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Slight chance emerging of me moving back to The Netherlands. Communism coming soon.
Which org would you join if you were to move back?
That's a good question and I'm not sure yet. I believe the most serious commie movement is Rood but I also believe they are more trotskyist in nature. To my knowledge there are no other serious marxist or ML options, I think? Suggestions would be welcome.
It also depends on where I will go. It will probably be in the Amsterdam region (kidney for sale btw) and that would give me more options than Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht or wherever of course.
ive met some people from rood and they seem to be a mix of trots and MLs. and are quite dynamic now and focused on growth, so i think there is still room to shift ideologically
I think 4 orgs are an option, with a clear ranking. These orgs are SP, BIJ1, RSP and NCPN.
SP seems to be the worst option, even though they are the biggest. They have completely abondoned their communist history. They have actively banned communist members and their youth organisation Rood seceded because of this. I think they can't be pushed left anymore. Right now they are a socdem party, but can imagine they will be pushed even more right towards social liberalism like GLPVDA.
Then you have BIJ1, my organisation. They are better than SP but worse than the other two organisations. But they are the best option in the elections. That's one of the reasons why I will stay until after the municipal elections. What they do the best is linking anticapitalist struggles with discrimination, especially racism in an intersectional framework. It's important that an organisation is anti-racist, and anti-discriminatory and that POC and other marginalized communities feel at home in the party. I'm in favour of intersectionality but it needs to be linked to class struggle, but a lot of party members don't do that. Some don't identify as socialist, but only as intersectionalists and some only care about advocating for their own group, abandoning intersectionality. Still most of the members are socialists, and Dibi calls himself that as well. But we call our party anticapitalist like we're still afraid of the word socialist. And because there's a lot of different types of socialists, from MLs to Trotskyists to Anararchists to DemSocs our ideology is pretty all over the place. Some of them want 'tankies' out of the party. There's even a Signal app group called 'BIJ1 tegen tankies'. We can be pushed left but it will be difficult if not impossible, especially with people openly calling for 'tankies' to be removed from the party.
RSP seems like one of the best choices. They are growing fast and have some MLs in the party. Those who aren't generally aren't afraid to call themselves communists and are politically close to the MLs. Their youth organisation ROOD is very active as well.
NCPN is a good choice as well. They are explicitly ML and do a lot of organising although I don't notice it that much. RSP/ROOD is bigger and more active. Their youth organisation CJB is especially active and their cutoff is only for your 30s. They don't participate in elections, exept for one municipality and they haven't answered my question if they will participate in more municipalities next year. They have some large growth but they're still very small. They have a good newspaper, just like RSP/ROOD.
RSP and NCPN seem like the best options. But who of the two is better, I don't know.
I would also like to give my voice for the NCPN as they're the official Dutch fraternal party of the communist parties in the world that follow the IMCWP, which is the forum for Marxist-Leninist parties to convene and have discussion each year on relevant topics.