Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:14:00 +0000 From: Joćo Paulo Monteiro <jpmonteiro-AT-mail.telepac.pt> Subject: M-G: sectist feuding On sectist feuding I=92ve been on these lists for about a week now and I can say this could be a hell of an useful and exciting place to be... if it weren=92t for the damn endless sect feuding. Isntead of an open space for discussion and mutual enrichment between marxists and, eventually, other revolutionary socialists, I see a battlefield for completely sterile trench warfare between some embittered, imobile sects, with their cathecisms and handbooks raised high and some schrapnels being fired now and then. Their main claim seems to be: I am the one and only descendent of an unbroken chain of correct lines going back to Adam and Eve. I=92ll stick my banner on the soil here and the working class will eventually gather around me for guidance. This is almost unbelievably stupid. Can=92t they =93zoom out=94 a little bit and see how ridicolously small they are, in fact what damn fools they are making of themselves. When the masses of workers hit the streets they=92ll just walk over them without even noticing they were there in waiting, tending a leaflet or two. They=92ll bring their own leaders (thank you so kind) and the sects will be their favourite joke. In fact, that must already have happen in a number of times. I=92ll tell you all: maos (sorry Rolf), trots, state caps, neo-krutchevites, whatever. Stop it now. It=92s very foolish indeed to think any of you will ultimately win this war in a cup a tea. I don=92t want to sound desrespectful (or gory), but I=92m beginning to think that the only hope is that you=92ll just start dying away with your schematic formulae always on your trembling lips until the very last minute. Advice for the young: Stop listening to these morons. We=92ve got to buid something totally anew. Study Marx and Engels very carefully. Some Lenin too - to be taken with a especially critically alert mind. The only split that can teach you something really important (I would call it the archetypal split) is the Zimmerwald Left=92s one. But you can read Rosa vs. Bernstein too. Now go for economic history and study carefully the economics of modern capitalism. With all this you can study all the revolutionary wave of the XX century (Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc.) by your own without leaning on some =93party=94 guidelines. It=92s now time for you to start working with people who have real dirt in their nails. We need workers organization built anew. Kick out the corrupt union leaders or build entirely new ones. Create international links for collective bargaining with the big bosses and the multinationals. We must study the laws of unequal development, international trade, the theory of imperialism, so we can buid (in fact negociate) unity between workers of different countries, with different levels of productivity. We need to go global, in order to respond to the bosses globalization offensive. Once we have a solid international economic organization of workers, we can start thinking in building a party with its most decided and learned vanguard. Until then, theory and cadre formation will take place in organs of press or clubs like this one, directly linked to the economic mobilization of the working masses. =C2ngelo Novo --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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