I also wrote wrote in detail about the election here.
I skimmed this article (and this page on “stalinist traitors” they list), seems like the usual facile ultra-left or trotskyite critique of the left parties (ironically since one of them is rooted in trotskyism), I can even think of a handful of 1k twitter followers “organizations” that could’ve written it.
What I’ll say is this, to claim that the problem is the lack of parties that run with programs saying “violent revolution” on the cover is just cope, especially when the communist party’s program already has all the anti-capitalist, anti-nato anti-EU stuff that these people support anyway. In fact that party itself is an example of the limits of publicly identifying yourself as a communist regardless of your program, even if people don’t think you’re actively seeking to make their lives worse by valorizing violence.
It’s like in any other country, there are plenty of ultra-left sects with no support hating the left and each other and claiming to be the “real communists”, creating another one of these is not a new solution, it’s something that these people would say regardless of the results and every year and I swear there’s a new one of these that gets even less support
Leftists just have to acclimate to the idea that we DON’T know the real answer to effectively grow as a publicly socialist/communist organization in these current conditions, not in portugal nor anywhere similar.
Due to the Stalinist two stage theory, the communist party keeps its propaganda moderate and not revolutionary.
Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português PCP): moderate Stalinist
Jesus, I hate how much you could just change names and contextual cues and you’d have a pretty good description of what will probably happen in Brazil very soon. In fact, that applies to most countries where the “left” is a bunch of neolibs masquerading, which is, well, most countries in the West.
It sucks that we’re essentially stuck in this ever-repeating cycle where the left alternative is gagged and repressed. It’s just an eternal repetition of right-wing psychos pillaging the state, then being replaced by the polite neolib alternative when the pressure gets too high. Nothing improves fundamentally, so the right-wing pretends to be populist and snatches power back again, promising change. Rinse and repeat. This eternal pressure cooker existence fucking sucks.
We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death, but if we work like really hard we can scoop up all the blood and put it back in the machine, because the machine is essentially good, we just need to make sure the right people are pulling the levers.
a left wing party? defeated? in a liberal election?
This can be applied to most EU countries.
