Marxist-Leninist/Third Worldist party in Ghana in the media

Agreed. I would love to see some combination of industrial syndicates and agricultural communes coming about through coordination of strikes and guerilla action. It seems like CPI(Marxist) has a lot more potential than the Naxalites in general tho.

Maoism in general is in decline. As much as Mautists of every variety including MTW don’t want to hear it it’s still true that the decline of the peasantry in the third world means that much of Maoist strategy becomes obsolete. The decline of the peasantry also means the death of the peasantry as a driving or major political force in the developing world. The world is now majority urban.

While it’s true that the 90%+ urbanized first world skews things a bit it’s still the case that the fall in rural share of population, subsistence agriculture, employment in agriculture etc. has been dramatic even in the third world.

ANC is wasting a lot of political capital on trying to change farm ownership from white to black hands when it turns out that the overwhelming majority of the black proletariat—which is the majority, doesn’t care about land-reform. They care about their wages and not the color of the skin of the person who owned the farm that provided their morning breakfast.

Land reform politics is only heating up because the South African bourgeoisie have nothing much left to offer but I suspect it will be dead soon regardless. The juice won’t be worth the squeeze.

The question is what to replace Maoism and even significant parts of Leninism that focus on the peasantry as the major ally of the proletariat and see bourgeois democratic revolution (however that’s defined) as a potential opening for socialist revolution.

It’s significant that bourgeois national-liberation movements came and went but there was no significant revolutionary opening for communists in most countries.

CPI (Marxist) is a really muddled group. In the same way the CPI (Maoist) and other Naxal groups are severely weakened by their dependence on a portion of the rapidly shrinking rural population, as a poster above pointed out (and this IS a major issue TW Maoist parties have been totally unable to adapt to, which is killing them) CPI (Marxist) is hindered by its irrational focus on the urban middle class. The party has massive resources, but it is totally enamoured with winning over the petty bourgeoisie. This is bad enough that the leadership of the CPI Marxist are refusing to make an issue of communalism (casteism). Critics have correctly pointed out if they were to just say “fuck the Brahmin” and focus on the lower castes - who make up the overwhelming majority of the proletariat, they would get a lot of support from workers.

The upper ranks of the party are largely useless social democrats, although real, solid communists exist throughout the party - mostly at the mid levels. There are loads of solid theorists and economists behind them too, like the patnaik’s, who are urging the leadership to stop fucking around.

In short, the party has some potential, but is a confusing mess wrecked with revisionism and Peru bourgeois attitudes. It’ll take most of the top leadership being purged for it to have real potential. Very frustrating.

Outside of CPI Marxist, there are groups with better political lines, although none are nearly as strong. The original CPI ML is still around (yes the one founded by majumdar) and seem politically solid. Most “com parties” in India though are essentially run as businesses. Small family cults which spread to a few villages and then break apart when their great leader dies. The splitter groups claim to be the legit successor of the old great leader, will put his portrait up on the wall next to the new great leader, and invent some fictional ideological difference to differentiate from the opposition. In most of them, ideological positions have more to do with inherited baggage + need to differnciate than principles differences. This is why within a small time frame a group can jump from Maoists to mls to trotskyists to hoxhaists and then back again.

Because they all claim to be the legit successor of the past legacy of mini personality cults, if you look at the walls of their offices/meeting places, they are often lined with DOZENS of portraits of great leaders - starting from Marx to Mao, and then a dozen + Indian leaders. They are often too many to fit on a single wall and can totally line every wall of the room.

Practically every group in India traces itself back to the original CPI.. Lots of great leaders.

I think leftism needs to go back to it’s original focus on the industrial proletariat.

As somebody descended from a Nepalese immigrant, i'm fully erect (pic related indian IWW member, who tried to assassinate the damn viceroy)

Why? I love both sensible Trots, and maoists, but this is Larouche level. Why turn down other orgs, who'll free 3rd world proles, and cut off Bezo's slave made Gucci belts?

here's the pic

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Don't the IWW still restrict political party members from joining?

They don't want revisionists in the union, as syndicalism is probably the only socialism in the U.S that can become a mass movement, due to it not seeming as scary as Leninism to burgers, and being easy to organize/introduce.

The third world is now urban majority. MTW groups that do most of their organizing around peasants won’t survive this century.

So they resolved the whole "kick everyone in a political party out" problem?