March 2021
I have been reading your platform...
Some brief comments and questions.
On page 3 of my booklet you say:
When the class once again takes the initiative and begins to use its collective strength against capital's attacks, revolutionary political organisations need to be in a position to lead the necessary political and organisational battles against the forces of the left bourgeoisie.
Is this the main role of the organisation as implied here?
Later, you say:
It is the task of the proletarian political organisation to return to the working class the lessons of its own historical experience so that they become a material force in the emancipation of our class.
How have you been doing this and to what extent can the class rediscover for itself?
Finally on page 3:
recognition of international meetings as part of the work of debate among revolutionary groups for co-ordination of their active political interventions...
Has this been upheld because it seems looking from the outside there isn't much co-ordination.
Page 5 points 4. & 5.
What is meant by a "meaningful existence inside the working class"?
How do propaganda groups become more than propaanda groups?
From Page 9:
"The Soviets are the expression of working class political power (the DoTP) and their decline and marginalisation from political life in Russia symbolised the strangling of the infant soviet state by the capitalist counter-revolution.
Do you envisge a soviet state in the future, a working class state?
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Some of your brief questions are a bit too brief for us to be certain we answer in the way you want so you may need to come back on this.
I am sure these answers do not meet all your enquiries but feel free to pursue them.