They were posted on ACP_Leaks:
FidoOnegin
joined 2 months ago
ACP isn't a party on a marxist sense. It's the fandom club surrounded Haz (real name, Ali Hammoud, from Dearborn). Everything from their little events thay call Conventions to their day to day operations has nothing to do with the practices of a normal socialist group/party.
Haz and his mates on the leadership weren't elected, it was a long shimmered personal project of Haz who somehow convinced himself that he could do entryism on CPUSA and steal that party. Just to find out the whole thing was going nowhere and was forced to start his own brand.
When confronted with the every day business of running a "party", Haz struggles to keep up with the meetings and agendas. Joins late to his party business dates and always gives random excuses like how he had to take a long shit or how some guy in the gym looked him funny.
This "party" is Marxist-Leninist in name. I've interviewed several former members and all give similar stories. They are pressed by an otherwise absent leadership to post photo-ops of themselves picking up trash or doing other voluntaristic community labor nobody in their communities asked for. No support is provided otherwise, they are expected to come up with their own supplies and money for these actions.
The whole intention behind the "party" isn't to build up a movement or organize the working class. But rather to reinforce the social standing of their leaders and maybe to be able to extract rent from the chapters that start their own businesses (yeah, I know, that's a stupid idea on so many parts).
So yes, there are many angles to attack ACP from a marxist position without having to engage on liberal "they are authoritarian" side.
I've interviewed former ACP rank and file members and they were convinced that the whole scheme is built to win money for the leadership. They seek to be economically sustainable thru dues (they initially claimed they didn't have dues, but they do), the income from Red America and the "party businesses".
Some of the higher echelon leaders have invested time and money on the whole project and expect to get it back.
Just registered to add some more details to this excellent critique to the cult/pseudo-party ACP.
Their "magazine" is just a PDF with a shitty portrait and a bunch of essays. It's not even properly edited, one column texts, black on white. The "essays" aren't really that, but some times they are speeches by the party leadership mixed with already published articles of third parties (I really hope they ask for permission to their original authors for that...)
For example, "Noah Khrachvik" (not his real name) did a response to a Paul Cockshot article in which Noah defended the revolutionary nature of the "American Revolution" and the Founding Fathers; while the original Paul Cockshot defended the notion that the 13 Colonies were closer to a slaver republic inspired by Rome than a revolutionary bourgeois state.
There was only one issue... Cockshot article was 6 years old. Noah was answering to a previously publicly posted article.
I've extensively interviewed many former members and infiltrated their ranks and it's basically a cult surrounding the leadership that seeks to get money out of the rank and file.
I mean, it's public content now. The interviewed former member allowed it to be published.