A communist party advocates for a dictatorship of the working class, granting workers all power, a concept liberals fail to understand. After a socialist revolution, the power is in the hands of the workers, considering they formed it. If the party that represents them does not comply with their demands, they will not let this party have unjust authority over them, as they are now class-conscious and know their worth. This is exemplified by the October Revolution of 1917 when workers were not content with the first revolution and overthrew the provincial government in Russia. Soviet power was workers’ power.

The words all power to the Soviets can be read on the banner.

Why is that word such a controversial issue to liberals? It’s like a sin to them. To have control over our personal futures is to have power in our daily lives. Workers who have control over the profits of labor, their blood, sweat, and tears, are empowered as well. We want a dictatorship of ordinary people rather than a dictatorship of the capitalists.

And that’s not even weighing in empowering BIPOC or LGBT communities—or women to defeat patriarchy. In the U.S., the Black Panther Party, a Marxist-Leninist group, exuded power by the way they dressed and armed themselves, which is why its capitalist state undermined them; they were a threat to the status quo. Liberals who vehemently oppose this are presently exerting their authority over those groups and denying them the right to be in charge and, additionally, safety from fascism. The Black Panther Party’s sin was empowering black people, and liberals will never forgive them for that.

The Communist Party of China exudes power as well. With about 100 million members, the CPC’s revolutionary aesthetics represent the people’s victory over capitalists. To become a member, a citizen must actively participate in the party’s affairs.

It’s interesting how communists always support the underdogs yet apparently “crave power for the sake of it.” We want a world where all people are allowed to live a dignified life rather than the sheer outcome of the birth lottery and their material conditions. Those constraints can only be eradicated by a massive paradigm shift in how we perceive and wield power. Liberalism is the ideology of oppressors. They want it to be wielded solely by the men in suits rather than the ordinary people.

As for the argument, “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is, in essence, misanthropic. Or simply projection on the person who articulates it. How could a communist, who dedicates their entire life to protecting the powerless, be corruptible? To claim everyone is corruptible is to assert humans are inherently as such—that they are so innately bad that as soon as they have authority, they become their evil true selves. I do not, and never will, believe this nonsense. Many good people deserve to have authority over capitalists. Currently, capitalists wield the power, and our government has authority over us. It should be the opposite! The opposite is communism, in which people collectively hold power, and the communist party exerts it on our behalf as a nucleus of our unity. 🙂

(I hope some apolitical people read this, or else I’m just preaching to the choir lol)