Lots of people already in the west use it to justify sitting on their ass because everyone else is “inherently reactionary” ignoring the relative downward trend of the wages and living standards of the most oppressed classes in the west, the growing social unrest, protests, street actions, etc every year. I think understanding super-profits and the labor aristocracy is an important part of our analysis that needs to be considered, but westerners using it as a reason to pre emptively give up so they can be online armchair communists who have arrived at the Correct Positions that just so happen to require no action on their part to organize since it’s already a lost cause by their view is frustrating, pointless, and defeatist

They are an ML party, although they do descend from the WWP, which was not ML, the PSL is ML. Brian Becker, one of the founding members, did an amazing series on Lenin you should check out if you are interested in seeing how leadership views Lenin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksimAtKX9jo

they self describe as a Leninist party. the leadership also describes the party as ML. only online do I hear anything about Marcy/Marcyism.

Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Marxist Leninist party in almost all 50 states! Please check them out.