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''“I don’t want socialism because I want to destroy America. I want socialism because I want to save America.” - Caleb T. Maupin''</blockquote> | ''“I don’t want socialism because I want to destroy America. I want socialism because I want to save America.” - Caleb T. Maupin''</blockquote><blockquote>"I used to subscribe to the idea that America's various racial and cultural groups constituted distinct nations. I understand where that sentiment is coming from. But it's just not true. America itself is a nation in chains, not just because the people lack sovereignty, but because they continue to struggle to be born as one people. The injustices suffered by red and black Americans are the injustices suffered by one American nation. To divide Americans politically on the basis of the existing cultural divisions is reactionary. Americans should be treated as one nation, and, in opposition to 'intersectional' ideology, all of their common grievances and struggles must be eloquently and coherently recognized in the actuality of one common unifying struggle. That is the historic duty of the Communist Party." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"The time is coming for all Americans to unite against the regime. Before now, student activists were brainwashed by the hegemony, and weaponized against the people on its behalf. Now, they see how easily they have been discarded, brutalized, and maligned when they dissent on the regime's foreign policy agenda. They flagrant suspension of civil liberties is nothing new. Federal agencies have been arresting Trump voters as 'Russian agents' for sharing the wrong Facebook memes. The DHS has targeted critics of the American Big Pharma as threats to national security. In Canada, unprecedented methods were used by the government to punish the truckers for their protests by targeting their bank accounts. Now the fascist repression is reaching the student activist movement - a single part of the hegemony that has risen in rebellion against it, over the sheer indefensibility of the hypocrisy of human rights ideology in Palestine. It is time to cast aside the petty generational, demographic, racial and cultural differences between free Americans, who are rising against the wicked, increasingly fascist regime. Now is the time to draw a fundamental and existential conclusion. Because the student activists will, in the short term, fail. They cannot fight the power of the state by themselves. They cannot even fight the university administration on their own. The hegemony already sends the police to brutalize them. It's time to wake up and realize Americans have no popular sovereignty. The government and its hegemonic institutions will happily break your skull if you dissent. America is an occupied country. No, they won't listen to anyone's protests. No, they won't cave under popular pressure. No, 'civil society' cannot actually change anything. No, they aren't moved by your protests. They laugh at them. They don't care what you think. They care about keeping you in line, and controlling your thoughts. They rule by keeping the people divided. The repression of students must be linked up with the repression of all dissidents, or the students will be crushed in isolation, and that will simply be the end of it. Those who attempt to keep the masses divided do not care about fighting the regime, let alone fighting for Gaza. The uprising must spread in all directions, be cultivated in every grievance of the people against the system, crossing geographic and generational lines. The righteous struggle of the Palestinian people must inspire Americans to free themselves from their own fascist regime!" - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"Our [Infrared's] stance on First Americans (those who lived on this land before the arrival of Europeans) is as follows: 1) We fully recognize the criminal injustice committed against them; 2) We regard such evils as part and parcel of the rise of capitalist 'civilization' itself, motivated by all manner of greed, avarice, and villainy (By contrast, Zionism cannot be historicized as being a mere part of the evils of capitalism, as it emerged a reactionary ideology that formed in response to the decay of capitalism itself - rather than a primarily economic phenomena); 3) As such, the injustice against the First Americans is connected to the general injustice and evil of capitalist 'civilization' itself, which could not recognize the dignity of the people in general; 4) The American liberation movement should involve close contact and collaboration with Tribal authorities, in the spirit of shared popular struggle. Not academic 'decolonial' ideologists inspired by European anarchism; 5) An American proletarian dictatorship would include American tribal authorities, in the spirit of the construction of a shared popular, socialist and American civilization - which recognizes the First American civilizations as integral components in the development of a United America." