You don’t need the masses to be communist; what you need is a sizable enough vanguard of scientific socialists to be the tool that the masses could use to create the DotP - in the interim you need to be able to make the case that your perspective will give them greater material benefit within the short-term. In the process of doing this you will achieve a deeper understanding locally of class anlaysis of who to target that has the most revolutionary potential (ie will benefit from the fall of the US empire) and where to engage in revolutionary pragmatism without tailism to make a mass movement (ie factions of labour aristocrats and the petite-bourgoisie etc)

What are the strategic consequences of decisively rejecting the tripartite social theory advanced by Orwell, and adopting Marx’s all-encompassing one instead? The basic call to action looks something like this:

Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”

Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.

Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.

If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

This may involve statistical anlayses on local populations (you may need to do this/learn yourself), and it will be weaving together various groups of people under different types of exploitation to make a “big tent” ML-led movement. And it will need a strategy that does not rely on electoralism, the means to defend yourselves, and a means to accumulate capital to sustain the movement in a capitalist country. On your own this essentially impossible but that is why one must organise.

Within a party that you want to change to reflect the above maybe a tall order and so it may involve trying to find folks with the party who could potentially be a target gor the above or bring others in who will have that revolutionary potential. Parties often reflect material bourgoise constraints so you may be considered someone antagonistic; empathy, being open, doing educational presentations and reading groups will be the way forward but you will need to be firm in your stances and be confident in your theory. In practice, what often happens if you do manage to get a sizeable group going you may be effectively splintered off (which may tie in nicely if you were planning to leave anyway) - and that maybe ok as long as one doesnt consider oneself a lone prophet amongst the unwashed masses.

Potentially lean into topics that folks already agree on that has the most revolutuinary potential - for example the ongoing genocide as a wedge to discuss western hegemony and marxist conception of imperialism and radicalism. Maybe lean into identitarianism if appropriate: https://redsails.org/on-identitarianism-a-defense-of-a-strawman/

Marxism is a science; you will need to use that superpower to your advantage.

Lenin - where to begin: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/may/04.htm

In my experience, being open and honest goes a long way. I would also try to focus on the most politically advanced, hoping to get the easiest ones first.

I assume a big tent movement necessarily does not enforce centralism, so factionalism would be one way to go about it. Try to approach the militants who are more openly communists, either local or important figures in other regions.

You won’t be able to convince everybody yourself, but as a group you have more political power to steer the movement this or that way.

Burn the tent.

Fuck the big-tent I’m so sick of having to side with complete idiots

Try to host political education presentations or join reading groups

My faith is shaken. I wouldn’t involve myself with a big tent unless I wanted to torture myself further. I don’t care about the interests of imperial parasites and those are the ones that are protected by a big tent. We need to take our gloves off.

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