The hegemon’s resistors have gotten too strong to defeat. Americans must bring these revolutionary gains to our own society.

We’re again in the same kind of situation that we encountered this April, when the “Israeli” settler state was threatening to instigate a regional war that could bring unprecedented escalations with Iran. Yet like was the case last time, the Zionist aggressors and their Washington backers are acting with great risk towards themselves. They’ll either back away, like they did in that past instance, or go ahead with these provocations and thereby accelerate Zionism’s collapse. So far “Israel” has struck Beirut, which is big enough of an action that it may bring strikes on Tel Aviv. That would be an entirely proportionate response, and Hezbollah promised it would retaliate against an attack like today’s strike with wrath that “Israel” hasn’t yet seen. And should “Israel” respond to the coming Hezbollah action by invading Lebanon, it will provoke Iran in the way that the Zionist state has come to fear. 

When “Israel” retaliated against Iran in April with a ridiculously minor strike, it showed that it knew how disastrous a full confrontation with the Iranians would be. Now it doesn’t appear to be exercising that kind of caution any longer. If Netanyahu escalates more than he already has, then he’s about to imperil the Zionist project for the sake of not wanting to look weak. Except now he’ll ensure a war with not just Iran, but also the comparable military force Hezbollah.

This is not something “Israel” can manage. Scott Ritter observed this week that “Israel’s military strategy has long relied on its technological superiority and swift, decisive actions. However, both Iran and Hezbollah have developed sophisticated defense and attack strategies that could overwhelm Israel’s capabilities. The Iranian and Hezbollah forces are not the same as they were a decade ago. They have learned, adapted, and prepared for scenarios that Israel may not be fully ready to counter. Any conflict would not be a repeat of past skirmishes but a new, far more dangerous confrontation.” 

If “Israel” provokes these forces, the conflict will become an existential danger to not just Zionism, but also the entire imperialist economic order. As Ritter predicted when it looked like “Israel” would provoke Iran into full war in April, such a total conflict with Iran would create blowback far worse than the Ukraine proxy war has. He described a scenario where the global economy gets so dysfunctional that the USA’s people come to a true crisis point; a moment where the bulk of them can’t meet their basic needs for as long as their government perpetuates the war.

Again, we’ll see whether that next level of escalation actually happens, because Iran and Hezbollah have gained the strength to seriously limit what “Israel” can do without destroying itself. The important thing is that we communists in the U.S. continue to build up the strength of our own anti-imperialist resistance forces. That we connect with the revolution-compatible majority in our society, and mobilize them towards overthrowing our monopoly capitalist dictatorship.

This task is extremely urgent, and it’s urgent for numerous reasons: the danger of new nuclear escalations with Russia, the particularly alarming prospect of a Kamala Harris presidency, the perpetually dire need to stop the genocide against Gaza, our government’s effort to persecute Uhuru, and so on. Over the last couple days, another one of these immediate imperialist threats has been the destabilization that Washington seeks to bring to Venezuela. The right-wing opposition has invented a narrative about Maduro having stolen the election, and mobilized to try to throw the country into chaos so a coup can happen. We should take this danger towards Venezuela’s revolution seriously, and put together publicized shows of solidarity with Venezuela as fast as possible. 

The same applies to the Uhuru case, to the cold war escalations, and to every other front of this struggle. It can feel overwhelming, which is part of why many people get burnt out from organizing. What I want to convey in this moment, though, is that we should view the urgency of what’s happening as an opportunity to make massive new gains. To take advantage of how history is moving faster, and get our movement in place to defeat the imperial state.

This means illustrating to the USA’s people why the anti-imperialist side is the side that represents their material interests. That can free our society from the rule by international monopoly finance capital, like how the Iranians, the Venezuelans, and others have done for their own societies. The project to end U.S. imperialism is a continuation of the legacy of 1776, of the anti-slavery war, and of the other progress which has so far taken place within this country. When we end the imperial state’s activities, we’ll be able to both develop our own economy without getting hindered by this state’s degrowth efforts; as well as partner with civilizations like China’s, which our government has told us to hate. These goals are interconnected, because it’s only through cooperating with China that we’ll see the benefits which the Belt and Road Initiative has brought to so many other places.

