tried to run our own candidates in recent years, particularly at the local level. Plans are drawn up to run other candidates and, of course, Joe Sims is pushing people to do so. But it's honestly hard, especially with the fact that, true enough, we didn't run candidates for a long time and many are too old or too young, from what I can tell.

Outside from that? We participate a lot in labor unions (such as the particularly famous Amazon union in New York) and it's arguably our main strength and we do indeed do mutual aid.

I mean, more to the piont: there's a lot that the CPUSA does that doesn't involve anything having to do with elections. We're a political party (which means we are obliged to run candidates or at least have an opinion on the matter, even encouraging members to vote) but, of course, we're an activist organization as well, like much of the communist parties on SolidNet (admittedly, that's sort-of a watered down version of the Comintern of old, but it's good for sharing ideas, international connections, etc.).

I do believe that @[email protected] has the right of it, even if he may say things I may not say about the organization myself.