Communist Strategy?

[The Old Man from Scene 24]

I am wondering what some of your goals are. I am very interested in the communist movement, but I don't know how to get involved.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I suggest you read the "Communist Manifesto".

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

You can get involved simply be supporting it, and being a communist. Or by joining an organization that best fits your beliefs.

[Savage]

I hope this (http://libcom.org/library/capitalism-communism-gilles-dauve) helps. The first paragraph is a good introduction,


Communism is not a programme one puts into practice or makes others put into practice, but a social movement. Those who develop and defend theoretical communism do not have any advantages over others except a clearer understanding and a more rigorous expression; like all others who are not especially concerned by theory, they feel the practical need for communism. They have no privilege whatsoever; they do not carry the knowledge that will set the revolution in motion; but, on the other hand, they have no fear of becoming "leaders" by explaining their positions. The communist revolution, like every other revolution, is the product of real needs and living conditions. The problem is to shed light on an existing historical movement. Communism is not an ideal to be realized: it already exists, not as a society, but as an effort, a task to prepare for. It is the movement which tries to abolish the conditions of life determined by wage-labour, and it will abolish them by revolution. The discussion of communism is not academic. It is not a debate about what will be done tomorrow. It is an integral part of a whole series of immediate and distant tasks, among which discussion is only one aspect, an attempt to achieve theoretical understanding. Inversely, the tasks can be carried out more easily and efficiently if one can answer the question: where are we going?
We will not refute the CPs, the various brands of socialists, the extreme-left, etc., whose programmes merely modernize and democratize all existing features of the present world. The point isn't that these programmes are not communist, but that they are capitalist.
The explanations in this text do not originate in a desire to explain. They would not exist in this form, and a number of people would not have gathered to elaborate and publish them, if the contradictions and the practical social struggles which tear contemporary society apart did not show the new society taking form in the womb of the old, forcing people to be conscious of it.

[Rusty Shackleford]

First and foremost it is about organizing workers so we can best fight for our class interest. collective control of the means of production, and taking it from the hands of the few, the capitalists.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

As Rusty said, we should be aiming to organise in our workplaces as a starting point. As radicals, when disputes arise we should be arguing for independent meetings of whole workplaces and direct action as a means to win disputes.