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To all allies of liberation and the All-Empire Worker’s League – we implore you to take any and all necessary actions to isolate the Kansas “Communist” Party if you are in physical proximity to them. They are a hostile, great nation chauvinist, transmisogynistic, reactionary splinter of the CPUSA that presents an open and present danger to all liberatory currents, streams, and movements in the settler state of Kansas.
The Kansas Communist Party (or is it the Kansas Communist Association? They aren’t sure, it would seem) was, until nearly a year after the disastrous 2024 CPUSA convention, merely another District of that opportunist organization. Rather than take the principled route and lead a split, the core of the KCP (KCA? We can’t keep these settler orgs straight) agitated inside the CPUSA for nearly a year. During that time, the leadership of that internal faction communicated on and off with Unity-Struggle-Unity press with pleas that they were really principled but they just couldn’t bring themselves to make a break yet, there was still hope for the organization.
Indeed.
Finally, in the middle of 2025, the KCP/A emerged from the refuse of the CPUSA. They could not muster the resources to send even a single observer to either of the first two All-Empire Worker’s League conventions in 2025 and 2026. Upon review their “work” appears to consist of attending rallies, hosting range days, going to movies, marching with the PSL, etc., the same general settler work that most “Communists” in the US Empire get up to. This is what we call handwashing. It is the performance of feel-good bullshit that has no material effect (immediate or long-term) and remains terminally disconnected from any kind of plan to achieve real revolutionary aims. These rituals are preformed with the goal of making oneself feel as if you have removed yourself from the machinery of empire, to enact enough physical exertion and communal thrill that you can go to bed peacefully believing that you, unlike your neighbors, are a true revolutionary.
The KCP/A is a radical-liberal organization. An unwanted child that yet seeks to prove its parents better in achieving counter-revolutionary aims. How do we know this?
Firstly, because they reviewed, approved, and circulated a disgusting piece of “theory” glorifying the American Farmer as a proletarian hero. Secondly, because they, like every other handwashing organization in the US Empire, are deathly allergic to criticism.
Despite buying and circulating the Red Clarion, a virulently anti-opportunist newspaper that runs pieces directly opposed to their malodorous theory, without once batting an eye at its contents (the suppression of contradictions is common among handwashers – “let’s all get along!”), they were shocked to discover that the All-Empire Worker’s League considers their diatribe about the hardworking Amerikkkan Ranch Owner to be settler nonsense.
And how did they respond to this criticism?
Unilateral severance of communications, withdrawal of their monetary support to the Clarion, and denunciation. Not a reply, not a counter piece. We shouldn’t be surprised at this; the disgusting paean to the American petty bourgeois equating them with the peasants of feudal China or tsarist Russia – an insulting and historically illiterate comparison – reveals the KCP to be a settler-colonial project. After all, their “Kansas Communist Party” is merely one letter off from the other major settler-fascist “Communist” project, the “American Communist Party.”
Like most settler Communists, the KCP/A refuses to be held accountable for their words or actions. Instead of claiming them and standing by them, as soon as the criticism became known to them, they ceased communicating with Unity-Struggle-Unity Press.
This fatal allergy to criticism is what our “Marxists” have been reduced to by the poison of their great nation chauvinism. Make no mistake. The KCP/A are now undoubtedly, without question, great nation chauvinists who should be treated as such – a white nationalist project no different from the ACP other than the single letter in their acronym.
Indeed, as part of their “defense” against the piece in the Clarion, they went so far as to level transmisogynistic accusations against the author, degendering our comrade and accusing her of the most heinous sexual crimes. When pressed for any supporting documentation or proofs so Unity-Struggle-Unity or the League could conduct investigations and protect its membership and the movement, the KCP replied: “we aren’t interested in helping you.”
Then they posted this trans woman’s name on their website, again without any proof of their “findings,” perhaps with the hope that someone will find and hurt her, make it even harder for her to see her children. Some comrades! What was the impetus behind this slander? That she gently criticized them and asked them to correct their chauvinism.
These are the Kansas “Communists.”
Let us be clear: the critical article that was published in the Clarion was begun in March of this year, written by a guest writer who had already circulated a version of this criticism with KCP/A. They weren’t surprised or blindsided by its contents. In fact, they already made a half-hearted attempt to answer the criticism, not by citing any data but by saying “hey this is our lived experience and we don’t understand settler-colonialism, so you can fuck off.”
Let us add some data.
98% of Kansas farmers are white. According to the USDA and the Kansas Department of Agriculture, there are around 44.7 million acres of farmland in Kansas. There are roughly 55,734 farms. Of those farms, 123 are Black-owned. That accounts for 63,933 acres of farmland, or .1% of the Kansas farmland. The average size of a farm in Kansas is 804 acres. Average net income for Kansas farms in 2025 was $212,000. On average, Kansas Farm Management tracked farm operations hold roughly $4.51 million in assets against $871,000 in liabilities, maintaining a debt-to-asset ratio of around 19%. Working capital-to-expense ratios are around 97.5% – many farms maintain large degrees of equity even during “lean” years.
Those poor white farmers.
The KCP/A then complains that addressing settler colonialism is outside the “scope” of their article. They don’t understand enough about it, they moan. Well, that much is clear, but no Communist can claim that understanding and addressing great nation chauvinism is outside of their “scope.” If they believe it to be, then perhaps they should hang up their pretty red flag and go back to the Democratic Party rallies where they belong.
What the KCP/A was actually surprised about was that they hadn’t bought off USU, the League, and the Red Clarion because they were paying us for our newspapers.
We won’t be bought off.
We stick to our principles.
Unlike, it seems, the Klansas “Communists”.
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