From: Rubyg580-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 19:46:35 -0500
Subject: Re: CKATES: Re: LENIN VS TROTSKYSTS ON STATE CAPITALISM!


In a message dated 96-03-02, you write:

>Olaechea is truly a communist, for what is a
>M`arxist-Leninist, what is a revolutionary
>who does not strive and fight for liberation in 
>all ways? And the answer to that must be--nothing,
>not a real revolutionary, not a Marxist-Leninist, not
>a Communist. There are far too many of this type-
>standing to the sidelines and condemning 
>revolutionaries, investing in every bourgeois 
>notion of morality and justice and ignoring 
>revolutionary movements. 
>>>>
>discussion. Life as an activist is not all so
>academic. It involves schism and coalition, 
>and we should not be afraid to put party issues 
>out front, where they belong, so there is not 
>always an undercurrent of rivalry lurking
>beneath the surface. Because the conflicts are
> there. So are the alliances.

Bravo Charlotte! absolutely undeniable.

>And so is the learning that can be accomplished 
>between and passed forth from comrade to comrade. 
>And this strength, as Marxist-Leninists, comes from
>our ideology, our class, our people, our respective
>nations, and, yes, our parties! Free discussion is 
>the backbone of this list, the cornerstone, the
>foundation. Without it, with only constricted, academic 
>"discussion" for what should be lively and productive 
>debate and growth with comrades, we have nothing 
>in this list. The form remains, but the spirit is 
>lost. It is not only great disagreements that spring
> forth here, but also great alliances. 
>Charlotte. 

That's the basic law of dialectics: the unity of opposites:
without struggle there can be no unity; without practice
there can be no theory. Those who stop the rain
will never have flowers; those who fear chaos will
never achieve order; those who fear debate will never
reach understanding, and those who fear the 
revolutionary fury of the masses will never see a 
better world--because without destroying the old,
you cannot construct the new!

Gina / Detroit


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