>As Marxist-Leninist's we must always remember that Marxism-Leninism is a science based the dialectical method of understanding the world and events taking place. It is a grievous error to believe that methods, tactics, strategy, etc. in Lenin's day is going to work in our day in the exact same manner. Conditions have changed drastically and the essence of Marxism-Leninism is to be able to correctly apply dialectical methods to the ever new and changing conditions. These new conditions have effected how capitalism has changed to imperialism and concomitantly must adopt fascism in order to try and prevent its collapse as a decadent social system which means that it must protect its weakening position as a dominate social system. < Comment Happy New Years! Communist workers and Marxists in the American Union have yet to make their maximum contribution to our own working class movement, economic and social justice and equality of the world masses. We have been plagued by a series of historical errors on the theoretical level as well as practical policy. It is true that industrial policy and socialism as formulated by Frederick Engels and later under the banner of Lenin and the Third International no longer express the actual shape and self movement of the working class as a whole and our proletariat in particular. The October 1917 social revolution in Russia, whose political leadership was won by communists remains a defining event in modern history. The social revolution was a revolution in the mode of production within the framework of the transition from agriculture relations as the dominant societal relations to industrial relations, with the property relations within. The brewing social revolution is evolving within a framework that can be described as the ending of the industrial epoch and a transition to post industrial society. SInce October 1917 the two sharpest features of the social movement in the American Union has been that of the surge for industrial unionism, which peaked in the post World War II era, alongside of in conjunction with the emerged of the modern African American Liberation Movement. The African American Liberation Movement galvanized the antiwar movement of the 1960s and was a catalyst for various identity movements and the environment for the realignment in the social movement of women. Today the proletariat - the lowest and most poverty stricken segment of our society, is female. Old formula is useless. The movement for industrial unionism long ago peaked and began its decay in front of the peaking of the industrial curve of our development. To the degree that the social movement of the African Americans was indissolubly interactive with the mechanization of agriculture and the destruction of classes expressing the specific shape of these relations - the sharecropping system, it has competed this cycle of history. The National Factor, as it embraces the Mexican National, the Chicano, Indians, the Aleutian, Eskimo, various "Asians," Puerto Rico, the deep South, Southwest and all dependencies and direct colonies of the US State have entered a new era. We are at least fifteen years into a new era (from the standpoint of the changes in the development of the technological revolution and the last salient features of the social struggle - the industrial form and the African American Liberation movement as catalysts), and exploring "the undiscovered country." (If ones framework is the collapse of Soviet power, its overthrown and the overthrown of public property relations, the time framework does not shift.) Communists in our country are charged with hammering out the specific theory, ideology and doctrine of the Third American Revolution. Ideology is important and here means understanding and mastering the language of the heart of the peoples of the American Union. So-called "Marxist ideology" gets us in trouble and strengthens the tendency to form organizations based on like minded people, when it fact what is always needed are organizations that are heterogeneous driven by specific concrete goals. One can overthrow the Leninist form without repudiating Leninism or Lenin's approach to what was in front of him. There is an irreducible understanding within the population that "those who can" must provide for and assist "those who can't." Reaction understands this moral outlook and is outmaneuvering the progressives because we need to further master the language of the heart, on the basis of how people think things out. The highest expression of Marxism-Leninism is being honest with ourselves and fighting to shatter the various barriers, lies and dishonesty that reproduces itself on the basis of lusting for profits and privilege at others expense. "I am my brothers keeper" has to be fought for as an imperative of the state and function of government. Communism in the American Union is not going to look like the industrial socialism of the Soviet era. American society was always in front of the Soviets in their industrial development and long ago began the leap - transition, to post industrial society. The fight is for the hearts and minds of the masses with a critical eye towards that sector of the population thrown into open combat with the state. Comrade Waistline
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