Quote from: TDoS on Aug 16, 2024, 09:31 PMIs it reasonable to assume that an American communist party is capable of creating a better economic environment for its citizens than the USSR was able to achieve for its citizens? I realize this is the natural claim of any form of political replacement theory for the two party oligarchy based system the US seems to have, but any tearing down (the easy part) needs just as solid a "building up" part to be taken seriously.
Yes, the first part of what Kyle says addresses this. The Marxist-Leninist tradition has to be interpreted with regards to modern American circumstances. A fair wage, health care and such. These things are #1 communist party goals. The first word in the partys' name is 'American'. Communism with American characteristics. The party is strongly rooted in theory and determined to put the people in power who will represent the American working class.
QuoteThe complaints in the quote are completely reasonable from anyones' perspective who thinks they have been left out of the "American dream". Depending on what any one of us Americans thinks that dream might be of course, compared to the alternative system offered (as opposed to just the complaint of the present one).
Kyle Pettis of the American Communist Party. Kyle is on the Plenary Committee
31 minutes in patriotism is discussed. Oligarchs are not patriotic.