Nl'lticn.al Chai~womon•s Pcrr.pt"Cd 1.,~s Rerort tn Convention of News nnd Letters Comm1ttees, Sept. 4, 1976

P H l L 0 S 0 P H Y AND REVOLUTION

T 0 D A Y• S GLOBAL FREEDOM

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RfY~ DUNi-YEVSKAYJ.

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I. AZIKWELWAO:. New Stage of Black Revolutionary ConscicusnesE, Precl1-rsor of Global Struggles: to Uproot this Decadent,Crises-ridden,State~capitalist, Imperialist World ·

IL Crtses on Home GrOunds

III. Imperial u.s., the "Non-Aligned Countries", and "Feaceful Co-existence"

1) The Colombo Sp~r~ing, or the·No~-Evene 2) .Peaceful Co-e.<istence., Ch1nese Style' 3) Once ~gain, che :·~iddle Etst .... this time .!!!9, ''France,

!m! the .. UN, !.!C the "LaN of the 'Sea 11

IV. Creation of a PhiloSophic Nucleur:~ is not jus~··an·Organlza-_ tionBl Task, but the Pressing Need for Ongoing Revoluti'Ons­nnd Revolutions ... to··be

POST-CONVENTION DULLETIN NO. l SEl'TEMBER.l976

NEWS & LETTERS 1900 E. JEFFERSON DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48207

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:Psr~pactive:s P.<;;port to !~ar;s and Lett.;;ra Coilll'i"L1tteu!:l Convcnt.i.:m by Raya Dunayevskaya, Na ticnal Chairwoman

PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION IN TODAY' S GLOBAL FREEIDM STRUGGLES

I. AZIK'IELli/,Q, Nc>r Stage of Black Revolutionary Consciousness, Precursor of Global Strusglos to Uproot This Decadent, Crlses-Rldden, State-Capitalist, Imperialist World

AZIK'~LWACc "t·le will not ride." Like ~;ontgo:nery 1 Ala., whiCh began its

march to f'l:eedom 'lfith a bus boy.;ott, Black ~outh /,friC'aHs emb:l.rked on a new

apartheid Scuth Af>-ica ld th the s!.n:p:Le w.ord, AZIK!:EV:·rAQ-; ''He n:!.ll not .ride."

11hat 'tra.s r..-31r in this ,staSa of struggle'aud tthat dist!r.s-J.ishoS the tL"l\a!.i-··

1976 as arri\l.nu't l;;SS--is tho maturity of· tho age. The dl.alec·cic cf libaratio'l' s

first act, two n:cu_ths b..1.clc 1 1m:s the oppositlon to the v~ry language of 'the cp­

pressorsl A-£'J.•'!ka:-·:,:;;.t the hybrid of the DUtch oppressors' claim to be 11Afrit!Cr..s. 11 . . . .

Black Africln yot:th having won· thM. fight (after ZOO lay dead) 1 a lull

appeared. L, a f'Oii w-eeJ;s, hQwever1 the phoenix ro.t:3e fi-x.,~.t the asheS and hi·& i:1

the most vitll place 'of all for the white eccnomyo .procl.;lt:t1on. It is ':'"" by

Black labor. It c_annot funct.;Lon 1-ritb.out it, !.Jhree.-cL.v s7ne':r:al strike was· declared.

· Once again, the youth became the spark-plu'ls, puttinc; up. the blocl:ades .

at bus ~nd :r.~Ul.'Oad stations, Black workers did nOt rido to JC.hannes_bli:X'g•

Neither age, nor sex, acted as div1S1v8 p~iut, Even 1-rhen the ?J.o·oey govern­

ment succooded in -instigatinc; some Zulu vigilantes to help them wield the

wh!p of tho counto~-revolution, the rulers heard from the. factocy cimers, shop

managers, and even h~mea1 11absl.lnteeism, 11 they reported,. was no less than So%.

We cannot know how many retreats will be forced upon them. We do know

the joy the rebellion has released. Liston .to one Colored. {as those of mix•d

race are desii;nated in apartheid South Africa), Pabel Hendricks, the president

of the Methodist Church, opaak1

"Have you seen their faces? This is something I think the whites

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rlon' t realize. l'fuen they (tho Dlaoks) give that (<>lunched-fist) calnto! the look on their faues is joy, They have h~a.:t dignity for the first time in years. Have y011 notlcei"! Only uhcn somoon.l

But now ~hey are

hnppy. 11

Joy does not mako the protest rnoveme.nt a rovolution. That, hot-~ovc.: 1

l-1·1.G i-:.o"t r.ll. no·t. only • .. "2-s i·t also spontaneous mass activity, buJ..; it hc.d lca-:'{.,r­

ship--r.ot cl!.-~ist.--and fl.Om much deef>er layer.5. l.'t.sten again1 ''No ~oo:1er "·c,_·t::

lcaC..ors a.r.=Gster,_, than others stepped ir1 at~d carL·ied o:.1." F".cotl be:ow, e·:~:t-r~c-·.;

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I havC start~cl with Sowe·to rather 'th2:'1. either ui~, th13 econorr.y--th:.!

