Re: Bordiga and stalinism

[Mauro junior <mauro.jr@xxxxxx>]

At 14.43 06/12/95 GMT+10, Marcus wrote:


>And yet I disagree with the below. If the party is the 'free
>association of militants', then any member should be able to fight in
>the party for a position shouldn't they.

Mauro jr:
free association means that the action of associate to it is free, not obliged.
>It is practice which will
>sort people out, not a bureaucratic rule. Any opportunist can agree
>with anything to their hearts content - as long as it gets them where
>they want to go. The difference in a communist party is that if they
>aren't being communists in practice, then they will stick out like
>sore thumbs.
>Some people who want to leave politics find the big difference to
>debate out to leave. We should not give them the excuse.

                        Agreed
>Rule 21 gives them the excuse. They should be excluded on their political
>practice, not their bureaucratic adherence to some rule.

Mauro Jr:
Here I not agree. The adherence is not to some "rule" but to the thesis.
By the other hand, it is true that if one does not share the party's thesis
has no more reason to remain in the party: either the disagreements, the
differencies, can be solved in a higher understanding, or we have new
different thesis which cannot coexist in the party (and the party is the
organisation which carries the only the class revolutionary programme).
By the way, this is the reasl content of the democratic centralism, which
has nothing to do with the socalled democratic centralism of the stalinist
parties.
Mauro Junior
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