Dear comrades and friends, First, I would like to congratule comrade NN on his post on the revolutionary movements in Tunisia and the US. The Tunisian people have certainly shown the revolutionary way forward in overthrowing the 23 year old dictatorship of Ben Ali. It will certainly shake up the Arab world and have repercussions world wide. Someone sent a message from one of the leading Israeli politicians who said that democracy in the Arab world would hurt Israel, because the Arab peoplewould no longer put up with governments that conciliated with Israel. This of course affects both the US and French imperialists, who have tried to rely on various puppet regimes in that and other parts of the world.
I would like to also point out the importance of the destructive role of Browder's revisionism for the US working class. Even before the dissolution of the CPUSA, Browder, in an opportunist application of the united front against fascism, liquidated the shop units of the CPUSA in the factories. To my knowledge, these were never recreated after the CPUSA was officially revived in 1945. This is not just a historical question. When the McCarthy Era began, the CPUSA was unable to mobilize significant sections of the working class to oppose it, anad therefore the communists were in their great majority expelled from the unions or driven underground. This still has signifiant effect today. While all over Europe, the working class has mobilized against the attacks of the bourgeoisie against their economic and political rights, the US working class has still remained relatively quiescent. One of the main tasks of MLs in the US is to rebuild a revolutionary cadre within the unions, that can take the lead in the fight against these attacks. This is a long process but must be begun. One cannot, as Melvin does, just leave it to the objective factors of the bribery of a good section of the post WWII working class, which was certainly an objective phenomenon. The question is what is the response of the revolutionary elements. To comrade Mark, I would just like to point out that I think I did not make myself clear in an earlier post. The request several weeks ago for less flame in polemics was by me, not by some unnamed member of the list. I simply meant that I wrote it not as a moderator, but as an ordinary list member. I would again request that if you polemicize against Melvin, you polemicize against his political and ideological views, not by referring to him as "this revisionist piece of shit." This only weakens your own arguments. As I have said before, I have not had time to read through his arguments or your replies, but I request you to please make your replies on point. Fraternally, George _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