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"Look at the chaos, cannibalism and savagery in the UK. This is what our rightist enemies want to bring to America. Race wars, a complete race to the bottom. The goal of American Communism is to unite all tribes into one American people. We fully reject separatism and parochial ethno-nationalism. These are un-American to the core. America is bigger than this. We aspire to be a big and wide civilization, not a small shitty country like Belgium." - Haz al-Din (addressing anti-immigration riots in the UK)</blockquote><blockquote>"National nihilism takes on three forms, one 'left', one liberal and the other 'Right'. Left national nihilism is liquidationist - declaring the whole past as one reactionary accident. Liberal national nihilism is simple capitalist cosmopolitanism. But Right national nihilism, often overlooked, is nationalism itself. It rejects the meaningfulness of national history, the sacredness of historical memory. At the root of every real national history is a particular and meaningful struggle that reflects the universal truth shared by all mankind. Right-nationalism declares the shared national history as being rooted in 'genetics' and ideas of racial superiority. It totally removes the content of the nation, only glorifying its superficial form. It makes the national reality a fundamentally meaningless one, rooted in the worship of Nothing. Of 'pure genetics', 'biology', and some philistine appeal to the notions of national superiority. The right-nationalist always appeals to a cosmopolitan and anti-national standard to base their pride off of. Hence the Hindutva must base their feeling of national pride on the idea that they are more Aryan than others. Hence the Balkan wars are fought over who is more European, who is more German, who is more Anglo, who is favored more by America. The vulgar right-nationalist is American hegemony's biggest ass kisser. Their whole sense of national pride is rooted in thinking America favors them more than their shit hole neighbor. They can't accept they're also [living in] a shit hole." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"Destruction of US unipolarity accelerates Communism on a planetary scale. One of the reasons China must remain a market economy is because it must assail the forces of the world market in order to realize the goals of socialist planning. The destruction of US unipolarity means the destruction of global capitalist institutions, and the ability for China to help develop the productive forces on a global level. This development simultaneously makes them more integrated , specifically the integration of global supply chains under a unified information economy. One of the next steps for multi-polarity is the creation of a new global social media, which is currently monopolized by America. One that is governed, perhaps by BRICS, and which processes payments, orders, and global transactions. Alibaba is a good prototype for something like this. This is what creates the material prerequisite of communism as a new mode of production. Eventually institutions like BRICS development banks, international agreements on interest rates and others will give way to a common oversight of the productive forces on a planetary level, on the basis of mutually agreed upon developmental goals." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"American anti-Communism is American civil war. Those well-versed in Hegel's dialectical logic are familiar with the fact that in the confrontation between a being and its own essence, between something and its own self, the self first takes the form of an Other. This Other for America is the totality of Communist history. Communism was really the importation of Americanism (industrial modernism, pragmatism, materialism) into traditional societies. Americanism is pure negation, pure abstraction, pure modernism, freed from the baggage of any particular or substantive civilization. America is Kojeve's universal state. It is anti-Communist because Communism competes with it. The world is not big enough for both America and Communism. Both occupy the same function of modernism and negation. Communism in America is the annihilation of America, but America itself is not a positive civilization, but itself a type of annihilation of positive civilization. How to cross two negatives? American anti-Communism was always an extension of the American civil war, an aspect of America itself that was irreconcilable with American consciousness. Now, in this era of American Communist revival, America will confront itself for the first time. The most alien Other of America, Communism, is here really the repressed essence of America, which it must confront in order to truly be what it is. America vs. Communism [becomes] America vs. America. What positive Being arises from this Negation of the Negation?" - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"Both of my parents came to America from Lebanon when they were children. I was born and raised here. I do not have any ancestors in this country. But it is clear to me that America is an unfinished civilization, and the people here have not yet developed into a fully unified nation. I am an American because I believe in this country and the dream of a united America. Most Americans may view me as a foreigner. But foreign interests have already occupied this country, because the people here remain foreign to and alienated from the common reality they share. At every turn they are abused, sold out, and scammed. Every sense of common belonging is use to exploit them. Politicians, capitalists, conmen, and cult leaders prey on the desperation and confusion of Americans to have this belonging. It is clear that the lofty aspirations