the marx bust making him rethink it all

Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely read up more about Hoxhaism – and in any case the APL website seems to have a 10 week course that includes it as reading material for new members, so I might check that out, too.

Do you know if they’re serious about political organization work, though? This is my primary concern. I checked out CPUSA a while back and it seemed to be filled with terminally online GenZedong transplants that had no interests in actually doing any labor advocacy, tenant organizing, worker mobilization, co-op development, etc. all at a time when the UAW strikes were going on nationwide. That’s not to say I have no interest in political education – there just didn’t seem to be any of it there, and I mostly just saw edgy memes and uncritical (ironic?) surface-level idolization of Pol Pot, Kim Jong-Il, and other near personality cults that never looked at, from a leftist standpoint, where these leaders failed.

I’m really just looking for groups that aren’t so disconnected from reality and are serious in their mission to support labor. If you know of any please let me know!

I mean, PFLP is also extremely obscure as it is. With the amount of support I see for them online and in protests, I would assume them to be a significant political force in Palestine, when in reality their largest voter turnout in electoral history was 4%. Third Way is arguably the only other political party besides Hamas and Fatah that ever had any sort of political influence, as they are the only other party to have members serve as Prime Minister (Salam Fayyad) or Minister of Finance or Education (Hanan Ashrawi).

I’m skeptical of that claim because DFLP originally had a much larger presence in Palestine than PFLP did (during the 1996 general elections, DFLP won 10.18% of the vote against Arafat, whereas PFLP was not on the ballot). The idea that it exists solely to weaken the leftist movement in Palestine also doesn’t make sense when they have previously formed coalitions with the other smaller leftist parties – including the Palestinian Communist Party (PPP) and the Democratic Union (FIDA) – via The Alternative, and were set to form a coalition with PFLP called the Democratic Alliance List in the cancelled 2016 election.

I’m not sure where “anti-USSR” comes from, either – both PFLP and DFLP received considerable support from the Soviet Union and PRC and both presently operate out of Damascus under the protection of Assad. They were and are mostly the same people, DFLP just didn’t support committing aircraft hijackings and suicide bombings outside of Israel early on and now doesn’t support suicide bombings anywhere.

Hamas wants to make Israel not exist.

I mean, so do I

RealClearPolitics has him at average 14.6%, still big but 22% seems a bit high

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden_vs_kennedy-8272.html

Can someone explain why every leftist (online and on the streets) seems to support PFLP but not DFLP? Did DFLP do something bad, or is it that DFLP just isn’t doing enough in their eyes? DFLP is also part of the Democratic Alliance List with PFLP, supports a one-state solution, and the Omar Al-Qasim Forces (their militant wing) have been active alongside the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (PFLP’s militant wing) in storming IDF watchtowers and fighting the IOF. And the DFLP doesn’t have any recent history of massacres at synagogues or killing teenagers… Yet I never hear any support for them, see their flags at marches, etc.

Also, noting PSL being accused of opportunism yesterday, can someone explain the beef between PSL and FRSO? Is it ideological or just personal drama?

I am pretty plugged out so please forgive me if these questions sound like attacks.