Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

name usernames in the thread

by "the communist party" do you mean "the internet forum ilxor.com"

Option 3 the only acceptable option ofc

1 = I am a communist
2 = I am also a communist
3 = I am also also a communist but so is redacted

I tried to join one night while I was pished and I think there was a £1 admin charge. Something went wrong with the online form and I DIDN'T become a member and never got my quid back either.

Sure, in college. Wasn't everyone?

Sorry I'm a Situationist

I was in CND for a bit tho

Anyway where's all this coming from, some US libs getting pissy about milquetoast economic reforms again?

where it's always come from: (the) Russia (thread)

anyway, in case any of you work for immigration: I'm more of a postmodern marxist

weird rants about “die hard communists” on here

Good Friday afternoon bored at work* thread

*Which would be expelled by communists, btw

Oh right, look it says "Troll" in the name

fucking Mensheviks, man

ask yourself this, communists: where will we be bored if there's no work?

twitter?

Look I'm never gonna get thru all the video games, movies and books, I don't got time to work

so that's a "yes" from Camaraderie, hardly surprising but noted

My dad took me to the Portuguese communist party's festival sometime in the mid 1990's. I did not get a membership but I did get a East German colouring book from some splinter party (this was pre-Die Linke being a thing I think). Disappointingly it had a picture where a cop comes to visit the family and this was viewed as a good thing.

I think one thing that would put me off joining, even if I was born in 1873 rather than a century later. Would be all the meetings and conferences. I just don't do them so there isn't a party for me!

This is why Situationism is the way to go

I don't know, I'm also not that into the beach

Man I love the beach

that's a "yes" from Camaraderie, hardly surprising but noted

comradery at arms length

Not The Beach tho

a very different question, but who on here joined Momentum?

I wasn’t even a member of labour then.

a very different question, but who on here joined Momentum?

Yeah. Still get the e-mails tho obv not in labour party anymore.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdHWQuNaUAAj1Xz?format=jpg&name=medium

A rat done bit my sister Nell
And there's commies on ilx

Need some "MaoMomentum" in this country am I right, lads?

I've never been a member of any political party. I've never considered myself a lefty ever tbh.

C'mon, Maomentum was RIGHT THERE

i’m still in Momentum. (though not in Labour)

I am an object at rest.

I'm only in it for the struggle sessions tbh

Srsly tho if you don't want to destroy capitalism gtfo

I've never been a member of any political party. I've never considered myself a lefty ever tbh.

Not a joke.

Mao's Land Reform Movement and the destruction of the Chinese landlord class >>>>> FDR's New Deal times one thousand. Even though the rapid collectivisation that followed was a tragedy and an unmitigable disaster. This would be my flagship policy if I was starting a political party.

Sorry I'm a Situationist

― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, September 23, 2022 7:16 AM (two hours ago)

today the only party i'm a member of is the cat-petting party

Praxis

xps to calz - my wife's family were landlords in central China a few hundred years ago (their hometown still has their family name attached) but fell on hard times towards the end of the qing dynasty, and were poor enough by the end that her great-grandfather was a communist partisan in the civil war - and is still revered as a martyr in the family. does strike me as ironic that had the family fortune not been lost (dunno how) he would have been on the other side of the landlord/peasant divide.

when I was first in China we used to joke about joining the party but after living with a Chinese family for 5 years, lol no fucking way they are the absolute worst

my serious answer is that I've never had the opportunity really

just because I dress like this
doesn't mean I'm a communist

I used to subscribe to THE MILITANT from the SWP, but I don't think I was ever a card carrying member

xxxp

I don't doubt it! That is interesting and must have an amazing experience. Another way of looking at it is if the forces of Chiang Kai-shek had prevailed your partner's family could be like hey woah!! check the family name, we are good kuomintang nationalist folk.

Socialist Party USA/Young Peoples Socialist League in high school but the only CPUSA member I've ever even met was a history professor at the U of Arizona.

No, because I don’t know if you’ve been following what Caleb Maupin has been up to, but the CPUSA has been a real wild place the last few years

milo were those orgs *at* your high school or were you just in hs when you joined?

i went to a communist party once but the vegan canapes were terrible and it was full of fucking straight white guys shit-talking each other using quotes from 19th century political treatises they may or may not have read

and they kept looking at me and i'm not sure why. none of them talked to me. did they want to fuck me, or were they clocking me? i still have a hard time telling the difference

anyway, i didn't stay long

so no, party politics is lame

i don't have a twitter account either

Just in HS, YPSL was pretty much a mailing list of teenagers + 2000 SPUSA Presidential candidate David McReynolds.

No, because I don’t know if you’ve been following what Caleb Maupin has been up to, but the CPUSA has been a real wild place the last few years

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish)

so i guess what you're saying is that if caleb was at that party, he was looking at me because he wanted to fuck me, and i did well to leave quickly

Oops, I was wrong that Maupin was involved with the CPUSA.

He’s doing his own sex pest thing online now with the CPI, which is also different from the PCI(the Partito Comunista Italiano)

communism is cool but Communist Parties seem to be almost universally awful change my mind

depends on where they dumpster dived the food from tbh

wait is this thread a sting

Lol

just answer the poll, nothing to see here

https://i.imgur.com/BBO6LMj.jpg

wait is this thread a sting

― nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' to revert to your original display n (Left), Friday, September 23, 2022 3:45 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago)

I'm offended. When has this question been asked with anything other than pure curiosity?

does this count? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization

Oops, I was wrong that Maupin was involved with the CPUSA.

