Moreover, yes, the Democratic Party has shown time and again that they are willing and eager to use the full, repressive force of state terror on the left. The numerous links between the military, the police, the intelligence apparatus and the genocidal regime in Israel are exactly the fascism coming home from the frontier and it is happening under the merely class collaborationist Democrats

Agreed. I’m not arguing that electing democrats stops fascism. The Democratic Party is complicit in the rise of fascism. What I am arguing, is blocking a Trump presidency as the resolution proposed helps mitigate an existential threat to building a revolution, an all powerful unitary executive, and an increasingly radical right-wing legislature that dismantles civil rights.

And it doesn’t and shouldn’t be done through a public advocation for the Democratic Party. For example, engaging in something like voter registration canvassing, and advocating for pro-worker ballot proposals, diminishes the likelihood of a Trump presidency, and more importantly, builds connections with other groups and the workers themselves.

It is a failure of solidarity to ally, even tactically, with a genocidal regime, simply on the assumption that domestic conditions will be better for organizing.

Not an assumption, an observation that fits a historical pattern. And not just organizing - it is existential. The president now being legally completely above the law will only embolden capital, and the consolidation and expansion of the executive’s powers will make it all the easier to escalate suppression against us and our comrades.

But, those are my thoughts as to the positives of such a resolution. It didn’t pass, and if the National Committee does pass a revised version, I’ll be very interested to see the changes.

I fail to see the distinction, particularly, when the Democratic Party is in full support of the genocide in Gaza.

It is oft said that “fascism is imperialism turned inwards,” no? Again, it is a material difference of the conditions in which we mobilize the masses and build a revolution.

The Communist Party of Poland also didn’t see the difference, they saw Pilsudiki’s coup of 1926 as a simple bourgeois vs bourgeois conflict. When the new regime curtailed the powers of parliament, and pursued policies of censorship and suppression of leftist activities, the party changed its tune. But it was far too late - the ability to mobilize and communicate had been crushed.

Are we equating the Democratic Party with social democracy now?

Well, in pre-1935 Europe it was indeed the Social Democrats. But in terms of this specific function, the difference between the material conditions under a class-collaborationist party and an outright fascist party, yes I think the comparison is apt.

Your party has a god-awful reputation

Definitely true in some digital circles like Hexbear. This hasn’t been my experience on the ground, however.

stuff like this looks disgustingly unprincipled on its face

It seems to me that, in cases like this, the discussions are initially framed from either a place of misunderstanding or malintent. It’s a pretty fundamental fact that this resolution was not passed.

I ask again however, as I did elsewhere in this thread, who exactly is in this “People’s Front” against fascism aside from CPUSA itself?

We define a “People’s Front” or “Popular Front” as an alliance on specific issues, and the alliance is not necessarily based on class character. This is opposed to a “United Front,” which is a more stable and permanent coalition of united working class orgs. It can be other communists, labor activists, liberals, Democrats, and other progressive groups.

Locally we have worked with progressive democrats, student orgs, housing activists, and even Catholic orgs on things like specific housing issues (e.g. property millage for funding local housing insecurity services) and forcing our city and county officials to call for a ceasefire in Palestine.

If we committed to blocking a Trump presidency, it should be a strategic one off, not subordination to a party that enforces the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

Finally, we do not see the Democratic Party as a fascist organization. We define fascism using the comintern’s definition as presented by Georgi Dmitrov: “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital”.

This is not an excuse for the imperialist, settler-colonial, bourgeois-subservient Democratic Party, but there is a material difference between fascism and neoliberal orthodoxy. The conditions for organizing the masses becomes much more difficult when there is a ramp up in censorship, imprisonment, and outright executions of communists. This philosophy of “Social Fascism,” where modern social democracy and fascism are equated, in part caused the communists to remove themselves from the masses and underestimate fascism. It led to a failure to prevent fascism in Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, and Germany pre-1935, hence the comintern’s analysis.

