The following article was published in 902 portal («Η στήριξη του ιμπεριαλιστικού πολέμου και η «τρικυμία στο κρανίο»), the official news portal of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). on 31 March 2023:
Recently, the website of the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RCWP) published an interview with Haz Al-Din, a U.S citizen of Arab origin, who alongside with others have created an “online collective” known as “Infrared”. This person considers himself to be a “Marxist-Leninist” and, as the RCWP website informs us in the introduction, he “infiltrates” the U.S Republican Party. Apparently, this is something interesting for the RCWP which decided to present his views in Russia.
Haz Al-Din, who states that he aims to bring communist ideas to the “healthy part” of the Republicans, declares himself a follower of “patriotic socialism” and a leading figure of the so-called “MAGA communist” movement in the United States, which derives from Donald Trump's major slogan, “Make America Great Again”.
According to Al-Din's brainstorm, “by far the most significant working class movement within the past three decades in the United States was Trump’s MAGA movement” and therefore “American Communists should ‘go down to the people’ instead of remaining comfortable in their echo-chambers and bubbles” and that because... “the MAGA Republicans are the real dissident and counter-hegemonic force. They oppose the status quo, and have an authentic basis in the people”!
We shall remind that RCWP aligned itself with the supporters of the imperialist war, under the pretext of “anti-fascism” and the alleged “saving of the people of Donbas”. This led many of its cadres and youth members to abandon the party. Following these developments, RCWP held meetings with far-right Russians, the fascist group of “National Bolsheviks” and bourgeois politicians who support the imperialist war, aiming at a joint participation in the upcoming elections.
It seems, therefore, that this “trend” of collaborating with far-right forces, with the aim of their “enlightenment” and the common fight against the other side's “fascism”, has transatlantic effects. Thus, it is characteristic that, while praising Trump, Haz Al-Din labels the agenda of the Democratic Party as “hitlerian”.
Of course, it is known that, for years, the Communist Party USA has been following a policy aligned with the Democratic Party, which is the other “pillar” of the U.S. bourgeois political system. However, the question can't be the choice between the two forms of capitalism's management in the U.S (Republicans or Democrats), nor the choice of one or the other side of the imperialist war.
What is needed is the independent line of the Communist Movement against monopolies, capitalism, the bourgeois classes, for the overthrow of capitalist barbarism and the construction of the socialist-communist society.
The developments show that the support of the imperialist war by some Communist Parties, under the various pretexts used by the bourgeois classes, is not just an erroneous decision, but a stance that brings overall imbalances and mutations of their political line and theoretical positions.
According to Al-Din's brainstorm, “by far the most significant working class movement within the past three decades in the United States was Trump’s MAGA movement” and therefore “American Communists should ‘go down to the people’ instead of remaining comfortable in their echo-chambers and bubbles” and that because... “the MAGA Republicans are the real dissident and counter-hegemonic force. They oppose the status quo, and have an authentic basis in the people”!
We shall remind that RCWP aligned itself with the supporters of the imperialist war, under the pretext of “anti-fascism” and the alleged “saving of the people of Donbas”. This led many of its cadres and youth members to abandon the party. Following these developments, RCWP held meetings with far-right Russians, the fascist group of “National Bolsheviks” and bourgeois politicians who support the imperialist war, aiming at a joint participation in the upcoming elections.
It seems, therefore, that this “trend” of collaborating with far-right forces, with the aim of their “enlightenment” and the common fight against the other side's “fascism”, has transatlantic effects. Thus, it is characteristic that, while praising Trump, Haz Al-Din labels the agenda of the Democratic Party as “hitlerian”.
Of course, it is known that, for years, the Communist Party USA has been following a policy aligned with the Democratic Party, which is the other “pillar” of the U.S. bourgeois political system. However, the question can't be the choice between the two forms of capitalism's management in the U.S (Republicans or Democrats), nor the choice of one or the other side of the imperialist war.
What is needed is the independent line of the Communist Movement against monopolies, capitalism, the bourgeois classes, for the overthrow of capitalist barbarism and the construction of the socialist-communist society.
The developments show that the support of the imperialist war by some Communist Parties, under the various pretexts used by the bourgeois classes, is not just an erroneous decision, but a stance that brings overall imbalances and mutations of their political line and theoretical positions.
