Comrades,
Just as Comrade George predicted with Melvin we are on another roller coaster
ride of revisionism, diversionism and simply twisting and distorting the truth
and turning it completely upside and on its head!
This is seen with this revisionist posting of the article under the title of
this thread which is based on the now defunct Communist Labor Party in the US
and put into pamphlet form in 1993. It had its original beginnings in the
late 1960's and 1970's. It was not simply a work by Nelson Peery but a
collective effort wherein he states that, "It is a summary of the CLP's
estimate of history." According to Nelson Peery it was originally published as
"Political Report to the Fifth Congress of the Communist Labor Party, April,
1991" and fills 28 pages.
It is interesting that Melvin has reduced it to a few measly paragraphs
selectively chosen to distort the intent of the actual report but to
opportunistically present the basis of his incorrect and revisionist views.
The picture painted by this revisionist taking these selected paragraphs out of
context is that one would draw the conclusion that the Soviet Union was
conducting itself contrary to Marxism by "doing things that are against the
interests of the world's workers".
This, of course, fits in with Melvin's revisionist Marxist reductionist
position and political line that today scientific Marxism is now reduced to a
mere "general outline" of Marxs' theory excluding both Lenin and Stalin since
he has seen fit to mock and sarcastically eschew their contribution to his
inverse salutation of "Goodbye" to both Lenin and Stalin because this
revisionist deems their contributions as no longer "applicable" today!
Melvin quotes this report with the last paragraph being:
"The CPUSA cannot explain to its membership why the Soviet government is doing
things that are against the interests of the world's workers. Their Party
arose from an ideological tendency that limited them to a certain stage of
history. They are adrift. Like the old soldiers of "The Barracks Ballad," they
will now begin to fade away."
Melvins intent here is to bolster his position by giving the impression that
the CPUSA believed the CPSU(B) of the Soviet Union under Stalin was conducting
reactionary activities that went against the interests of the working class;
that the CPSU(B) arose only out of an "ideological tendency" which confined it
to a small space in time - history - therefore, implying that a Leninist style
Party is no longer relevant and that those genuine Marxist-Leninists today who
embrace the relevance of scientific Marxism-Leninism as developed by Marx,
Engels, Lenin and Staling as well as numerous other faithful Bolshevik Marxist
revolutionaries are "adrift" and will "fade away". In other words,
Marxism-Leninism is no longer applicable today according to this revisionist
and the new historical period we are in today makes this somehow a truism.
Further, it indicates that "new" forms must be developed aside from scientific
Marxism-Leninism that must encompass an
eclectic "unity" of all social ideologies as this revisionist stated in a
previous polemic!
Although there is some very good informational value to this "report" it is
still flawed in that it lays the premise for a Marxist liberalist approach to
the "new" historical period we live in. It is based primarily on this
partially true "report" that Melvin gleans his completely incorrect position of
"economic communism", his Marxist reductionist views that he claims makes Lenin
and Stalin no longer applicable and Marx's theory a mere "general outline" that
is acceptable to revisionists of his ilk.
It is flawed from the beginning wherein under the paragraph entitled THE
COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY AND OUR TASKS it states:
"Within this context of constant birth, decline and death of movements and
organizations, where do we stand?
"We can honestly state that from the very beginning, we intended to build a
political party based on the class struggle and guided by scientific
socialism. There was no class struggle and we knew very little Marxism. We
could not create a class struggle so we set about creating an organization of
Marxists"
No class struggle? This is the foundation of revisionism! Ever since Marx
described society being formed by classes the concomitant or dialectics of
scientific Marxism teach that there have been class struggles!
Backing up a little to Melvins quoting of this report. What this revisionist
has done is to twist and distort the truth as I already mentioned but how was
the truth distorted? It was distorted opportunistically to serve his
revisionist position by omitting the time period in which the CPUSA was being
discussed and at which time period the CPSU(B) was also being discussed in
relation to the CPUSA making such a wild statement. The time period was
clearly after Stalin and the succession of the revisionist Kruschev.
It had no bearing on the dictatorship of the proletariat under Stalin although
Melvin makes it sound as that this is the case to opportunistically support his
revisionist position that Lenin and Stalin are no longer applicable but only
the mere "general outline" of Marx.
This report clearly stated that:
"Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power under adverse circumstances. They
rejected the mechanical approach that the socialist revolution could not take
place in a country that had not gone through the stage of capitalism."
That is the very lesson the October Revolution has taught us genuine
Marxist-Leninists that we can in fact seize power without eery single textbook
criterion needing to be available. That is the lesson Vietnam taught us. That
is the lesson the Cuban Revolution taught us. That is the lesson we are
learning from Tunisia and even Venezuala. But this are lessons Melvin attempts
to eschew and base his rejection of the possibility of socialist revolution at
any given moment the working class will rise up in a revolutionary mood to
throw off their oppression by the bourgeoisie.
What matters is if there is an organization of genuine Marxist-Leninists to
seize the moment as Lenin and the Bolsheviks did without waiting for every
piece of the revolutionary puzzle to be put in its place!
It is for this reason that the struggle against revisionism must be relentless
and aggressive so as not to confuse the working class.
Fraternally
Mark Scott
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