From a FaceBook discussion; a comment I posted.
What is really at issue is the CPUSA has no "Party line on peace... or anything else for that matter other than "support Obama and the Democrats."
A more specific discussion is in order: What should the "Party line" be?
First consideration: It is the role, A PRIMARY ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY, of the CPUSA to conduct anti-imperialist education among the American people and the working class specifically.
Second consideration: What do the majority of the American people desire.
What do the American people want?
The American people at every opportunity have made it clear in large majority they want peace by ending these dirty wars.
Again, at every opportunity and in every poll the majority of the American people are for real healthcare reform--- single-payer universal healthcare based on the Canadian model is the clear choice but people vote for and approve of socialized healthcare by their use--- without complaint--- of three popular socialized healthcare systems already in place: VA, Indian Health Service and the National Public Health Service... millions use socialized healthcare without any complaints against these systems.
The majority of the American people want "Jobs, jobs, jobs" with most people supporting the enforcement of affirmative action which is the law of the land (Executive Order #11246 which had been a much recognized law until Obama took office).
Peace, healthcare and jobs.
One would think that any Communist Party confronted with the need to develop a "Party line" would have a relatively easy time considering the majority sentiment for Peace, Healthcare and Jobs.
What is so difficult here:
Peace = Healthcare + Jobs
End the wars and use the money saved to finance real healthcare reform which will create million of new jobs while making healthcare universally accessible to the American people. Single-payer creates almost 3-million new jobs... socialized healthcare like the VA system creates almost ten-million jobs.
Sam Webb has slandered and libeled me as an "ultra-leftist" all across the United States for putting forward this "Party line." Scott Marshall has branded me a "Stalinist" for advocating this as "the Party line"... even though there is no such thing as a "Stalinist;" we are Marxist-Leninists... a term Sam Webb eschews and Danny Rubin refrains from using too often... maybe once in his new book, Can Capitalism Last?
Ok, we have a "Party line:"
Peace = Healthcare + Jobs
Even my 6 year old grand daughter understands this formula but not the university educated Webb.
In order to rebuild the Clubs as the only way to rebuild the CPUSA we need to advance this as "the Party line."
I challenge Sam Webb or anyone else to dispute that this should be "the Party line."
On the basis of advancing this "Party line" we will rebuild and build Communist Party Clubs which are the key building block and foundation of any Communist Party.
This line incorporates the struggle against U.S. imperialism while simultaneously advancing crucial initiatives and struggles for reforms... it is a "Party line" upon which the call for a real people's party can be advanced.
Never has life presented a greater opportunity in any country at any time on the face of this earth for a Communist Party to put forward its "Party line" in a way that leads the masses of the people away from imperialism and capitalism while putting us on the road to socialism--- open up a country-wide discussion about socialized healthcare and this opens up a huge national debate about socialism where REAL socialism is talked about and not this idiotic caricature of socialism being advanced by the thoroughly reactionary and ultra-conservative Tea Party movement.
I would encourage anyone and everyone going to the CPUSA National Convention to get some red paper and with yellow letters print off a small sign that says---
Peace = socialized healthcare + jobs
Which Sam Webb and the leadership and each delegate and every guest will have to ponder for the duration of the convention.
Now, more than ever we need a bold Communist Party USA seeking new members while simultaneously taking the struggle against imperialism and for peace, healthcare and jobs into every neighborhood, mine, mill, factory and school.
At the ballot box the "Party line" should be:
No Peace; No Votes.
No real healthcare reform; No Votes.
No jobs; No Votes.
If the dumb donkeys running the Democratic Party don't want to deliver peace, healthcare and jobs they should be told to go to Hell because they sure as hell are dragging the working people down the dark, bumpy, curvy dangerous road to perdition without any stop-overs in purgatory as this rotten capitalist system in on the skids to oblivion... with socialism the only life-line to hold onto.
And you know what?
Peace = socialized healthcare + jobs
This has been "the Party line" since the day Marx and Engels wrote the "Communist Manifesto" and it has served the Communist Movement well.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the other issues that fall into place with this Party line being advanced.
Damn, I hate it when the "ultra-leftists" of the phony left call me a "liberal" when I advance this Party line.
Alan L. Maki
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