Re: ZEYNEP Re: PCP ON THE "PERSONALITY CULT"

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On Sun, 12 May 1996, Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Doug wrote:
>
>>At 1:51 AM 5/12/96, Luis Quispe wrote:
>>
>>>                 ON THE PERSONALITY CULT
>>>
>>>[From the "Interview to President Gonzalo", Central Committee of
>>>the Communist Party of Peru, 1989. Ediciones Bandera Roja, p. 33.
>>>English version pp. 21-22]
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>>The cult of personality is a revisionist formulation.
>>
>>Leave it to Chairman Gonzalo, speaking ex cathedra, to set us all
straight on this one.
>>
>>Doug
>
>Doug,
>
>Did you think Chairman Gonzalo was denouncing personality cult as a
>revisionist formulation?
>
>If so, reread the whole quote. I think he means that those raising the
issue of personality cult are revisionists, because they negate leadership.
(oops, not leadership, Leadership. Or maybe LEADERSHIP).
>
>>We have been acting in accordance with Lenin's view, which is
>>correct. The cult of personality is a revisionist formulation.
>>Lenin had warned us of the problem of negating leadership just as
>>he emphasized the need for our class, the Party and the
>>revolution to promote our own leaders, and more than that, top
>>leaders, and a Leadership.
>
>Actually, I've decided a bit of personality cult isn't that bad.
>
>Regards,
>Zeynep
>No ZEYNEP.
>No, better yet;
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You are right, Comrade Zeynep.  I reread it and you are correct.  I
think the person posting the original quote thought that it proved
some point of theirs, but they only dropped a stone on their foot.

I think I like you Zeynep.  You are good.

Jay Miles / Detroit


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