"objact~ve" si:tuation--or an outright revolution, .in order to show just. hm-;

politically-philosophically ll}D.turo otir orisis-ridden age is.

Here is ·a "local" situa.ti~n in far-oft .. South Africa, that totally rac..;.et,

most vicioun: and mightiest milite.ry-capitn.list br..s·C.ion that 1.s kccpin~ a wh;·.l.~ ~t::mt!.nF:nt s<:> t:i.e;l"?-tly ·in !.tc iron_· fis-t, the.t ,_.won t':le ::evolu·~i.O!l.S of t;,o ~~~~~J~• that hayc -rocr.;.pcrl. :t!:e pcll ticcl fa.ce .. of l·Tcst,_ ELJ.st and No1·th Africa, will ""~­main but h:~.lf.-~·re..y houses until ~~ just that one, is rooted -off_ tJ:ao ;face o:f

the earth.

And yet that "local11 situ.."\tion not only shOok up these ru:er6 (~nU nc-7.

wi th~ut tippine tl1c GCale __ against the . supe~·-d!ploma :t- 1 ~en:i:y Kissingol: 1 t:.m1.,I.-a~~nr, Vo1·6ter in a tightrope 1ra.lk as his .forked-to~e dares speak of "Black m~:,jor3:L:r rule 11 ), . It elsa unfolds a ba.nnor for .f:·ee·dom and fires the imaginl!.t.ion of all

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the w~rld' s r~_volutiona:cies, It alJ...>ws for n~ sep3.:r.atiou between phil(Jsophy

and revolv:'.:..ion.

ThorCforc,- instead of preRentine tl-tis Rei>ol:-t' in two serarate parts of

10 0bject_ivo" anl\ 11Subject1vc"r ~needing to go bacit. to 1953 _(l-rhon our new

epoch of llarxist-Humaniot. revolutions in East EU1·opo began) 1 m,: stoy-l~.O !.n lS68,

wheru the tu:cbulont 1960s of Blac:: revolutions, the. o.nt1-V1etn3m wa-r. movorr.ent • . '

S'.!.d youth revolts roached thc~:t· cl!:.:ax in f'A~' in, Franco, we can at onco procood

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to tho headlines of the two short months since the writing of the Draft Pr-r­

spectives, as wall as the convening of this gathe>•ing, Tills type of polltiC2-li"

zation ~~ the conretization of philosophy that is inseparable from the need to

create a philos~r~_ic_.!!.~':_.l_!~s. ~'!'· ~s +.r:. ~P..:V: t.h~ ~re::..!"!:•.~<?.'t:!.-::-~~1 ~::.=!:~ .::::;~ ~-----'----:----·- ----·- ------··-· forth in th'=' Perspectives ar~ there to meet ·,·he objective net;.'!d,

~·lbat becOmes imperative, is that we hold on, !.:!...!......!:mit, to philosophy­

revolution, nationally-iuternationa.lly, objectively-s•lbjectively, It W?.s !W

accident that 1953 .as both the yea= of the first revolt from under Russ~an Communist totalitarianism ~ ottr breakthrough on tho Ab~olute Idea as a ~­rnent from. _practice to t:ile.or:y:_and . .a_naw_~n~1P+_~r,--~(!...'!d.~~':!-. .~::- :::::: -!~c:.:,- tli.o?

latter--tho philosophic breakth=ongh--preceded the actual East German R~vc!.t by soma weeks,)

It iS no accident that tho 1960s cot:ldn't catch ·theory ~·en route1n ar:.d

~ to go ~ for some deep philosophic diggings in the 1970s, Philo"ophv ard Revolution isn't just the title of a book. It is the imperative of the on­gcl.nf! revolutions, and .:!;hose to be,

After the totally ghoul~sh Christia~ Right destruction of Tal Zaata~,* two Americe.n Embassr o;fflcials (Robart Houghton and David Mark), took a. rr.os·:. circiui tous routo to ge·t safely to .the Christian port of Junieh to meet w! th

those same nee-fascist leaders, plus So=ki~ the so-called newly-elected (with the Left's'aid!) President,

