it's not anti-organization to point out that the existing "revolutionary" orgs in the imperial core not doing shit and don't plan on doing shit except protesting and collecting semi-mainstream public faces in their ranks to seem more palatable to the middle classes
CPUSA has been around since the 20's and they've been a cop organization since at least the Cold War. WWP been around since the 50s, and the PSL founding cadres had decades of experience in that compromised cult as a head-start. They more Abby Martin than Abbey Lincoln clearly
let's not get started on AAPRP, the "mass party" of 100s that's been around since the aftermath of Vietnam, hasn't made a revolution or even waves in any part of the African world or its diaspora, but still lectures young Africans about the scientific approach to revolution
I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of our people dying from neocolonial police states, neoliberal austerity economics and all these vanguardist and mass-party "centralist" orgs with their "scientific" approaches to keeping the leaders good + safe as Babylon falls down on our heads
the masses are sick too, and they are not waiting for your central committee's spin on fusty polemics from 1902 to determine what is to be done. When I was in the street during 2020 uprisings, I basically only saw Black anarchists moving among the masses like fish in water
Kimathi Mohammed, the revolutionary critic who was purged from the LRBW shortly before its collapse under centralism's contradictions, said that organization and spontaneity are a dialectic. Not an Aristotelian opposition, a dialectic. Denouncing one for the other is one-sided
and I am self-critical because at the time that the uprisings were taking place, I took the Nkrumahist line that we had to join organizations, even if they were bad ones, because bad organization is better than no organization at all. I soon learned that was a bunch of bullshit
reality teaches us what rigid dogmas attached to prestigious historical names never can, and I def learned from the development of that mass phenomenon the exact worth of the organization fetish in Black left politics. All yall did was hold conferences + tail PSL's settler asses
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