25 January 2025
Comrades, you have probably heard that former Politbüro cadre of the American Communist Party, Danny Shaw, has made many accusations. Neither Thoughts of a Comrade nor the wider Union Council of Communist Parties is here to make an official statement or provide a serious analysis— just yet at least.
This short article is just a (belated) 'breaking news' reaction on what has transpired. This is a deeply saddening affair, after all. Seeing yet another ACB-style corrosion, just as my comrade and friend of ten years, Rupert Rosenheim ghosted me, really causes such news to be more severely hurtful than it otherwise would be. This party is dead, my local reading club is dead, my friendships are dead, the CPUSA and the PCUSA are corrupt beyond all hope... it is a very bad time to be a communist, so told and tallied.
Is this not the reason I fell into a depressed search for answers, looking into the forgotten history of Reform-Leninism, wherever I could find shards of that legacy? Did that not lead to the theorising and inauguration of the twin policies Gladsnost and Politstroika (Cordialness and Political Upstanding: traits now so very foreign to the Left)? Yet does anyone care about Cordialness and Political Upstanding besides this single comrade? By the look of it, simply no.
Vanguardism clearly has a problem. But not just vanguardism. The Left has clearly had the root-problem for much, much longer. The old Communist Party USA, the Party of Communists, the American Council of Bolsheviks, the American Communist Party; all four of these vanguard parties have fallen into decay or disrepute. But will the Left try to learn anything from this constant failure? No, it won't.
The Left does not even believe in comradery anymore. Friendship is denounced as a ploy for control or a sentimental weakness. Most Leftists are unfriendly egotists and sneering opportunists, who spit on Kant's kindly maxim to treat man as an end in himself. The Left is rightly reviled as vicious and conniving: whether we are speaking about the Woke-,,Stalinist'' Liberals, or the Ultra-Leninist Yezhovites of the Left, it matters not which.
Already the name-calling has begun again: 'Shaw the Trot'; 'Sentral Intelligence For All'; 'Soapmeal For None'; 'Noah Khrachshit'; 'American Clown Party'; 'Mid-Western Mussolini Institute'; 'Ali Cult'; 'Dankey Stain'; 'Party of Crackheads USA'; 'Clusterfuck Party USA'; 'Finny the Rapist'; 'Heterodox Diarrhea'; 'Carlos the Unhingable'... and on and on and on we go. Of course, there is the outstanding accusation that the PSL is actually the Party for Sexual Deviation. When I look at the Right, and I glance back over to the Left, I understand perfectly why the masses would chuse the less sincere former over the latter mess. We can go not even a year without some semi-important Leftist calling another an insulting name, whilst the likes of Patrick Deneen are out there painting a refined, respectful and thus respectable image. The masses are less afraid of being viciously torn down by the Right, even if the Right is in reality more likely to do so (but they are taking pains to do such unkind things to each other behind closed doors).
I am not surprised in the slightest that the American Communist Party is facing such problems. I do not know if the accusations made against the ACP are true, and will have to investigate before composing a proper analysis. But even if I find the accusations to be false... what does that say about the Left either way? Either the ACP is comprised of vicious and conniving scumbags; or Danny Shaw and Socialism For All (et alia) are vicious and conniving scumbags. Either way, the system and ideology is one of vicious, conniving scumbags (I seem to hear a distant echo from a comrade 'that cannot work!'). Is this what the Left is now??? My own comrades and friends turned out to be vicious or conniving scumbags, too.
I think that I am going to leave this bitter article here, lest I cause myself a mixed panic-sadness attack. I am sad, comrades. I am hurt. This tragedy may not have involved me, but it speaks to the same tragedies I have faced time and time again on the Left. For now, I must openly declare that the Left has become an unfriendly place.
Expect three articles, which are in the works:
'Musings on The Betrayal of Friendship by The Left and Lawful Responses'
'Adhere to The Four Nosts and Stroikas; Not a Nost or Stroika Off-Course!'
Now, an analysis of the claims against the ACP, I guess... (yay)
At some point I will probably also make a commentary on FinnBol's Response video.
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