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.
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.
(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.
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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.
