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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 01:12:49 -0400
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-I: Another "Zaire" Times article from Proyect!


In yet another New York Times article on Zaire from Proyect ,which certainly 
proves what  Hugh has been saying about the belated  Neo Stalinist Menshevik 
jumping on the Black nationalist train in Zaire with the question "Where's 
Zaire?" in regards to Proyect, our hero is once again trying to dazzle 
people into believing how profound and complicated things are in this part 
of the world..

In fact the New York Times article expresses a genuinue suspicion of the 
various 
armed clicks of Nationalists involved in this conflict in regards to 
American Imperialist interests connected to the post Stalinist influence 
that existed in this part of the world. At best Proyects publishing of this 
article is and attempt at grasping a desperate straw which no longer exists.

But it hardly changes the fundementals of what is going on and what needs to 
be done in this part of the world. In fact rather confirms what some of the 
"Trotskyists" have been saying all the time.

The times article is a clever description of the various Nationalist 
fractions in a number of surrounding states that were recieving big military 
support from the former Soviet Union. These were the days when Kalashnikovs 
were a dime a dozen as military and political leaders of the former Soviet 
Union and Cuba were supporting all kinds of movements on the African continent. 

Most of the "leaders" are now calling themselves former "marxists" who 
either were in the pay and service of Moscow and in other cases like "Unita" 
backed by South Africa and other Imperialist countries. None of them either 
supported by Moscow and Cuba or the movements backed by South Africa or 
imperialism to counter the Stalinist movements were interested in building 
Bolshevik Leninist Parties based on mass struggle to create a new order in 
this part of the world. In fact exactly the opposite in the case of bodies 
of armed professional guerrilla armies with all kinds of "advisors" which 
recruited its human material out of the ever repeating castastophies in this 
part of the world. It appears as if the only thing there was a good amount 
of was guns and military advisors on all sides in order to militararilly
carry on wars and set up all kinds of military dictatorships and one party 
states based not on popular revolution but small groups of armed man that 
won the next battle.

However this stage of history is dead! So is Stalinism in the form of the 
once Soviet Union and this means a whole new ballgame. In fact Proyects 
articles from the Times connected to his Neo Stalinist theory is at best 
wishful thinking on this New York intellectual's inability to see this 
fundemental fact. He is trying to revive a dead and buried duck! Well he can 
give mouth to mouth resusitation on M-I and other lists all fucking day and 
even with the help of the New York Times who still has writers that covered 
Africa back in those days which reflect this trend will not help Proyect or 
the Neo Stalinists one bit. Stalinism and its stage theory of revolution is 
dead! and buried! Why none of these movements even pay lip service to this 
kind of shit any longer...

In fact the jockying going on now is quite clearl a reflection of various 
nationalist trends with small armies in the area trying to consolidate its 
own trend and dominance in the area. But the common line is bougeois 
nationalism and all kinds of wheeling and dealing with the various 
imperialists who want a piece of the action.
Wheter it be the Americans, the French, the Belgians or whatever. And this 
will mean endless rounds of new wars and manuvering unless a real Communist 
International develops to take up the struggle..

In fact what we are seeing it is sort of a bizaar deformed Stalinist stage 
theory which no longer uses any Marxist rhetoric what so ever and is 
marching backwards. 

What is shaping up here because of the lack of a Bolshevik Leninist party or 
parties in this part of the world is at best petty bougeois and bougeois 
nationalist leaderships who are doing a whole lot of jockying to be the new 
spokesman of colonial imperialist interests in Africa. Those at this point 
with the best advisors and most guns and determination seemingly be cheered 
on by the Neo Stalinists on this list.

Proyect is probably already thinking about writting and article on Angola 
and the MPLA as it has a central place in the Times story. If he was even a 
smart neo Stalinist (which he isn,t) I suggest Marx and the 18th on the 
creation of bougeois states. But, Don't bother Proyect we all now you love 
for this fake organisation that was backed up by the Soviet Union and Cuba 
and who today in no way represents any kind of progress in this part of the 
world but only a hinder.. In fact what we are seeing is a consolidation of 
petty bougeois nationalists movements who are no longer a threat to there 
colonial masters.

Naturally back then the MPLA was worth defending militarilly against attack 
by the rascist South Africa. But today this is hardly the case. In fact it 
might be that communists must defend poor and working class people from 
these organisations!

Finally South Africa is the key. Unless South Africa and its mighty millions 
of black proletarians are drawn into the struggle in Southern Africa well 
then we are going to see round after round after round of these kinds of 
struggles from time to time as the contending imperialist countries try to 
find new "Bonapartes" who they can make a deal with. It is impossible on the 
African continent to rule at this point with a classical colonial occupation 
along the lines of Britain in  India. Much better to make a deal with a 
section of the population and its leaders in order to hold things under control.

The only way to break this dead end cycle is the development of a 
Pan/African Bolshevik/Leninist tendency in a future revolutionary 
International which sees as its task the liberation of the African masses 
from the imperialist/colonialists and there black political henchman. The 
human material already exists in the form of the South African Proletariat 
which in this part of the world is the vanguard of any long going 
revolutionary change worth mentioning. Although Nigeria and its Proletariat 
and the development of proletariats in other African countries is working in 
a favorable direction.

VICTORY TO THE POPULAR AND DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN ZAIRE!!

GOOD RIDDANCE TO MOBUTU'S REGIME! NO TO AND EMPEROR WITH NEW CLOTHES IN THE 
FORM OF KABILA!

FOR POPULAR DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES AND THE NEW 
REVOLUTIONARY REGIME! FOR AND ARMING OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION IN DEFENSE OF 
THE REVOLUTION.

NOT JUST THE RAILWAYS! NATIONALIZATION OF THE PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES OF ZAIRE 
UNDER DEMOCRATIC AND POPULAR CONTROL! 

NATIONALISATION OF ALL THE LAND! A PROGRAM FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND IN 
BOTH COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL LOTS TO ALL IN THE AREA IRREGARDLESS OF 
ETHNIC OR TRIBAL BACKGROUND!

A CALL FOR A CONSTITUIT ASSEMBLY TO CARRY OUT THE ABOVE THROUGHOUT THE REGION:

NO OUTSIDE INTERVENTION TO SAVE ZAIRE! IMPERIALISTS GET OUT!

FOR THE CREATION OF A PAN_AFRICAN BOLSHEVIK/LENINIST PARTY
IN A REFORGED TROTSKYIST FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!

FOR A SOCIALIST FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA!

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki
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