Do you have an actual point beyond accusing communists of being mentally disabled?

Lenin and Stalin were both communists. Both Lenin and Stalin were supported democratically as well. Trying to dismiss communists by claiming we are all brain damaged is deeply ableist.

Russia is only critically supported by communists for its objective material opposition to the current imperialist hegemony by the US. The idea that communists can only support communists is a bit reductive, communists support the international working classes and their liberation. This means supporting elements that weaken the primary world contradiction right now, US imperialism. Obviously communists would prefer Russia turn socialist, but that does not change that it is still playing a progressive role in undermining the US.

While Obama and Trump do have policy differences, their primary role is as facilitators of imperialism and maintenance of settler-colonialism. In that sense, that crucial, principal sense, both are deeply aligned, and as this is principal, it is the driving factor.

Marxists are revolutionary, I encourage people to get organized. This is the Marxist position, so if you’re opposed to revolutionary tactics, then you’re also by extension opposed to Marxism.

Organizing doesn’t spark revolution. Crisis happens regularly in capitalism (George Floyd, October 7th, ICE attacks, data center advancement, the AI bubble), and this mobilizes the masses into action. What the masses actually do while mobilized, however, is limited by their class consciousness and the presence or lack thereof of organized leadership with a coherent plan.

The task right now is to, as I have said, educate (both yourself and the rest of the working classes), agitate (in favor of socialism and revolution), and organize (a disciplined cadre of professional revolutionaries that struggles alongside the rest of the masses). I’m dead serious about this, this is basic Leninist revolutionary theory, and it works.

I don’t support the Republicans or Democrats, I support the working classes organizing their own political party and movement for revolution. I never once said I support the Republican party, it isn’t a binary choice no matter how much you seem to want it to be. I choose neither.

The fact is, the Democrats are more effective imperialists, and therefore they aid more effectively in accelerating the concentration of capital, and therefore crisis. This is the accelerationist position, which I disagree with. We cannot wait for this process, we must actively organize to overthrow the system rather than try to expedite its collapse.

I don’t see how standard revolutionary Marxism is “failure of pure theory.” The practical option is to get organized, something the CIA desparately does not want to happen. Fedjacketing me for being a consistent Marxist is unacceptable behavior for anyone that legitimately wants a better world.

Quarantine Marxism?

Why express that this community should move to Lemmy.ml if your issue is with it “sucking?” It seems more than anything that your problem is the consistent anti-capitalism and pro-Marxism, which it shares in common with many Lemmy.ml communities.

Marxists agitate against democrats and republicans year-round, every year. You may tune in more around election season, but that does not mean the Marxists are doing nothing. Rather, Marxists understand that organizing is far more effective than voting under capitalism, and organizing has no such time constraints.

Accelerationism isn’t making conditions worse. Accelerationism is the belief that we should support the most competent capitalists to accelerate the concentration of capital, and thus the demise of capital. This means supporting the democrats, not republicans. I don’t think anyone here is an accelerationist, but if anyone had credible claim to be one, it would be the people advocating to support the DNC.

Instead, Marxists support organizing for revolution. This happens outside of the electoral system, at the grassroots level, and does not require timelines. Creating an organization that can educate the working classes on revolutionary struggle, that can struggle alongside workers at every major battlefront, and guide the working classes in a unified direction is the most pressing task for political activists.

I do org work IRL, but I’m not foolish enough to dox myself. I am consistent with Marxist-Leninist beliefs and practice, I put my skin on the line. This sounds like projection on your part, if I’m being honest. Get organized! It can be incredibly fulfilling work.

A follower of liberal ideology, which generally supports the right to private property.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation, which the subject of OP is a member of, is a revolutionary party. Here is their party platform.

PSL does far more than running candidates. From education programs, to fighting local struggles for unionizing, political struggle, and training organizers, the bread and butter of PSL’s work is at the local level and connecting it to the entire struggle. PSL is not “silent,” Liberation News is active, as are local PSL branches in engaging with what is actually important.

Secondly, the fact that I corrected you on accelerationism does not mean I am an accelerationist. I am not.

As for vanguardism being futile and never working, this is patently false. From Russia to China to Vietnam to Cuba to Korea and beyond, vanguards have been successful in waging revolutionary struggle. Marxist-Leninists carry forward the vanguard strategy because it is proven, and effective.

Defending your accusation of LLM use just because I sometimes list out my points is absurd, and incredibly bad-faith. You couldn’t even be bothered to verify who you were speaking to, and feel plenty comfortable accusing me without verification. This is just sloppy behavior.

