Committee For A

Tropical Communist Party

Building Proletarian Power in Tampa Bay

The C-TCP is a Marxist political committee building for a communist party in Tampa, Florida. We aim to unite broad sections of progressive workers in the class struggle means reaching beyond protest politics and toward lasting projects that resist bourgeoisie oppression. Read about us or review our study guide to learn more.

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This week, the Committee continued its study of “Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation” by Silvia Federici with a section focused largely on the so-called “transition to capitalism.” As Federici highlights early in the chapter, “capitalism was not the only possible response to the crisis of feudal power.” Various communalistic movements and rebellions throughout Europe offered the possibility of Communism, but their defeats, along with growing witch-hunts and colonization, laid the groundwork for capitalism to develop.

In Federici’s view, this primitive accumulation extended to the “campaigns of terror” experienced by Indigenous people and European women alike. In both cases, the violence used against them was justified by propaganda that led to their marginalization, criminalization, and enclosure. The perspective Federici puts forth on primitive accumulation — such as its role in capitalist expansion, its inherent violence, and its cyclical nature — differs substantially from that put forth by Marx. Throughout our study, C-TCP Cadre are engaging with these arguments to develop our own definition of the concept as we formalize our political lines.

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This week, the Committee concluded its study of “The Communist Necessity” by J. Moufawad Paul. The text’s closing sections and afterword, written five years after the book’s original publication in 2014, emphasize that this era’s capitalism-induced escalating crises make the necessity of Communism even more immediate. However, building a true revolutionary party will require learning from Communism of the past.

As part of our study, the Committee will debate research questions meant to interrogate and struggle with the text. The answers we develop will help define the Committee’s position toward the text itself and contribute to the formalization of C-TCP’s political line.

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$This week, the Committee continued its study of “The Communist Necessity” by J. Moufawad Paul. JMP’s explanation of “refoundationalism” — or the tendency to "to establish projects and processes and networks and assemblies that attempt to unify a vague and fractured left” — resonated with cadre who have organized with groups that held no clear political line beyond anti-capitalism. As its name states, a refoundationalist strategy focuses on rebuilding the left while lacking coherent theoretical unity and refusing to learn the lessons of previous revolutionary movements. JMP argues that this dogmatic approach will always result in refoundationalists tailing the working class. Building a revolutionary movement, and ultimately a revolutionary party, must begin with the setting of political lines. These lines should based on concrete, material conditions that can be proven in class struggle. Organizing the working class on these political lines is what will bring revolution — not forming one organization after another amongst the already-organized left.$

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This week, the committee continued its study of “The Communist Necessity” by J. Moufawad Paul. In the the section from which the excerpt is extracted, Paul explains that the setting of a principled political line by any person or group is often perceived by Leftists — “movementists,” in JMP’s phrasing — as rigid, dogmatic sectarianism.

However, to true Communists, these lines must be struggled over and ultimately set. As JMP explains, the ruling class understands the importance of drawing political lines and has long since set theirs. Liberals who refuse to draw lines of their own are simply “endorsing a reality determined by the enemy.” Standing firm in our political principles is part of what separates those who believe in the Communist necessity and the actuality of revolution from those would would prefer to merely imagine a better world.

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This week the Committee began its study of “The

This week, the Committee concluded its study of “On Practice” by Mao Zedong. The quote above is the text’s final paragraph, and it resonated with many of our Cadre who are working alongside our comrades in @easttampafightsback to develop a new mass organization that will fight for tenants' rights.

Throughout “On Practice,” Mao describes the process of gathering perceptual knowledge and developing it into rational knowledge. A mass organization made up of the working class is the organ through which perceptual knowledge is gained. Then, working alongside the people, the Communist party develops that knowledge to guide revolutionary practice and change the world both subjectively and objectively. Through our work with organizers, tenants, and other members of the working class in the Tampa area, we are applying Mao’s dialectical-materialist theory of knowledge to refine our practice of Communist leadership.

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