Definitely not my most rightwing view, but my most rightwing conscious position is that comrades should join and build up whatever organisations they can, even if they are right-deviationists or contain reactionary elements, and fight over those inside the organisations. This includes parties with settler, LGBT-phobic, misogynous among other deviations.

I also have another view that may be seen as rightwing here (and is definitely controversial) that settler-colonialism is not the principal contradiction in current day USA, North America, or most of the rest of the Americas. It’s first between the international bourgeoisie (with home base in the US) and the international proletariat, then between peripheral nations and the imperial core finance, military and cultural sectors, and only after that it’s between oppressed minorities (be they native or “imported”) and the national state repression force. Some day I’ll take the time for this struggle session.

Material context matters, but anything that would help maintaining “soviet” organisation after the revolution. Truck drivers, bikers, hardware-capable technicians, but also nurses and medics, farmers, depending on the society maybe even programmers, and also military-capable workers.

It all depends on what sort of proletarian power structure you’re building and what are the key skills required to maintain and grow it both during repression and after victory. If there’s lots of rails, train engineers. If urban areas are sparse, maybe radio operators.

Basically all of them? Thermal and nuclear are not clean energy and rely on mining (unless you mean geothermal), and wind has its issues with regards to wildlife and rural living. Rather than seeking a general optimal form of energy production, we should seek rational and deliberate allocation depending on the geographical and social conditions.

No way. Can’t even handle myself 24/7, let alone a child with me. Having a child under the nuclear family model is more responsibility than most humans can handle. But I like dealing with children for limited amounts of time, so I could always help out family or close friends with theirs, besides all the students I’ll have in the near future.

However my utopia world would be one where children are raised by the community rather than the birther and maybe the birther’s partner. That’s one thing I miss from rural life.

If you want something visual, this short video (15:12) gives a more practical explanation for labour theory of value.

This relatively short section of “Wage Labour and Capital” addresses the specific issue of how labour value translates into prices in a straightforward way.

Lots of typical US individualism and non-answers in this thread. Freedom Road Socialist Organisation and Party for Social Liberation both are principled ML organisations. The former has a competent agitation platform on Fight Back News and the latter organised lots of protests with their A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition recently and is an actual party. Yes both have their problems.

But both have contact and join forms on their websites, and communist organisations are always starved of active members so any help will be appreciated and they’ll probably know how you could do something in your area. Try to contact/join both, that way if either takes too long you guarantee a higher chance of response. Read both their programmes. And don’t be sectarian.

If you’re feeling spicy there could also be an SRA chapter near you. Besides that if you ever go to any protest or action, try to ask around which organisations people are part of and hang out with the most dedicated ones. Even if they’re in something like the DSA, you don’t need to join them to work with them. And again, communists orgs are always starved of good members who want to do something.

I don’t think any first world communist organization is worth joining. “The gendarmes” have a infiltrators in every public communist org. They are a trap. Secrecy is one of the most important aspects of a revolutionary org as laid out by Lenin in What is to be Done.

I’m not sure how you took away from Lenin’s WitbD that secrecy is so much more important than democratic centralism, organised action or the party publishing apparatus for agitation and propaganda (in their case, a newspaper). If anything what I took from the book about secrecy was more along the lines “sadly we can’t go too much in detail due to secrecy”. I also don’t remember it tying back much to guerilla warfare (specially since they were too far away from civil war at that point), though it’s been a while.

Of course do engage in opsec, but this seems like some anarchoid deviation from Marxism-Leninism. Specially considering the US is still too far away from a guerilla warfare situation. There is action that requires secrecy, but that wouldn’t be handled by people like OP with no previous experience organising. I’d be genuinely interested to hear where you got those ideas from in Lenin and Mao.

An online space like lemmygrad is a great way to keep in contact after cutting ties without risking security.

Please don’t use public and federated with cache forums as a place to connect with others if secrecy is that necessary. You might as well doxx yourself, the fediverse is an OSINT nightmare.