Re: VIOLENT REVOLUTION IS A UNIVERSAL LAW

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The central task and highest form of revolution in ALL countries is the
seizure of power by armed force.

When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party put People's War into practice
in China they did so in an oppressed country and so the road to
revolution was that of protracted people's war based in the countryside
and encircling cities. In the oppressed countries of Asia, Africa, Latin
America and Oceania the possibility exists of going over to armed
struggle from early on.

Mao also pointed out that applying the theory of People's War to the
concrete conditions of an imperialist country will NOT be the same.

Marxism has always taught, and Mao was extremely insistent, that it is
fundamental to the process of waging revolution that the universal truth
of the proletarian ideology must be applied to the concrete reality of
each country's revolution.

Look closely at the experience of the Bolshevik revolution and see
(contrary to revisionist mythology) that the October Revolution was
not over in ten days.

Following the October insurrection, the Soviet state had to wage another
three and a half years of revolutionary war before it smashed both
domestic counter-revolution and armed imperialist intervention.
The Bolsheviks' experience confirms the universal validity of Maoist
People's War.

People's War in Australia will be more directly akin to the October Road:
a (typically long) period of political preparation where the Communist
Party will be striving to mobilise the masses and develop a revolutionary
movement capable, when the necessary pre-conditions emerge, of
urban-based insurrection going over to civil war against the reactionary
state power and in defence of proletarian rule.

Until the time arrives for seizing power, the central task for the
Communist Party of Australia (and the struggle now to reconstitute the
Party) is to concentrate on the painstaking task of accumulating
revolutionary strength.

People's War is the revolutionary war of the masses and can only be
carried out by mobilising the masses and relying upon. The Communist
Party might lead, but it is the masses who make history.

The all-round political work of the revolutionary Communist Party; the
revolutionary struggles in Australia and throughout the world; and the
crisis and conflicts within the Australian imperialist system and between
the imperialist powers -- all these combine to prepare the ground for the
revolutionary war of the masses to seize power in Australia.

People's War in Australia CAN be successful because it relies not upon a
conspiracy of Communist Party activists, but upon the class-conscious
proletariat and masses led by the Party. People's War relies not upon the
gradual accumulation of socialist influence, but upon a revolutionary
upsurge of the people.

The initial insurrectionary stage of People's War in Australia must NOT
commence until that turning point in the growing revolution is reached
where the militant struggle of the class-conscious minority is at its
height, and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the
ranks of the middle-class, half-hearted friends of the revolution are
at their highest.

Serious crisis in society, and mass upheaval and rebellion (the necessary
objective conditions for People's war in Australia) may erupt, almost
warning and seemingly out of nowhere.

There is urgent work work to do in these relatively peaceful times to get
into position to launch the People's War in Australia. Genuine
revolutionary communists seize on the favourable prospects for revolution
that emerge in Australia and the world in order to build the vanguard
communist organisation and influence that can take things from resistance,
to rebellion, to revolution.

Preparing for People's War in Australia requires the carrying out of
three inter-connected tasks:
1. reconstituting the Communist Party of Australia on the basis of
   Marxism-Leninism-Maoism;
2. creating revolutionary public opinion (connecting our agitational
   and propaganda work to what must be done -- revolutionary warfare
   to overthrow the system;
3. leading the people to militantly confront the system.

A well disciplined Communist Party armed with the theory of
Marxism-Leninism, using the method of self-criticism and linked with the
masses of the people; an army under the leadership of such a Party; a
united front of all revolutionary classes and all revolutionary groups
under the leadership of such a Party -- these are the three main weapons
with which the class-conscious workers and the oppressed and
revolutionary masses in Australia can overthrow the reactionary state
power.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
contact the
Committee for a Revolutionary
Communist Party in Australia
(CRCPA)
by writing to:-

BOXHOLDER
GPO BOX 474D
MELBOURNE VIC 3001
AUSTRALIA

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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Robert Malecki wrote:

> 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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