Comradeship // Freechat

I worry it's the same kind of thinking that drives someone to launch the 5th split and forum or discord server or whatever for a given topic because those others are doing it alright BUT you're convinced you'd do it just a bit better and can address some problems you have so really you should throw your hat into the ring because you think you can pull out ahead (though in the end all you end up doing is furthering the fragmentation 9/10 times).

In fact it takes a great deal of humbleness to not do such a thing when you have the energy and leadership qualities and maybe there are real arguments for problems with the existing parties. It's a hard temptation to resist. In this case there's the obvious idea that Americans are afraid of an explicitly communist party so why not launch something less scary or hardcore and more focused on just unions, being pro-labor, etc. Doing that might mean the feds can't quite as openly crush you but it doesn't mean the bourgeoisie won't make it their mission to sabotage and destroy you anyways and bring great resources to bear and call you communist just the same.

I worry anything like that risks becoming "big tent" and having its message watered down and co-opted. Letting in opportunists like AOC types who are quickly bought off once in actual office and the whole party kind of lurching that direction as there really aren't any militant labor parties that aren't explicitly socialist that I can think of off the top of my head in the west in the modern era. We've all seen what they did to Corbyn who was hardly extreme.

But he's a capable organizer so who knows. Maybe it can compliment what we have.