It’s by framing things in these terms that we can direct the anti-establishment energy in this country towards goals which can bring the people to victory. MAGA presents itself as something that can get us this victory, but it was co-opted a long time ago at this point. And from the start, its anti-establishment rhetoric was undermined by Zionism, anti-communism, and anti-China ideology. A crucial part of our task is to separate the country’s proto-revolutionary spirit from the pro-imperialist ideas that MAGA’s leadership puts forth.

We need to make it clear that any leader who sides with Venezuela’s opposition, or with “Israel” against the Axis of Resistance, or with Washington against Beijing, is not an ally of the American people. They’re an ally of the global financiers, which are working to both keep Americans from gaining liberation and take away the liberty of peoples like the Venezuelans. The anti-communist and Zionist ideologies are strong, but so is the case that we have to make. Our enemies offer the people more war and austerity; we offer them a future of peace, liberty, and unprecedented economic development. 

In the last 24 hours alone, our cause has seen great victories: the Venezuelan people have massively rallied in support of their revolution, and the fascist effort to destroy the country has been defeated. The next biggest front of this conflict is going to be in Palestine, where the “Israeli” occupiers are about to experience an entirely justified counter-attack and then claim to be the victims. When the imperial psyop machine mobilizes to promote this narrative, we must respond not just by working to expose Zionism’s crimes, but by drawing attention to the global class struggle behind the conflict. The Axis of Resistance is on the same side as the American workers; it and the other anti-imperialist forces are working to defeat the global financial institutions that keep us exploited. It’s this idea that has the power to unite the people of the empire’s core against their government, and bring them to the equivalent level of revolutionary consciousness that Venezuela’s people have gained. Keep pushing forward in the effort to get the masses to that stage.

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Kamala Harris is the U.S. empire’s favored tool for starting war with China, & the woke psyop will be crucial in this

What does it mean that Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic nominee, and that the dominant wing of the ruling class is now pushing Harris in the headlines? It means that in the next stage of the new cold war, and of the USA’s counterinsurgency against internal dissent, the woke psyop is going to be a major narrative tool for selling repression. The anti-woke psyop is going to be just as important, but the role it serves will be different. They were always part of the same big discourse psyop anyhow, both acting to pit the country’s people against each other so that finance capital’s goals could be advanced. Amid these latest developments, we’ve found out what kind of discourse environment our ruling class intends to cultivate during their next war maneuvers.

It’s apparent that the U.S. empire’s cold war escalations are going to reach a new stage during the next presidential term, and that therefore the big goal of our rulers right now is to weaponize the culture wars against the anti-imperialist cause. Though the hegemon has pivoted towards Russia over these last few years in the hopes of destroying China’s biggest partner, because the Ukraine proxy war has failed the hegemon will soon find itself needing to pivot again. The situation it’s created in Ukraine is one that could turn into a much larger confrontation, unless the anti-imperialist forces sufficiently intervene. The empire is hoping for such a destructive opportunity, but it’s worried that its plans will backfire, like they’ve been doing since the Ukraine proxy war began. And with Washington being so cornered, both on Ukraine and on essentially all other fronts, it’s liable to carry out a false flag against the PRC. 

That’s the most likely way it’s going to try to ensure its victory when the New START nuclear treaty expires in 2026, and the U.S. goes forward with its plans that year to add nuclear weapons “without limitation.” Such a project is good to require new distractions, and an investment in an additional theater of war. Scott Ritter has argued that if left to operate unimpeded, within two years the U.S. will bring about a major moment of nuclear conflict risk, and that therefore Americans must urgently reject their government’s pro-war partisan manipulations:

When one examines these factors in their aggregate, the inescapable conclusion is that Europe will be faced with an existential crisis which could come to a head as early as the summer of 2026. The potential for the use of nuclear weapons, either by design or accident, is real, creating a situation that exceeds the Cuban Missile Crisis in terms of the risk of a nuclear war by an order of magnitude or more. While a future nuclear conflict would very likely start in Europe, it will be virtually impossible to contain the use of nuclear weapons on the European continent. Any use of nuclear weapons against Russian soil, or the territory of its ally, Belarus, would trigger a general Russian nuclear response which would lead to a general, global-killing nuclear war. The question Americans confront today is what to do about this existential threat to their very survival. The answer put forward here is to empower your vote in the coming presidential election by tying it not to a person or party, but rather a policy.