underlying the purport that a nation like this is even possible, go far beyond any petty racial or ethnic parochialism. It is a matter of my own honor that I cannot turn my back on that possibility. When shit hits the fan, and believe me, it will, I will never give up on this country. The people of the world are looking toward this country, and to see if their own dreams of building grand states by, for, and of the people remain possible. America must prove to the world how a people, how a civilization and state can be born from total chaos. Because chaos is coming, and the inevitable collapse of the United States will cause disorder on a global scale. It's because of this belief that I am not worried about the inevitable coming collapse at all. It alone will give the American dream the chance it needs to finally become a reality, and for the masses of this nation to become one people." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"What's funny about how people accuse us of being 'tailists' is their historical illiteracy. In the mid-1800s, the word 'communism' was associated with the vulgar instincts of the working class. It was a working class signifier that came totally from below. By contrast, Socialism was 'respectable' and 'enlightened'. Marx and Engels literally decided to call themselves Communists to identify with the 'vulgar and plebian instincts' of the masses, as opposed to 'enlightened' intellectuals. In other words, Communism was always 'MAGA Communism' - from the beginning!" - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"Communists reject the entire American-led world order, and its falsification of history... You cannot stop history itself." - Haz al-Din</blockquote><blockquote>"... I'm okay with saying America is a Civilization State made up of many nations. The fact that America was founded on European genocide & the erasure of previous nations, doesn't change the fact that class struggle is the only way forward. Most every civilization was founded on theft and genocide, that's what chapter 26 of Capital on primitive accumulation is about. Sitting on our hands and talking about how bad America is while waiting for the entire third world to do socialist revolution is a dumbass strategy, I'm sorry. American Communists would be much better served trying to organize American workers against the American ruling class/empire which most of them intuitively hate already." - Eddie "Liger" Smith</blockquote><blockquote>"The death of imperialism and the U.S. dominated global financial system will make the U.S. more sovereign, not less. This is the whole idea behind the slogan 'Free America to Free Palestine'. We're both ruled by the same financial oligarchs. The same people who bribe our politicians, rig our elections, trap the American people in debt, and exploit the American workers are the ones funding the Zionist entity's genocide of the Palestinian people. Under socialism it would be in the direct interest of the American people to end the wars and reinvest all the resources spent on wars into infrastructure and social development. Read Lenin's chapter on the decay of imperialism. As imperialism progresses it starts to decay in the home country and make life worse of the domestic population. Today in the U.S. the ruling class isn't even accumulating the very much real capital, or real industry, the way that China is. They're mostly accumulating money capital, in the form of paper or digital notes, from rents and interest payments on debts. Both debts from other countries and from our domestic population. It's in the interest of both the American people and those countries targeted by U.S. imperialism to cancel these debts; to overthrow the financial oligarchs who lord over us all in this highly globalized and financialized stage of the capitalist mode of production. Sovereignty for the American working class means sovereignty for much of the colonized world." - Eddie "Liger" Smith</blockquote><blockquote>"The foremost theoretical task of the ACP is to explain the developments in the global economy post-Lenin, but also the specifically American developments that happened during and before Lenin. There are many things Marx, Engels, and Lenin never analyzed deeply in America because they were writing in a different region of the world. It's our job to fill the gaps, which is why we uphold Dubois' black reconstruction as a Marxist analysis of the American civil war at the MWM Institute." - Eddie "Liger" Smith</blockquote><blockquote>"You can't love America if you react to Balkanize it or hedonistically think you get to decide who is American and who isn't. You can't love America if you feel superior to millions of Americans. Sorry. That makes you anti-American." - Noah Khrachvik</blockquote><blockquote>"You don't have something in common with the French because you both have white skin. You don't have something in common with the Hungarians because you both have white skin. A nation is a regional constituted shared history based in mutually determining relations that influence how that society is reproduced. It has a common language, culture, political aspects, etc. That is what a nation is if we actually look at the real world. What you've done is gotten cucked into being submissive to the forces who are destroying the majority of people in your nation, making you an anti-American and an anti-patriot at the same time. There