Whether you personally are caught up or not it still has a deep history in anti-asian racism. Depictions of asians as yellow is a classic hallmark of anti-asian racism.

Wait I’m curious, drop it

Hell yeah, that’s fucking awesome. I hope y’all do very well and that one day our movements are able to join together, either by forming a unity party or by struggling together officially. I’ve seen what you say on here and I have to say that I trust you when you say if it’s working out and good then it’s working out extremely well and is very good.

Unfortunately we’re building movements, not simply working to improve oneself. I take the stance of the wonderful revolutionaries before me and put extensive time and money into trying to help foster an independent and Democratic ML Party beholdened to it’s own membership. I’m extremely happy to be putting a portion of my income aside to help grow this desparately needed and professional party organ in the US. We’re not only trying to educate ourselves, but entire sections of the working class, and that requires outreach and power only attained by a well planned, coordinated, and smart party.

That’s a shame that your local branch isn’t very effective, my experience in a branch that’s been growing’s been far more positive. At the very least though, to share, the recruitment isn’t for shallow purposes.

The focus on recruitment is because the point of a practical socialist party like the PSL isn’t to simply subsume all struggle into itself, this would be absurd, but instead to act as a unifying organ for those who already dedicate time in the community. This can be the reason behind the focus on recruitment, as essentially, there are tons of socialists and socialist-friendly folks who put together critical movements and orgs locally who, on becoming a member of the PSL, can have their work and effort boosted by being able to rely on other comrades within the party and the political education programs it provides. Overcoming this friction of low local membership at first though is pretty difficult, and likely why it just seems like two folks handing out stickers for now, but, I can’t really say, just my experience.

Oh wait did you actually end up joining FRSO? That’s dope! How’s it been so far?

Yeah, in my experience across the board the PSL is a robust and ideologically coherent party with an incredibly engaged membership. Biased though, as this experience is colored by my experiences working as a member of the party. I think that one should join whatever principled and (importantly!) effective ML org in their area, but I’m happy to say that for me and my area it fills this role exactly.

GET OUT OF THERE!!!

East Asia might do a lesser form of colonialism if you give them the guns if Japan is anything to go by

Lol

Also there’s a book with a premise like this called the Years of Rice and Salt. It’s really good.

I know it’s disabled by the company in Cuba unfortunately 🥲