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Is balkanisation a goal for US communist parties? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like, giving independence to California and Cascadia for example. Because if you're a communist party and believe the US is a settler state, it's logical to strive to break up that state. But I'm not Statesian so I don't know in what way this is discussed in the parties.

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't think replacing the current two arbitrary hard borders cutting ~70 Indigenous homelands in half, thereby preventing the Native citizens in these border regions from fully exercising their rights and traditional ways of life... With >100 arbitrary hard borders cutting I don't even know how many Indigenous homelands into halfs or thirds or quarters... Would improve the quality of life of most Natives. Nor would it improve the quality of life of, really, anyone else in the region.

On the other hand, if you instead say that the Balkanized Seppoland just doesn't have hard borders, then, well, how different is that really from the current arrangement? There would still be some sort of central organization managing the affairs between the states — at least when it comes to their borders — but the states themselves would be beholden to significantly fewer laws from above. This is a "small government" Republican's wet dream.

The main thing is just that replacing a settler state with smaller settler states doesn't actually resolve the contradiction. The states will still act in settler interests, in fact they'll probably find some way to just more or less return to the current status quo. The way you help Native nations is to return land and respect treaty rights.