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This is a really interesting point (at least to me). I completely agree with this.

If we have people posing as people who are "Friends of labour" but are really enforcing the form of government that demeans the working class, nothing can get accomplished.

Nah, the brainwashing carries on. In history class I was always told communism was a bad thing. I still heard it in college. "They tried to destroy the family!" they'd say. (which we did but besides the point) To the average philistine it would sound like a horrible doing.

It wasn't because one generation was 'brain washed'.
It is because of the constant effort made to demonise socialism.
It is because of the misleadership of the Trade Unions, selling out every major struggle, and fighting against strikes whenever the possibility is raised.
It is because of the treachery of the 'leftists': The CPUSA, the SWP, the ISO, the RCP, all of them are pro-capitalist in fact, sucking up to the democrats, and appealing to liberals, and not fighting for socialist revolution.
It is because of the disorientation caused by the betrayals, and the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe.

We are currently in a really backward period, the most backward yet seen. The working class no longer identifies its struggle with the eventual rise of socialism (either through reform or revolution), the bourgeoisie is able to trample the workers and oppressed both in the first world and in the neo-colonies with little thought to defeat, and even less thought to the militancy of the workers. We live in a world where a quarter of a million people can come out on the streets of sydney, that is 10% of the population, in opposition to a war, and the government doesn't think twice about ignoring them, and the 'leadership' of the protests isn't willing to even point out that the problem is capitalism, and is unable to call for anything more than another protest.

In short, we live in the world where the Soviet Union, the first successful proletarian revolution, has been smashed, and the next strongest worker's state, the People's Republic of China is widely perceived as being 'more capitalist than the US.'

We have a lot of s**t to deal with, and we need to deal with it as soon as possible. You cannot be Dermy or Kagerou, and claim that sucking up to the Democrats is 'the least worst choice,' or be like 'Comrade' Mann who claims to be a 'pragmatic' communist, completely dispensing with dialectics! There is only one path through this ******** period, through the marsh, and if we are not to disperse, and retreat into the marsh, into bourgeois parliamentarism, then we need to follow the lessons of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party.

That movie has nothing to do with communism. Theoretically at least

it's impplllyyinng it. xP