Re: VIOLENT REVOLUTION IS A UNIVERSAL LAW

[Luis Quispe <lquispe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> 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.
> Who cannot agree that the SWP is a counterrevolutionary and viciously
  anti-Communist organization? This is shown clearly when they side
  in ideas and practice with the CIA positions against the People's War in
   Peru.

> The second is adventurist and modern maoist stupitidy. Here they raise the
> question of armed struggle to a principle everywhere and anytime.
The science has universal validity. Armed struggle applies everywhere
but at the right time when the objective and subjective conditions are
ripe to launch it, and when the three instruments of the revolution
(the Communist Party, the Revolutionary Front and the Guerrila Army)
are built can initiate the armed struggle. That's a proven science.
See China under Mao and Peru under the brilliant leadership of the PCP.

> 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.
Peasant warfare only? where you got that information. The People's War
is waged in both country side and the cities. Yes, the revolution is
led by the proletariat through the Communist Party. The attacks of the
People's Army in the cities are the most sophisticated and demolishing,
the People's War has proven beyond any doubt that is the only type of
armed struggle successful in the cities (the others such as in Argentina,
Uruguay and Chile were defeated.) 16 years of revolution shows that it is
superior to the low intensity warfare of Yankee imperialism. The peasants,
especially the youth, play a key role in the People's Army, they are the
majority, the most opprossed and the ones who fight to the end. The
proletariat in the cities integrate a large (75%) porcentage of
umemployed and informal sector, they are the ones that shake up the
old State suring the armed strikes and movilizations. Insurrections
(strategic offensive) will take place, that's will be the last stage
of the revolution, teh Conquest of Power for the proletariat
in allinace with the peasants led by the PCP.
The PCP is not only proposing a revolution in Peru or Latin America
but in the entire world. The People's Republic of Peru in formation
is the base of the world proletarian revolution. As Chairman Gonzalo
said: "we will all enter Communism, or none of us will."

> 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.
I asked you before, first investigate, then talk. Your scurrilous
allegation does not apply to the Comrades in Australia. They are not
Co-Rim nor the other opportunists we criticize. The arey building the
real Communist Party of Australia, the three instruments of the
revolution towards the goal of Communism. Proletariam internationalism
is not "romantisin", it is Marxist. It is extremely important for the
victory of the
revolution. It has to be favorable international conditions to achieve
victory over imperialism. If you are against this key Marxist principle,
well, we are in opposite sides.

> 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!
I do not know what kind of pseudo-Maoists you have met (MIM, RCP?)
but since the 80's Maoism shines in the world with vivid revolutionary
examples. President Gonzalo masterly said: "The best way to support the
People's War in Peru is to make revolution in your countries." That's
what our Comrades in Australia and worldwide are doing, building the Party,
building the revolutionaries conditions, doing mass work, organazing
the workers. Malecki, you're missing the point, re-direct your arrow
to a different target, imperialism, Yankee revisionists, Martens, etc.

Luis.

> Malecki
>



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