Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line

The Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center

Against “Left” Internationalism

The Struggle for Point 18


Resolution Submitted by the Steering Committee of the OCIC

Whereas no viable revolutionary current can make a practice of collaborating with its own ruling class; and

Whereas all the advocates of “left” internationalism have developed a practice based on collaboration with U.S. imperialism to one degree or another; and

Whereas “left” internationalism shares with other major aspects of the ultra-left line an absurdly “left” approach to the struggle against right opportunism generally and revisionism in particular; and

Whereas the break with “left” internationalism formed the watershed of the ultra-left line in the party building movement; and

Whereas the formulation – “U.S. imperialism is the main enemy of the peoples of the world” – separates the advocates of “left” internationalism from the adherents of proletarian internationalism:

Be it resolved that it is correct to uphold the identification of U.S. imperialism as the main enemy of the world's peoples as a correct line of demarcation for building a trend in opposition to ultra-leftism.