Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 17:27:38 +0200 (MET DST)
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Reply to secret letter..


Hi again..

I read your  other letter. Naturally the first part of it is interesting for 
me.But i guess the real point for me in all this is-which program are you 
trying to fight for in order to win the leadership of the proletariat. The 
cadre that are recruited from the class if fighting for the wrong program 
will only lead to disaster. Thus many Stalinist workers wound up in Nazi 
concentration camps because their leaders had the wrong program. 

If you believe that you want to fight for October revolutions everywhere 
program is decisive in recruiting the most advanced workers. Most of the 
left does not even bother about that. There programs have nothing that a 
left wing social democrat or Euro communist could agree to. The point is 
that we have to win the workers from their reformist leaders and go for 
power. It is a struggle of life and death. Not some sort of dynamic that 
will solve itself in the coarse of the struggle. In the PCP their are for 
example real fighters, at least in Peru, the problem is that they are 
following a leadership that has a multi-class maoist ideology. This fact 
means that sooner or later the real fighters are going to die because their 
leaders were wrong.

I met a east german in prison once. He was a real proletarian fighter. The 
problem was that his leaders were all fucking wrong. But him and i could 
communicate because he new that i was not some intellectual creep trying to 
convince him of party line. But a real fighter. I could win these people to 
my ideas because in there hearts they new that my ideas were better then 
their leaders. That is why it is so important in finding the workers that 
can be the Leninist cadre. But then you have to have a clear and 
revolutionary program that is understandable to workers. The left and i mean 
the whole left has been lacking in this. I remember a few weeks back the 
beef discussion. I called for a meat riot and to discuss who has meat? Who 
can afford meat? connected to slogans like-Let the rich eat their 
caviar!-Cheap meat for everybody-Take over the factories- ice the profiteers 
or something along those lines.

I immediately was accused of just about every crime under the sun. However i 
did get some very interesting posts from just workers who immediately 
understood what i was talking about. It is so fucking funny watching our 
"marxists" twitch when workers take things into there own hands. Most of the 
left is going to be run over by a freight train when and if the workers 
start moving. Only the Leninist Vanguard with a revolutionary program, and 
even Lenins party at times was tailing the workers found it hard to keep 
>from tailing the movement, will show the way forward.

Every strike, every action is a testing ground for leftists and most 
leftists fail the test miserably. From now on it must be every strike every 
action that the left must be tested and ruthlessly condemned if lacking a 
clear line which moves things forward. the workers are not stupid, believe 
me, when a worker jumps he or she jumps a long way. They don,t need marxist 
intellectuals to tell them the history of class oppression although studying 
history is not wrong but workers hate capitalists because the have always 
been there enemy. It sits in their backbone. The only thing needed really is 
to expand their narrow horizions of the struggle from a local factory to a 
national and international perspective...

malecki in exile

PS: the second half of this letter i send to the marxist list...






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