🇯🇲 Passing Thyme ☭

Some of you love to talk about how there is "erasure of PoC" when it's a non-Communist criticising how Eurocentric Communism comes off sometimes, but I rarely see persons actually combating these Eurocentric tendencies that actually undermine Communist PoC.

Eurocentric Communists undermine both the ideological contributions and the revolutionary achievements of many PoC. A lot of you are silent when this happens, because you yourselves don't even know.

Many of you use Eurocentric language, and have very Eurocentric frames for how you view struggle(s), and you don't even check yourselves on that, then turn around and wonder why persons think Communism is Eurocentric.

Outside of the contradiction between proletariat and bourgeoisie, there are other contradictions. Stalin addressed one when speaking on "The National Question" and Mao addressed some in "On Contradiction" and "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People".

If you tend to agree with me when I say Orthodox Marxism is Eurocentric, then you should lean to agreeing with me on this. Let me leave you with some questions.

1) Should support for national liberation movements be conditional on whether they are Socialist? 2) If there was a Marxist-Leninist USA, should it be allowed to intervene in smaller Capitalist countries to promote Socialism?

I ask because I remember an MLM telling me that they would only support indigenous leaders who were "anti-revisionist" and another who implied that Communists should intervene in these movements to give indigenous Communists an edge over other indigenous people.

And I see a lot of Socialists in the US giving their opinions on which leaders and movements in the Third World they should support, picking sides as if they would choose governments for the Third World if they ever had power in the US. Sounds familiar?