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January 23 2008
The Really Chauvinist Party zombies still have not answered up on their role in derailing pro-Ward Churchill rallies. Specifically MIM has already hammered them on their white nationalist lynchmob ideology that they spread to the National Lawyers Guild in a locale that was building Ward Churchill rallies.
First of all, as a matter of method, whether or not there was a rape rumor, there was nothing correct about raising it in connection to supporting a Ward Churchill rally. Already at that level the Really Chauvinist Party zombies and their friends stand exposed, including the two-faced ones who said they'd at least show up for the rally but did not. White people unreasoning stands exposed, the true nature of the Really Chauvinist Party. People who did not understand that at the level of method would not be admitted to MIM or even tolerated in MIM circles very long. The bar needs to be set that high for vanguard status. If that needs to be explained, that is another sign one is not dealing with vanguard material. Bourgeois white nationalism is the default state of affairs and if the vanguard party is not a firewall against it, nothing will be.
Second of all, as a matter of substance, MIM can state with certainty that the Really Chauvinist Party now knows it had the facts wrong, of course, in its white nationalist rumor mill. So the question is, not just the KKK bussing incident, not the gay-bashing of decades, not the anti-Iranian chauvinism--is there anyone in RCP=CIA circles with the brains to see that despite RCP=CIA's eventually publishing articles for Ward Churchill, the RCP=CIA's lynchmob ideology derailed the MIM-led rallies, yes or no? It does not do any good to be publishing favorable articles on Ward Churchill while fanning white nationalism in an ad hominem way in the background.
Even to discuss the "facts" is bowing to white nationalist spontaneity in this case. It's not a problem of facts, but method and procedure.
This brings up the question of bowing to bourgeois spontaneity that Lenin talked about in "What Is To Be Done?" and which RCP=CIA professes to uphold so ardently. The RCP=CIA version of the vanguard party is something that bows to the enemy again and again, by subjecting itself to pressure from below. In debates Barak Obama is saying "change comes from below."(1) It is a trite phrase of the Democratic Party, so when are these fools going to recognize that they are leading the real masses to the Democratic Party with their mass line blather?
If a party has to explain what is wrong with pig questions every time there is a political struggle, that party has no scientific judgment ability. It should continue to split until people of capability opposed to pig questions can organize independently, not bogged down by white nationalists, ultra-democrats and pragmatists who have to grope their way through every question instead of refusing pig questions and white nationalism in principle. If a persyn cannot understand conceptually, in principle or in theory that bourgeois white nationalism is pervading society and that informal non-Joreenized methods bring it out, a persyn cannot be a scientist. People who need hand-holding or explanation in every new situation are pragmatists, not scientists. With such gross pragmatists around it is impossible to utilize principled line and underground or semi-underground strategy, because they put on pressure for constant explanations from leaders they fear are abusing them.
The answer to fears of leaders abusing them is to form cells. It is not to create spontaneous pressure that Lenin warned against. Another answer is to stay away from Leninists in principle; although, hopefully one would have the sense to attend a Ward Churchill rally.
Now we have Jacobin1949 saying the following about the mass line:
"Ironically the CPUSA which condemns Mao, is more Maoist in practice than any revolutionary org in the USA. While the CPUSA is often condemned for its 'revisionism,' the fact is that much good comes out of the CPUSA being engaged in day to day struggles. Entire clubs are built out of campaigns for Democratic candidates. Even working with conservative unions and black churches, brings the CPUSA into the day to day struggle of the masses. While most parties are isolated debating societies, the CPUSA is out on the field."(2)Jacobin1949 is correct in a way. With the way that people misdefine and misuse the word "masses," any larger organization carries out more mass line than MIM or the RCP=CIA zombies. If Jacobin1949 can find where Lenin and Mao said the labor aristocracy or imperialist country exploiters are part of the "masses," we will show Jacobin1949 a forgery. We wish Jacobin1949 luck in siphoning off every last ultra-democrat to the CP=U$A or any other organization.
People who cannot take a little charge of "Blanquism" are garbage as far as a vanguard party is concerned. TOSS EVERY LAST ONE OF THE DECADENT FUCKERS!
This is another important lesson in the true application of the mass line. If the party is not sealed off from pressure from the exploiters, then rallies are going to suffer. In the RCP=CIA itself, it was permissible to spread racist rape rumors, because the RCP=CIA itself was not a firewall against oppressor pressure. It bowed to enemy spontaneity, because of how the membership was selected to keep politically correct people, lifestylists and sub-reformists. Having bowed on the rape question, a rally that needed to be bigger than it was suffered and did not gain an organization's endorsement because of one misleader's connection to the RCP=CIA. Ironically that was also despite the membership of the organization's being vaguely favorable.
On January 21, Fox News was running the headline that President Bush was pressuring Saudi Arabia for legal reforms for gender equality. Googling Bush, "Saudi, reform and women" brought up over 400 articles--just on "Fox News" alone. The problem with MIM's critics is that they live in the past and do not seem very attentive. If one is saying the same thing as Bush and Fox News day in and day out, and if wars seem to follow pseudo-feminist blather, it is time to take up a new approach! It's the same bullshit white nationalist lynching approach that RCP=CIA used to attack Iran as it used to sabotage the pro-Ward Churchill rallies. It's time that that party recognized the truth and summed up why a real Leninist party has to be a firewall against bourgeois white nationalist spontaneity.
People talking irrelevant biography are pigs or their asinine assistants. Triangulation of imperialism, communism and Islam can work for Hillary Clinton or Giuliani. People who want "change from below" can work for Obama. People who think the time is now for an open onslaught on imperialism with open leadership methods should call themselves Luxemburgists. They were never Leninist to begin with. These kinds of people need to be pitched from Leninist circles, every last one of them. Anything goes in the anti-war and environmentalist movements, but the party has to be clarion clear, partly in case the anti-war movement gets hazy or confused.
People who cannot figure out what happened in the Ward Churchill rally situation, the Iran situation on International Wimmin's Day 2006, the situation of international class structure--they have no grip on reality. We may love these people tremendously, but they belong in the anti-war movement. If the Leninist party does otherwise it is guilty of patriotic errors. So it comes down to judgment and having the guts to make the call. People who want to judge Leninist parties by size or its derivatives in terms of "contact with the 'masses'" do not understand A) they're not talking about masses; B) it's not just a matter of being "too harsh" because the vanguard party is supposed to be a firewall against spontaneity; C) unclogging the mass line means repelling the enemy line to make space for the proletarian line to burst through; D) there is no point in their approach, because it's already covered by other people with patriotic views, people who love their country the same way these "mass line" corrupters love the "masses" as a cover for loving exploiters and oppressors. The Leninist organizational strategy contributes things that the anti-war grassroots cannot: 1) scientific judgment 2) underground and semi- underground activity. Without these two contributions, there is no point in upholding Lenin any longer. If it is not necessary to weed out people based on their lack of scientific judgment and guts to carry it out and if the underground and semi-underground methods make only very marginal contributions, then Leninism is unnecessary. MIM hides nothing of that.
Notes:
1. See also, Jeff Cohen, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-
cohen/how-to-turn-this-election_b_32647.html
2.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/cpusa-and-mass-t68792/index.html