RevolutionaryMarxist
1st September 2006, 06:59
Please Comment on what parts sound out of place or awkward, It is rather late but I suddenly got the inspiration.
I already have in mind a few parties/groups to send this too, but please suggest some more groups that are willing to accept letters and such.
Thanks :)
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A Letter to the Revolutionary Parties of the World
What has happened to the days when millions ran out cheering with flags and banners of red? Where are the modern Paris Communes? Why does the mass majority of the proletariat think socialism is dead, and communists are idiotic maniacs?
There is only one answer to these questions and this is the most critical question facing our entire revolutionary movement as of now, and will consistently be facing it forever until we finally overstep it together.
We are not united.
Instead of the Bourgeois dividing us, we have cut ourselves into our own little cults and sects around the world there are literally thousands of revolutionary parties, for whenever one person disagrees with the voice of their party, they run away and form a new one. This trend began all the way back in the early 1900s with the split of the Socialist and Communist groups, and now we see its results these thousands of miniscule and weak organizations floating around doing nothing. I could list them, but that would waste both time and words for there are simply too many. There is no coordination around the world in any significant magnitude, and from that thus there is no actual gain in the revolutionary movement. A protest organized here and there is nothing but symbolism without practical gain. A grain of action is worth more than all the idealism and theory you can eat.
Our own personal disputes on theory matter little if we actually break down the entire revolutionary movement for a bit of theory, then we are nothing more than selfish idealists blinded with bourgeois intellectualism. As materialists and those proponents of Marx we must see how much in common we all have with each other; our common strive against capitalism and religion, for materialism and against idealism differences on history matter little, for the present is what we live in and history is forever gone. We throw away the bad and learn from the good and when we finally cross a issue that we disagree on and that is actually relevant we must together confront the question instead of splintering away into another international or party.
With all this constant dispute among the different revolutionary movements, we have lost sight of our actual target the proletariat. Instead of a united front the proletariat dont even see an actual revolutionary party anymore most dont know that there is or even was a Communist party of the United States. Membership in revolutionary parties worldwide have severely declined, both from disillusion with the parties and the countless splits within them. Most parties possess very similar theory it is usually minor political and personal disputes that create new movements that fight as hard against the other revolutionary movement as they do against capitalism.
We fight against the past, and we fight as incarnates of the future. We see the future, and aid the present smoothly into it, and we cannot be distracted from our most dire and important goal. The future is inevitable, and when the revolution comes it will be fates hand that plays the final choices for the world not a Central Committee or single party. As true historical materialists we must recognize the inevitability of it all. We are just the ones who aid the spark of fire into creation, which then spreads into a wildfire of revolution, but we are not the handlers of the spark. Once the spark is lit, it will follow its own course burning through those who seek to guide or limit it. That is what we must recognize, that our duty is to create the spark of revolution in the hearts of the people.
This letter may sound desperate to some but that is because this situation is desperate if not considered very soon the entire world revolutionary movement will crumble into pieces, and in the end even the proletariat may turn against us. To rebuild our movement stronger than before we must acknowledge our true mistakes and replace them with better tactics. Not anymore just printing out newspapers and attempting to hand them out, useless protests of solidarity which do more to make proletariat afraid than curious, but actual action. Action is the only useful thing in the world. Theory is but a luxury. The proletariat have no luxury they need action.
Whether Trotksyist, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Leninist, Marxist, Maoist we are all revolutionaries, and all on the same side the incarnates fighting for the inevitable future. We are not the reactionaries and feudalists on the other side of the spectrum who also oppose modern civilization. We are one side of this political and social spectrum, and so it has been a staple of idiocy to declare that we are not. First comes the enemy, then comes our disputes and while we dispute, our enemy of capitalism is growing ever stronger. After the revolution, the proletariat will decide for themselves. The United Front is what I called for! The union of all the revolutionary parties of the world in one common front against Capitalism, Feudalism, and their babies. A new international in which all the old internationals and parties are welded together into one ultimate and efficient machine of direct action for those who say that such a centralized machine is against our principles, if we continue with our unorganized tantrums like now then we have no future.
What hope of uniting the people do we have if we cannot even unite amongst ourselves? United we stand, divided we fall.
