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I am a Palestinian from The West Bank and I am a Communist (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Hello as you’ve read from the title I’m a Palestinian who lives currently in the occupied territories of Palestine known as the West Bank ,my friend is a moderator here and he told me I should make a post introducing myself ,I once looked up “for Reddit but for leftists” and this is the site that I found ,anyways I personally love reading Manga ,Books,and Playing Chess

I am a Marxist Leninist ,can you believe the username Mohammed is not taken ? ,my friend told me that this space was too “white” but I didn’t think he was that right

Anyways Nice to meet you all

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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Thoughts on DFLP et PFLP (It's like the splits between Judean People's Front and the People's front of Judea all over again lmao)?

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

DFLP?

Could just be a splinter, if there was a split recently (which isn't necessarily anything major).

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Well, it's a historic one, though small...

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

CPUSA has had many splinters, but many don't leave their mark. Still, we have the FRSO and PSL, at the very least.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

These are both organizations that continue to exist 30 years later and function, very different situation. It'd be closer to the IRA split or the OIRA/INLA split, but even then that was more influences by the stance on abstentionism. DFLP was born out of the Maoist faction of PFLP which was anti-revisionist ML. And to be fair DFLP split literally a year after PFLP was formed. It is less of a party fracturing than a movement forming and as party of that formation process, realizing that it has two stands which are better served operating separately. This has also led to them recruiting and serving as a pressure group in different Arab countries, with DFLP primarily in Syria these days.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Also, thanks for explaining, comrade.

[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Was the dflp pflp split not over the anti-PA line?

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

PA as in Palestinian Authority? The PFLP was formed 1967, DFLP split in 1968. That is nearly half a century away

[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Not necessarily the Palestinian authority itself but the movement to create one

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

PFLP was always super opposed to a two state solution until the turn of the century and then a decade later went back to one-state, and only started toying with running elections as part of a united front strategy with DFLP and other Marxists in '04, that fell through though.

DFLP did split during the time leading to Oslo over approval of Arafat and the peace process. Though the ideological core left and joined a front with the PFLP until the secretary general left the party and joined the capitulationists, letting the party heal in the process.

So essentially no matter what splits happen between PFLP and DFLP, they have never really been at odds over engagement in the two-state solution. When PFLP was entertaining a limited form of parliamentarianism, the DFLP was more or less inactive. Their initial divide seems to be just different camps. Not dissimilar to how some separate regional communist parties in India with separatist views would work alongside the Naxalites even if they didn't technically organize together.