Comrade Hillier,
Thank you for your informative e-mail on the political position of the SLP
in Britain and your political position.
If I am not mistaken, the point of this discussion is how to build
revolutionary Marxist-Leninist parties in different countries at this time
of confusion, vacillation, and anti-Marxism-Leninism, and yet of the revival
of the revolutionary Marxism-Leninism in a higher theoretico-practical
dimension. If this is the point, then I would like to propose that we
discuss this issue clearly and distintly (to borrow Descartes' phraseology)
as to the fundamental aspects of a revolutionary party instead of outlining
some "general" principles with no details becuase, for example, anybody with
a slight acquaintance with Marxism-Leninism "knows" (in "general") the main
task of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party in leading the working-class
to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism (as a lower phase of
communism) is in establishing and proceeding with the dictatorship of the
proletariat. So, let us take one theoretical step at a time, which has many
steps in itself at the same time.
Marx, Engels, and Lenin are, of course, our starting point in our theortical
understanding of how to build a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party. Thus,
let us focus sharply on a great idea by Lenin that "the role of [a] vanguard
fighter can be fulfilled only by a party that is guided by the most advanced
theory"(What Is To Be Done?). This great idea of Lenin is the result of
Lenin's scientific understanding of the role of revolutionary theory in a
revolutionary working-class movement. That is why Lenin states that "without
revolutionary theory there can be not revolutionary movement"(ibid), which
many people "know" and repeat often in order to express their appreciation
of a revolutionary theory, but with a preference to some abstract "practical
activity". Lenin's oft-repeated passage is often repeated without his
statement after this passage: "This idea [of a revolutionary theory--JE]
cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable
preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the
narrowest forms of practical activity"(ibid). Now, I do not want to proceed
further after my citation of Lenin's great idea of the importance of
"revolutionary theory" for a revolutionary working-class movement and a
revolutionary marxist-Leninist party in turn without going into its details;
otherwise, we would end up with our "Proverbs and Psalms" in the tradition
of the biblical ones. Until next time!
Javad
------Original Message------
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jim=20Hillier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: April 24, 2001 9:55:14 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [MLL]Marxist-Leninists and the Working Class Movement
--- Javad Eskandarpour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Comrade Hillier,
>
> If (according to you} "he truth is that there is not
> such a broad layer of
> militant workers at this time", then it seems that
> the Marxist-Leninist
> parties and organizations would like to work with
> already "militant" workers
> instead of making them "militant" through their
> leading revolutionary theory
> and practice!
> Javad
>
>
>
Comrade Javad, there is no Marxist-Leninist party in
Britain at the current time. If there were, it would
both have better links with the militant sections of
the workers, and would be inspiring militancy through
its practice and its guiding theory. The SLP is not a
Marxist-Leninist party, though it does have people in
it, including myself, who hold Marxist-Leninist
positions. It is, rather, a left social democratic
party, whose political line is best characterised as
class struggle Labourism, a current with deep roots
within the history of the British working class as I
am sure you will agree. What I wrote was a statement
of fact, not an advocacy of tailing after the militant
workers. A communist party does not tail, it leads.
The question now, though, is how do we build such a
party? In Britain, as in many other countries, we MLs
have failed to build a strong party rooted in the
working class. In other countries, there are parties
with a far better record, which is why I asked other
comrades for their views as to how this had been
achieved.
I hope this has clarified my position for you.
Comradely regards
Jim
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