
May 28 – The so-called “Communist” Party USA (©PUSA) published an article today in its Political Affairs magazine denouncing the recent underground nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
In a shameful display of the ©PUSA’s unquestionable subservience to the ruling class, the author(s) of the piece (presumably speaking on behalf of the Party as a whole), borrowed rhetoric straight from the pages of liberal petty-bourgeois pacifism in an embarrassing display of American chauvinism, opportunism and revisionism. Rather than recognizing the DPRK’s fundamental need to develop defensive nuclear capabilities as the only means of preventing a full-scale assault by hostile foreign enemies, the ©PUSA claims it condemns all development of nuclear weapons programs:
We are resolutely opposed to the use or development of any nuclear weapons by any nation.
This is a categorically foolish position to take, considering that the hostile imperialist camp will unlikely be deterred by anything short of a country’s possession of nuclear warheads. Likewise, the fact that two of the most aggressive terrorist states in existence (the US and its proxy Zionist-Israel) possess more nuclear weapons than they could ever use only further justifies the intentions and ambitions of the DPRK.
It’s been widely known for years that the ©PUSA has been run by an elite leadership of aging revisionists, notably Sam Webb – who couldn’t’ even properly defend socialism when he was a guest on the Glenn Beck talk show. Being the opportunists that they are, the ©PUSA ineptly tried to mask its blatant revisionism with a contrived admission to the DPRK’s struggles with US imperialism, both past and present. Nonetheless, this insincere gesture is fundamentally meaningless when a self-described communist party becomes the mouthpiece of the Whitehouse.
But if there was ever any doubt as to whose line the ©PUSA towed, take a look at this excerpt:
Further, the results of the tests are in direct contradiction to the stated aims of battling imperialism. The general direction of the Obama administration’s foreign policy is at odds with that of any administration in the past 30 years, if not longer. While Obama has to navigate the political realities of the US, his administration has sought to reduce the nuclear threat, as well as the threat that the US poses to other, oppressed nations. Consequently, powerful sections of the U.S. ruling class have made their aim to derail the Obama administration altogether.
There’s no end to the errors committed in this one paragraph. Firstly, the ©PUSA would like us to believe that the Obama administration is progressive in its foreign policy, and should be supported against the “ultra-right” ruling class. These premises aren’t even un-Marxist, they’re borderline retarded and meant for consumption by the politically naïve who are innately attracted to the platform of the ©PUSA. Such statements of endorsement and flattery for the Obama administration is demonstrative of why nobody takes the ©PUSA seriously.