I have a genuine and principled criticism for author Dom Shannon of CPUSA org columns section. In their article on Black Liberation & Wokeness, they made a grave dialectical error that leads to an opportunist line if taken into material practice. This picture contains a reversal of the correct Marxist position on the class struggle and subordinate struggles.
On Comparing Marjorie Taylor Greene to Black Hundreds and claiming Communists should support her:
This article is not a polemic. The below statements are presented as contextual artifacts to examine as a basis for this article. None of the individuals or their specific claims are necessary to the overall point.
Your critiques of MAGA are un-dialectical. MTG exists to give voice to working-class conservative disillusionment w/ the status quo. But they redirect the people's anger into failed solutions. That is why it is our job as communists to organize them and offer REAL answers.
Incorrect. She absolutely articulates working-class woes. She voices workers' concerns over authoritarian state institutions. She speaks out about inflation, shortages of baby food, the spending on Ukraine War, etc. It is just that her solutions to these woes are wrong.
Lenin convinced members of the Black Hundreds to join the Bolsheviks and US Leftoids are too afraid to talk to their conservatives neighbors
— MAGA Communist Dr. Vozhd Inoki🦍☀️ (@JucheXtreme) August 12, 2022
(In the context of a larger conversation where Communists should work with Marjorie Taylor Greene, conjuncted by the above correct criticism of Leftists for being typical Leftists; but splashed with a simplified view of Black Hundred history to the Bolsheviks)
I’ll come back to the tiny difference “her solutions to these woes are wrong” in a small capacity later. To start, lets focus on the notion of using the Black Hundred comparison with Conservatives. I’ve seen these two opinions conjoined as if they have any business informing one another. Each is partially correct in a very charitable way on their own.
When joined, they look something like “Lenin convinced the Black Hundred members to join the Bolsheviks, so we should defend and support conservative petty-bourgeois congresspeople who identify working-class woes but provide incorrect solutions”. This assumes the Black Hundred danger can be compared quantitatively in something like “severity” to the apparent “severity” of these congresspeople and blanket-excuse any abstract argument for support.
Rape apologists and sicko hunters both capitalize on our mode of punitive “justice”. They just choose different targets. Ultimately, both behaviors work together to ensure the system of punishment continues to operate while masquerading as justice. It should be obvious that if one of the goals of a Left revolution is to end systemic punishment (aka punitive “justice”), then revolution is incompatible with punitive, Puritanical retaliation to harm. Punishment is trash.