I have been noticing this tread over last couple years, I got introduced into leftistmin the 1980s various trot then weird maosist sects, now a days I could only describe my self as post left, you would have ask my postion on any topic to begjn to categorize me. I run with both the psl and dsa these days but im not married to them. To give context for me I dont want to make the new generation feel attacked in any way.
Anyhow the real question I have is: why are all the zooner seeming various Marxist leniinisims but with all the historical ml positions jumbled up into one not coherent thing like someone trying to rehabilitate stalin but in the same breath say deng is good and ok but krushchev bad and also Gorbachev bad Then they go on these really lengthy explanations about how it works because cited text out of context that im not sure they read it closely. Are young leftists reading theory togather in structured environments or is it all youtube and tiktocks? Im sorry if sound shrill and bad faith.
Let’s be honest here the American left has always been confused. Theres always been a tension between conditions producing commies, and those commies trying to piece together an education. Lenin talks about this exact thing in I believe the events of the 1890s producing a lot of commies, but everybody picking up their education from pamphlets. And psl and dsa are both somewhat confused as well. This is the whole point of developing a vanguard because actually figuring out what to do takes essentially the discipline of a near full time job that not everybody will be willing to do.
People citing old Soviet archives to support their niche historical take aren’t organizers, they’re just people with an interest in communism and should only be taken seriously as such.