i wonder whats the amount of people that could understand this joke, its pretty funny lol
What does tailist mean?
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2927106
It’s essentially the opposite of an ultra. An ultra oversteps the political consciousness of the masses where a tailist caters to the reactionary elements of the working class. A communist vanguard party needs to lead, elevate, and unite the masses with integrity while keeping in mind of the masses current political consciousness in order to gain their overwhelming support.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_Coalition_Government
Commandism is wrong in any type of work, because in overstepping the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of voluntary mass action it reflects the disease of impetuosity. Our comrades must not assume that everything they themselves understand is understood by the masses. Whether the masses understand it and are ready to take action can be discovered only by going into their midst and making investigations. If we do so, we can avoid commandism. Tailism in any type of work is also wrong, because in falling below the level of political consciousness of the masses and violating the principle of leading the masses forward it reflects the disease of dilatoriness. Our comrades must not assume that the masses have no understanding of what they themselves do not yet understand. It often happens that the masses outstrip us and are eager to advance a step when our comrades are still tailing behind certain backward elements, for instead of acting as leaders of the masses such comrades reflect the views of these backward elements and, moreover, mistake them for those of the broad masses.
—Mao Zedong. “On Coalition Government” (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 316.*
Did you just use a citation maker? Mao Zedong is a Chinese name, so it remains Mao Zedong in the citations
I pulled the citation from prolewiki and tried to research how to properly include Mao’s name in the citation, but made my best guess in the end. Thank you for letting me know.
So basically eurocommunism
The ACP?!?!?!?
I’d consider the American Communist Party to be tailist and reactionary. It pushes patriotic “socialism”, which is an oxymoron.
They should be treated the same as fascists. Bash the fash and never allowed to know anything but fear.
Oh man, the civility libs I’ve met are getting all “WAAAAH THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUUUUU BECAUSE YOU ACTUALLY SEEN HOOW TO DEEEAL WITH THESEEE PEOPLE”
The absolute bottom of the barrel wastes of skin.
patriotic socialism
Patriotism is different from nationalism, right?
Or are they using patriotism to hide nationalism?They’re patriotic to an oppressive and imperialistic settler colonial state.
I’m not sure if the difference between those two words matters much in this context. I think the most important distinction is that there’s a huge difference (for example) between a Palestinian being patriotic/nationalist for a state of Palestine and a USian being patriotic/nationalist for the US state. Palestine faces genocide and erasure. The US is a colonial project, now the head of a global capitalist empire, with a mythos about freedom that it has never lived up to since its inception and its most open days of local genocide and slavery. So to be patriotic for a country that is effectively just a vehicle for colonization and empire, and whose principles of “freedom” are mostly nonsense, is odd to say the least. The US has never once in its history been anything different, fundamentally. It doesn’t have a unique ethnicity with a longstanding history and unique culture worth protecting that is linked to the country identity, but is instead a blend of immigrant ethnicities. There may be some unique pockets of culture within regions of the US, other than still-standing indigenous people, such as among non-white groups or even among some of those considered white on occasion, but they don’t need the US state specifically to be that; and, in fact, in some cases they’d clearly be better able to be it without the US state in the way.
So a lot of it just comes down to what country/people we’re talking about and where their sense of patriotism comes from / what it’s for. Whether we call it patriotism or nationalism or something else, if they look up to the founding fathers of the US, for example—figures who orchestrated a genocide and built a country with slavery—something is off in their thinking.
“Patriotic socialism” is simply a new coat of linguistic paint for the good old “national socialism”, same as “cultural Marxism” is just an updated name for “cultural Bolshevism”.
they are just the latest in a very long line
Or WPB
The Worker’s Party of Britain is a tailist and reactionary party. I wouldn’t recommend it, especially if you’re neurodivergent or LGBTQ+.
WPB was set up by Joti Brar of CPGB-ML and Galloway the rape apologist which should tell one everything they need to know.
I used to be in the CPGB-ML. I left a few months ago, they’re transphobic and homophobic af. A lot of the members trivialise climate change and spread right wing conspiracy theories. During one of their online study groups, one of them said that kids spending too much time on their ipads is making them autistic and I was the only one who called her out on it.
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Ouch.
