revolutionary organizing – Unity–Struggle–Unity

Mass organization

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:45:18 +0000

Often referred to as a “mass org.”

A mass formation is any organization that does not require its membership to submit to ideological authority or an ideological program. In Stalin’s example these include the soviet councils, the trade unions, etc.

For the purpose of our current moment, mass organizations are those groups that are formed or joined by Communists for a specific purpose or to mobilize and agitate among other workers on progressive issues; For instance, PSL’s ANSWER Coalition or it’s rent caravans — CPUSA’s organizing to get unions certified, etc. These are examples of mass organizations.

The purpose of mass organizations and vanguard organizations could not be more different. The purpose of the vanguard organizations right now should be to link up and consolidate all forms of struggle into one movement, one great army of struggle, against the capitalist state. The purpose of the mass organizations is to act as the “belts” and “levers” of the proletariat and to convey direction to the vanguard organizations — and for the vanguard organizations to interpenetrate and unify with the masses, to drive the masses onward from height to height, to intensify the struggle, and to draw ever-wider sections of the population into the fight.

Pan-Africanism

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:58:22 +0000

This is the political project of creating solidarity and revolutionary action between all African communities across the entire diasporic population. It is one way in which global anti-Blackness can be combatted. Pan-Africanism urges the countries of Africa to band together to throw off the chains of neocolonialism, which is necessary because of the historical forced underdevelopment of Africa by the Atlantic slave trade, and the union of interests and solidarity of movements in diasporic African communities (e.g., New Afrika in the U.S. Empire, Afro-Caribbean movements in Latin America, etc.).

White terror

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:00:05 +0000

White is the color taken up by the old nobility, counter-revolutionary nationalists, and other conservative forces during the 19th and 20th century. White terror is therefore the rule-by-terror (police raids, executions, and so on) of this group during a counter-revolutionary period.

In the U.S., White Terror is also literally an expression of white supremacy and serves to reinforce it through police action, right-wing militias, and so forth.

Solidarity

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:55:52 +0000

Solidarity is giving support to a stranger on their own terms. It is different from philanthropy because it is given on the stranger’s terms, not that of the giver.

It is the fundamental ethos of the workers’ movement.

Solidarity is necessary to organize workers and to create labor movements; workers join together to aid one another on the mere grounds that they share a class. This is a necessary prerequisite to defeating the ruling classes at their game of divide-and-conquer.

Thus, solidarity is the ethos of the social revolution, for it is only in standing in solidarity with all oppressed and working people that the revolution can be victorious.

Just as the socialized means of production are the necessary prerequisite for the Communist movement and scientific socialism, so they too does this socialization produce the ethic of solidarity as the only means of combatting the power of the bosses.

Security forces

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:53:09 +0000

This term generally refers to the police, intelligence services (in the case of the United States this would be the F.B.I., C.I.A., N.S.A., the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force Intelligence Agencies, the Depart of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, the Depart of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analaysis and U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Office of National Security Intelligence, the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis), and armed forces of any state.

Revolutionary program

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:52:08 +0000

These are the core tenets of a revolutionary formation or a vanguard party. These “programs” list an organization’s demands and binding points

Revolutionary masses

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:51:52 +0000

The proletariat and lower sections of the petit-bourgeoisie when taken together en masse. The revolution springs from the revolutionary masses.

Reaction

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:48:59 +0000

This term refers to both the class-forces and individuals that represent or desire a return to a prior time or period. Reactionaries are opposed to social progress. In the period of revolution, reactionaries are also counter-revolutionaries. This term is also used more broadly to refer to all social conservatives.

Opportunism

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:45:09 +0000

The taking of positions or adopting of theoretical lines, etc., based primarily on the likelihood of gaining power, influence, or respect from

Marxism-Leninism

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:43:06 +0000

The synthesis of the Marxist economic theory with the science of revolution. The blueprint for how to assess the material conditions, to determine whether the objective conditions of revolution have been met, and to plan a strategy for bringing the subjective conditions of revolution, that is a revolutionary consciousness, to the revolutionary masses.