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PSL members uphold Mao as a revolutionary leader. We recognize the Chinese Revolution as a monumental historical event that initiated socialist construction in China. However, Mao's criticisms of the Soviet Union were baseless and the Sino-Soviet split was a tragedy for the socialist movement, in that it divided the international socialist bloc. Today, we defend China from imperialist intervention, dismemberment and counterrevolution.
We don't uphold Mao's characterization of the Soviet Union as capitalist. That's why we're Marxist-Leninists.
The basic ideas of Marxism, upon which alone a revolutionary party can be constructed, are continuous in their application and have been for a hundred years. The ideas of Marxism, which create revolutionary parties, are stronger than the parties they create, and never fail to survive their downfall. They never fail to find representatives in the old organizations to lead the work of reconstruction. These are the continuators of the tradition, the defenders of the orthodox doctrine. The task of the uncorrupted revolutionists, obliged by circumstances to start the work of organizational reconstruction, has never been to proclaim a new revelation – there has been no lack of such Messiahs, and they have all been lost in the shuffle – but to reinstate the old program and bring it up to date.
- James P. Cannon, 'The Degeneration of the Communist Party'
I just thought I'd clarify something on the platforms I'm reading. They are all from the various parties current websites so I'm assuming their up to date.
If you haven't studied all (or at least most) of the left parties in the US, don't join one until you have. Plus it depends what you want from a party.
World Socialists are the party I would join.
Platforms can always be vague (programs are generally more specific) and opportunistic, so if you can get a plurality of views (Wikipedia etc.) it helps.
list of Left-Wing Parties in the United States of America
I don't know if the IWW might be a good fit for a DeLeonist, mainly because the IWW as a union rejects political action in favor of direct action. The Workers' International Industrial Union (WIIU) split apart from the IWW in 1908 to work as a political union aligned with the Socialist Labor Party. The WIIU was revived last year as a DeLeonist industrial union, but I have no clue how large their numbers are, certainly much smaller than the IWW.
Even though I'm opposed to parties in general, I wouldn't mind if the SLP (or a new DeLeonist party, though I like the original name) came back. I'm interested in DeLeonism. I'm also interested in seeing if the new WIIU will grow. They're making branches in several different spots, including Texas, Iowa, Florida, and Minnesota.
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
Just a clarification, SP-USA does not allow social democrat's "officially" in the party, but it's easy to see there are some in the party.
"[People] act like its some kind of rock solid homogeneous body of masculine oiled men with big hammers and flat caps standing outside factory gates chewing tobacco and muttering 'those damn petit-bourgeois students and their alienating camera-smashing, I sure love me some CCTV! Don't you, comrade stakhnov?'." - Ravachol
Well, Beck is scatter shot and will attack whatever socialist group is in his sights for the day. He's gone after ISO, PSL, SPUSA, etc.
The Birchers are probably correct. From what I see, PSL is definitely the most active group in the American left. I have two rather serious differences with the organization, that would probably keep me from joining them if I were in the market for a new group, but I work with them on most occasions I'm able.
The real question you should consider is, who is in your area and what are they doing? Being the only member of a group in your area sux week-dead donkey nostrils.
Running the paper and the National Action Committee.
I know this very well. All I stated was that if he was looking into a organization that favored Lenin and Mao, then the PSL's a best bet. Since the PSL doesn't really favor Stalin as much as the FRSO and others, the PSL was the logical choice for someone who only favors Lenin and Mao, but not Stalin. I didn't intend to make it out as if I was saying the PSL's a Maoist organization. You know me well enough to know I wouldn't make that mistake.
That is my biggest problem. I'm in east TN which is pretty much the heart of the Bible-belt and conservatism. Theses are the people who run campaign adds talking about stopping Obama's socialist machine. So I'm kind of alone out here.
I really, really hate to suggest this, but Solidarity is active in East TN. The organizer in the area is much better than the group, though.
I don't disagree about the IWW and DeLeonists not being the best fit, but to be honest I was kind of reaching for potential groups, since the SLP is more or less dead and there aren't any other "pure" DeLeonist options out there (at least to my knowledge.) That said, the IWW is open to basically all workers regardless of their politics otherwise, so it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch; I'd identify as a Leninist in some respects (and am very pro-party otherwise), but I'm a member of the IWW as well as the SP-USA and don't see much contradiction. I just know better than to ask the IWW as a whole to support any of our candidates
"If communism means anything at all, it means the radical eruption of democracy. Bursting its present narrow political confines, where it is allowed to hold truncated and partly illusory sway, democracy is to engulf all spheres of social life."
~Moshe Machover, "Collective Decision-Making and Supervision in a Communist Society"
" I swear the neighbours must have heard the facepalm I just made."
~Majakovskij
I know someone who is part of it, he is a Trotskyist. He is also part of the Progressive Student Allaince at UT which is where I first got interested in. Marxism. What is wrong with Solidarity by the way?
Solidarity seems to have a sizable base of members, but they intervene in struggles in such an odd manner that it weirds me out. I've never had a member of Solidarity tell me they were a member of Solidarity. They tend to do united front action, but they don't really focus on building a revolutionary party in Leninist terms.
The basic ideas of Marxism, upon which alone a revolutionary party can be constructed, are continuous in their application and have been for a hundred years. The ideas of Marxism, which create revolutionary parties, are stronger than the parties they create, and never fail to survive their downfall. They never fail to find representatives in the old organizations to lead the work of reconstruction. These are the continuators of the tradition, the defenders of the orthodox doctrine. The task of the uncorrupted revolutionists, obliged by circumstances to start the work of organizational reconstruction, has never been to proclaim a new revelation – there has been no lack of such Messiahs, and they have all been lost in the shuffle – but to reinstate the old program and bring it up to date.
- James P. Cannon, 'The Degeneration of the Communist Party'
I'm pretty sure I've heard of every socialist party and organization in the United States except Solidarity.
Aaaaaannnnddddd that probably helps as to why I'm clueless about them.
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
That's pretty funny.
I know, right? I'd been working with a group of people in Ohio for a while and I found out several months into a project that they were Solidarity members. However, Chegitz might have over criticisms of Solidarity that I'm not aware of.That's pretty funny.
The basic ideas of Marxism, upon which alone a revolutionary party can be constructed, are continuous in their application and have been for a hundred years. The ideas of Marxism, which create revolutionary parties, are stronger than the parties they create, and never fail to survive their downfall. They never fail to find representatives in the old organizations to lead the work of reconstruction. These are the continuators of the tradition, the defenders of the orthodox doctrine. The task of the uncorrupted revolutionists, obliged by circumstances to start the work of organizational reconstruction, has never been to proclaim a new revelation – there has been no lack of such Messiahs, and they have all been lost in the shuffle – but to reinstate the old program and bring it up to date.
- James P. Cannon, 'The Degeneration of the Communist Party'
Is this the same solidarity as the one that was in Poland? ive seen people in my area with the Polish solidarity logo on their pins at left-wing rallys.
if that is the case, then i would say a problem with them is they basically opened the door for an extremely right-wing period in poland that still exists.
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
phew ok.
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
