writings on correct methods of practice

[scarletghoul]

I don't think enough attention is given to the correct methods of practice for revolutionaries. So here are a few pieces I think are worth reading.

Power Anywhere Where There's People (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fhamptonspeech.html) a speech by Fred Hampton

On Practice (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm) by Mao Zedong

The Mass Line (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch11.htm) chapter 11 of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Investigation and Study (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch23.htm) chapter 23 of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Why Are We Failing? (http://www.revleft.com/vb/why-we-failingi-t116771/index.html) a thread on RevLeft

Please read some of these and also recommend (with links if possible) any other writings that will help refine our revolutionary practice.

[Q]

Maoist methods are not necessarily correct ones.

[scarletghoul]

But they're worth reading about if you want to try and find the correct one. I'm hoping people of various tendencies will respond with links to writing on their various methods so we can get a cool mix of things.

[Q]

But they're worth reading about if you want to try and find the correct one. I'm hoping people of various tendencies will respond with links to writing on their various methods so we can get a cool mix of things.
I see. In that case I would like to add the following few:

Entryism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism): Practised in situations were open tendency work cannot be done. Most commonly in a bureaucratised (semi-)mass workers party.

Establishment of a political center (http://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1971/alt/alt.htm#CHAPTER8) and overcoming the sectlike form of organisation.

The need for political transparency (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1539044&postcount=17) (point 2 and further).

All of these things are facets of the merger formula (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/vileninandtheinfluence.php).

[Eat the Rich]

Orrientation to mass organizations. I think that it is worth reading Ted Grant's analysis, even if you don't agree with it. It is the pamphlet "problems of entrism" : http://tedgrant.org/archive/grant/1959/03/entrism.htm .

Here Ted Grant shows how a small group of dedicated Marxists, can re-gain the link to the working class, through orrientating towards mass organizations. He explains how to take advantage of internal crises and centrist currents, while he also explains that the marxists should always retain their organizational and ideological independence.

"They [the sectarians- ETR] claim the independence of the revolutionary party as a principle, whether the party consists of two or two million. They do not take into account the historical development of the movement of the working class, which conditions the tactics, while maintaining the principles of the Marxists. Without flexible tactics it is impossible to win or train the forces which must be won before a revolutionary party can be built."




"But one thing has been demonstrated by historical events; the conditions for entry, as worked out by Trotsky in the past, did not apply. These conditions can be summarised as:
(a) Pre-revolutionary or revolutionary situation.
(b) Ferment in Social Democracy.
(c) Development of a Left Wing.
(d) the possibility of the rapid crystallisation of the revolutionary tendency."