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Communism is true populism, and real populism is Communism, ask any random Chinese person who was, is, and will be the Communist party fighting for and they will answer the people. For example populism is redundant in China because it is a given that all politics must be ‘populist’.

Real socialism is populist because populism is supposed to mean serving the masses but every ‘populist’ who is not a Communist (today not historically) is just a fake populist (demagogue) who is only in power to prevent the rise of class consciousness among the masses.

There is definitely an anti-establishment current emerging in the United States, but it is up to the Communist party to emerge as leader over it as opposed to other (fake) populist forces that form and show how Communism is true populism and win over the minds of the people. Due to the dwindling, downward labour aristocracy, an increasing amount of people have been looking for alternatives, albeit most have developed false consciousness. However the fact that people have developed false consciousness shows that if they were guided correctly they would become socialists. Anti-establishment movements such as those of (that stem from) Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (MAGA) are prime examples of movements we should be reaching out to so that we can guide them on the right path. It is from these mostly blue-collar and rural people that we should be reaching out to as opposed to liberal, metropolitan (or suburban), university graduates, AKA the Professional Managerial Class (PMC).

Recently we saw American self-proclaimed ‘Communists’ oppose the trucker protests despite the vast majority of truckers being either working class or one truck operators (likely indebted to banks). This is all despite Engels stating that Communists must always bring the property question to the forefront of every protest. It does not matter what spurred on the protests to being with, what matters is the protests are anti-establishment. It is up to us Communists to be at the forefront of any movement against the current order and to always bring up the property question and guide it towards a revolutionary proletarian direction. Complete denounciation did not help the movement in anyway and is an indictment of just how low the Communist parties of North America (CPUSA and CPC) have fallen.

Communists want a socialist United States but there are people calling themselves socialist who want it to be called ‘Turtle Island’ because they think America is fundamentally stained and Americans are all settlers benefitting from imperialism (when this could not be further from the truth as only the imperialist bourgeoisie benefit from imperialism). Despite this being so divorced from the masses as all they know is the U.S. and the vast majority identity with the United States. Socialism is not just about having ‘correct beliefs’. If your position does not allow you to build a mass, POPULAR movement of your countrys MAJORITY, then you are not a socialist. It is socialism that delivers true patriotism and socialism that delivers true populism and only socialism which can as it is the scientific vehicle moving society forward.

Revolutionary defeatism is the stance American Communists need to take internationally and when it comes to the oppression of oppressed peoples inside the U.S., but that needs to be backed up by real patriotism not the phony patriotism of the ruling class. We are patriotic to the people themselves, not the current state. We want to win over the masses and establish a socialist state to serve the masses because only with Communism can the mythos of the American dream be made reality for the masses.