Communism Underground

The Ward Churchill verdict could hold serious implications for the progress of scientific communism. If the University of Colorado board of regents succeeds in railroading him, the necessity of survival will drive the best communist scholarship underground. Reactionary University fossils will threaten the personal reputation and livelihood of people who openly undertake communist scholarship. The work will continue, inevitably, but the majority will take place underground. The thin veil of anonymity ensures a minimal amount of security. The importance of security culture pervades our movement. Even at the revisionist revleft forums, users are discouraged from posting personal photographs or too much personal information. People in the imperialist countries can easily and inadvertantly harm struggles elsewhere in the world. The Philippines, India, and Nepal openly massacre comrades, but there's also the covert assassinations and torture chambers for gathering intelligence.