Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 23:45 CST
From: Scott Marshall <Scott-AT-rednet.org>
Subject: Re: Elementary principles: mass organisation?


Mauro, If I understand this right, then you are surely the one who is being
childish in the ways well discribed in Lenin's 'Left-wing Communism, an
Infantile Disorder.' Mass organizations of the working class and mass ties
with the working class (including reformist organizations and organizations
that organize even backward workers like trade unions) are essential
ingrediants in conducting the class struggle and in reaching a revolutionary
period. This has nothing to do with 'organization for the organization.'
Communists that disdain work in mass organizations and mass ties are 'pure'
but essentially sterile and useless.

>Mauro jr:
>The insistence of Scott on the mass organisations in quite childish. The PCI
>(Italy) had for decays over decays a mass organisation..., and now we have
>the "fascists" at the government, with a working class incapable to answer
>the most brutal attacks to wage and employment. 
>Comrades, it was and should be an elementary communist principle the one wo
>says "the important thing is not the organisation for the organisation, but
>the bases on which the organisation is built".
>Who, marxist, read the German Ideology knows very well that the dominant
>ideology is the ideology of the dominant (ruling) class, outside the
>revolutionary periods. That means that if you have a mass organisation
>during the **** Clinton Presidency, quiet as it is, you are certainly not on
>the historical class ground (which is revolutionary, otherways is not).
>This, just for remindinig to the marxists the ABC of marxism.



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