Predictably, Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the Democratic Primary (again) and endorsed the center-right candidate (again). Why? Because this is who Bernie always has been. We’ve seen settler left-populists operating within the Democratic Party before, they always fall to the pressure of the right within the party because the Democrats are a right wing party. This is to be expected, this is who Bernie always has been and will be until he’s lowered into his grave (soon). The critique should be applied to opportunists within the revolutionary movement who continue to attempt to drag us to the right and, when their fever dreams fail, come crawling back to those of us with principles expecting to be handled with kid gloves. Enough of that. No more. Time out. Countless amounts of time, paper, ink, money, people power, and other resources wasted on yet another campaign season that failed to bear real fruit. Imagine if the millions of dollars wasted on this campaign was placed in the hands of real colonized revolutionaries who operate on shoestring budgets! Imagine if the organization that Bernie had was applied at the grassroots level in working class and colonized communities around issues that really matter. Imagine if the resources went towards party-building instead of…whatever this is. There’s a need for rectification if you spent your past few months working for Bernie and now seek a post in the real revolutionary movement, because this shit can’t keep happening over and over again.

Why do people who claim to be Communists keep falling for this? Colonized people been telling y’all about Bernie. We’ve seen his like before, they all turn out to be full of shit. When they’re elected, they fuck us over. When they lose, they fall in line. We know that everything we get out of this shithole of a country is won through violence or the threat of violence. Yet people who have studied Marx and Lenin and consider themselves their students continue to engage with bourgeois elections. Now we see the call for “third parties” to engage in the electoral process and waste even more time and resources — why? Because at the root the electoral so-called left in the United States is full of itself. Let’s be real — none of these candidates from third parties will ever hold power. You’re a dead possum about to be run over by an 18 wheeler. The arguments about “getting the message out” hold no water — people already know who is oppressing them and what should be done about it — what is needed is a Communist vanguard that is capable of organizing a Communist response, meaning armed struggle. There is no Communism at the polls. Regardless of your rhetoric, there is nothing to be found there. You’re wasting your time, and when you try to push this cretin line to real principled revolutionaries, you’re going to bang your head further against the brick wall. The masses also have no time for this shit. You’re only aggrandizing yourself and your formation. Stop. Arrogance is what is at the root. Y’all read and quote Assata, then get up and knock on doors to hound colonized working class people to vote for the goddamn Green Party. Y’all annotate Du Bois, then go knock doors for Bernie. Black people have written countless critiques of your practice, yet you know more than us. Here’s your reward. I’ll say it — we were right. We were right in 2016, we were right in 2020.

Why? Because, again, we’ve seen this shit. Our people have been eating shit for 500 years. We weren’t able to vote until living memory, the 1960s. We’ve seen our position get worse, not better. Our neighborhoods are crumbling ghettoes full of drugs, crumbling schools, and garbage. The factories that spawned the most revolutionary union movements in history in Detroit are shuttered and closed. We are warehoused in prisons. Now, we’re bearing the brunt of this pandemic because we are “essential” (read, disposable) workers. I saw a sister that worked at a grocery store and continued going to work without gloves, disinfectant, or mask who died from COVID-19 whose last check was twenty bucks and change. Why, because she wanted to help people. Black bus drivers, Black sanitation workers, Black and Brown nurses, Black and Brown CNAs, Black and Brown grocery store workers, Black and Brown truck drivers, Black and Brown food processing workers. Do you realize that if we were disciplined and organized, moving as one, we could bring this country to its knees? Not the Bernie “movement”, Black and Brown working class people. This is who shall inherit the Earth. If you want to share in the new world, it is in your best interest to get it together as soon as possible and quit fucking around. The revolution destroys everything that gets in its way and will have many Bernie signs in the tire treads.