Clarity, unity, and communist party-building today

Mike Ely's writings on building the communist movement today can be followed on Kasama. The questions below are from his article Tiers of Communist Work: One Counter-Plan to Swamp & Sect

While I would not phrase some of the questions or formulations the same way, I see in these questions my own concerns, and those of several comrades I speak with here in Cleveland. He writes:

"Here are some of the problems I’m trying to bang on:

• If our organizational plan is not to build one more mini-sect what is it?
• If we want to avoid a “left unity” that is dominated by liberal politics, how do we do that?
• How do we develop organic ties to actual resistance resistance, real popular motion toward revolution and a newly conceived communist core?
• What process(es) can accumulate (attract, train, organize) real material force for revolution in a country like this?
• What is the process that will gather raw material for a future communist core that has organic ties to the people themselves?
• How do we practically prepare for future conjunctural moments whose outlines and features are not yet clear?
• What is communist political work — how do we organize it without building self-encapsulated organizations?
• How do we have a communist movement without a legitimizing orthodoxy?
• How do we both popularize and constantly refine communist conclusions and methods?"