Re: VIOLENT REVOLUTION IS A UNIVERSAL LAW

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

Somebody wrote:

>Revolutionary violence always has been and is today a dividing line
>between real and phoney Marxists.
>
>Compare the position of the Trotskyite "International Socialist
>Organisation" aka "Socialist Workers Party" with that of genuine Marxism.
>The paralysing Economism of the ISO/SWP is shown in these passages from
>two of their publications:
>       "the crucial battle is not fought with bombs and guns. It is a
>       battle of ideas, the struggle to break the hold of the past, the
>       conservative traditions which weigh down the majority of the
>       workers. But this isn't a battle which centres on just meetings
>       and making propaganda. It centres on the daily struggle in the
>       workplace, the daily struggle against the foreman, the boss and
>       ultimately the employing class itself, the struggle in which the
>       workers transcend their own passivity and can be won to
>       revolutionary ideas."[4]
>
>       "revolutionaries do not, even in revolutionary situations, spend
>       their time running around with guns and bombs."[5]
>
>The ISO/SWP say, "the crucial battle is not fought with bombs and guns"
>-- this is the OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH! Like the phoney Marxists which
>Lenin fought in his time, the ISO/SWP peddle, "the miserable and cowardly
>dream of an unarmed struggle against the armed bourgeoisie, vain yearning
>for the destruction of capitalism without a desperate civil war or wars."[6]
>
>The genuine Marxists around the world uphold the celebrated thesis of Mao
>Tsetung: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."[7]


The above are two ends of the anti-marxist and anti leninists stick.The
first example are the modern mensheviks who are in terror of arming the
masses for a violent seizure of power.

The second is adventurist and modern maoist stupitidy. Here they raise the
question of armed struggle to a principle everywhere and anytime.

Both are deadly wrong and anti-Leninist. Insurrection and armed insurrection
by the proletariat is an extremely sophisticated struggle in the final phase
of seizing power.To transplant Mao,s theroy of peasant warfare as the way
forward is just ridiculous.

This can only be a creation of some petty bougeois intellectuals who are
romantising "people,s war" in order to build small solidarity groups for
there own revolutionary credentials. Only by building Bolshevik parties in
the main bastions of imperialism which will lead to the proletariat taking
power, probably in and armed insurrection, can show the way forward.

By being cheer leaders for the third world desperation which expresses
itself sometimes in people like Gonzalo will not solve our
problems.Unfortunately our petty bourgeois intellectals ramble on and on.
When will we start discussing the real tasks of organising workers
revolutions in the advanced countries. Because if we wait for these maoists
to come and do it--it just won,t happen.Period!

Malecki




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