In discussing the party building question, this document concentrates its attention on the question of scientific method, for the CWLB (ML) considers that without a scientific approach to finding out the facts of problems, analysing those facts, and on the basis of such analysis working out solutions, nothing can be achieved. Hence, in defining the shape of a genuine communist party, the CWLB (ML) is primarily concerned with scientific method of conduct and with the most vital areas of investigation with which such methodology must be concerned.
Hence, having this orientation, the CWLB (ML) does not dwell, in its definitional shape of a genuine communist party, on some of the basic and most obvious features which all genuine parties possess. In order to avoid any confusion as to its views on these other features, the organisation wishes to make it clear that it understands well that the following features are all part and parcel of the essential characteristics of a genuine revolutionary communist party:
Marxist-Leninist ideology and politics, historical and dialectical materialism;
Democratic Centralism;
Adherence to the central Marxist-Leninist concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat;
Political honesty;
Criticism and Self-Criticism;
The mass line and a creative style of work;
Recognition of the need for principled unity;
Opposition to all diversionary political tendencies, such as Social Democracy, revisionism, Trotskyism, anarchism and the like;
Adherence to the basic concept of the revolutionary overthrow of the class enemy, the overthrow of the ruling class, which exploits every working man and woman in this country.
All of these features, the CWLB (ML) understands, are essential guides in deciding whether an organisation is genuinely pursuing the M-L standpoint.
However, this document is not primarily concerned with these features but with, as has been stated, questions concerning the very nature of scientific socialism, especially the question of the employment of scientific method in the investigation and solving of problems. It is to this vital area of Marxism-Leninism that this document turns, for it is in this vital area, that the CWLB (ML) believes that the M-L movement in this country is primarily falling down.