The Deprogram

hi thank u for asking it's nice to see someone curious.

i am not american organizer but so far as i can see for ML/socialist parties in the usa (barring 'demsocs' and DSA, we're focusing on parties hoping to legitimately organize and galvanize revolutionary potential in the country), there are only a few relevant ones nowadays, like CPUSA (communist party of usa [i did know they are also dem entryists, and prolewiki's article is largely negative however ik a few people on here still organize w them and again i cant actually really claim any intimate knowledge]) and PSL (party for socialism and liberation if im not mistaken). ACP has had the most questionable and problematic recent history of these parties and is often called dubiously socialist.

afaik, while ACP does bare minimum of nominal identification as a communist party, and maybe postures towards class consciousness or expresses reasonable anti-capitalist takes, a lot of their conclusions and analyses are frighteningly socially regressive or reactionary.

leadership is often found parroting very anti-lgbtqia takes (the now ex-mod who defended ACP, in question, who insofar as we can tell has no known leadership position in ACP, was seen agreeing with a post on another nominally socialist/'left' subreddit agreeing with the view that transgender people were 'degenerates') and from what i've seen their engagement on actually topical matters of class warfare or struggle is like, close to none.

there are their 'patsoc' takes apart from that. this i know less about, but considering usa is settler colony and decolonization is seen as a primary contradiction + there's not much to be proud about in all of usa history, it's very chauvinistic.

so, at best this party takes revolutionary potential and redirects it to useless/harmful places like... transgender people. who obviously have more revolutionary potential than the average cis person, because they are already being subjugated by social policies

(also, iirc one leading member haz literally said on twt homeless people are comparable to feudal era landlords, i'm remembering, so maybe it really does indicate complete lack of socialist/ML knowledge or at least evidently capable analysis in their ranks. you have to be coked up to make such conclusions. so, LGBTQIA+ people, homeless people, and women. clearly the source of all ill in this world!)

and at best this type of social chauvinism while posturing at 'anti-capitalism' was famous in one german party led by a little toothbrush mustache man... they weren't National Socialists for nothing. so. it ranges from, giving them infinite grace, socialists who are incredibly reactionary and haven't had any substantive wins for the cause aside from a symbolic invitation to an event in the PRC, to larouchites, to people that could very well be an actual nazi party if this trajectory continues and their most reactionary tendencies are extended to their conclusion.

removing all else, there's simply alternatives in the USA that have less history of leadership taking such regressive and anti-revolutionary positions, so there's not much reason to attach yourself so deeply, unless that maybe you have takes on lgbtqia that aren't accepted by those other orgs. these groups are also wider. ACP was founded in 2024 (another reason ppl think it's an op, aside from terrible optics and agitprop and divisions they foment within usa left), almost all other communist parties in USA at least have a larger base and a longer history.

i guess if there's no other option, maybe it's okay to join them, but even then, a smarter person could probably find arguments that the foundations are somewhat (to entirely) rotted. remember that I AM NOT AMERICAN!!! i have never ever organized there much less with ACP, so if smaller chapters are different or even more distilled National Socialists please comment.