Ritter’s proposal is that we vote for whichever candidate may pledge to de-escalate with Russia, regardless of what party. Trump comes the closest to fulfilling this prerequisite, since his campaign has recommended negotiations over Ukraine, but neither candidate can be trusted to go against finance capital’s foreign policy model. Plus, the system is fully in place to rig the election for Harris. Nevertheless, I believe Ritter and his antiwar partners are helping by promoting this idea. Ritter’s “Operation DAWN” antiwar mobilization effort will advance the anti-imperialist struggle, educating more of the people on imperialism and invigorating their fight against it. This brings us closer to our cause’s ultimate victory, which will be the overthrow of the imperial state. Even when you can’t use electoralism to change policy, you can use it to strengthen the revolutionary effort, which is the value we can get out of applying scrutiny towards the candidates on nuclear de-escalation. 

We need to carry out maneuvers like this in order to overcome the empire, which can only be defeated through revolution. As long as the imperial state remains in power, it will be able to use elections to advance its goals, because our elections are fake. And the ones who manage our elections have learned from the mistakes they’ve made in recent history, determined not to let their guard down again. The only reason why the ruling class failed to steal the election from Trump in 2016 was because his infamous tape gave his opponents a false sense of security. Unless a wild upset happens, we can expect them to successfully install Harris, and to then use Harris for the goals they want fulfilled.

These goals are to instigate war with China under a president who would be a better puppet than both Biden and Trump; as well as to make the country have a ruling party that’s even more invested in wokeness than it is now. The objective is not necessarily to move away from the anti-woke psyop, but to nurture both sides of the culture war by making Harris into a catalyst for new cultural battles. This is going to involve both a redoubling of MAGA, potentially meaning a new January 6 that the feds allow to happen; as well as intensified aggression from the radical liberal counter-gangs. The Proud Boys and Antifa will get activated with more ferocity than ever, exacerbating our society’s polarization. 

These counter-gang operations won’t just be about killing popular solidarity, they’ll be about attacking our revolutionary organizations. Which is where the mutually dependent nature of the woke and anti-woke color revolutions comes in; because for the radical liberal state proxies to be mobilized against the communists, the right-wing militias will need to be mobilized first. The new provocations by FBI-tied “western chauvinist” groups will be used to justify attacks from the radlib counter-gangs, targeting not just the right-wing counter-gangs but also anti-imperialists. The trick will be to portray communists and antiwar activists as being in cahoots with the far right, which is a narrative that liberals and radical-liberals have long been pushing. Though the militant left anti-communists in “Antifa” will claim to be against the Harris government, they’ll act as this government’s vigilante enforcers, going after everyone who seriously poses a threat to the system.

The other goal that will be advanced by the counter-gangs, both left and right, is to create the pretext for expanding state repression. The Proud Boys did this when they stormed the Capitol, with Biden and the tech companies using it as a rationale for increasing “counterterrorism” measures and censoring Palestinians. When the feds engineer the next version of January 6, and then escalate this manufactured conflict by activating the radlib counter-gangs, Harris will do what she does best and weaponize the police state. The ruling class is more ready for this crackdown than ever; it’s been working to establish “Cop City” police training centers in all but three states.

If the Kamala Harris psyop succeeds, the people will be left too confused and divided to stand up to these attacks, or to their government’s project for opening up new fronts in global conflict. We will overcome the manipulations, though, if we keep building connections with the people. Do not give up on the people; the bulk of them have a primary material interest in defeating our social system, and the minority among them who embrace the ruling class psyops are simply the ones being platformed the most. The way to respond to the enemy’s attacks is by educating and organizing the revolution-compatible majority. No maneuvers our rulers pull must deter us from this mission; it’s our great hope in these dark times, our way of bringing the empire’s machinations to an end.

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The USA’s people are compatible with communism, which is why liberal fascism’s next maneuvers can’t stop us

What we need to focus on, more so than ever, is winning over the people towards the class struggle. This last week, we’ve seen some developments that show our ruling class is in a position to wage its counterinsurgency more effectively than previously seemed to be the case. This can’t discourage us, though. Because the most important thing I’ve learned throughout the struggle’s last few years is that the bulk of the USA’s people are absolutely revolution-compatible; that we shouldn’t view them as fundamentally reactionary, because the majority of them have shown a willingness to turn against imperialist projects like the Ukraine proxy war. That’s what should give us hope amid the dark events we’re about to experience, and what should motivate us to keep building on our recent gains.

