Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:35:29 +0100
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: Background of Rolf Martens


This looks to me like some-one is serving Rolf with belated "divorce papers"!



>ABOUT ROLF MARTENS
>
>A man from the city of Malmoe, Sweden, Rolf Martens, a
>former member of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT), keeps
>publishing libels on our organization, at the same time
>trying to give the impression  that he still has some
>connection with us, and is publishing articles and
>unauthorized translations of publications by us without
>our permission.
>
>About him the following facts should be stressed: 
>
>Rolf Martens only speaks for himself. He was excluded
>from the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in April 1990. By no
>means we are responsible for his activities. He was
>excluded because of his massive slandering of our
>organization: that it had changed sides and had become
>a bourgeois one. These were assertions never supported
>by any real reasons. The only "argument" was that we
>did not fight enough against the Green movement, in
>this context he attacked an important article about 1st
>of May 1989. This is nonsense. Our organization had
>always, since 15 years before 1990, been unmasking and
>fighting the Green and Alternative swindlers and
>so-called Ecologist movement, the same has been done
>against it in 1989 and 1990 and after 1990. This was
>nothing but a pure invention by Rolf Martens. No
>further arguments were brought forward by him in April
>1990.  In spite of all attempts to bring him away from
>his wrong and absurd attitudes, he clung to his views,
>declared his withdrawal from the organization and at
>the same time unanimously was excluded. Within a time
>of six weeks, a deadline that we had fixed for him to
>bring written grounds for his views, no letter, no
>document arrived at our organization. Five months later
>he tried to elaborate a new standpoint against our
>organization, with new arguments, using slandering,
>distorted summaries of publications, and quotations
>from unauthorized papers and discussions from within
>our organization, to give grounds for his standpoint.
>This document, too, is a self-exposure of Rolf Martens,
>it does not hit us at all. He did not translate it,
>neither into Swedish nor into English, so it is
>virtually unknown. 
>
>It was a very surprising attack, which Rolf Martens
>started against our organization in the April of 1990.
>In his paper from Sept. 1990 he tried to add some
>arguments: that our organization had fought the
>'Aussiedler'(resettlement)-campaign of our bourgeoisie
>(see note below). He demanded 'simply to integrate the
>new citizens' and similar nonsense, topics which never
>had been discussed with him in our organization, and on
>which he had systematically avoided a discussion within
>the organization. 
>
>These points must be kept in mind, if you read the
>letters and publications by Rolf Martens. He has no
>right to speak for the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT). He only
>represents himself.  It is very significant, that his
>paper is unable to criticize official documents of our
>organization. Our organization will go forward.
>
>The further policy of our organization in current
>political affairs after April 1990 also proves the
>correctness of the theses of our organization. It was
>our organization that led a massive campaign against
>the Iraqi war of US-imperialism and its allies, it was
>our organization that extensively pointed out her
>position concerning the Jugoslavian war, the biggest
>war, also in terms of victims, of the last decades in
>Europe, and developed a detailed and correct analysis
>of this question. We also took position against the
>fascist acitivities and the reconstruction of fascism
>in our country. A very large and important commentary
>which we published was the article "The State
>Connection" (April 1992). Therein our chairman dealt
>once again, in a very condensed and comprehensible
>manner, with the crucial points about the background to
>the so-called terrorism, and went into the matter. The
>article deals with affairs with which revolutionary
>organizations in this country have been concerned for
>twenty years, that is to say in the very first respect
>with the role of organs of the state. Naturally we
>supported the social interests of the working class. 
>
>All this proves that we have been continuing the
>revolutionary proletarian line in the years 1991-94,
>with all our knowledge, all our information.
>Simultaneously we have been deepening our theoretical
>work and have been working all the time on the
>continuation of the foundations of revolutionary
>policy. To all that Rolf Martens turns a deaf ear,
>declaring it nil.  Rolf Martens has to come out on the
>policy, which we have been continuing: is it a
>revolutionary policy or not?
>
>A letter of the Central Committee to Rolf Martens of
>Sept. 1994 will also be translated and published.
>
>-------------------------------
>
>
>What was the role of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) -
>Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist (New Unity)
>- in the development?
