Socialist organizing & Miskito, Hmong, Russian & Chinese Americans, etc.

[More Fire for the People]

The Miskito, Sumo, Rama, Hmong, Russian expatriates, and Chinese expats in nine out of ten cases fall into the industrial proletarian, agricultural, proletarian, lumpenproletarian, and small-time petty-bourgeois farmer classes. Yet their political culture is determinately anti-communists. How do we organize along socialist ideology in proletarian groups that suffer a history of political violence from ostensibly "communist" regimes? Particularly among the Miskito, Sumo, Rama, and Hmong?

[Yehuda Stern]

That question has come to my mind many times, and I've discussed these questions with many left-wing Russian immigrants. Like all workers, these people will become more open to Marxist positions only when their experience in the class struggle makes them understand the difference between Stalinism and Marxism. I don't think you can say how exactly this will happen in practice. However, if I can find Russian immigrants in Israel who are attracted to Marxist ideas, I'm sure you can find individuals among the groups you've mentioned who would be interested in what you have to say. In the end, Marxism expresses the interests of the workers, and it is inevitable that the more politically conscious ones in each ethnic and national group would be interested in its authentic form.