He’s doing his own sex pest thing online now with the CPI, which is also different from the PCI(the Partito Comunista Italiano)

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish)

three letter acronyms are reaching a state of terminal uselessness. pumpkin spice latte season hit earlier this month and my lefty friends don't understand why people are talking about the Party for Socialism and Liberation so much

peter kropumpkin

The Judean People's Front

I think one thing that would put me off joining, even if I was born in 1873 rather than a century later. Would be all the meetings and conferences.

the least answerable objection to left politics in gen is still wilde's "too many evenings"

peter kropumpkin

― o shit the sheriff (NickB)

lol

my dad was. is it genetic?

Being a "die-hard communist" is not a bad thing! Nor does it imply a specific set of views, which are all wrong, or anything else dogmatic like that, etc etc.

My weird rant was about Russia, not communists, but I'm happy to have inadvertently caused so much joy. Sorry, I tried to clarify later (in the Russia thread), but at this point I'm ok if all the communists think that I hold them to be dogmatic Stalinist apologists and also dumb and stupid, whereas it is really I who am dumb and stupid (and weird). I do appreciate all the various perspectives I see on here, whether or not I agree with them, it's a richer place for it.

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today the only party i'm a member of is the cat-petting party

― ꙮ (map), Friday, September 23, 2022 11:07 AM

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oPnSfbsES1I/UJV7153AplI/AAAAAAAAAE4/JgLhCGwEFIU/s1600/tumblr_mcvlh3toAq1rp4l8r.gif

Once my friend Julia and I were watching a protest march in Paris when we found ourselves engulfed by a crowd of Young Communists, and as we walked faster, trying to get out of the crowd, we found ourselves at the front of it, and then someone shoved a banner into our hands and all of a sudden we were leading the Young Communists down the boulevard, occasionally stopping and kneeling down for group photographs with the banner. Does that count?

i was in the revolutionary communist party as a teenager. they ended up being some of the worst people in the world so i now devote an hour of every day to doing some extreme self flagellation, in penance.

https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/anti-statism-and-the-trajectory-from-the-revolutionary-communist-party-to-spiked/

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TERF Twitter is terribly excited this week because The Communist Party of Great Britain have come out as transphobes, and are challenging left wing non-transphobes with "look even your mates the communists agree with us!"

The Gender Recognition Bill and Equality Law.
Communist Party executive committee STATEMENT (March 2023)https://t.co/lrSDH0wwFH

— Communist Party ☭ (@CPBritain) March 29, 2023

so what I want to know is - who are this particular party? are they trots? tankies? are they the ones selling papers outside SOAS?

A shower of cunts iirc, probably more MI5 members than actual

funny you say that because

During the 1992 general election campaign, Ken Livingstone claimed that the members of the CPGB (PCC) were "MI5 agents".

I would assume most organised movements in any country are tbh

CPGB (PCC) is a different organization from CPB, the CPB is the unreconstructed tankie faction associated with the Morning Star that split from the main CPGB in the late 80s due the latter's move towards Eurocommunism. CPGB (PCC) are the ones who publish Weekly Worker, and have been having their own disagreements over trans issues recently, see this very long article about a meeting they had to discuss one of their members banning someone from a discord chat: https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1436/speech-is-political/

it's quite funny seeing them solemnly debating the correct Marxist-Leninist line on message board drama, though

oh so this is CPB not CPGB? The TERFs are all cluelessly calling it GPGB, which must be pissing them off

the old CPGB split in the late 80s with the unreconstructed Stalinist faction becoming the CPB, and the Eurocommunist leadership carrying on under the CPGB for a few years before reforming itself as a centre-left think tank after the USSR collapsed. It's modern day successor (after various mergers) appears to be this organization, who's director is the former Lib Dem MP Tom Brake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlock_Democracy

CPGB (PCC) has it's origins in an earlier splinter group from the main CPGB, but styled itself as the successor the latter when it was wound up in 1991

mark s to thread

it's a poll thread so probably not

is this a different group of wankers from CPGB-ML?

CPGB-ML is a different group from CPB and CPGB (PCC), yes. Coincidently, CPGB-ML's honorary president is Isabel Crook is exactly 107 years and 107 days old today.

it's quite funny seeing them solemnly debating the correct Marxist-Leninist line on message board drama, though

― soref, Saturday, April 1, 2023 8:23 AM (three hours ago)

i feel like this needs its own thread tbh

I tried to join one night while I was pished and I think there was a £1 admin charge. Something went wrong with the online form and I DIDN'T become a member and never got my quid back either.

― calzino, Friday, September 23, 2022 10:07 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

underrated post

http://m.quickmeme.com/img/2c/2c312b151b34daefb3087909fe866feb8898ee570d321c70a70f7d8e2d7c68d3.jpg

had a couple Watership Down hours starting from the discord drama article ... this one is kinda good, I think?:
https://www.tempestmag.org/2022/03/reflections-on-revolutionary-socialist-organization-today/

it's quite funny seeing them solemnly debating the correct Marxist-Leninist line on message board drama, though

― soref

tbf leftist politics has always pretty much been internet drama _avant la lettre_

despite never spending much time on tumblr or trans twitter i've picked up on more trans drama (which... has a lot of overlap with leftist drama - latest revive is hardly an isolated incident) than i'd particularly like. the "transamory" kerfluffle is probably the comedy version of it. (there are way too many competitors for the "tragedy" version, unfortunately.)

i read "transamory" as "transomancy" just now and thought "oh that would probably be a more fitting username", not gonna do it tho

see this very long article about a meeting they had to discuss one of their members banning someone from a discord chat: https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1436/speech-is-political/

― soref

oh shit i've been looking for these fuckers for years, they're the left who can't meme!