>
>In the beginning of the 70's our organization defended
>the Cultural Revolution against the resistance of the
>whole revisionist and social-democratic mafia. During
>the years 1970-72 we fought with all our energy against
>our state and against the political powers, which were
>present particularly in Berlin (West), where our
>organization had come into being, worked in trade
>unions, in other institutions, did social propaganda,
>did propaganda for the revolution and also did not
>shrink back from applying it in practice. The activity
>of our organization stood out in particular due to the
>concrete analysis of the concrete situation, due to the
>concrete application of the fundamental teachings of
>Marxism-Leninism and of Mao Zedong.  Reversely we had
>to defend ourselves against the heaviest subversion by
>the state in Berlin and West Germany, and were exposed
>to the hardest tests. We fought against the labour-aristocratic
>and revisionist conception of the so-called KABD (today MLPD).
>We fought against pseudomarxist and swindler organizations
>like the "Roter Morgen", the "KPD/AO", the "KBW" and the
>so-called "ZB", who all were really phoney organizations with 
>state and direct bourgeois influence. The latter was divided between
>the former three in 1972, and these former three changed
>sides as quickly as possible, as soon as the turnabout
>in China had become reality. As quickly as possible all
>these organizations went to the enemy, to the
>revisionists, and fought against Marxism- Leninism,
>against the politics and teachings of Mao Zedong and
>against any creative revolutionary implementation on
>the whole.  In the time of 73 to 74 our organization
>fought, against all resistance, for the line of Mao
>Zedong in international questions, in the same time
>organized resistance of our group against the
>suppression by the authorities of our country, alone,
>without help from any organization abroad.  During all
>that time our organization continued working
>practically in the factories, fought for the social
>interests of the workers and of other suppressed and
>exploited strata, as far as the size of this group did
>permit that at all. Although by the repression by the
>state the organization had been much decimated from
>1973 on it nevertheless continued its work by a host of
>publications and public propaganda appearances.
>
>
>
>About some questions of the situation in 1976 to 1977
> 
>In the end of the 70's our organization defended the
>line of Mao Zedong against the revisionist usurpation
>in China. We - and not the TKP/ML - defended Mao
>Zedong's line, refuted the Albanian line and those who
>worked together with them. There are many documents of
>that time which prove this assertion. Everybody can
>come and ask the details. We shall explain our
>assertion by many proofs from that time, which are
>interesting for the communist and revolutionary
>movement all over the world. It was also during that
>time that our organization under the guidance of Klaus
>Sender developed a criticism of the rising ecologism
>and of the attempts to disparage modern production and
>to disseminate in the whole country ultra-rightist
>attitudes against development and growth. In particular
>against the so- called Anti Nuclear Energy Movement our
>organization was the only one to make stand. It
>defended the revolutionary modern productive forces,
>defended in particular the natural sciences and
>revolutionary materialism. Therefore it was also solely
>our organization which defended the basic view of
>Marxism of productive forces and relations of
>production. In this role we stood exclusively and
>solely within our country and furthermore, as far as we
>know, in the European countries. Which organisation
>elsewhere in the world has played this role? 
>
>But the defaming of our organization by all these
>forces especially in that time - end of the 70's,
>beginning of the 80s - and their striving to cut us off
>from any foreign organization have had no limits. 
>
>The situation for the revolutionary party in Germany
>was very difficult not only and not in the first place
>because of repression by the state. There have been
>overwhelming changes in the structure of the working
>population already in that time, there was a widespread
>substitution of industrial workers and low paid jobs at
>that time by foreign labourers and employees. They soon
>constituted a very big part of the concentrated
>proletariat at the assembly lines for instance. Later
>on more and more work of domestic and foreign workers
>was being displaced into so- called "cheap labour"
>countries. This process began on full scale in 1974,
>with many social effects like setting free of workers,
>underemployemnt among the youth, sectionalism on one
>side and a widespread increase of labour-aristocratism
>and corruption among the workers on the other side. The
>foreign workers became an important part and got a
>decisive role in the world of Germany's workers, the
>biggest rate of the foreign workers being of Turkish
>origin. So also foreign revolutionary organizations
>became important in the whole situation on the
>revolutionary  side in Germany in the early seventies.
