I’ve been reading theory, grinding my ML points, lenin-shining and now I want to Get Organized and Serve the People. landlord-sus

I know this is largely a regional choice, but among the major Marxist-Leninist orgs, which are doing the best work, in your opinion? Not asking anyone to dox what org they are in!

I’ve seen FRSO and PSL , but wanted to know people’s general opinions on them, or other orgs I should check out. I have a firm belief that proper theory and practice leads to better results, so it’s important that theory and practice are both good. Additionally, the international struggle must be paramount, since this is amerikkka

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  • OpenDown@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Haven’t met a communist group in America that wasn’t infantile or controlled resistance unfortunately. I’d get in touch with local native/afrikan liberation orgs or non-liberal palestine orgs like palestine action and use ML literature as a guide and encourage others to do the same with study groups etc. PSL calls themselves ML but they don’t abide by the party structure and I’ve had multiple reps say they knowingly aren’t going to be the vanguard party, and the mysteriously rich Becker family that heads it seems more interested in their presidential campaigns than uniting the actual proletariat of our country. Feels like a way to capture people interesting in ML organizing into doing infantile action, I’m not behind the scenes but I’ve just heard enough person horror stories and strange uses of time to not trust them on a national level (most individuals clearly are just interested in doing communist organizing but need better guidance). FRSO is just same but smaller, and every one I’ve seen (especially RevComs, CPUSA, all Trot orgs) has hues of labor settlerism.

    For me, I see centering anti-imperialist work as coming first because it creates the conditions for the proletariatization of America, and as it is most communist orgs in America aren’t headed by the Proletariat but instead settlers that think we can put aside anti-imperialism to get the guys that transport the weapons of oppression higher wages and reinforce their relationiship with empire. So it depends on where you are in America, but doing the decolonization work and if you live in Hawaii focusing on their native struggle or if you live near a large American Indian population or near the black belt focusing on them and what nationalist orgs have popped up around there… Prisoner and homeless aid orgs are very radical as well, John Brown/socialist gun clubs…

    As communists I think we can serve to try and bridge the gap between these clearly connected struggles and connecting with and connecting together comrades in all of them. Maybe there are PSL/FRSO chapters doing these things so maybe look into your local ones if you’re curious, but I’d honestly avoid pledging allegiance to either one of them and following their work blindly. In addition to avoiding labor settlerism if any of these com orgs are doing drug/“sex worker” legalizing efforts run far far away, these “leftist” brainworms bring so much more harm than good and are a sign of an infantile org. (To explain, drug abuse goes up keeping us all down and coping harder rather than trying to find a way out, black people are still incarnated for their use and stuck in jail for ridiculous prison sentences. Sex trafficking goes up and pimps become legal slave owners, opening up a new market for capitalism in the most abusive industry of naked exploitation, this is libertarianism, not socialism)