Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 00:34:36 +0100
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: Doug,M2-unprincipled flippancy!


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>Malecki
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>> >Just as Aldolfo position is wrong so is dougs. For doug it is a question of
>> >how "tedious" it is. Not that two people were thrown out by a secret clich
>> >who determines who lives and who dies on M2.
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>> >But Aldolfos maoist menshevism. Real democracy is making deals with the
>> >liberal bourgeoisie against "imperialism" is far more dangerous then doug,s
>> >flippant attitude to proletarian democracy...
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>Doug
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>> Subliterate and incomprehensible ravings, I'd say.
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>> Doug
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>Why the word "subliterate"? What is this but the snobbishness of
>educated folk towards people who don't seem to be able to even "spell
>right"? Unfortunately, this elitism of the intellectual is evident
>all over the world and even among progressive people. This has to be
>combatted. When the exiled Malecki launches his tirades against the
>educated leaders of the working class, one can sympathise with him to
>some extent. In many parts of the third world, the educated middle class
>refer to peasants, villagers and slum dwellers as "those people" similar
>to the people in the ghettos in industrialized countries ("welfare
>moms", "urban jungle", etc.).
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>But many of the unwashed "those people" (from personal experience)  
>are ten thousand times more human, kind, decent,
>sacrificing and revolutionary than the folk learned in Marx, Engles, Lenin
>and Mao. Simply because, they have nothing to lose but their chains. And
>this is not be confused with "workerism" or "peasantism". This is the
>reality.
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Comrade Chaterjee gets carried away by revolutionary lyricism a little here.
Robert Malecki is no "kleine leuten".  He IS actually the prototype of the
workerist, anarchist provocateur, and he is got a lot more to lose than his
chains, his "book reviews" for starters.

Up to now, the main obstacle to the development of a truly massive Movement
to Support the People's War in Peru has been preciselty the "caricature" of
"anarcho-terrorism" foisted upon the PCP - a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Party
of the new type (not an amorphus mass with no differentiation, as some
people would put it when scaling the hights of demagogy) - by Avakian style
RRREvolutionism and the "meat riot" philosophy of Kentucky fried marxism
that nestles in certain American petty bourgeois intellectualloid circles
under the bogus label of "Maoism".

Today, the working class is taking matters in their own hands in respect to
the future development of the Movement to Support the People's War in Peru,
and the Parties and organisms of the class are coalescing together in
defense of the People's War in Peru, and thus Maoism - real
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (not the caricature one) is taking a solid step
forward in its march to incarnate itself upon the reliable millions, and not
just the unreliable hundreds. We are now living a turning point moment in
this development and comrades will witness this movement burst upon the
historical stage within a relatively short period of time.  

However, that unity cannot be an undiscriminate unity on the basis of
Avakianist or semi-Avakian demagogy, nor the product of thowing into a
burlap sack all those who shout the loudest and the coarsest.  On the
contrary, the time for opportunists and Hugo Blancos disguised as "Maoists"
is now passing irrevocably away. Maoists are preparing now to rid their
movement of posseurs and demagoges with a broom of iron! A Party of the
proletariat - and we are an international Party - grows strong by purging
itself from the dross, not by bringing it in!.

If this unity is to be the unity of the true proletarian parties and
organisations that the revolution needs to advance its cause in Peru, it
must perforce trace a clear dividing line vis a vis the inveterate enemies
of the working class movement, the anarchist agents provocateurs, the
opportunists and the conciliators with opportunism.  The working class
battalions can not stand the sight of these people, and no serious
revolutionary organisation has any need for them.

The one thing that one must be clear here is that in this list the workers
and peasants and the "unwashed" masses are for the most part not present,
except in the lurid imagination of people who live totally "unexamined lives".  

The more some people parade themselves as working class heroes in this list,
the more sure I feel that such people have very little grasp of the reality
of themselves.  For me, such people are in danger of ending-up as poseurs
who will go to extreme lenghts do avoid having to admit their true social
position in life.

Marx and Engels, Lenin and Stalin, Chairman Mao-Tse-tung, Chairman Gonzalo,
never go on about their "proletarian credentials", they are leaders of the
class and great Marxist revolutionaries, but never resort to blabbermouth
RRRevolutionism in any manner or way. 

Malecki's literature may be bad literature as well, but it is his politics
that are really despicable.  Workers and peasants may usually not write
great prose, but if they are class conscious, their politics are always full
of common sense and sharp insights, revolutionary discipline and respect and
love for the revolutionary leaders of the class.  

Malecki is full of hatred and sibiline hypocresy against the revolution, his
leaders and the working class who he denigrates no end under pretext of
gloryfying his own "background".  His hatred, evil as it is, has also a
positive aspect.  Malecki's hatred dignifies the revolutionaries such as
comrade Stalin and Chairman Mao, Chairman Gonzalo, etc. by negative example
since everyone can see that they must be rather good since he goes to such
lenghts to smear them.  On the other hand, everything and everybody Malecki
"praises" is therein slurred and defiled.  That is why I said that Malecki
is the "kiss of death".

While we do have contradictions - and at times these are very sharp - with
the social-democrat intellectuals in this list, we should always draw a
clear line of distinction between them and individuals of Malecki's type.
That intellectuals tend to some kind of social-democracy or another, and
that they are weary of bolshevism, is generally quite likely.  

However, many of them are useful people with real talent and knowledge,
people that moreover, hold their ideas in good faith and are thus, from
their own independent positions, capable of giving sincere good help to the
revolution under certain conditions.  That is never the case with anarchist
demagogues, comrade Chaterjee.  People like that have only poison in their
hearts.

If you do not believe me, just wait and see.

In the mean time, be careful of the dagger in the back!

Comradely


Adolfo Olaechea



  



  



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