Today, the question of party-building in the U.S. is basically resolved. Through eight years of constant struggle with all shades of modern revisionism and trotskyism, the genuine Marxist-Leninist line has deepened to the point of drawing a firm and clear line of demarcation on the basis of grasping party-building on the proletarian ideological plane.
Since early 1974, the WVO has consistently upheld the most overall correct line in our movement and deepened it by leading staunch struggle against both the right opportunists (RU and then OL) and the “left” otzovists and centrists (PRRWO/RWL and the fruit flies).
However, party-building requires not only a leading line (and its organizational representative), but also a leading circle--that is, a circle capable of uniting all the other genuinely revolutionary circles.
It was only with its unremitting, uncompromising struggle with the “left” opportunists, including its nation-wide tour to take the struggle into the “left” strongholds, that the WVO emerged as the leading circle. Through this campaign, the WVO won over and consolidated the strongest elements in both the “left” and right party-building motions, won over a number of local small circles (such as the CWC and CSS), and emerged in a position to lead the actual formation of our party.
Today, our main task is in transition from uniting Marxist-Leninists to winning the advanced to communism. This is dictated by the objective development of the class struggle. In the context of the two contending trends, communists must grasp firmly the necessity of the “Immediate and Universal Preparation for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” and actively expand our work in bringing the science of MLMTTT to the surging working class movement. In this we must continue to make every effort to unite the scattered, honest Marxist-Leninists (products of the spontaneous movements of the late 60’s and early 70’s) who are still unconsolidated with opportunism or revolutionary Marxism-Leninism.
Unity among Marxist-Leninists, however, is a question of line – in this case, firmly and clearly grasping party-building on the proletarian ideological plane. Through the leadership of the WVO and by conscientiously struggling to expose supposed “errors” in WVO’s line, the CSS discovered its own errors. Now, through bold self-criticism, we have rectified our line and practice and are changing our outlook through the protracted process of ideological remolding. This development, inevitably, must be embraced by all honest forces – the starting point is tit-for-tat line struggle with the WVO line.
Sham Marxist-Leninist careerists such as the MLOC are trying to take the easy road of ignoring line struggle and raising cries of abstract unity. The CSS was once in unity with this bankrupt methodology and petty-bourgeois class stand. We know it is sham; we know it must be exposed and driven from our ranks.
Comrades,
SMASH SCHOLASTICISM AND BOLSHEVIZE OUR RANKS! EXPOSE THE PETTY-BOURGEOIS CAREERISM OF THE MLOC! WAGE TIT-FOR-TAT STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS! BUILD THE PARTY ON THE PROLETARIAN IDEOLOGICAL PLANE! GRASP THE KEY LINK OF POLITICAL LINE!