So there's a new PSL chapter starting up in my town and I got to meet Gloria La Riva yesterday which was awesome. But I just found out there's also the PCUSA which is more ML? Does it matter which one i join if I want to do praxis stuff?
So there's a new PSL chapter starting up in my town and I got to meet Gloria La Riva yesterday which was awesome. But I just found out there's also the PCUSA which is more ML? Does it matter which one i join if I want to do praxis stuff?
Member of PCUSA here. Obviously I'd be biased and say join my party, but I'll be blunt on this. Get involved, full stop. If there's a party that has a mass line that's in line with your own, then join it. There's nothing stopping you from also joining up with other local groups to cooperate together as a popular front to accomplish objectives you hold together.
Examples are that both PCUSA and PSL commonly work together to do food and literature distributions, campaigning for each other's candidates, etc.
Our goal is to swell the ranks of the Communist parties to greater numbers in order to accomplish greater tasks. Theres always time to shit-talk each other in the comradely way we always do, but at the end of the day our goals are the same.
That said, do check out if there's a PCUSA club near you and join up, but if there isn't, I ain't faulting you for joining up with that spanking new PSL group in your area.
@RedArmor get your booty in here and chip in lol
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What is PCUSA's line on AES and the current propaganda narratives on PRC?
Insofar as I'm aware it's Anti-imperialist with critical support for all AES countries on the U.S's shitlist with emphasis on anti-militarism along Leninist lines, aka Revolutionary defeatism. I do have to be clear that our General Secretary is a bit old-fashioned in the sense that he hold the Old Bolshevik views that the PRC's path along market socialism as a revisionist action and therefore personally holds that the PRC is dangerously close to where the USSR was when Gorbachev was at the helm.
That said the party has not adopted an official line on the question of the PRC, beyond critical support against American Imperialism, so as to maintain focus on building the party instead of having a struggle session. Lots of party members fall into multiple camps of considering the PRC the Socialist, Revisionist, in a state of decay back towards Capitalism, etc. I guess we pretty much decided to say "Lets just focus on what we can control and change, instead of blowing hot air over what we can't change."
I kinda expected your answer of what the PCUSA would be like, but I'm more interested in the question that I quoted. Basically, do PCUSA members believe the shit that the media is spewing about PRC right now like XJ, HK, lab leak, rocket crashing, etc?
Never heard anyone remotely talk about anything like that. Usually whenever China comes up it's in reference to theory, or history. Once in a while someone will mention Bayarea415's vids on china whenever they're relevant, otherwise it's generally a non-topic in my district and on national meetings.