is no American people without, especially, the black working class. It has been a leading edge of bringing this nation into the future and therefore the central part of its development at two revolutionary moments. There's no American culture without them either. If you enjoy music, then thank black Americans. You can pretend this is somehow separate from everything else, but at that point you're just living in a fantasy land. Wake up and join the real world, where the elites are harming real people, son! Your country is suffering while you play dungeons and dragons." - Noah Khrachvik</blockquote><blockquote>"Patriotism is beautiful. Communism is the taking of responsibility for the nation by the people. There is no true patriotism in America without being a Communist. Patriotism of today is only subservience to the forces that hold our nation hostage." - Kyle Pettis</blockquote><blockquote>"America is an occupied nation. The fat cats on Wall Street control Washington. The double speak coming from the halls of power are unintelligible. A Jew who criticizes Israel is now anti-Semitic. They are now using the Civil Rights Act to trample your rights. We must free America." - Kyle Pettis (in response to proposed American legislation outlawing criticism of Israel)</blockquote><blockquote>"I'm not saying that America is occupied by Israel or whatever nonsense people choose to believe. Our country is occupied by a ruling elite that holds the people at ransom and extorts us to support puppet states like Israel and Ukraine. Zionism is not the primary contradiction." - Kyle Pettis</blockquote><blockquote>"Communism is as American as apple pie." - Curtis Yarvin</blockquote><blockquote>"The ultimate and true anti-racism pill: You discover that White people (Welsh-English) were also slaves under the British Empire in the first years of discovering America and that liberals promote the one-sided Black slave narrative to keep Black-White reconciliation impossible." - Karim Ghazi</blockquote><blockquote>"The recognition of the Beauty of Chinese Marxism in America is the direct revolutionary and Golden Path toward American Marxism. Just as all of Europe recognized the French Revolution." - Karim Ghazi</blockquote><blockquote>"Contradictions existing among the Founding Fathers do not mean that we don't cherish and espouse the ideals laid forth by them, and weaponize those ideals against the ruling state, which Stalin said the ruling class had abandoned [...] As Kim Il Sung said: 'What assets do we have for carrying on the revolution if the history of our people's struggle is denied?'" - Rev Laskaris</blockquote><blockquote>"The funniest irony of American history is that America had to become a competitor with the Soviet Union, & in doing so, had to produce an alternative to state centralization that was also capable of competing with state centralization-- thus you get 'private-public centralization' & what you might call 'the Deep State' which has to explicitly premise itself as a direct competitor to Communism, but through a form of what is effectively some form of 'International Market Socialism' but instead of the Comintern you have the Department of Defense which is the 'Party'-- the second largest employer in the world economy. This is why you have Trotskyites at the Department of Defense and people like Alex Karp from Palantir who are explicitly 'Western Marxists'-- Karp was even a protégé of Jurgen Habermas. This is to say, that actually the critics of Marxism, who believe themselves to have 'discovered the flaws of Marxism' & replace Marxism with a form of Bourgeois Utopian Socialism-- these critics of Marxism are the vanguard of what most Americans consider to be the 'Communist Takeover' of America. What it really is is the takeover from people fleeing Communism. Which means people who 'seem Communist' to the average American, ie: they're talking about the university discourse & are utopian idealists-- these are what people understand to be 'communists'-- the irony of all of them being explicitly *critics* of Communism passes them over, because their criticism of Communism is always that it was somehow 'right wing' in the sense of authoritarian. They have no issue with a massive state apparatus, they just want it to be completely unaccountable to the public-- they want it in the safe hands of the intellectuals of the world- the scientists, etc. For them, Communism is bad because it unleashes the stored up resentment of the masses against their class. That's their only issue with Communism-- that it empowers 'the wrong sort of people', ie: the 'masses'. It's a historical irony that's only available to people who take the time to understand the Cold War from a 'neutral' perspective-- the USSR & America were competing to control the globe-- 'Globalism' is just a convenient way of describing this Cold War ideology continuing on past the end of the Cold War. Ostensibly, the USSR 'giving up' was supposed to signal an end to 'American Globalism' which was ostensibly a 'response to the USSR'-- but obviously that didn't happen." - Logo Daedalus</blockquote> | ||
Even in cases which are not (explicitly) Communist can there be found a sense of patriotism-- a ''critical'' and ''genuine'' patriotism:<blockquote> | Even in cases which are not (explicitly) Communist can there be found a sense of patriotism-- a ''critical'' and ''genuine'' patriotism:<blockquote> | ||