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1. I've said this many times and I'll say it again: when there is a mass communist movement in the US, the main drivers of it will be people who do not yet call themselves communists.
2. Why? Look at the state of US "communist" circles today. They're filled with petty bourgeois liberalism, rumor-spreading, character assassinations, and slander over difference of opinion on matters that most working class people would find laughable -
3. someone might make a tweet commenting on a phenomenon, and someone else might read between lines that aren't even there, interpret it in the worst way possible, and make the person out to be a bigot without consulting said person's views,
4. then tell all of their mutuals to unfollow and/or block. Do you seriously think the average worker wouldn't find all of this laughable? You think after a long day of hard work, people wanna deal with this bullshit?
5. It's like petty-bourgeois PTA gossip at best, and high school drama at worst. Some organization you dislike does something good, but because you dislike that organization, you get mad at people who support said organization's efforts.
6. Another organization you dislike possibly has some issues, so before you even investigate, you go around spreading the worst of the accusations before you even really know what's going on. Hell, you might even make some shit up and add it to the story.
7. Meanwhile, an organization you like does something bad, but because you like it, you sweep it under the rug or you downplay it. Or that organization does something good, and you act like the whole world should get on its knees and bow down to that organization.
8. You have people copjacketing other members of their organization because of personal grievances or because of jealousy.
9. You have these hipsters with white guilt constantly self-flagellate, but other than catharsis on the individual level, nothing about white supremacy changes. You think workers will look at that sort of shit and be inspired?
10. Then there are arguments over whether or not Lenin and Stalin were white, as if that changes the validity of their contributions to the communist movement and Marxist theory
11. And then there are some idiots who go around spray-painting communist graffiti, take pictures of it, and act like it came from the masses and not from themselves. Is it really a surprise that much of the working class hasn't been drawn to communism yet?
12. How many of these people know what it's like to receive countless phone calls from the bank because your family hasn't been able to afford paying the mortgage for months, knowing that your days in that house are numbered?
13. How many of these people know how to talk to someone who is in that situation? You think people in that situation give a fuck about your he-said she-said drama involving people they'll never encounter or even hear about in real life?
