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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the answer I was looking for so I'll go with Kwame Ture

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

This is the answer I was looking for so I'll go with old Du Bois

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

John Brown. Look at what he managed to do with a small militia and imagine him with a proper military.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine John Brown with a tank 👍

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Inventing a larger Time Machine so I can give John brown a Sherman firefly

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Off the top of my head, I want to say Paul Robeson.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Huey P Newton.

Seems like everyone else has beaten me to the punch, but I’m still dropping his name. I’ve learned a lot from him, and I hope there’s an alternate timeline where he’s the fourth stage of Marxism after Maoism.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Fred Hampton

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me, the One True Leftist

I think the obvious answers are probably Huey Newton, Fred Hampton or Eugene Debs.

It wouldn't be communist, but I think Nat Turner or John Brown's revolts succeeding and establishing some sort of state would put us on a better path than we're on right now

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As others have said, Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, and Debs are all great choices.

I think Malcolm X would have been a great leader to have as the head of a communist state. Towards the end of his life, Malcolm was like an inch away from arriving to socialism as the answer. Had he not been assassinated, there's a good chance he'd come to a Marxist conclusion. God help any reactionaries if he got his hands on a copy of Capital or State and Revolution. The man liked to read and would have devoured that shit.

Other Americans eligible for president who were communists (but wouldn't want to hold public office) include: Dalton Trumbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Earnest Hemingway, Frank and Kitty Openheimer, Tupac Shakur, and Lucille Ball.

Also, I vote for Lee Harvey Oswald as CIA director.

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other Americans eligible for president who were communists (but wouldn't want to hold public office) include: ... Angela Davis...

Why wouldn't she want to hold public office? Wasn't she the CPUSA Vice Presidential Candidate in the '80s?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

She was, but she hasn't ran for/held office since then AFAIK. I kind of assumed she wanted out of public life since so many of her friends and loved ones have gotten murdered by the FBI.

Little Turtle, since I assume as it tradition the new communist state will have to fight a war against capitalist powers immediately after its founding.

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

He's got a plan brace-cowboy

[–] jack@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Debs probably but malcom x or newton would be killer too

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Black Red Guard, he's very in the know about Marxism.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't sit well with the swing states

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Fred Hampton

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Same. Americans ain't leading any revolution I want to be a part of

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Any particular reason?

Chairman: fred-hampton

Supreme Marshall: JB-shining-aggro

Labor Minister: big-bill

Chief Inquisitor: malcolm-checks

[–] BrownMinusBlue@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure about president, but I would have loved parenti as the White House correspondent.

Ok hard mode: only living. No dead comrades.