Peace,
We are happy to see some healthy discussion and exchanges of experience
return to the ML list. So with these comments I would like to add on to the
richness of our experience.
Revisionism and opportunism has been the dominant trend within the
imperialist oppressor nations since WWII. We overstand this as being rooted
in the economic relationships that constitutes world imperialism, the role of
super-profits, and the class nature of the imperialist nations.
As for the old CP was peace when it was first founded in the early 20s as
a genuinely proletarian vanguard composed rooted mainly in the Eastern
European communities of immigrant workers, but even then revisionism,
expressing itself as an Amerikan white nationalism-chauvinism in practice
then line. Other than that the cp, for the larger part of its history, was
largely void of the thororoly revolutionary and proletarian masses of North
Amerika such as the East Asian proletarians employed on the railroads, or the
immense proletarian masses in the cotton fields of the South. In the thirties
tho, we see an effort and a two-line struggle with the party to base the
party in the proletariat or the expanding labor aristocracy. During and after
this period the old CP continued on its path of development. the experience
of the cp is rich in practical lessons for comrades today. Comrades had
probably read Comrade Harry Haywood excellent and valuable Memoirs -- Black
Bolshevik for a vivid description of this period, and his observations about
the nature of the old CP and its contributions. In the 30s, as comrade
Jackson use to say "the wheels fell off." Here we see the old cp at the
height of its revolution viability, temporally overcoming the rabbit Amerikan
white nationalist -opportunist line within its ranks and taking a tememdous
leap forward in theory and mass practice for the Amerikan Communist Party,
rallying the oppressed Black communities around the line of
self-determination for the Black-Belt, which was peace, and was a step in the
right direction. but this position and revolutionary Marxism-Leninism itself
was thrown out by the revisionist leaders of the old cp in the 40s. already
comrades, we had seen the existence of this particular brand of revisionism,
white Amerikan nationalism, and right-oppertunism within the ranks of the
old cp, and we then seen its formal expression as Browder's revisionist and
Amerikan white nationalist formulation of "Amerikan exceptalism" and all the
rest of the the garbage. During this period the old cp was the left wing of
the new-deal of the fascist Roosevelt. The old CP even liquidated its as an
organized detachment of the working class, and resurfaced as something like
"the American Political Association" or something to that effect.
Due to practical activities I don't have the time to spit any longer i
thought i was going to write a couple sentences, gotta be out. So that's all
I will say at the moment but I know comrades on this list will push me on to
say more.
in struggle,
Tre
Also, Do comrades have any information, documents or experiences about
the CP-ML, October League which formed in the 70s, Piaire -Fire Organizing
Committee (which split from the Weather Underground) that formed in the U.S.
There's very little info on that. Also I would like to hear experienced
comrades observations and views on the 70s and 80s ML movement in the US,
problems and initiatives. That would be extremely helpful.
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