. have 'lh.ose four days of talks··-Aug. 20-24···-may vury well/not only once jtlgg2ad

again nationalism along its narrowest bypaths, but also been ordered by U.S,

imperialiom to lay ground for global confront..l.tion between the actual two nu­

clear gl.ants--u,s, and RI!Ssia-~for a time of lli (u.s, i~~;perialism's) choosing~

So obsessed, however, is Jumblatt with Isr-deli power that (Arafat-~1-spired or othe~lise) he speaks of that nuclear Goliath, u.s. imperidlism, es "subordinate to Israeli interests." Here is what he told a nelticonfarencea

"All the u.s. is interested in whore the LObanese crisis is concerned is to

* >re a:re not going into detail on tho civil. war here in Lebanon orJ.y becauoe "" have already analyzed it in Political-Philosophic Lotter #6 (August, 1976), which is to be considered as integral to this Report.

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ocrve Israel's interests." As if' tho tail wae;ging the dog weron •t a. suf£1c.l:1~:t­ly shugg--; story, he then. adds the magic word that it is al:i. a "canspl.ra.cy,"

D:scendir.g .:..;o 'the ree!:n of co:tsp!~·o.r.ie3 c::~.n hazlly dls6lo.:;e t.~e ::-~:.:.

f!J~!rcc--thc Qlas§. natura, the ~~.!i class ccmt:t.ati!c·Uon;-; bt:tw.:;en ex·­

pll')i-t.er and GXploited which produ..:.:ed the civil war in i..eba.non, It also ro­

vcal:;d the difference be-l;ween the dit.r.lectics of' na.t:i..onal libe:ra·t:ton Gt:r.uge:i.e1.:,

a11d the r.arro'H' na.t.ioi'la.l!sm which led to the ill1.1sion of.' Syria's :role, · !t 1-:'3.B,

alter all, Arafat who cleal.""ed the roadfOl' Syria's '3.rmy' s ont.,:-.f into Le1a!!;;.n

\oo"~i.le dec~1.ming .to the L'N about "Isl:aeli ~gcr.cesf!~.O~l. n t.,;;.nalli, lJ.J:e l::.ll de··

cl.ara·aons about "Enemy No, 11" it al:!..ows for 1..hoJ e::Jbr..:~Coo cf thEol c:~f:S r:!~ .. ·~rqJ

even t.s I!ao' s ChilJa' s dec•lara·:;lol~- tha L Ru;;;sia is ':E:1emy No, 1" allow:;: t'or "t:1:,-th

c.i.?.si3 colla1jorationism at homo c:md a .possi't:rJ.a ·U:tho:!..y alliancC> with U.~. im·

porio.lism, (See Politi~.al-PhiJ.osollhic Lot·ter 111 on lr.r Resolution on Zion!.srr.,)

The class enemy ic always at home, and for A:::.eZ..l.C':i.n. r·:.~·,;ol•.!·~~-c.r~~.~:;ic::;, :":1:;

iJS-.of '!-he esSence that tro turn to look e.t it hero, and therEtby ··.m will aloe f:€.~::t

th~ myriad .;.rl::.es that besot it abros.d e.s it reacher. oat clo'tallY for Fl!.~ AJ.tCrlcan.: .. •

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All thq ,hoopla, ana. not only at the RepubliC:l'.n convenM.o!11 btl:t 1n· tr.o

daily press,. about the 11economlc ~ccov_ery" notwith~tanc1.L"l8, the· -depth of tho

economic recession seems very nec:.rly bottomlGss.

ir.rn. Not only does it st:!.y at th::s ll:lConat:ior.li:l-bla "ave:c~e 11 G% w!lich is an­

~uo.~ly e.bove 10% 1.<1 all i.'ldusto:ial centors--1n Det:coit it is 1:3%--and !.t l.s

tto"ice that among Blacks, but oven when the cQntender$ for Admini~t..~at:f.o~ .. -tho

other of the 'Ii<eec!ledeo-TIIOoc!ledun "'ajor capl. talistic pe:-ties-··tey to sel,V.1 "?

utopia e.nd promise "to end unemploynoor.t," tho Humphrey·Hawkiris Bill shows tha'!;

ac'CUillly whe.t they will call "full om;oloj'lllont" Will bo 4.;% unamployodl.

