Absolutely terrible idea, why would you want Tsarism to persist?! If anything, saving Lenin and Sverdlov would have probably helped the early soviets.

This kinda goes both ways though, I hadn’t heard of the WFP before, and they don’t seem to be particularly effective, like a mini-DSA.

Minor correction on the CPUSA, it started as a genuine communist party with ties to the CPSU, but was systematically infiltrated and destroyed internally until it became a shell of what it once was. The ACPis different, it espouses “MAGA communism,” whereas CPUSA is just toothless and ineffective.

Yep, just that you have to give them somewhere to go. Planting seeds isn’t enough, water and adequate sunlight need to be available and the soil has to be fertile.

Yep, but you have to take it further too, connect the dots. Just showing the first dot won’t help when systemic change is the correct path, and that requires an all-encompassing view.

Are you a genuine Gorby fan?

It isn’t a problem with the admin alone, but the system itself. Imperialism is what runs the US Empire, be it dem or rep admin.

Materialism does not posit that ideas do not have any influence, but that ideas come from material conditions, they aren’t formed independently of the person’s lived experience but are shaped by it. Conversation and exchange of ideas still exists and still shapes how people think, but these ideas did not come from nothing.

The world shapes us, we shape the world, the new world then reshapes us and we then reshape the world in endless spirals. It’s a cycle, but one where a return to the origin point is at a higher level, like a car tire completing one revolution and advancing one tire length.

As for the vanguard, the vanguard is a subsection of the proletariat, not its own class. As such, the vanguard has class interests aligned with the rest of the proletariat, that being the collectivization of all production and distribution so as to end the proletariat as a class in general.

MLs tend to critically support the Russian Federation not because it’s a former socialist state, but because of the progressive role Russia plays in undermining the western empire. Russia has been an ally to Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, and is in general interested in a world where the US Empire isn’t constantly boxxing it in and sanctioning it. This anti-imperialism isn’t necessarily because Russians are more morally pure or anything, but out of definite relations to imperialism.

How?

The Party for Socialism and Liberation. They are doing a good job, but party building takes time and effort.

Sure, that’s what orgs like PSL are doing.

Congress represents capitalists and works for them, not the working classes. Any plan that cannot address the class conflict and the nature of the capitalist state instruments to uphold their class interests is doomed to fail.

It’s actually cheaper to do single payer healthcare, but because profit rules all the empire does this.

Yep, great point! Gotta connect class interests.

This isn’t true, though. Trump just isn’t quite as hawkish on Russia as many liberals would like, but if he was actually compromised he would be lifting sanctions and wouldn’t be attacking Russian allies like Iran and Venezuela.

The dems aren’t interested in dismantling the private healthcare industry. It’s too profitable and their donors need it.

People can demand it, but that isn’t how we could ever get it. The privatized healthcare system makes too much money and the left in the US Empire is only recently beginning to recover from the Red Scare and systematic dismantling by the state in the 20th century.

Extremely relevant!

Extremely happy! The death and devastation to innocents in Iran are of course extreme tragedies, but the upside is of course as you describe, a real chance for change. The US Empire has been declining for decades, and the sheer difference in how the war on Iran is going vs. the destruction of Iraq and Libya both serve to drive that point home. Iran is not Libya nor is it Iraq, and the US Empire of today is not the US Empire of 3 decades ago. Quantity turns to quality, weeks into decades, of course.

The damned beast is weak, and Iran is showing the world that it isn’t some invincible force outside of the rest of society, but deeply enmeshed within it.