Amid Biden’s dropping out, and the Democratic Party’s backing Kamala Harris, it’s apparent that our ruling class is now likely to succeed at resetting the discourse to an earlier era; an era where the culture war is able to dominate, at least so long as bourgeois politics remain able to define it. Just two weeks ago, it looked like Trump was sure to win, which would have let Trump fail at draining the swamp and thereby lead to the decline of MAGA. This was something that myself and many other communists saw as an opportunity for revolutionary agitation. But with Biden being replaced by a candidate who’s long been a favorite of Hillary Clinton backers, it’s looking more like finance capital will rig the election for the Democrats. Trump isn’t seen as the favored candidate by all, or even most, elements of finance capital. So the new strategy of our class enemies is to install Harris so that they can both keep the Democratic Party highly tied towards wokeness, as well as keep up the illusion that MAGA is an anti-establishment movement.

This maneuver will let the U.S. empire escalate the new cold war through a more effective facilitator of imperialism, while simultaneously fueling the woke and anti-woke psyops. It will be a redoubling of the culture wars, except within a political environment that’s come to be even more right-wing than it was twenty years ago. As the geo-strategists get Harris to pursue a new big war, likely with China, anti-imperialists are going to need to navigate conditions where our rulers have gained an advantage in pitting the people against each other. The hope of our class enemies is that they can keep the American people from coming together at the moment when the masses most need to be unified; when we’ll most urgently require a popular mobilization against the war machine, degrowth austerity, and state repression.

As big as this threat we face is, my friend within the struggle Jesse Wingert just wrote something that gives me inspiration amid the direness. Referencing the recent development I’ve reported on where Zionist infiltrators couped a communist party, Wingert has observed how obstacles like these can shape us into better fighters. As well as how the potential for the masses to join with us is there, regardless of what the ruling class does:

The people are not stupid, nor easily fooled, and when put out in the open, its obvious to them who is fighting in their own personal interests, and who is fighting for the interests of others. We are approaching a stage in our struggle where we will find it necessary to live under what are effectively wartime conditions, and actually live as Communists rather than Liberals; this is what will bring the Masses to us in a way that guarantees us victory. The Right-Opportunists who have taken over the PCUSA have exposed this mistake within our ranks, and not only given us the opportunity, but made it necessary to correct our mistakes in that regard. We cannot afford to merely talk to the whole Masses, we have to join with them and fight alongside them; all of them. The Bolshevik party was forged and strengthened in its struggles against the Opportunists on both sides prior to the first Revolution, and our Parties and Organizations will only be strengthed by these Imperialist attacks against us just as steel is forged beneath the hammer. Overcoming these challenges will shape us into exactly what is demanded by the Class Struggle, but we have to press ahead and discipline ourselves to act whenever there is opportunity.

Communists must never shrink away from the people. We can’t interpret the setbacks and obstacles we encounter as evidence that the people are our enemies, and that our best path is to retreat into a niche. That’s how we lose. Because the U.S. communists of the mid-20th century experienced a time when the labor aristocracy was strong, and most of the country’s people were hostile towards communist ideas, they reacted by adopting an anti-popular view. This was wrong even at the time, and we see this view continue to dominate American Marxism despite the labor aristocracy’s massive decline since then. 

That American communists have kept making this mistake is the reason why we’re in such a weak place, and why we have to rebuild what we once had. Myself and the communists I align with are not going to repeat this error, and react to the coming challenges by scorning the masses. That’s what would really ensure the ruling class wins: if we become demoralized from mass work, from party building, and become consumed by bitterness.

To do this would be to surrender U.S. Marxism towards the ideological forces on the left which have committed themselves to pessimism and anti-popular ideas. To the “antifa” anarchists that are obsessed with attacking communists, and will act as the prime counter-gang proxy forces for liberal fascism. That’s going to be the core of this next stage in the class war: a conflict between the optimistic, mass-centered revolutionaries who love the people, and the forces of nihilistic destruction that hate the people. Our class enemies want us to align with the counter-gangs, and act on our frustrations by embracing adventurist violence or radical intellectual elitism. They want us to be unable to see the revolutionary potential which exists all around us, and only focus on the negative. When developing radicals do this, they take on a reactionary role, allowing our class enemies to fortify their rule. 

