Anons, I might be about to do something big, and I wanted to ask some other comrades for advice. No I am not about to commit an act of domestic terrorism.
I've spent the last six months working/organising with what's basically one of the most well-known indigenous resistance groups here in Australia. I was asked to write a political program for them. I did. I was hesitant on how receptive they'd be for it, since it's basically "we need to become a Communist party" and has a section specifically devoted to Marxism-Leninism. When I presented it to them I tried to tiptoe around it to test the waters with basic anti-capitalist, anti-colonial talk before plunging in to namedropping Communism and ML.
The waters were very receptive.
Far more receptive than I was expecting or hoped. They asked me to print it out and give them a copy they could "translate into blackfellas language", since I have a rather formal writing style - which they said was good, it meant they could use me to communicate their ideas into coherent statements and policies and translate it to more formal political language.
So I come to you, Anons. I don't really have anyone irl I can share this with to get a second opinion, so I humbly ask you lot to read this and tell me what you think. The people it was meant for liked it a lot, but they're not really Communists, although they were very receptive to the basic ideas once I explained it to them. I framed it through the lens of being a method to decisively defeat colonialism and showing them the link to Capitalism - i.e. the economic mode of production of private property - and why that must be defeated too. Telling them stories of legendary anti-colonial revolutions in Vietnam - they'd never heard of Uncle Ho - also helped sell the idea.
I'm looking for some thoughts and advice on what you guys think. Are there bits I should change, reword, or add? This is not meant to be an outline of policy or an ideological manifesto, but more a broad outline of political ideology, strategy, and tactics.
Just to answer some, what I'm assuming will be questions you might have:
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