>>From the early beginnings the German state authorities
>saw these problems and infiltrated and controlled
>foreign workers associations. There has never been any
>longer-time-unity neither between German and foreign
>revolutionary organizations nor between organizations
>of different nationalities. And if they work together,
>like the TKP/ML, then only with a purely studying group
>like "Gegen die Stroemung"  - at that time a
>pro-Albanian organization without any revolutionary
>practice. The fundamental course of the TKP/ML was to
>orientate the Turkish workers in Germany to the events
>in their mother cuntry. All this made the role of a
>revolutionary party in Germany even more difficult than
>it was anyway. 
>    
>That there is something wrong can be illustrated by
>interesting facts. For example: The name of the great
>hero of the early Turkish revolution of the beginning
>70's, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, was published in Germany in
>1979, when two Germans had gone to Turkey and had
>brought back the name and the destiny of the first
>chairman of the TPK/ML to Germany. Ibrahim Kaypakkaya
>had been murdered by the Turkish state as early as
>1973. The TKP/ML had been working in Germany from the
>beginning 70's to the end of the 70's and had never
>said any word about the destiny of the own chairman.
>What was wrong in this movement?! 
>  
>In the 80's our organization defended Marxism-Leninism
>and the teachings of Mao Zedong as before, and also
>began to develop the fundamental theories, for instance
>about Soviet history, about Leninism, and began to
>investigate questions about Marxism, which was dictated
>by reality. We never denied revolutionary war. But in
>some important questions it is necessary to look for
>the whole historical conception. It is not possible to
>stay upon the level of the theory of the 40's, of the
>50's. Mao Zedong himself has developed the theory
>'again and again', and it is quite clear that the
>historical step that now has happened and will happen,
>will need new theoretical impulses to the revolutionary
>movement in the world.  The first result of  Klaus
>Sender's  investigations were the articles "Lenin's
>attitude towards Alexander Herzen", 9 chapters
>published in 1986 and 1987, and more important, the
>fundamental analysis "Leninism and Civilization -
>introduction to criticism", which discusses certain
>real problems not in order to destroy revolutionary
>movement but to bring it forward. We had no problems in
>refuting the dirty attack of Rolf Martens which we
>mentioned above. 
>
>A profound discussion was continued. The last two
>decades were a period of very great changes and new
>phenomena, on a world-wide scale. The supreme
>guide-line must be the complex reality, not forgetting
>all the historical experiences which in the theories of
>mankind and of the working class have been laid down.
>These two maximes we have to regard. 
>
>After gaining victory about a destructive and
>obstructive force in our own organization between the
>middle of 1992 to May 1993 we have launched the biggest
>theoretical program for the investigation of cultural
>questions, which will play a big role in the coming
>international and internationalizing world. A check-up
>of Marxism is indicated.  But all the things we deal
>with we do in a very well-founded way and with long
>tests of argumentation, in order not to embarrass the
>revolutionary movement but to come to a better starting
>point in the time to come. Rolf Martens, the slanderer
>of our organization, knew our concepts and our
>criticisms, and although he was enforced to admit that
>the criticism "Leninism and Civilization" was correct,
>which had been  published in 1989, he asserted that it
>was just in that time when we made great theoretical
>efforts and progress, that we "degenerated to a
>bourgeois organization". The nonsense of his assertion
>jumps into ones eyes. It is all the more conspicuous
>that Rolf Martens does not give reasons in his
>international papers and statements, why our
>organization is being accused of degenerating, of being
>a bourgeois organization. Not by a single word he tries
>to substantiate this. This however is easily
>explainable, because he does not at all want to show
>what is the subject, but wants to abuse our
>organization for his own purposes. 
>
>
>Editorial staff of NEUE EINHEIT
>   concluded 15.08.96
>
>
>Note:
>
>By the 'Aussiedler'-campaign ('resettlement' campaign)
>is to be understood that the German bourgeoisie causes
>millions of citizens of the former Soviet Union,
>Poland, Romania and other countries, by several
>methods, to leave these countries for Germany, arguing
>that these people have German ancestors and have the
>right to be German citizens. The bourgeoisie plays
>these people off against the population of Germany,
>workers from Turkey and other countries included, who
>have been here working for a long time. For example, in
>the eighties the 'Aussiedler' were being privileged
>against all others in getting jobs and apartements, in
>a country with an unemployment of several million
>people and extreme shortage and rise in prices of
>apartements. 
>
>
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