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The problem with the Western left is worse than what you’re describing: they haven’t even tried, so everything that you’re saying is simply conjecture. They’re not at step one, they are at step zero.
And people are accusing me of being a doomer on the site lol.
Nobody is accusing you of being a doomer, you're just completely misrepresenting what people are saying to you and coming up with strawman arguments. Like you are literally in this thread downplaying and minimizing the fact that every radical movement in the US has been brutally suppressed and massacred. And not even just the radical ones but just college students protesting the Vietnam war. You are also minimizing the fact that the US police state is far more sophisticated and developed than places like Indonesia. Again this is not an excuse simply the basic material analysis you accuse us of lacking. Your posts here and previously accusing China of being "neoliberal" smack of armchair analysis by someone with no actual skin in the game.
Yeah, we’re here today because hundreds of thousands of people already died fighting for the cause. China is socialist today precisely because our forefathers did not give up despite being close to total annihilation.
I’m not minimizing the oppressive state apparatus in the US. I am saying that claiming so betrays a lack of strategy to confront them. And if you don’t have a strategy, how do you think you’re ever going to win?
Again you are projecting something onto me. Nowhere did I say we have no strategy, nowhere did I say any of the shit you are making a strawman out of. I am simply stating the fact that the conditions in the US are fundamentally different from that in Indonesia and you pretending otherwise is antimaterialist and a bad faith argument. Jesus fuckin christ the fact an anarchist has to explain this to you is very fucking funny.
What's step one? What does that entail?
Read Mao: Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, 1925
The American left doesn’t even have the most basic framework for a strategy. Start by having an actual strategy to take power, then maybe you would be taken seriously.
Vague posting about 1925 Mao isn't exactly what I had in mind when I asked those questions
If you believe simply transplanting the organizational strategies (which you didn't even bother outlining) of communists from 1925 warlord era China is how the western "left" overcomes the combined might of the various armed forces of the most powerful empire in history, then quite frankly you're not serious or a materialist
Stop posturing and explain your work
I never said transplanting. Theory is not about rote memorization. Marxism-Leninism is a scientific approach and theories are tools to help you analyze the specific material and historical conditions and formulate the strategies forward.
Mao himself used Marx and Lenin together with plenty of historical references to devise his class analysis in China. These are the essential reading materials to help you get started.
I hope you don’t get blinded by your Westerner’s arrogance (don’t worry, it’s not personal and I’ve had many Western leftists talked to me like that and I’m used to it already) and accept that Mao has something to teach you about the movement you wanted to build in America.
So you think you know Mao, fine let's test that
Identify the primary contradictions of American society in 2025 and what specific corrections does a revolutionary party require to sucesssfully apply the mass line?
Outline what talking points the political line of this party will be composed of?
How will this party leverage the contradictions and it's correct application of the mass line to overcome the unified martial might of the American state?
How will this state counter COINTELPRO measures and maintain organizational cohesion?
why do you expect a random-ass foreigner on hexbear to do your homework for you? these are questions that require careful thinking by people who have direct experience with the conditions in question. you won't find a good answer to any of these questions on the internet. organize. please.
Precisely, which is why I find xiaohongshu's takes on the subject inappropriate and without basis
I don't pretend to have all the answers to those questions, but I know enough to realize vagueposting about Mao online doesn't come close to the answer
lmao I know no one on this site is talking up to me about organizing considering the insults and bullshit I've gotten over it
you won't find the answers to those questions in an electoral campaign either. i find zohran charismatic too but come on. i dont know why you're getting so defensive over XHS's largely correct basic analysis
You sure about that, a socialist becoming mayor of New York sounds a path toward an answer to me
Correct? No.
Basic? Absolutely.
in what way and by what method?
if you don't see the rampant treatlerism in even the left in the west idk what to say
Nobody here is stating that we cannot, only why we have not. This is basic ass material analysis friend.