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Paul Le Blanc:
The convictions that Morris Stein expressed in 1944, and that Cannon
expressed in defense of the “Theses on the American Revolution” in 1946,
involved a belief in the need for and the possibility of a revolution in
our society and our time, and also a belief in one’s self and one’s
organization as elements that could be essential in bringing such
revolution into being.
James P. Cannon letter to Leon Trotsky on February 20, 1940:
It is impossible to build a combat party with a tolerant attitude toward
splits. In the discussion every democratic right must be assured and has
been assured. Every reasonable organization concession must be made in
the interests of preserving unity and educating the party in a normal
atmosphere. But we must not sanctify permanent demoralization. We must
not permit anybody to make an endless discussion club out of the party.
Those who go beyond these bounds and take the road of split are no
longer to be considered as comrades discussing a difference of opinion,
but as enemies and traitors. They must be fought without mercy and
without compromise on every front. We will never instill a real party
patriotism into the ranks unless we establish the conception that
violation of the party unity is not only a crime but a crime which
brings the most ruthless punishment in the form of a war of political
extermination against those who commit it.
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