The op where Zionists took over PCUSA was about demoralizing communists from party-building, and the ops that the ruling class will soon carry out are partly going to have this role too. We’ll overcome these culture war manipulations, and the other parts of the state’s counterinsurgency, if we keep building up the anti-monopoly united front. Should the ruling class install Harris, the reality we’ll need to accept is that for the time being, our previous vision of drawing in disillusioned MAGA voters isn’t as immediately realizable as we thought. We can’t be invested in one particular tactic, though, because that leads to failure and discouragement. 

If Trump overcomes the efforts to rig the election, we’ll get that opportunity, and avoid the worst-case scenario that would be a Harris presidency. If Harris gets the presidency, the solution will not be to tail MAGA. We will be on the same side as MAGA, in the sense that we’ll both be in conflict with liberal fascism’s dominant wing, but we’ll have to make clear that we don’t view MAGA as genuinely anti-establishment. We view it as an effort to defy monopoly finance capital that’s driven by genuine proto-revolutionary sentiments, yet is led by a wing of the ruling class that’s obstinately pro-Zionist and willing to advance the new cold war. We offer something fundamentally different from this, something authentically revolutionary. We won’t be able to win over all MAGA supporters with this message, but we never expected total success in this area anyhow.

Our victory depends not on winning everyone within any single demographic, but on winning the bulk of the masses, whose revolution-compatible elements include many different ideological groups. We will make our case to the masses best we can, and as long as we act with humility and self-awareness, we’ll be able to avoid the insularity which has long held back the class struggle. The mass base for proletarian revolution is there, that’s the most important thing to note. And we’ll connect with this base one way or another.

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Communists can overcome the state’s attacks by allying with illiberal military elements, & preparing to defend from the counter-gangs

For the first time in generations, communists in the United States are at a point where our organizational strength is on track to catch up with that of the strongest communist movements abroad. The Center for Political Innovation is leveraging its growing membership towards increased focus on mass work, and it’s made alliances with many influential forces within the anti-imperialist movement (including ones that are likely to soon get governmental positions). Other communist forces that share the CPI’s vision for leaving behind petty-bourgeois radicalism have launched their own organization (called the American Communist Party), creating new potential for party-building. 

The organized left’s investment in liberal identity politics has long kept what we call “Marxism” in America isolated, and separated from the class struggle. But the communists who refuse to embrace this dead-end mode of practice now have the momentum required for rebuilding what the USA’s workers struggle has lost. If things keep going as they are now, we’re going to have a comparable amount of numbers and institutional power to that of communists in places like Russia. As Christopher Helali said amid his participation in ACP’s launch: “We have lots of work, but it’s okay. Work is good, struggle is good. Some of us will last long in the struggle, and some of us will not. Some of us will be persecuted, others might not. Whatever happens, united forwards, backwards never.”

We will prevail, if we can overcome the counterinsurgency that’s being waged by our class enemies. The most powerful wing of our ruling class, the monopoly finance wing, increasingly has a reason to target us. It’s seeing our rise, and it’s no doubt hoping more than ever that it can set the precedents needed to purge dissent. It wants to get away with convicting the Uhuru 3 for “Russian interference,” and thereby criminalize all international anti-imperialist solidarity work. At this moment, we absolutely need to focus on campaigning against the persecution of Uhuru. Even if the September 3 trial does bring that massive blow to our liberties, though, our capitalist dictatorship will have created new risks for itself. Risks that Lenin described:

When the French bourgeoisie makes Bolshevism the central issue in the elections, and accuses the comparatively moderate or vacillating socialists of being Bolsheviks; when the American bourgeoisie, which has completely lost its head, seizes thousands and thousands of people on suspicion of Bolshevism, creates an atmosphere of panic, and broadcasts stories of Bolshevik plots; when, despite all its wisdom and experience, the British bourgeoisie—the most “solid” in the world—makes incredible blunders, founds richly endowed “anti-Bolshevik societies”, creates a special literature on Bolshevism, and recruits an extra number of scientists, agitators and clergymen to combat it, we must salute and thank the capitalists. They are working for us. They are helping us to get the masses interested in the essence and significance of Bolshevism, and they cannot do otherwise, for they have already failed to ignore Bolshevism and stifle it.