As for the idea that Marxist-Leninist ideas have not been put into practice, again, this is wrong. Socialist states have only ever been established via Marxism-Leninism, we have over a century of Marxism-Leninism being put into practice. Even within the US, organizations like the Black Panther Party saw success using Marxism-Leninism. This is another baseless point you dropped without context.

Glad you’re organized, keep it up. Maybe stop fedposting though, advocating adventurism will get you got.

Are there rules in Lemmy.world against having anti-capitalist and pro-Marxist communities?

First of all, I don’t know who “Katrina Garcia” is. I think you may be referring to Karina Garcia of PSL, but PSL is not an electoralist organization despite running candidates. There is no confusion in PSL about the purpose of doing so, it’s to promote the party platform, show the inherent impossibility of reformism, and gain new members.

Secondly, you do not understand accelerationism. Accelerationism isn’t trying to make things worse so that people take up arms. Accelerationism is the strategy of speeding up capital accumulation so that the crisis of capitalism comes quicker, which means putting the most competent imperialists in power. The accelerationist candidate would be the Democratic party, which is far more competent at actually extracting super profits from the global south.

Thirdly, the idea that adventurism is praxis is fundamentally incorrect. You have an odd view of praxis, where you don’t believe education, agitation, and organization to be the primary tasks, but instead random assassinations or charity work. Revolution is not something accomplished via terrorism, revolution requires the masses of the people to be aware of their own conditions, as well as the conditions of their own liberation. That’s the role of a vanguard party.

Fourth, the idea of “regimes” and LARPing. “Regime” does not mean anything beyond “government, but scary word.” The establishment of a socialist state is immediately emancipatory for the working classes, and is in no way comparable to worker conditions under capitalism. Revolution is not a LARP, nor is pushing for revolution LARP. Revolution requires an organized working class, which is the primary task of socialists, not electing more competent imperialists.

Fifth, what you consider “meaningful action.” The idea that only charity work and terrorism are meaningful is absurd. The actual core tasks are to organize the working classes, and struggle alongside them in the realm of housing struggles, labor struggles, social struggles, political struggles, and connecting them all together. Charity work is good, I participate in it as well, but that’s not the primary task.

Sixth, allegations of LLM use, as well as the idea that I claim not to reside in the US. I do not use LLMs for my comments, this is completely baseless. Further, I have always claimed to be a Statesian, and have never once claimed that I am not. Why lie about who I am and how I comment? If you have a strong argument, then rely on the argument itself.

Finally, the idea that Marxist-Leninist theory stopped being written a year ago. This is horrendously wrong, people have carried over Marxist analysis to the modern era, and I frequently use more modern Marxist-Leninist analysis in discussing topics today. For example, Cheng Enfu’s theory of Neoimperialism is very helpful for understanding how imperialism has changed since Lenin first analyzed it in his conditions. Marx, Engels, and Lenin were not prophets. We do not read them looking for ready-made solutions, but instead to see how they applied Marxism to their conditions and used it to find solutions to their contemporary problems. Thus, Marxism-Leninism is living, and not ossified.

This theory is actively being put into practice. Any org that simply discusses theory internally and isn’t applying it is, at most, pre-party. What is the point about pretending people advocating for revolution somehow are utterly detached from political struggle?

Are you organized? If no, then that should be your number one task. Not whoever you vote for, which does less for political struggle than organizing does.

The rise of neoliberal economics in the Reagan administration, which privatized much of the US’ state-run services and industries, and gutted unions.

More than that, get organized and study the conditions we live in. If we are to solve the problems of today, we should first study.

Sure, as well as if the Democrats take power. Either way we will be dealing with an anti-immigrant, imperialist, racist system that needs to be taken down and replaced with socialism. The idea that the Democrats winning would meaninfully change the conditions giving rise to society’s biggest problems confuses the role of the superstructure (read: laws, education, culture, government) as it relates to the base of society (the economic foundation).

Vote all you want, that really doesn’t matter much to me, what actually matters is if you get organized and begin to study the root causes of the problems we face today. Our instinct to simply vote on this or that candidate within the confines of capitalism is deliberate, its a pressure valve to prevent people from actually considering if voting is enough to gain the necessary changes we need to end settler-colonialism, imperialism, mass homelessness, unemployment, for-profit healthcare and housing, destructive environmental practices, and mass exploitation of labor.

Nobody says that about elections, though. Marxists disagree with the idea of “lesser evil” voting, but the idea that Marxists think refusal to vote raises class consciousness is a strawman.