u/Odd_Watercress_3379

I dont know much about blockchain at all. i know the ACP blockchain is not a cryptocurrency. The blockchain is mentioned on the ACP website and haz mentions it in this video where he dispels the cryptocurrency rumour. But I still don’t think I understand what exactly the purpose of it is. The websit says it “records members who have achieved cadre status”. Couldn’t this, like, pose a major security risk? If the government has a top secret way to decipher blockchains or something. But maybe thats not at all how blockchain works and I’m too paranoid. Still, why is it useful/ important for cadre to be identified on a blockchain? Haz says it is to “prevent impersonation”. Is that really it? Because going through all the trouble of setting up a blockchain (i assume it’s a complex process) when the ACP website just links to the officially verified chapter accounts anyways seems like a lot of effort. Plus all the official acp accounts follow each other. Does the blockchain do something else? Am I missing something? Please let me know. ACP is the first communist org ive heard of anywhere that’s doing this so im very curious to understand it.

I’m being only the tiniest bit hyperbolic with the title. A few days ago I posted a thread asking about the ACP’s stance on Canada. I got a few responses but it frankly wasn’t as clarifying as I’d hoped. The only thing that was a little useful was this one article on Midwestern Marx. The article doesn’t really discuss contemporary Canadian issues though.

Anyways, this all kept lingering on my mind up until I considered getting a subscription to Red America (especially after an encounter with RCP members earlier this week—also a young party active in the US and Canada—except they actually do have plenty of written material on Canada that they tried very hard to sell to me). Some of the articles seem interesting despite the chatgpt abstracts. Most of all an article about contemporary issues in my home and native land titled "The Offensive of the Capitalist Class in Canada" (Issue #15) which may be the one and only actual written or non-written work officially produced by the ACP giving a concrete Marxist analysis of the situation in Canada and which I suspect was written by the same person who wrote the aforementioned Midwestern Marx article.

So I go on the Red America website to subscribe and I have never been more baffled in my life. As you can see on the attached image the subscription options for the print version are $25 for print and $35 for international print. For some reason this party—which is active in Canada—excludes EUROPE and AUSTRALIA from having to pay the extra $10 jizya tax but NOT explicitly Canada. UNLESS they just forgot to mention Canada, which is not inconceivable considering the Canadian chapters have very little motion and are not as active on social media. plus as far as I know there’s no Canadians in the leadership/executive board. Maybe I’m missing something here guys. But seriously… even Australia?

I am being a little hyperbolic again. I’m not actually so heartbroken that I’d have to pay extra for print. I’ll probably just choose the digital subscription anyways and cancel afterwards. It does however show a general indifference towards canada from the party and its leadership. Which makes me wonder again what the point is of the party being in Canada at all.

Was it just a last minute decision to be active in Canada too? The party did originate from a split in the CPUSA but it doesn’t seem to have any foundation in canada. The main party accounts never even posts about Canada and Canadian politics—not even on Canadian holidays like it does for US holidays. It’s no surprise to me that the social media posts from the Canadian chapters don’t get much motion. The party’s messaging is so odd and vague on this subject and sometimes unpopular to the point of being counterproductive (talk of annexing Canada and 'Canada is not a real nation' which seems just like you’re parroting Trump’s expansionist threats and trying purposefully to alienate Canadian workers). I think this indifference is a real mistake on many levels. ACP is in Canada and the United States, you’d think that’s pretty significant. But no there’s only like an article and a whole bunch of hoi4 larp on xitter about annexing canada and only a brief passing mention on that YouTube video where Haz responds to misconceptions about the party

ACP Blockchain?