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Thus, racism, that Achilles heel of benighted USA since bl:-:th, 13 so

blatantly in:stigated d.l.rectly :"rOIIL~llo White Houae, that not only ls tllere

retrog:ession e~Ten in so-callod e:iucation in dofiaa""Lco of thO 19.54 U.S. Sup~T.t:~

not only in the South, as Chic-c'lgo· atJd Bostor1 have shown. Decaur..a J?:lnck P.a.,(;­

. lution· has e-ver been continuous: f'r.J.l and ldntez· this year promise to· be· hotter than smfu~err

Thus, thG rot=eat on every aspect--b~lsing, abo::...--t"ion, publ!.\'; hottslng,

the EM, ·gun cont::ol--is ·:-!ot ·jus"t ch.::.:r:a.cte::lstic of the lunnt:l.c' American I:1tk··

to the .question of a."bortion,· as is evident by .tho anti ... u:cortionists wtio Ore

cnll th~i: c~nspiraCY. "Right to Li:t·e," It; j_-e Righti·st cppof-:1. tfo~1. ~ven tv

·the Supreme ·Cou,....""t-, ·who donated' -money :.\io Dele's camp3.lg:1.·

T'nus, the vl~la:·d:.e att:\. tude to~B.l.'d Youth. The police crack-d.ow:t on

"youth gangs" is 1n· f'ac·~." th9. attempt to ·keep mili'!:ant y.Jtlth out Of ·aight

::md activity.·· To keep this Uve ;=of of t!:e i"poteno;e of i:ll~· systam to prc­

·.ridc· S.:ty qt:S.~."i ty pf life out of sllth-t~ wO eat tr.e r3.ud.d, beef(::d-~p iJOl.i.ce

·f'o:cca· uveryw!le:ro. It c~:-.;t-~~nl:r has Gmptied do~mtm·:n o:f :peoplo--.:.ra.ts3d. faa:.: t.:.

a. pitc~ whtra no. one dares look at a "stri:l.n.i~r.

Beefing up the police ca:1 r.~.o mora h"t.:l.c tha t-"'"'llc _~;soul:ce of +.otal· bl'eak­

doWn o'f .this oociety--w~omplo}11lcntr rFJ.ci~""ii.s soxism-·~tb!:l.n ca..'l o:Li:n:l.~~:J:I;!.on of

ata..J;J.ct:.ica otl unemploymout amor.e you:Gh· Hhea ~t h:~·t .50',-t'i Ho'h ~~ JUU hide

yhole .. .e~~~ that rieye·r se~ einployinent? 'l'hese· al:e bOrn oh re11er nnd ~"emain tllerel

llh .. t we need to do 11011 is to take a further lao!< into t!le .economy, to moao~ tlle deptll.o~.tll~ recession, not· for statistical,pu_~oses, but for tllo

· relc.tionslll.p of dialectics of liberation to econornic ills.· Let's bogin •1.t.l1

Jal~~-capitnlis~s', ~d therof'o:re, the goye~1tment's-~Pr!ght s?ot.· The on~ t!ling that truly gleddons tlleir llearts and souls"-and·narro115 tlloir·\1.sion-­

c.ro P"'fito1 su,.ar-profitsJ or, as Business lleok (8-16-76) puts it, "stunning

increacoe in pl'Ofits," in any case, for t!la fi~·st quarter of 3.976.

Whore inflation has llardl.y gotten out· of t!le double-digit Varioty

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( :ho~h you coulr.in't p.rove 1;;. in the daily ·cread-ba!;;ke·i. ol' the cc:nmcn J~tJpltt;,

C~er9 has been nothing short of triple-digit increases in profits in the bigee3~ ,. '.

1:i~~--l:;;tri"-:l' Investors t·la.na.gemont Sciences Inc. reports the glad t::.ding~ ar.d. :z. ..... , .•• ,.:

i·'; by showing that even the airlines are into the black for the fit"St tilnc :s.r. mrn.r

·~·-:.Lrters, with Eastern zooming up nearly 500%. And the ·average--averg.ge--prof.:.:'~

.:~me~ auto companies--this at a time when GM has the gall to ask for a cutback i:'t

.:,.,rkers' benefl ts--is 200%,

·: ·-~e:t"e hn.s been a spectacular.-rise in labor pr.odUct:lvit;y, not reflecte~ ill wo"t'!t.;;:::~;

~cgas. Cnemp~oyment has rem'l.ined high, and this ·helps bring down the s~nd..:·.rd of:

l:i..vtnc of all worke:r.s. Indeed~ to make ends_meet at all, there had to o.lso be c..

