A tweet from Communist Party USA

[AntivaxHunters]

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[Tommy Carcetti]

1. Well, okay. Nt

[2naSalit]

2. Can't argue with that.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. If Karl Marx were alive today, he'd be in indexed mutual funds

I just don't know what the world is coming to.

[Laffy Kat]

4. I didn't realize the U.S. still has an ACP. nt

[DFW]

5. Not huge, but still around.

Usually a few thousand active members around the country. Ask who they support for president, likely as not, they'll say "Comrade Joe Sims."

We do have in common that we don't want Republicans in office, but mutual goals seldom run deeper that that.

[David__77]

8. They supported Democrats for president since 1988.

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[DFW]

14. I wouldn't know

I haven't followed them since Marchais was still party boss of the PCF, and that was half a life ago.

[Dysfunctional]

20. I would vote for Joe Sims in any election between him and a Republican.

I like a lot of things in their CPUSA Rhetoric.

[DFW]

26. You have the advantage over me

We don't see a lot of it published in either Dallas, Provincetown, MA or northern Virginia (my usual hangouts on my occasional trips to the USA). In Germany, where I live, they are the ones who gloated over shooting down people trying to get over the wall to the west, so no love lost there--we don't tend to listen to them, even if they have since been disarmed.

But if there is a Texas Republican for whom I would ever vote, their identity is unknown to me. Sadistic, self-righteous, phony, selfish, evil people. I know, because I've met them--usually just once per. Even in small doses, they are toxic.

[Polybius]

6. This isn't exactly a good look

How does Twitter even allow them to have an account?

[David__77]

7. Because they follow the rules.

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[Polybius]

9. Interesting

I thought Twitter banned far-left and far-right Party's. I was mistaken I guess.

[iemanja]

19. They haven't banned the GOP.

[Polybius]

37. Nor should they

They are the second biggest Party in the US. Commies are fringe.

[AntivaxHunters]

10. How is this NOT a good look?

They are literally telling everyone to vote for Dems.
Pretty odd take to put it mildly. They're literally telling people to ally with us; Democrats, or we're effed.

And banning political parties is NOT a good look. It's literally fascism.

[Polybius]

11. When Nazis tell people to vote for Republicans, it's a bad look for them

Twitter bans Nazi Party's. Is that fascism? I'm glad they ban them.

[AntivaxHunters]

12. They ban for hate

This isn't even similar.

Do you have a problem with what CPUSA said because it seems you do.
And I have a problem with you thinking that it's bad that leftist parties are literally telling the masses to GOTV for Democrats.
Am I on the correct website?


And need I remind you the person in your avatar owned people as property. Maybe sit this one out.

[Polybius]

13. I have a problem with Communists

The person in my avitar is the Founder of this country. What happened in 1790 stays in 1790. This is Democratic Underground. Communist Underground is that way.

[DashOneBravo]

27. Agreed

[FBaggins]

17. It doesn't "look bad for them" because they sometimes get banned on social media as a hate group

It looks bad for them because the overwhelming majority don't want to be associated with Nazis - despite the fact that (in the oversimplified model) they are just further right than conservatives.

Similarly - the overwhelming majority of liberals/progressives have no desire to be associated with communists. Despite the fact that (again) they are just further left than we are.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Virtually zero Democratic candidates are interested in receiving the endorsement of the communist party if for no other reason than it can only hurt them.

And need I remind you the person in your avatar owned people as property. Maybe sit this one out.

And need I remind you that the gulags contained millions upon millions of slaves? I'll stand with Jefferson over any communist.

[DFW]

15. That last is an inaccurate blanket statement

Here in Germany, the NSDAP (Nazi Party, for short) is banned by law. Here, doing so is considered anything BUT fascism. Indeed, it is a widely lauded anti-fascist law supported by the vast majority of Germans (and their neighbors, and the rest of NATO, including the USA, etc.) across a broad political spectrum.

[Hekate]

21. It isn't a good look to cite them at DU, either

[Dorian Gray]

35. yep

as more and more GOP are raging against communism and equating the democratic party with communists... which we reject, by the way... it isn't a good look to quote the communist party's twitter feed here and say "rah rah rah." It gives fodder to the GOP.

While they are right in that the GOP must be defeated, we are NOT in lockstep with communists and communism. If the OP wants to be a part of a communist group, there are other places on the internet to go find them.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

16. It is interesting that in recent decades that the tiny CPUSA has been more pragmatic

and much friendlier to the Democratic Party than many on the the democratic socialist/socialist left.

[Hekate]

36. The Communist Party is still Not Our Friend

[Just A Box Of Rain]

39. I'm not suggesting otherwise.

Still, the CPUSA has been less hostile to our party than the DSA has been in recent decades, in my estimation.

I chose neither. I'm a Democrat.

[betsuni]

18. I was happy to see that the Democratic Socialists of America learned a big lesson in 2020 and

isn't doing the both sides thing either.

They'd adopted a "Bernie or Bust" resolution at their convention which meant they couldn't support Biden in the general election, damaging their credibility and causing infighting. They've matured since then, they say, and most of the former "Bernie or Bust" supporters realize the error and want to join a broad coalition against the Right. Good for them. No more both sides, whining about the Democratic Party being "too big of a tent," purity tests, acting like Democrats are the enemy. Actual solidarity against Republicans.

[Hortensis]

23. Great to hear. All soldiers needed on the lines!

[Just A Box Of Rain]

24. I have no faith that the DSA has learned any lessons other than realizing that they and their ilk

can cost Democrats elections. I'm not sure they will use that "power" for good.

Rather, I believe the DSA sees the Democratic Party as an impediment to their ambitions.

[betsuni]

29. Yeah, who knows. Don't know if they've changed their tune about U.S. leaving NATO.

DSA and Justice Democrats keep elected officials they support on short leashes. If they don't vote the right way they get mad. I remember DSA threatening to kick Jamaal Bowman out. AOC was in trouble for a little while for a similar thing. I think it would be better to tell the DSA and JD to mind their own business. Elected officials shouldn't feel beholden to vote certain ways because organizations that support them demand they do. Seems like the commies have more common sense.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

38. In IMO the DSA does not see the success of the Democratic Party as being in their interest.

We are "in their way."

Liberal progressive-reform undermines their position that liberal democracies with capitalist economies are irrediabable and unreformable.

Us proving otherwise is something they know is an existential threat to their failed ideology.

The Communist Party USA is--somewhat surprisingly--more pragmatic and more Democrat-friendly than the DSA. Let's chew on that.

[Hekate]

22. What the ever-loving hell

[Scrivener7]

25. Great message from a strange bedfellow. My reaction: "Come on in, Communists,

thanks for your vote!"

[GP6971]

30. Welcome to DU! n/t

[Brother Buzz]

31. Hello, I Must Be Going

[GP6971]

32. That one was a real winner

How you been?

[Brother Buzz]

33. Champing at the bit

Looks like we're gonna be sidelined until the general election smoke clears

[GP6971]

34. Same here.

Still a chance for next week.