It may be worthwhile to revisit the dialectics of the development of the communist movement. We are in the midst of a leap from one period to another. In previous moments like this, the old international was replaced by a new one, in step with the times. The First International was founded around the fight against industrial capitalism. The Second International arose on the basis of imperialism and the prospect of the bribery of the working class. The Third International was formed on the crisis of imperialism. All of the world's CPs come out of this period. The CPUSA and the other Third International period parties are what they are because they are from the past period. Most communist forces are trying to resuscitate the Third International. We need a Marxist doctrine for this new period. Because the application of electronics to the economy is so much further advanced here in the U.S., the flowering of this process may not be so evident elsewhere around the world. We are talking about a leap based on revolution in productive forces. Out of this revolution, this new environment, a new class is growing. This class has no means of survival under these new conditions except within a communist economy -- from each according to ability, to each according to need, made a practical possibility by the super-productivity of electronics-based productive forces. These forces are objectively communist. Our realization is that you can't have a communist movement based on the people who consider themselves "communist". That is, the "communist movement" is not the sum of the world's self-conscious communists. The real communist movement is the objective communist movement. And that objective communist movement must be awakened and gelled with idea. The task of communists in the U.S. today to changing the thinking of people, and this requires an organization to accomplish this. The Abolitionists were perhaps the last movement in the U.S. to successfully do this. _http://www.scienceofsociety.org/discuss/wc1.html_ (http://www.scienceofsociety.org/discuss/wc1.html)
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