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?
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.