We can make the state’s provocations backfire, if we respond correctly. Our key moves within this fight are 1) take advantage of the growing conflicts within the ruling class, and 2) prepare to defend ourselves from whatever violence the state’s counter-gangs try to bring upon us.

As with past succesful revolutions, a crucial element within the power structure that communists need to focus on is the military personnel. And due to how fanatical our ruling class is in pushing for cold war escalations, this task of winning over the armed service leaders (as well as the regular members) is easier than one might think. There’s a disconnect between the mentality that monopoly finance capital has on geopolitics, where China and Russia must be subdued by any means necessary, and the mentality that many within the military have. The military is an illiberal institution in spirit, as it’s based around a collectivist regimented lifestyle and is based around strong belief in a shared idea (that being patriotism). That places it in conflict with the ideology that’s come to dominate within our ruling class, which is philosophical irrationalism. This is the belief that no objective truth or morality exists, and that every person is out for themselves. 

It’s this ideological force of destruction and nihilism that’s been desecrating the libertarian, collectivist values which are associated with U.S. patriotism. And it’s for this reason that certain ideological leaders who’ve been in the military, like the retired colonel Douglas MacGregor, have been denouncing what the U.S. empire is doing. They’re against the new cold war, they don’t like how the intelligence agencies have been taking away our constitutional liberties, and they’re looking for a way to get the monopolists behind these things out of power. This shows that the workers can make the disillusioned military elements into our allies; to form a coalition against the war which capital’s highest levels are waging against both other countries, and this country’s own people.

As we build connections with the unions, the most conscious workers, and the broader masses, we must account for these additional types of inroads we’ll have to make. We need to ally with the more illiberal elements of the ruling class, the ones that could go rogue as liberalism expands its effort to purge dissent. As our shared enemy escalates its war against us, we can come to recognize that our mutual interest is in teaming up to fight this enemy. We must unite against these efforts to crush all who challenge liberal fascism. This goes both for the state repression that monopoly finance capital will target us with, and the proxy attacks that this counterinsurgency is also going to involve.

The liberal order has cultivated counter-gangs that share the philosophical irrationalist mindset; that also seek to crush communism, but from a leftist angle. Parenti decried these groups; they’re the types of radical liberals, mainly anarchists, that set themselves up against every serious effort at progressing history to the next stage. Now, with the new cold war and its related psyops, the left anti-communists have been coming to an increasingly radical position in their hostility towards Marxists. As the U.S. State Department spreads narratives about Washington’s geopolitical challengers being “fascist,” they’re applying this label to the communist formations which hold consistent anti-imperialist positions. And the forces of petty-bourgeois radicalism within Marxist circles are repeating these smears; as the ACP’s founding statement says, the liberals within CPUSA have labeled as “fascist” all who go against their opportunistic mode of practice. 

The state is going to try to use the groups which share these left anti-communist beliefs for counter-gang attacks. These groups are more favored tools for the ruling class than the right-wing militias, or the official armed forces; they have the cover of claiming to be “anti-fascist,” and of supposedly being aligned with communists. They can’t overcome us, though, because we are ideologically equipped to truly advance the proletariat’s interests. To reject these ultra-left deviations, train our cadres for whatever attacks the counter-gangs direct towards us, and outmaneuver the monopolists. As the state’s proxies intensify their antagonism towards communists, we’ll defend ourselves, and keep building up our strength. As our class enemies turn to repression and state violence, we’ll make our case to the armed service members, and win all within this structure who are willing to defect. 

If we take advantage of the opportunities before us, we’ll overcome the counterinsurgency. The key is to recognize just how much revolutionary potential exists among the people, the armed service members, and the parts of the bourgeoisie that have illiberal tendencies. The leftists we’ve broken from don’t understand this, which is why they remain in their cycle of self-imposed defeat. We’re here to free the class struggle from this cycle, and bring the workers to victory.

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The PCUSA has been couped by labor Zionists. But amid Zionism’s collapse, their “victory” is a hollow one.

As Zionism and imperialism become increasingly cornered, and unable to continue functioning, the forces of reaction have used an insidious tactic to try to prevent revolution within the core: insert labor Zionism into American communist spaces. In this case, the Party of Communists USA. This is worth reporting on not just for the sake of warning communists about the reactionary influences that have taken over PCUSA, but because we must clarify why it’s the PCUSA that’s become a target for these types of bad actors. The reason why they’ve focused their efforts on the PCUSA, rather than on any of the ultra-leftist organizations, is because PCUSA (prior to the infiltration) represented an actual ideological threat towards the ruling class. Which means the centers of reactionary intrigue have felt the need to not just persistently target it, but also target it with psyops that are carefully tailored to a certain category of communists.

