we must live, grusha! live!

You do not need to see the failure of previous socialist movements as failures of socialism and Marxism. Marx did not become a nihilist due to the failure of the Paris Commune; he sought to analyze its failures and continued in the goal of revolution and the liberation of the proletariat using this failure as a stepping stone to learn and better our fight against capitalism. If you cannot maintain your beliefs in the face of previous failures and have to resort to revisionism, you aren't actually committed to Marxism.

You can perfectly analyze the failures of Cuba, USSR, China, and other socialist projects and what caused them to fail. To just close your eyes and plug your ears and say that actually socialism is winning and there is no need for analysis of these alleged socialist projects is anti-Marxist. China is currently the 2nd largest supporter of Israel economically. Cuba and the DPRK are dominated by foreign capital and are reliant upon it. Cuba even opened up its economy to private ownership by US citizens over a decade ago! The DPRK is sending soldiers to aid Russia's Inter-Imperialist war in Ukraine! For gods sakes you can and I know you can understand these as unacceptable for any socialist country to do. Look past these states and look towards seeking to organize revolution within your own country, stop glorifying and upholding these nations which have obviously failed to meet the standards which we should hold them to. Analyze these nations seek to understand their failures to move past them, join a communist party, organize your community, educate others and yourself.

My hesitancy towards APL and similar organizations is that I think they see the unity of nominal Marxists as equivalent to forming a political party. I think this shows in their public materials and rhetoric, which focus heavily on demonstrating their basis in the canonical texts of Marxism rather than strategically analyzing how we're going to organize an independent working class. I wouldn't rule them out as constituent parts of a movement in the making, but I think sects like these can only be justified if they eventually dissolve into the general movement, which is the only force that can birth a communist political faction. I'm not so much criticizing you as an individual here as the way that our generation still hasn't had the kinds of collective experiences and independent organizational efforts necessary to internalize and rebirth Marxism

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my awesome and super viable strategy for overthrowing the us government that doesnt focus on uniting workers internationally and leading workers in advanced capitalist production, transportation, and social reproduction in using their overwhelming numbers and their relationships to the means of their work to expropriate the imperialist bourgeoisie by force. it just sounds like that would be really hard because i dont like those people. i just have vibes based nation building instead. yeah its awesome i just do protests but sometimes i get burned out :((( but then i remember all the reasons to uphold all the actually existing socialisms and resistance to imperialism and intersectional feminism and i lecture some people online and i feel better. and yes im a marxist. dont ask what my parents do for work. slay

i have been reading substacks and old communist books from a single tendency, recommended to me by a single activist clique, for two or three years. i am confident that everyone who disagrees with me is hitler

the kind Felix Dzerzhinsky would have done a lot worse