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Letter: ICWP Helps Me Understand What Is Happening in the World
Greetings, Comrades. Iām 43 years old. I am the mother of two boys, 17 and 15 years old, and my Princess is 6 years old.
I joined the Party because it gave me an understanding of what is happening in the world. In my first meeting, I couldnāt understand the message clearly because of the political terminologies of what the Comrades were sharing. Yet I stayed because I was trying to understand what they were saying even if it was hard to digest.
Then we were given change. Now weāre given a chance to engage as well.
As the meeting was continuing, I asked the comrades to break down the English words and just to simplify it for new people like me. And they took note and clarified the message to us. Right there I decided to come again so that I may listen more and engage when necessary.
In 2026 I chose to come back to the Party because ICWP planted hope in me. Hope of change, if not for me then for the future of my children. Together with the whole world because itās not for me alone, but for all Comrades and the people in the world at large.
I fully trust the struggle with the Comrades and the collective. The masses have the voice to be heard. We can spread the struggle and bring solutions and deal with the challenges we continue to face as we live on.
As we distribute the Red Flag, some people become enlightened too. When reading even among ourselves, we can understand more about the struggle.
What drew me in on the first meeting was the fact that the Comrades listened, not just to me, but to all Comrades that asked questions. And there was no postponement, but there were answers and solutions to our questions.
As I continued in the struggle, I saw that ICWP is all about solutions to the problems and the abuse of human rights and for our freedom. I believe the struggle will not be conquered in months, but we will continue to struggle for our freedom and rights to live ourselves as Communists until we free ourselves from capitalism.
Red Salute, Comrades! Iām so sorry that I couldnāt log in to the recent zoom meeting. But there will always be next time. Iām proud to be part of you. And Iām devoting myself to serve as a good communist as well. Thank you very much.
āComrade O
Letter: āEfficiencyā and Communist Social Relations
My Grandpa dropped out of school at fourteen to take over the family farm. He was very self-conscious about his limited schooling and always worked to improve his reading vocabulary.
A staple in my grandparentsā house was The Readersā Digest magazine and Readersā Digest Condensed Books. The magazine included condensed excerpts from popular print magazines, and features including vocabulary building. It was created in 1922. Its anti-communist politics reflected the Red Scare that followed the Russian Revolution. Its structure reflected the time management and efficiency in industrial production of the 1920s āAmerican Planā of factory organization.
The books had ācondensedā versions of a few of the best-selling books published each year. One was āCheaper by the Dozen,ā written by two children of time-and-motion-study experts Lillian and Frank Gilbreth. The original book was a warm and funning portrait of a childhood. The condensed version stripped the book of its human element and its humor. It was a bare narrative of how to run an efficient household with a dozen children.
The Gilbreths would have approved of the efficiency of cutting out the human element and getting the reader to the point as quickly as possible. Their life work was in making factories as efficient as possible. In maximizing exploitation and increasing the profitability of factory work.
This is not our goal. Our goal is a communist society where production is for need, not for profit. Work will not be a ājobā where you work as an appendage to a machine, to produce whatever youāre told to produce, for a wage that you spend to buy what you need to survive.
Creating communist social relations of production is not efficient. It requires time. Slowing down and listening. Laughing and crying, caring and working together. Thinking deeply about what we really need. Struggling with our comrades and fellow workers to fulfill the needs of us all.
Does the world really need more t-shirts? Should we be growing cotton or vegetables? How can we make sure that what we produce is not at the expense of the planet, the community, our own bodies and emotions?
Our political work needs to reflect those values today. How do we take care of each other while we struggle to mobilize the masses for communism? How do we work together, taking the time we need to really listen? How do we have the confidence in each other to struggle for change? How do we think deeply and collaborate in what we say and write for the masses?
I started this letter thinking about the use of AI in writing for the paper. But as I wrote it I could see that it had broader implications. That is exactly what happens when you think and write. That canāt be sourced out to an app.
āComrade in Los Angeles (USA)
Letter: Seeds of Communism: Combining Mental and Manual Work
Our manifesto Mobilize the Masses for Communism (MMC) explains that in communism we will eliminate wage slavery and break down the division between mental and manual labor. They will be combined. No one will do only mental work, and no one will do only physical work.
MMC says, for example, that in communism, the agronomist and the farmworker will be the same person. A friend said he thought that was very idealist. He thought that it wasnāt possible, that it is too far a reach.
Many experiences show that the opposite is true. It is a materialist position, based on history and practice, not an idealist one. Many with first-hand experience and those who know people with first-hand experience are talking about the best way to grow food, using science and their own knowledge from experience of best practices for growing healthy fruits and vegetables. Some say that the soil is tired and needs replenishing. In the past, crops were rotated and the soil was given time to regenerate the needed nutrients. Bugs and other animals helped this process. An acquaintance in Fresno says that fertilizer actually depletes the soil.
Today, with the war against Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the price of fertilizer has gone way up along with the price of fuel. Vegetables and fruit are more expensive and less plentiful. Many people are angry and worried about the situation. But when the focus of production is meeting the daily needs of people instead of profits, fertilizer isnāt needed. Itās possible to replenish the soil with healthy nutrients without the use of fertilizer.
This makes me realize how correct MMCās point is that the agronomist and farmer/farmworkers should and will be the same people. A mass ICWP will encourage the people who grow food to develop the science of healthy soil and best practices. Masses will help. They can rely on knowledge of how societies before capitalist industrial farming successfully treated the soil and grew a variety of nutritious life sustaining fruit and vegetables. And collectively without profits and competition getting in the way, they can advance this scientific knowledge through theory and practice.
Collective knowledge and work of planting and harvesting will be combined with science. This conversation and struggle canāt wait for some future date. Many people are angry and worried about lack of healthy food they can afford. They are worried about war. They are open to communist revolution now.
Capitalist industrial farming for profit and sale negated healthy subsistence farming to meet the needs of the masses. Communist collective work, experience, and science, combining practice and theory, manual and mental labor, will negate capitalismās industrial production of food for profit. Communism will preserve the best from the past and collectively take it to a much higher level. Communism will mean healthy food for all without money produced and shared collectively.
āA Comrade
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