Marx had said that the choice that faced the world would be socialism or death and if we do not face this problem now, the inevitable outcome will be death for all.
I already have in mind a few parties/groups to send this too, but please suggest some more groups that are willing to accept letters and such.
Thanks :)
___________________________________________
A Letter to the Revolutionary Parties of the World
What has happened to the days when millions ran out cheering with flags and banners of red? Where are the modern Paris Communes? Why does the mass majority of the proletariat think socialism is dead, and communists are idiotic maniacs?
There is only one answer to these questions and this is the most critical question facing our entire revolutionary movement as of now, and will consistently be facing it forever until we finally overstep it together.
We are not united.
Instead of the Bourgeois dividing us, we have cut ourselves into our own little cults and sects around the world there are literally thousands of revolutionary parties, for whenever one person disagrees with the voice of their party, they run away and form a new one. This trend began all the way back in the early 1900s with the split of the Socialist and Communist groups, and now we see its results these thousands of miniscule and weak organizations floating around doing nothing. I could list them, but that would waste both time and words for there are simply too many. There is no coordination around the world in any significant magnitude, and from that thus there is no actual gain in the revolutionary movement. A protest organized here and there is nothing but symbolism without practical gain. A grain of action is worth more than all the idealism and theory you can eat.
Our own personal disputes on theory matter little if we actually break down the entire revolutionary movement for a bit of theory, then we are nothing more than selfish idealists blinded with bourgeois intellectualism. As materialists and those proponents of Marx we must see how much in common we all have with each other; our common strive against capitalism and religion, for materialism and against idealism differences on history matter little, for the present is what we live in and history is forever gone. We throw away the bad and learn from the good and when we finally cross a issue that we disagree on and that is actually relevant we must together confront the question instead of splintering away into another international or party.
With all this constant dispute among the different revolutionary movements, we have lost sight of our actual target the proletariat. Instead of a united front the proletariat dont even see an actual revolutionary party anymore most dont know that there is or even was a Communist party of the United States. Membership in revolutionary parties worldwide have severely declined, both from disillusion with the parties and the countless splits within them. Most parties possess very similar theory it is usually minor political and personal disputes that create new movements that fight as hard against the other revolutionary movement as they do against capitalism.
We fight against the past, and we fight as incarnates of the future. We see the future, and aid the present smoothly into it, and we cannot be distracted from our most dire and important goal. The future is inevitable, and when the revolution comes it will be fates hand that plays the final choices for the world not a Central Committee or single party. As true historical materialists we must recognize the inevitability of it all. We are just the ones who aid the spark of fire into creation, which then spreads into a wildfire of revolution, but we are not the handlers of the spark. Once the spark is lit, it will follow its own course burning through those who seek to guide or limit it. That is what we must recognize, that our duty is to create the spark of revolution in the hearts of the people.
This letter may sound desperate to some but that is because this situation is desperate if not considered very soon the entire world revolutionary movement will crumble into pieces, and in the end even the proletariat may turn against us. To rebuild our movement stronger than before we must acknowledge our true mistakes and replace them with better tactics. Not anymore just printing out newspapers and attempting to hand them out, useless protests of solidarity which do more to make proletariat afraid than curious, but actual action. Action is the only useful thing in the world. Theory is but a luxury. The proletariat have no luxury they need action.
Whether Trotksyist, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Leninist, Marxist, Maoist we are all revolutionaries, and all on the same side the incarnates fighting for the inevitable future. We are not the reactionaries and feudalists on the other side of the spectrum who also oppose modern civilization. We are one side of this political and social spectrum, and so it has been a staple of idiocy to declare that we are not. First comes the enemy, then comes our disputes and while we dispute, our enemy of capitalism is growing ever stronger. After the revolution, the proletariat will decide for themselves. The United Front is what I called for! The union of all the revolutionary parties of the world in one common front against Capitalism, Feudalism, and their babies. A new international in which all the old internationals and parties are welded together into one ultimate and efficient machine of direct action for those who say that such a centralized machine is against our principles, if we continue with our unorganized tantrums like now then we have no future.
What hope of uniting the people do we have if we cannot even unite amongst ourselves? United we stand, divided we fall.
Marx had said that the choice that faced the world would be socialism or death and if we do not face this problem now, the inevitable outcome will be death for all.