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The Collective is Crucial
Consistency is the key for a successful party. Building and maintaining strong relationships with comrades and the masses is very crucial for collectives’ progress and solidarity.
I am back by popular demand of comrades. I have to be self-critical, and I take full responsibility for my absence for a few weeks. Comrades cared for me, and they did not leave me alone. That gives me the strength to build the party in a much better way. I realized I was doing work alone. Now I understand the collective is crucial in keeping everyone thinking and acting in a communist way.
With consistent visiting, door to door visits, distribution of Red Flags, and reading of Red Flags, sharing ideas as collectives is what grows and will continuously grow the Party.
Nurturing relationships rooted in trust and transparency, empathy and shared purpose, strengthen the party not individually but in collective bonds.
Always leave a room for rejection and that should never discourage you from continuing going out there, spreading the word, and fighting for communism. There are low and high days and during those low days (rejection, lots of overwhelming questions, called names) that is all a learning curve . As they say in retail “dealing with a difficult customer” but you don’t quit your job because of that. Instead you get better each and every day when having to deal with such.
The same with fighting for communism. It’s a rollercoaster. It gets better the more you distribute, the more masses you get to meet, regular meetings, reading and writing of Red Flag.
CONSISTENCY is the Key. Red salute comrades. Aluta continua.
—Comrade in South Africa
Revolution is Best Served Hot
At a time when speaking your mind in the West is only allowed when you agree with the Right, my comrade’s dinner parties serve as a mental getaway where we can let ideas flow freely and discuss opinions and truths over delicious food and drinks. People from their 20s to their 70s have joined these dinner parties to share their life experiences and perspectives on the world. It has been fascinating to learn about comrades in other countries such as South Africa and different revolutions in recent history. To hear anecdotes of comrades from the 20th century who are no longer with us and their contributions. To learn what we younger communists need to do to continue the work and bring about revolution in our lifetime.
It’s been rejuvenating to attend and feel so welcome at a table and sit with comrades who I didn’t know before that evening and know that we are safe here.
Our host has traveled far and wide to support the communist agenda and brings a bit of the world to us at the table with her delicious cooking. Featuring meals from Palestine and India, often alongside a pasta dish or roasted chicken. Comrades bring drinks, bread, desserts, and fruit.
Through these parties I’ve formed deeper ties with comrades across Los Angeles County. I’ve realized that there are more of us than I thought. Bringing communist ideology to the table isn’t welcomed often in the US, but Red Flag has served as an ice breaker for folk who may not have interacted otherwise.
We chat and laugh. Learning about AI, exchanging stories about immigration and our families, sharing our careers and how they align with our values. We discuss politicians and enlighten each other without defensiveness. Holding space without judgement for those who may be less educated on a topic.
Because, through communism, community is built. Safety and love are forged through fire, knowing we are once again being actively persecuted by both sides in the US, where the general understanding of communism is ‘communism is when no iPhone’ and politicians throw the word left and right in attempt to degrade their opponents.
But the political tension only drives the point further home that community is necessary. So, as we revolve around the table, I hope to bring more along with me for the revolution.
—Sunflower