Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:07 -0400 From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: AUT: Anti-parliamentarianism and Party dear friends, Re: Neil F. on the APCF and the party question Yes, the ex- APCF in UK took a courageous revolutionary working class principled stand in opposing the imperialist WW2, but they are dead (no pun here!) wrong in opposing the advanced communist workers fight to build a revolutionary internationalist party of the working class out of the class battles and skirmishes themselves in every country. Political struggle , and a big part of this is opposing parliamnet, congress , bundestag , churches, TV -media etc. -- is a key part of the class struggle and if workers flee/desert this front of class battle only at their own peril. If workers do not build their own political organization with a programme of workers communism , they cannot effectively stand up to bourgeois politics and ideology -- rightist and leftist--hence they remain tied to the wages system --passively or even militantly. . Workers are a class IN THEMSELVES but they today are hardly a class FOR THEMSELVES , class conscouisness lags exploitative conditionsof misery in great part because of BOURGEOIS political and ECONOMIC hegemony as well as the torrents of cultural/ideological mystifications. Combatting the bosses' democratic and republican and unionist deceit involves workers agitating -organizing with a program of exposing the reformist/legalist/lawyerist banana peels and land mines put in road to workers moving ahead to build their own mass industrial councils and leading future mass movements themselves. Communist revolution cannot be built from the capitalist state or unions, it comes out of the ranks own mass struggles and clarity of the need to fight for a worker run wageless society , but we cannot get there with only industrial/councilist orgnization alone , but needed political organization as well - which lifts the working class to state power by forcibly ousting the bosses and their state power from control. The Party aids the councils of masses in tearing down the bourgoeis state in the future but today preparing for that future time by waging the class struggle against capital on the political and ideological fronts--butrussing the industrial mass actions, with the fight for revolutionary political conscousness in the widest possible sectors of the class. Real revolutionary politics is not schemes of maoists and trots and lib-labs to bogart the mass workers organizatons. The Partys fight for the workers adherence to advance to THEIR assumption of power and in the transition to a moneyless, wageless, stateless world. To fight capital industrially and not politically is to think the workers can whip nationa/world capital by chopping their own arms off and fighting with one hand.. This should not be allowed to happen.. The class will only have its arses handed back to us on a platter by the bourgeois states once again. Part of the reason for the Party also is to learn/spread the lessons of class history/battles won, but mostly lost --so we do not repeat disasters. Neil C. --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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