My Comrade Cunningham, You raise pertinent issues in the document titled threats and opportunities, issues that have indeed been raised now and before. I must state upfront that I share in the wish to protect the PAC from anarchists, and people that have no appreciation of how the PAC could be steered forward.
Reading your document, I could not however discern what differentiates your wish and perhaps fear from those that other people have held before. I do not mean to be critical of your views, but I am inclined to state as well that what you call current developments, have always been current and therefore historical. There is nothing novel about this observation. I say this well aware that you have spent this much time and energy putting the document together because of your love for the party, hence I engage you with caution and respect in this regard. I have also not picked any substantive point you make in the document, save warning us against anarchists, a warning we ourselves have echoed now and before. A more elaborate identification of the specific opportunities and threats would have been helpful. Indeed I struggled, too, to understand what the conclusive call of the article is. So, my comments are made in the context of your document, which I respectfully consider thin on substance. And I am cognizant that given an opportunity you could explain yourself in more detail, it is only that given the subject of your document I had to comment. Consequently I am left not knowing what exactly you intend achieving with the letter and spirit of the document. I must share my views based on my reading and interpretation of the document. Advising us to stand guard against anarchists is all good and well, but characterizing who these anarchists are would be more helpful. Your characterization of reactionaries is quite elusive. Who decides that one is an anarchist ? Who exactly is an anarchist, does this include people that may have supported the anarchist pre-anarchy, yourself ? Some people may very well be thinking that you are anarchic yourself by making a call against anarchy without going into substance, I don’t think you are as I have stayed away from characterizing people that way. Simply put, your definition of anarchy may be the direct opposite of what another comrade think. We should draw a bold clear line between our opinions and facts. What I am more interested in from you and all of us, what is the solution to move the party forward, and what we ourselves exactly stand for. I will start with the latter. By advising us against the anarchists, you invariably suggest that you are not one yourself. Ok, granted, but what exactly do you stand for. It does not help either that we have to probe you on this one. My short life in the PAC, not bearing the great privilege that some of you have, of having spent decades in the party, is that we have committed a colossal mistake in the past of allowing people to warn us against standing leaders, punting for themselves only on the basis that they are better than the incumbent. We must now transcend this, and ask what you stand for. This is at a political and ideological level. It is a challenge that all must engage with. I am not going to ask you, when did you realize this anarchy, after the elections. It may be quite opportunistic to replace intellectual assessment with electoral assessment i.e. relying solely on the outcome of the elections to realize there is something wrong with the party. So that you do not misread me at all. I have raised my concerns with the President of the party on his leadership style, political work, neglect of unity, ideological positioning long before the elections. I believe in a new generation of leadership, a point known by most of my comrades. So, I endorse leadership change, what I am not sure of is the timing. We have to demonstrate maturity and experience, especially because we have been this route before, when some of the enlightened members like yourself were keeping a safe distance from the party. There is work that still need to be done amongst party members. We have developed a draft program of action for the PAC called IOTA. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the document and input thereto. This document has been circulated to all party structures and comments received would be used to table it at the next conference of the party. This is what the party requires, a program and prospective leaders whose ideological position is declared. To avoid the very problem of divisions and instability, we need a transitional team of leadership that would drive the party for a period of two years or so. 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