CPUSA

I, a communist 100% opposed to their vision and analysis, think it's good to have a better analysis of exactly where they are wrong. Just "class reductionism" doesn't really cover it, because it's a very specific sort of limited scope. Sometimes class reductionism is saying that an analysis limits itself to only class (harmful in the long run, but not terrible to work with), but the ACP limits itself to a narrow view of what class means (worse). They look at only direct industrial production as "value creating" and take the hard stance that arises out of that assumption, and they limit "class relations" to "direct industrial production proles" vs "everyone else." There is no other mode of dialectics relevant in their eyes. They are anti-identity politics (in the bad way, like anti-Losurdo's inclusive "class" definition) and ultra about the strategies to be used for the chosen class.

I don't think I'm directly disagreeing with you or anything, but I do think it's important to name the exact disagreements or else it's just throwing terms that not everyone understands. I, for example, don't actually get what exactly you mean with "maga communism" or "nazbol" or "national socialist" in your comment. I'd guess we agree 100% but, you know, clarification for others is helpful, I hope

What happens if you take class reductionism too far.

aren't they the ones that think baristas are bourgeois or something? or was that another patsoc group?

Got 'em!

Aren't they essentially just a giant fed honey pot?

Vile reactionary organizations can opportunistically do good things to win people over. Saying they've got a black Haitian member feeding homeless people just isn't a moving argument.

"it's a white supremacist cracker movement"

The criticisms of these clowns are more evolved than that. You should read this (and share it with your friends): https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/04/praxis-of-alienation-and-enmity-on-the-american-communist-party/

it seems to me more that there's a disconnect between the national leaders (weird nazbol "patsoc" fucks) and the actual local and regional members, based on the things that this specific person has told me

If that's the only "critique" that person has, then for all intent and purposes, their party operates exactly the same as the CPUSA, the party they claim to both supplanted and improved upon, which is to say there is an entrenched clique in the party leadership who undemocratically control the party and have zero means of being held accountable or replaced by rank-and-file members.

I levy that it's a literal personality cult who's membership is composed of gullible yesmen who's journey towards becoming a communist from most likely a rabid reactionary position was intercepted by the petite bourgeois radicals, national chauvinistic reactionaries disguised as communists, feds and fascists that makes up their ideological and party leadership. There is zero reason to tolerate any member of their party in any public space they enter.

I'm sorry the opinions of people from marginalized backgrounds don't matter when they do things you don't like?

Don't use identity as a shield for a nazbol organization, that's straightforwardly disgusting and you can't tell me that you aren't doing that just like you can't convincingly pretend that you aren't making an argument. Why even pretend that you aren't? So you can't be wrong? That's consistent with this line, in that both are intellectually dishonest excuses.

Your human shield of a friend is helping to launder the reputation of a virulently reactionary organization. Even if the work that individual does under the ACP is good in the most narrow, proximate sense, they are nonetheless doing PR for a party that seeks to cause immense harm.

I've heard the same thing before, about people on the ground doing good work and generally disconnected from the leadership. I guess I should've mentioned that, too.

Candace Owens, welcome to the #resistance

They absolutely are AFAIK, but definitely so are the ACP grifters so I guess TrueAnon is still the lesser evil.

The good subreddit is banned or never existed in the first place, people should stop expecting anything from the CIA website.

called an ACP member there for saying Israel is worse than Russia

What even is the reasoning for this?

the problem with reddit is libs filter in to any mildly popular subreddit every time a post hits r/all. if moderation falls asleep at the wheel for even a minute it becomes unbearable