Because the PCUSA was founded upon a rejection of the petty-bourgeois radicalism that the modern CPUSA has proliferated, and that other petty-bourgeois radical orgs carry on, it attracts members who can’t be easily compelled by ultra-leftist arguments. Infiltrators have tried to destroy the party using such arguments in the past; two years ago, when a group of saboteurs seized control of the PCUSA’s website domain to publish a slanderous document, these malicious actors worked to split the party on the basis that its leadership supported “Russian imperialism.” The angle they used was to put forth the “imperialist pyramid” theory, where the new cold war is seen as an “inter-imperialist conflict,” and convince the party’s members to defect to their splinter group. 

This failed to destroy the party, because the party didn’t lose anyone valuable; it held on to everyone with the integrity to reject such destructive ultra-left nonsense. Now, the enemies of the anti-imperialist cause have taken up the inverse tactics: take over the party itself rather than form a splinter group, and use the party’s platform to push a right opportunist agenda rather than a left opportunist one.

The argument these new infiltrators have used is designed to take advantage of the desire for combating ultra-leftism and petty-bourgeois radicalism. The narrative they’ve put forth is that supporting the settler state of “Israel” is the scientific Marxist position, and that wanting to bring about this state’s end makes somebody an unserious ultra-leftist. As these infiltrators wrote in a recent statement, which they put out in reaction to the unanticipated amount of opposition they’ve faced:

The Party of Communists USA maintains its commitment to the original ideology of scientific socialism, as exemplified by the Soviet Union. The position of the PCUSA on the Israel-Palestine question is identical to that of the international Communist movement, including the historical position of the Soviet Union and all of the socialist countries throughout the world. This position is the two-state solution outlined by the Geneva Accords based off of UN Resolution 242, which calls for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. 

To push for an immediate one-state solution within the current geopolitical context is to push for a sequence of events that would likely bring about the end of humanity. The nuclear-armed state of Israel can be expected to launch its nuclear weapons and begin World War III if its existence is threatened. It is not for petty-bourgeois ultra-left radicals on the other side of the world to dictate the struggle of the Palestinian people. Those who push for the destruction of Israel are willing to sacrifice the lives of thousands, if not millions, in the interest of their own ideological purity for a line that the Palestinian people themselves do not support. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which is in a leadership position representing the interests of the Palestinian people, has long called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Even Hamas has now agreed to such a solution.

This is them trying to maintain plausible deniability. To make it seem like all they’re doing is affirming the stance of the Palestinian resistance. This isn’t all that they’re doing, though, and the evidence of their deeper agenda is found in how they view the history of Zionism. We know that they don’t want to bring about Zionism’s end, because they fundamentally view the creation of “Israel” as having been a good thing.

Hamas and the other Palestinian resistance forces that support a two-state solution do so because they view it as a means to an end; that end being the dissolution of “Israel,” and the realization of a Palestinian state which encompasses all of Palestine. The way the two-state solution can make this happen is by creating the conditions for Palestine to rebuild and thrive, putting the region’s ethnic demographics in a more balanced state and thereby making Jewish supremacy over Arabs no longer possible. As when Palestinians are no longer a minority within the pre-1967 borders, the demographic dominance which Zionism has gained will be gone. 

This process has already begun due to the anti-colonial war which Hamas and its coalition partners have been waging. Throughout the last year, mass amounts of colonizers have left “Israel” in reaction to Netanyahu’s inability to get things under control. The right opportunist tendency that PCUSA’s new leadership represents does not want this process to bring about the end of “Israel,” though. It believes Jewish supremacy should be maintained, except in a seemingly friendly form where it can claim to no longer be supremacist.

