Of course all political parties are disgusting in liberal democracies but there are some that just are insane.
In Mexico it has to be PAN, they’re your usual latin american conservative party. Elitists, very catholic, racists, malinchistas ( they hate mexico and its culture ). Right now they’re going insane because a former secretary of national security was declared guilty off collaborating with drug cartels in a US jury ( they idolize the US so this is funny af )
It’s so sad because apart from their shitty views on gender, CPGB-ML has so much potential
I’ve heard claims that they’re the largest ML party, which is definitely true insofar as the CPB isn’t really ML or even Marxist—whether they’re larger than the CPB I don’t quite know.
Their stance on socialist states as well as their publications about key socialist figures often hit the nail on the head. But holy fuck their incessant obsession with wanting to deny trans people’s existence is unconscionable.
I had heard that there were trans people in the organisation who were seeking to change things, which prompted me to apply to join back in 2019 or so. Well, in the extremely long time during which they never got back to me, I noticed they had doubled down and published several transphobic articles. Since then I’ve had nothing but spite for them.
Do you think it’s gone the same way as did the Black Panthers? Infiltrated to undermine it?
I’m reasonably convinced every Western communist party is infiltrated to a certain extent. It would explain the CPB/YCL’s lack of ‘vetting’, so to speak. One of their members I encountered didn’t even realise that the party called itself Marxist-Leninist!
I wouldn’t be surprised.
J Sakai’s short book on security talks to this. It’s well worth reading. He challenges the idea that security involves secrecy and tech issues. These are relevent. But the thing is to insist on free and open, critical discussion and to watch out for bad politics (sounds like you’ve found some, although I’d suspect that an actual agent will be briefed on the party’s core ideology). There’s a copy on archive.org.