Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:48:59 +0200 (MET DST)
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: VIOLENT REVOLUTION IS A UNIVERSAL LAW


malecki wrote:
>> The above are two ends of the anti-marxist and anti leninists stick.The 
>> first example are the modern mensheviks who are in terror of arming the 
>> masses for a violent seizure of power. 
luis
>> Who cannot agree that the SWP is a counterrevolutionary and viciously
>  anti-Communist organization? This is shown clearly when they side
>  in ideas and practice with the CIA positions against the People's War in
>   Peru.
The SWP as i understand as gone from trotskyist positions to being support 
troops for Fidel and the Cuban CP. The SWP in England someone said on this 
list are state caps.I do not know what there positions are on the PCP and 
Peru.But counter-revolutionary hardly. In the first place they are too 
small. In the second place you are just name calling. Only real forces can 
be couner-revolutionary or revolutionary not propaganda groups.

malecki writes:
>> The second is adventurist and modern maoist stupitidy. Here they raise the 
>> question of armed struggle to a principle everywhere and anytime.
Luis writes:
>The science has universal validity. Armed struggle applies everywhere
>but at the right time when the objective and subjective conditions are
>ripe to launch it, and when the three instruments of the revolution
>(the Communist Party, the Revolutionary Front and the Guerrila Army)
>are built can initiate the armed struggle. That's a proven science.
>See China under Mao and Peru under the brilliant leadership of the PCP.

Here we are again. The three "instruments"! I understand you wanna build a 
party, i understand the Guerrilla army. But once again we have to take up 
the class character of "the revolutionary front". In your last post you were 
calling it a "national liberation front". This has been time and again the 
maoist ideas of a multi-class
front fighting capitalism and imperialism. There is only one class that is 
consistently and irrevocably revolutionary-the proletariat. Yes you can arm 
the peasants, yes, you can build a party, But no to the "revolutionary 
popular front"! This is the key Luis! This is why every revolutionary 
situation in Latin America has failed. It is because sooner or later the 
parties leading the masses have tied themselves to a wing of the 
bourgeoisie! That is real counter-revolution. Chile and the Unidad Popular 
was a real counter-revolution.

The PCP has not gone that way. Yet! The PCP has picked up the gun. A lot of 
the stuff in your post is interesting about work among women, and in the 
cities and even in the countryside. But all this will sooner or later fail 
as long as the leadership is prepared to tie itself sooner or later to part 
of the bourgeois for whatever reason. Calling it the "revolutionary front" 
or "national liberation front" will not change the basics. It will lead to a 
counter-revolution in the end. Unless the maoist break with the ideologi of 
seeing revolutionary multyi-classes in just about everything under the guise 
of things like "peoples war" or Unidad Popular" the right wing variant of 
the same politics you are doomed.

You might build up some isolated little islands of armed rebellion and if 
lucky seize power here or there. Perhaps even in Peru. But by blocking with 
anywing of the bourgeoisie the revolution will never survive. Third world 
activists have turned partially to Mao and peoples war as a way out. I can 
understand that. I did some pretty weird things in my youth also. But to be 
blind to the real mistakes of maoism, Indonesia for example and to blindly 
believe that Mao,s way is the only way forward is going to lead to more 
defeats and more blood shedding. And the blood will be that of the 
proletariat as they are stabbed in the back by their leaders who tell them 
that nonsense of "multi-class" popular frontism in all forms.



maleck writes:
>> Both are deadly wrong and anti-Leninist. Insurrection and armed insurrection 
>> by the proletariat is an extremely sophisticated struggle in the final phase 
>> of seizing power.To transplant Mao,s theroy of peasant warfare as the way 
>> forward is just ridiculous.
Luis writes:
>Peasant warfare only? where you got that information. The People's War
>is waged in both country side and the cities. Yes, the revolution is
>led by the proletariat through the Communist Party. The attacks of the
>People's Army in the cities are the most sophisticated and demolishing,
>the People's War has proven beyond any doubt that is the only type of
>armed struggle successful in the cities (the others such as in Argentina, 
>Uruguay and Chile were defeated.) 16 years of revolution shows that it is 
>superior to the low intensity warfare of Yankee imperialism. The peasants,
>especially the youth, play a key role in the People's Army, they are the
>majority, the most opprossed and the ones who fight to the end. The
>proletariat in the cities integrate a large (75%) porcentage of
>umemployed and informal sector, they are the ones that shake up the
>old State suring the armed strikes and movilizations. Insurrections 
>(strategic offensive) will take place, that's will be the last stage
>of the revolution, teh Conquest of Power for the proletariat 
>in allinace with the peasants led by the PCP.
>The PCP is not only proposing a revolution in Peru or Latin America
>but in the entire world. The People's Republic of Peru in formation
>is the base of the world proletarian revolution. As Chairman Gonzalo
>said: "we will all enter Communism, or none of us will."

Now if the above were true. It would not be so bad. However i think from 
earlier post. The emphasis of PCP work has been among the peasantry and 
building peoples war in the countryside.But OK not so bad..

malecki writes:
>> This can only be a creation of some petty bougeois intellectuals who are 
>> romantising "people,s war" in order to build small solidarity groups for 
>> there own revolutionary credentials. Only by building Bolshevik parties in 
>> the main bastions of imperialism which will lead to the proletariat taking 
>> power, probably in and armed insurrection, can show the way forward.
Luis writes:
>I asked you before, first investigate, then talk. Your scurrilous
>allegation does not apply to the Comrades in Australia. They are not
>Co-Rim nor the other opportunists we criticize. The arey building the
>real Communist Party of Australia, the three instruments of the
>revolution towards the goal of Communism. Proletariam internationalism
>is not "romantisin", it is Marxist. It is extremely important for the 
>victory of the revolution. It has to be favorable international conditions 
to achieve
>victory over imperialism. If you are against this key Marxist principle, 
>well, we are in opposite sides.

Well the key in this question is the question of proletarian independence 
>from all wings of the bourgeoisie! A leadership that does not see this means 
that the workers and peasants will pay for it with their blood sooner or 
later. Everything turns around this part of the RCP and Australian house 
built on pillars. You build a house standing on three pillars of granite. 
The problem is that party from its inception as built one pillar of its 
house with not granite but a mix of alien components. 
It is hardly a Leninist mixture, But to give it credibility they write Lenin 
on the package.But that is false advertisement..

Look luis if you want to talk about the key question. It is proletarian 
independence=Leninism or the popular front or peoples war= maoism. They are 
two entirely different things. 

warm regards
malecki

By the way luis. The stuff about Vietnam is important. And what i have to 
say in my book is important. It is not petty bougeois or ego tripping as you 
thing. In fact many people are very interested in what i have to say. You 
would be surprised. I will 
continue with trying to get "my story" out because it is an important story. 
You know the Aldolfo stuff is really self serving. But i have certainly not 
painted up myself as a great hero of some fucking sort. What other people 
write about i refuse to take responsibilty for. So your short little post 
about this stuff i reall take with a nip of salt. If my book makes just one 
kid in a ghettoe some were wake up. The effort was worth it. 








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