Re: “calling Russia military operation in Ukraine illegal”

You’re right, a part of the party’s position is that it was wrong and in violation of International Law. The suffering of the working class has escalated as a consequence of the war.

But this alone would be a surface level analysis. The party recognizes:

• The presence of U.S. bases and military forces near Russia’s western border are rightfully seen as threats by Russia.
• U.S. imperialism and NATO’s expansions, including the attempt to bring Ukraine into the military alliance, has heightened tensions.
• Agreements reached in 2014 with respect to the autonomy of 4 million Russians living in Luhansk and Donetsk their autonomy have never been implemented by Ukraine’s government.
• The 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine and subsequent slaughter of separatists by the fascist Azov Battalion and brought tensions to a boiling point.

Thus, our “main task has to be to work to develop a peace movement and to change the Biden administration’s policy. That’s the best way and only way to support the workers of Russia and Ukraine.” Not idealistically decry Russia’s actions and do nothing, despite US-imperialism creating the situation in the first place. That is the core of our position, that which informs our priorities and our actions.

No. Many other districts (and by proxy, clubs) also dissented over resolution 5. Not only was there no “reprisal,” but we have been asked for feedback on it.

We have not, however, broken democratic centralism.

This is resolution 5, which did not pass at the National Convention, nor has a version of it yet passed from the National Committee. A big part of the disagreement was the lack of mention of the Democratic party and its role in allowing our descent into fascism.

I largely agree with the resolution, but it is a fine line that has to be walked between building a People’s Front against fascism, and subordination and class collaboration.

We’ve got the University of Michigan here in Ann Arbor, Michigan State University is in Lansing. Very distinct and unique names /s

But yeah, checks out. Very much an affluent “middle class” city. The genocide in Gaza has stirred militancy in the student population here and in the surrounding area, Biden is not popular.

I cut out carbs and started hiking but I didn’t cut out all of my “vices.” Caffeine and the occasional shot of liquor, sex, video games. Way too much YouTube, the most pernicious of all.

Watching the weight go down on the scale also helped form a positive feedback loop.

It gets easier after a month-ish and you’ve somewhat adapted, but yeah it’s a struggle. I completely fell off when lockdown started years back.

Well for cellphones I was more thinking photography, audio EQ, voice commands, search, navigation, etc. Any problem that isn’t easily formalized and handled by traditional coding.

That’s gonna be a lot of wet Astrophysicists. Also anyone with a cellphone, really.

Which is doubly worse because those higher-level libraries are black boxes, and you can’t always fix things that arise inside of them easily.

If by “higher level” you mean something like Java libraries, I’d say the opposite is true - at least if you don’t have the source for a Java class it is trivial to decompile and have something immediately readable. Can’t say the same for something like a dll originally written in C++.

• old webpages (like from the 2000s) are fast and snappy
• new webpages take much longer to load

Modern webpages are less like a page and more like a full blown application. If you’re not careful you’ll get an unoptimized mess, which is exacerbated when you put a bunch of ads on top.

That being said I don’t have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

Even if you argue that there is, they are certainly not aligned with Israeli Bourgeoisie

Who is putting “blame” on Israeli workers? Is the IMT responding to something in particular, or is this their general statement regarding the genocide in Gaza?

Unprecedented? There was a pro Palestine march on Washington on Nov 4th: https://www.answercoalition.org/national_march_for_palestine_saturday_nov_4

Also see: https://archive.ph/XDOYN

A comrade from my local CPUSA club attended, and said there were around 300,000 present for the pro Palestine march and protest.

He’s a soc dem in the US, it’s what we should expect. It’s why I started putting my effort into CPUSA.

The fact that a 4 day workweek was a part of strike negotiations is heartening - this won’t be the last time unions press for this, hopefully more aggressively over time.

Yeah, that’s my understanding. The article mentions how this is going to especially pose a problem with services like GamePass