Ho Chi Minh wrote that “revolutionary morality consists, in whatever circumstances, in resolutely struggling against all enemies, maintaining one's vigilance, standing ready to fight, and refusing to submit, to bow one's head.
It is odd to see so many CPUSA members so irate at this critique. This should invigorate them, the national congress is approaching and the opportunity to fix the problems or show to the cadres these problems are immaterial.
Solid critique IMO. I have several very respectable CPUSA moots who are sincere MLs, doing the hard work on the ground. At the same time, I went to one local chapter meeting a cpl yrs ago and was horrified. It was a small group of longtime party members uncritically stumping for Jim Crow Joe. Never went back. People's World is unreadable.
I think it would have been helpful to include how US govt Redscare action gutted CPUSA and every serious socialist org decades ago. I'll speculate that the feds scared the current old guard leadership and so they dumped Leninism, and retreated to liberal reformism to avoid state harassment or worse. But no revisionist can ever find their way back. I hope their newer generations of members can help bring back Leninism and party discipline.
It is odd to see so many CPUSA members so irate at this critique. This should invigorate them, the national congress is approaching and the opportunity to fix the problems or show to the cadres these problems are immaterial.
Solid critique IMO. I have several very respectable CPUSA moots who are sincere MLs, doing the hard work on the ground. At the same time, I went to one local chapter meeting a cpl yrs ago and was horrified. It was a small group of longtime party members uncritically stumping for Jim Crow Joe. Never went back. People's World is unreadable.
I think it would have been helpful to include how US govt Redscare action gutted CPUSA and every serious socialist org decades ago. I'll speculate that the feds scared the current old guard leadership and so they dumped Leninism, and retreated to liberal reformism to avoid state harassment or worse. But no revisionist can ever find their way back. I hope their newer generations of members can help bring back Leninism and party discipline.