Unity?

Well, to begin with I don't think its a competition, honest revolutionaries will find where they lay in practice. To think this is a recruiting tool for the revolutionary struggle is a bit far fetched. Its a centre of learning, but also it seems that there are many people trying to find an easy way to learn without hitting the books. I am afraid we can only answer questions not provide the methodology that is given through reading extensively.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and a member of a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. I can only provide the learning and understanding I've acquired. We should promote reading Marx, Engels and Lenin. For Canadians, Tim Buck, who lead the party down a true marxist-leninist course. For Americans, John Reed, who wrote some beautiful books, I think ten days that shook the world was the best read to understand Dictatorship of the Proletariat. For Fascism, Georgi Dimitrov, his life is imbued with Class struggle, And it was a fatal mistake of the Communist Party of Bulgaria that caused the fascists to triumph, as they didn't support the Argarian government which was a peasant government when the right-wing overthrow the government in a coup d'etat. And his writing on how they made their mistakes and learned from it is a true testament of criticism and self-criticism as an important part of the communist movement.

A communist literacy campaign is I think the struggle we should be waging, because there wouldn't be any anarchists if they read real criticisms of it from Lenin, Engels and Marx. Anarchists disappear. But Anarchists don't exist in real life here in Canada. They represent a group of disguntled youth who are rightly mad but aren't really organized or affliated with anything serious.

What is a problem is the campaign to discredit every marxist or leninist Idea by using the term

I think Marxist-Leninist is a good title, we are not Stalinists, but it isn't for the reason trotskyites or anarchists say we are.

The term Stalinist is most commonly used on this forum by the ultra-left and right-wingers as a way to derail discussion.

I think we should tell those philistines, I'm talking about (INSERT SUBJECT) what the fuck does Stalin have to do with it? Are you trying to derail discussion? Every time they bring up Stalin.

Because the second they bring up Stalin they admit they are out of ideas. And they are being against us just for the sake of being against us.

I think the best method is to answer questions in a mature way.

However this group itself isn't one unified ideology, there are people here who subscribe to Ultra-left ideas also right-opportunist ones as well.

Well shit disturbing will cause the ultra-left and right-wingers to outrage. I doubt it will lead to productive discussions rather more of an excuse of the derailing they have been used to when they don't have an answer.

I think that intelligently engaging the issues, and presenting the marxist-lenninist viewpoint as being a credible one, is the best tactic now, rather than simply angering anarchists, trotskyists and left-coms. I agree with TA II about a communist literacy campaign, but I think that (in addition to not wanting to do heavy reading) there are other reasons that the anarchists, Trots, and left-coms subscribe to that tendency. The bougeoise has effectively used the charicature of Stalin to both make communist ideology unacceptable to the masses in the west, as well as to divide the left against itself and hence isolate it as a threat. People are, surprisingly, able to reject the notion of capitalist ownership of the means of production yet are still unable to believe their highschool history teacher lied to them about Stalin. Hence we have "Diet Communism" and anarchism being the leading tendencies within western revolutionary leftist circles. We need to dispel myths, get people to read more about marxism-lennism, and we need to be both curteous and vigilent in this endeavor.

I would hardly say that. In some countries, we are basically in the same boat as them, i.e. utterly irrelevant. But in many others, the communist parties are consistently on top with thousands of people. RevLeft is not a representation of the real world, except when it comes to determining which American and British leftists have the loudest mouths...

True.

The CPUSA is no longer a strong party. Sure, it is large, but it is completely under the wing of the american democrat party. This is all Sam Webb's fault. Once he is elimenated, our movement in america may become seriuos and un-capitalistic, and, in, perhaps, 20 years, we may win the elections