What is A Comrade?
“Comrade” is a word that has been cheapened and played havoc with over the past few decades. With the rise of modern revisionism and its capture of the last proletarian rear state, China, the term “comrade” has become a hollow word — used by modern revisionists, LARP sects, and all sorts of other ideological trash to basically mean “person”. A comrade is something more. Huey called Black Panther Party cadre “oxen to be ridden by the people”. Nowadays it seems that so-called Communists want to ride the people instead. What it means to be an ox ridden by the people is that we Communists are 150% at the disposal of the broad masses. What we want as individuals is beyond irrelevant. We are no longer individuals when we become Communists, we are extensions of the broad masses and serve their interests. We are agents of popular justice and wrath. What they demand of us is done without gripe. Communists are never domineering, never arrogant, never self-satisfied or self-aggrandizing. Communists do not steal, lie, hide, run away from struggle, or form cliques for our own personal interests. Communists can not be lazy, treacherous, duplicitous, greedy, petty or spiteful. A true comrade ensures that his comrade eats before they do. A true comrade will go without shoes and coat to keep their comrade warm. During the Long March, when a comrade knew they were about to die, they would take off their uniform so that the next person to come along would be able to make use of it without having to pry it off a stiff corpse. This true comradely spirit can only come about once the ideological trash that comes from being conditioned by a lifetime of capitalist-imperialist debauchery and brainwashing is stripped away. This stripping away process is a lifetime’s work. It can only be effective if one submits themselves fully to the collective. It can only be effective if the spirit of self-criticism is fully embodied and is not thrown away lightly for personal or egotistical reasons. Egotism, impetuosity and arrogance are the ideological products of the petit-bourgeoisie and are unbecoming of a true Communist. These attitudes must be replaced with proletarian attitudes, humility, patience, and the spirit of fighting the bourgeois self, meaning the attitudes that are products of bourgeois individualism. I have known many regular people who fully embody the Communist spirit more so than intellectuals who have decided to trifle with Communism for their own self-aggrandizement and amusement. It’s common knowledge that the poor tend to help each other more than the petit-bourgeoisie, or the bourgeoisie. This is because without the collectivist spirit, the poor would be subject to all sorts of bourgeois fuckery and would have short lifespans. Study the cultural history of the New Afrikan people. It was only through maintenance of discipline that we were able to stage slave revolts. It was only through subordination to the collective that maroon colonies were able to exist in Jamaica, Latin America, and the Great Dismal Swamp in the British colonies which eventually became the United States. Why do we have play brothers and sisters, play aunts, play cousins, etc.? Because the colonizer broke up our real families and we were forced to become one large family to ensure our collective survival in the era of chattel slavery. Those who displayed antisocial, individualist behavior and snitched to Massa or withheld food from the collective were punished, by the collective. This spirit can be learned from by the Communist movement. Down with individualism, petty backstabbing, and soullessness. Up with revolutionary proletarian solidarity, unity and comradeship.
