Re:revival and party-building/Politics of American history is simple.

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In a message dated 9/27/03 1:21:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
LouPaulsen@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


>But we socialists have to attempt to lead the outrage in a socialist
direction, imparting the lessons so dearly bought in the last cycle of history, 
and
there are not nearly enough of us doing that yet.  That is what a socialist
party should be about in this period, not squabbling with other tendencies. <


An individual or organization can only lead people where they are in route,
or already going. A meeting of 300 people anywhere to talk about the issues of
the day and break the wall of silence is a remarkable feat.

I am personally interested in the literature, agenda and leaflets produced
for such gathers, which could be sent off line. My interest is learning how to
say the same thing in different ways or developing a general line of march -
thoughts and set of actions.  Comrades forget that there were scores of parties
and all kinds of organizations in old Russia. On the other hand none of us in
America are going to be able to organize on the basis of the old industrial
forms of organization. We are really in a new era, that you seem to pinpoint as
clarifying itself in 2001 or roughly the Bush Jr. election/coup.

I believe the key to the social movement is our ability to bring together the
most diverse peoples around simple objectives, as opposed to organizing "like
minded peoples."  I am not sure but it seems that there is opening a real
possibility to knock on millions of doors next summer in a new Voter 
Registration
Campaign under the general heading "Anybody But Bush." Opening doors allows
one to talk to people and broad sections of our working class do not like Bush
on any level.  I believe the logic of your positions is correct concerning
Bush and the Neo-cons. Bush is expendable. I believe his support is and has
always been less than his election basis. Bush lost the election and his base of
support did not magically grow.  Most people are going to support a leader under
war conditions because they are scared. This does not mean, "I support and
agree with your policies."

There are things we can and should prepare to do wherever we are at. Those
not in a position to do much cannot do much. Those who can do more should do
more. As revolutionaries we must slowly master our own history.

Bush is trapped by history, as are the revolutionaries and his electoral coup
mirrors the 1876 Hayes-Tilden Agreement and phony coup. The narrow base of
Bush electoral support - for reasons of our peculiar history, runs along the
North/South political fault line, with an important center of political reaction
in Florida amongst the Cuban Mafia. For revolutionaries in the North we must
never discard our glorious history and tradition. We are forever cast as
"Carpetbaggers." Our numbers are small but that is no reason to discard our 
history.
We fight where we our at with the living memory of "Bloody Kansas," to
inspire us.

Here is the reason for what might seem like my irrational love and clinging
to "old doctrine." My theory and political stances are never abstract. Here is
the national-colonial question we are forever trapped into by history. No
matter what our ideological tradition - I have nothing but contempt for the
CPUSA/Trotskyite" cabal and the theorist of race, we can always unite on what 
is in
front of us.

California was an old slave state, or rather was organized by the slavers and
the last seat of reaction that appeared as the "Reagan Revolution" and was
followed by Bush Sr. Clinton appealed to the "identity" movements and the Black
Elite and through them a broad section of the African American masses. Then he
drove into poverty more of these very same masses than the Southern
reactionaries, in the form of changing "welfare as we know it" - 1996.

The war in Iraq has caused a crack to appear along the North/South fault line
in the form of a growing demand to bring the troops home. To argue how this
sentiment is expressed is the height of stupidity and ideological insanity. One
must look at where the military basis are concentrated in America and
understand the national-colonial question or rather why these bases are 
concentrated
in and around the old South. In other words the South is going through
political fissures on the basis of the military structure. This is the most 
important
political development to take place in America in thirty years.

To prevent any misunderstanding by the ideologists, the tiny but growing
"bring our troops home" movement has at its core along the North/South political
fault line, "Bell" or rather "Belle" - Southern white women. Can anyone now
claim to misunderstand what is slowly evolving? Reaction and political 
revolution
evolve as a unity. "Belle" has entered the social struggle many times and is
remembered as a powerful force against lynching's and reaction but has been
written out of history and ignored by the CPUSA/Troskyite cabal.

The CPUSA/Trotskyite cabal, are what they have always been in America,
"haters" and lackeys for Yankee imperialism.  How can one not understand their 
own
history and then claim to understand every other countries history? Enough of
this.


Melvin P.


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