In this statement, which was given to me by one of the former PCUSA members who have integrity, the infiltrators summarize the view of “Israel” that they want to make predominant within the communist movement:

Though they’re hesitant to say it so frankly in public, they view the Nakba as having been a liberation war. This is why numerous PCUSA branches and members have defected: these infiltrators are pushing the idea that “Israel” has the right to exist, which gives a malicious context to their calling for a two-state solution. They don’t support two states for the reason Hamas does, that being because it’s a practical step towards ending Zionism. They support it because they want Zionism to survive. Which puts them at odds with all of the anti-imperialist countries that they claim to support; they’ve already forsaken solidarity with Hamas and PFLP, despite their opportunistically using these and other Palestinian groups as justification for their position. And because China has helped negotiate an agreement between Hamas, Fatah, and PFLP, for them to go against Hamas makes them in effect anti-China and pro-imperialist. 

It’s a repeat of what the anti-Russian Marxist-Leninist orgs have been doing: working to divide the global anti-imperialist forces by only selectively supporting these forces. Except whereas these other orgs have done this by disavowing Russia, the PCUSA infiltrators have done it by disavowing the Palestinian resistance. That both these camps of opportunists claim to support China is what makes them so damaging; if they got their way, there would be a catastrophic split between the different global entities that are resisting U.S. hegemony.

Their justification for all of this is that the Soviet Union and the old American Communist Party viewed Palestine’s partition as a positive development. But as the principled former PCUSA members have pointed out in the party’s People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies meetings, this narrative leaves out crucial context. These anti-Zionist comrades explained how the USSR did this because its strategy at the time was to support every anti-British force; how the Soviet and U.S. communist leaders later recognized that Zionism isn’t a positive force; how the labor Zionists created a state that inevitably shed its initial “socialist” veneer, and became dominated by the openly Nazistic Likud Party; how supporting the two-state solution as a means to an end shouldn’t mean apologizing for labor Zionism. And perhaps most importantly, they clarified that Zionism means “Israel.” That the two can’t be separated, as the infiltrators want to do, and you therefore can’t support the continuation of “Israel” without being a Zionist.

These malicious actors were able to take over due to structural deficiencies within PCUSA that already existed, and that need to be recognized in order to avoid future events like this one. Even though the PCUSA was set up with the goal of combating the CPUSA’s reformism and liberalism, which made it take on correct positions like supporting Russia, the organization was built in a way that made it unable to win the people and open to reactionary takeovers. 

The PCUSA is bureaucratic and dysfunctional. This makes its leadership obtuse and unresponsive to feedback, like the responses that the anti-Zionist comrades gave. This made the infiltrators easily able to subvert democratic centralism, imposing their will from the top-down without getting any vote from the members. It’s also made the leadership complacent, satisfied with doing a limited amount of in-real-life work; even though it was able to build up a union presence, this was in spite of the party’s character, which is overwhelmingly an online one. It’s lacked focus on in-person recruitment and organizing for the same reason that it was so vulnerable to being couped. This connection between the two problems is implied within the resignation letter of one former member, who’s said that:

The party shows almost no enthusiasm or respect to joining mass protests in defense of Palestine. The members of the party that have consistently gone to these events and built coalitions with them did so of their own initiation, not the party's. The party routinely hesitated to participate in any of these actions. This is one of the forefront issues of the time, much like the Spanish Civil War and Vietnam War were at their respective times, and it is an issue that demands urgency and a re-analysis of the Palestinian question from a Marxist-Leninist lens that actually captures the whole history of Palestine and not just '48, '67, Oslo and now from the perspective of white American and European communists…

Upholding these positions and distancing the party from the mass movement is putting the party and our mass organizations on a suicidal course where we will lose our international and domestic allies, our place in alliances and coalitions, our trustability, our credibility and our members. All of our great work over the years is being risked because a few pro-Israeli members would like to die on the hill of the two-state solution. This is a position that basically aligns with both major bourgeois parties, the revisionist CPUSA, the KKE, the fascist Ukrainian government and NATO. How can we be so hypocritical in supporting reunification of Korea or China with Taiwan but continue to support the partition, occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine? How can we be so forceful against UkroNazism and so tame against Zionism?

The reactionaries who’ve done this believe they’ve won, but they’ve lost. Because 1) they aren’t able to even slightly slow down Zionism’s unraveling, and 2) their actions have compelled all of the principled people within PCUSA to confront the structural flaws within their former org. These good people, and friends of theirs like myself, are now able to take the struggle to its next stage without being hindered by a party that doesn’t work properly. The infiltrators are desperately trying to reverse history, while we’re embracing history’s progression. That’s why we’ll win.

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