Chicanos have the same issue, we have a lot of traitors working in the police force and ICE. These people don’t consider themselves “Mexican”, which is ironic since reactionaries definitely don’t consider them to be Anglos.
In Texas, these people will call themselves “Tejanos” but never Mexican. It’s crazy in that it’s an allegiance that’s completely one-sided. It’s also a negation of history considering that Texas used to be Mexican territory and before that, indigenous.
Edit: Tejanos serving in ICE and the police are our generation’s version of “Jews for Hitler”. It made no sense back then and it makes no sense now.
I’ve been noticing a lot more small businesses closing down in my area recently. Many people are going to be forced to confront this economic reality and exit their bubble.
Having kids is actually more of a reason to organize than you think. The spectre of unemployment is stark and it hangs over every proletarian. Losing your job would mean not being able to provide for your kids. You really ought to be framing action in those terms, protecting the family.
I can’t say I have to deal with that sort of shit down here in Texas. Immigration has been a wake up call for the Chicano community. The people I care about have already internalized that the government and the far-right are all liars through experience.
If you’re having trouble trying to convince people, maybe step back and ask yourself if you’re trying to convince the right kind of people who’s particular life experiences align the most with class warfare. You need to reach out to people who are suffering first, this is our base of support.
The petite bourgeois generally are useless, even with everything that’s happening right now.
I think a lot of liberals are quietly looking at the militancy coming from the community in awe, since we’re one of the only forces actively resisting Trump in a real way. Many white working liberals feel safer with the brown working class than they do with their own white capitalist class, which is a good thing.
Not sure why some conservatives are starting to defect on this issue though. Maybe they’re nervous about losing super-exploitable labor.
I think at some point, the white people I see attend our actions will be less Communist and anarchistic, but this is a good thing because that means the masses are starting to be politically activated. They can adopt more correct views with time and attention from cadres.
I don’t disagree with you. In my mass org, it’s understood that immigration is in essence, a national struggle since in Aztlàn it’s Chicanos and Mexicanos who make up the majority of the deportations going on.
But I also need to stress that while the class struggle and the national struggle profoundly influence each other they are still distinct processes. It’s technically incorrect to say that the national struggle is the class struggle.
The goals of national liberation and the class struggle are non-antagonistic but distinct. The goal of the national liberation is to ultimately upend national oppression. The goal of the class struggle is to gradually abolish private property and the class system.
Since nationalism is considered progressive in oppressed nations, proletarian nationalism is partaken with the ultimate goal of superseding all nationalism, all borders and all states. Proletarian nationalism is a nationalism which is interested in rendering obsolete itself.
In true dialectical fashion, the national struggle and the class struggle are both the same and also not.
Edit: I also want to stress that actually, many issues we deal with in our everyday life is a particular manifestation of class struggle. The struggle against climate change is a pretty good example since in terms of technical know how and resources, we know how to decarbonize but it’s capitals supremacy above all else with it’s avaricious greed for profit which stalls such collective action.
Edit2: Homelessness is another particular manifestation of class struggle. Firstly in that it maintains a reserve army of labor and secondly in that the logic of commodity form compels construction companies to build too much luxury housing to take advantage of larger profit margins. This comes at the expense of shortage of cheap and affordable housing for the working class.
I’m a Communist but my family very much supports my activities because I focus on protecting immigrants.
They don’t care too much about Communism, but undocumented immigrants in particular have been thrown away like trash by every major political party in the USA, so they have to accept the help of Communists.
In my opinion, I don’t think most people will arrive to Communism directly through class struggle, but rather through a particular manifestation of it. The struggle we as Communists have in our mass work is to connect the universal with the particular to help them connect the dots.
I feel like Communists in the USA are still subject to liberal biases and this overemphasis on “winning the battle of ideas” is one of them. We should demonstrate to people the scientific nature of Marxism through our practice rather than by lecturing them.
Lest we become like liberals where we’re all talk and no action.
Chicanos have the same issue, we have a lot of traitors working in the police force and ICE. These people don’t consider themselves “Mexican”, which is ironic since reactionaries definitely don’t consider them to be Anglos.
In Texas, these people will call themselves “Tejanos” but never Mexican. It’s crazy in that it’s an allegiance that’s completely one-sided. It’s also a negation of history considering that Texas used to be Mexican territory and before that, indigenous.
Edit: Tejanos serving in ICE and the police are our generation’s version of “Jews for Hitler”. It made no sense back then and it makes no sense now.