· s:pect.acula:t.· _rise in members of a fahlly working. In .a word, it takes two 'H'o~-=<:i.r-..;·~­

h,,sbend and wife--to be able to support a family,

W9 are so cqnstantly fed the shibboleth of' this :being._the l~ohee·; coc~"...~-~ ~~:.'! 1'ti:3refnra11 the best of' all possible worlds, that we get bXainHashod to think -~~;

P.ls'J applies to .. the workers. I have news for you, Not only is there no goJd ~~:

tLa streets of A;aerica, the· U.s. t:.;:.s becorae a cheap lP~bor ecou.,my wben r..::!!.pu-~:.•.1 !.~ .:r,:.;;+. Europe.· Wh:tle U.S. workfi!rs etill hoad the list when we talk of' ot!."u.lg!~·~: .:.'::~~-~,

- ~th:1·::. liest EurOpean workers get in fringe benefits actuallY makes thos~ toV!.~ 1::.1:-.•::

ec.sts higher. Also, the workers get four .. ·week paid vacations.

Moze:>ver, thia is not in "democra".:.ic socialist countries" 11;:e SwedP.n, 'tut

~dgium and Italy and France, The latest Bureau of Labor statistics shell that

•Hle fringe benefits in the U.S. add only JO% to basic wages, in I·l:aly they amo'mt.

to 88%, in Belgium 69%, 1n France 64%. !lest Germa.,y a11d Canada .are just beh!nd

;,,,. U ,S, Add to that the fact that European workers get more paid holidays, Ar.d

o.o you think that any can possibly not know. it is an exploitative society who en:.

te~ that hell-hole called a factory? Thon there is unemployment. Along with thlc

ooing a most exploitative system, its mode of production is so contradictory that

~.t can never escape crises• that is the· vei:y ne.tUr'e of its being.

As Karl Narx said over 100 years ago, "The real berrier of capitalist produc­

i.lon is capital itself." That is to say, since all it lives for is pro~its (t:npE.id

hours of la.bor) and it can only get those from living laborr yet mass pr.c,d:~ct:\on

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m~ans more and mo~e dead labor, i.e., machir.es, there just is no way to e~ca?~

the 11General Lau of Capitalist Accumulation"--on the one hand, an wternployac!

armyJ on the othe:: hand, B.!l ever {P.:ea._ter numter of machines, Thus, there ie ···

discrcpancy-.. a large one--between the capitalists' t-otal iuvested

the total rotun1 w1paid working

of employed living labor, from an ever, :::elot.!_yely smaller ax.·.:~~r

New, whether you ca:J. it, C.3 Ha:..""'Y.ists do, a decJ it\e ln the 2:-t~ of prof-'=::.t

l!O mat1:er how lush the mass; o.r, t.i:-..e the expression bo:.u~geoi3 ecor.om!sts jo-­

!~1e 11

1aw of d1min~shing recurn::;J"·-it is a f?.ct tha.t neiLher (1e13;st of a.Jl the c:;;.pitalist himself) can escape. The

net r15a as

:!.ntr.oductioH of muchine:cy1 B.t::.Lonct,.on espec:tally~ .. The caiJita.lists also d~vlr,s · · · · . ~nfla tia n. . ways of g9t·t.1ng profits back in..!l.rec·tJ.y, thr.:n~gn . 'l~t::y- ge~- r~p~.rl.ci .

them. :q~ U::lly ~-l'han the inflation also hits · · 'lhil:J.ly, and mo:;t imp~:~.rtantlYJ/thti: c:.:·!!'a-

t.ion of an unemployed a:rmy to force down the sta.:tdA.cd of living. T.1us, t\,o

need to work. to mak~ . ~nds ~~et; in a fami~y •.

The na}l" 11: t!l;.s reces.:Jion, especially at its hoightr or· r~·the.c deptp .. j,n

1975--and that is what raakes it rio ordinary recession, but a re.'ll turning r:>.u:·~-­is that, as ·agains"t 1-!:tXQn I 6. planned r9C~S$10n When f0~ tJJ.8 fi.I'St time W'Q h! .. Q in­

.IJ.a.t:ton !l.E tm'i!mployment, Ytage cont~ols arid Arthur :i3U-.""'"!ls 1 tight fiscal cor.t:i"J~ aiming at a ·slow-dotrn o"t: BConomic ;:t•owth, now. the c:cists :!:t::self had. crAated_•1C~·· .d~ctiOI'.S far: p:rofitab1e P"ll..d.!!l>.tl£n. That is to say, with +.he .st.•.rid-;rd of 'li"lir.g

forc.:~d sufi':J.cielltly rlownJ and.:p:roduc·tivity wn.y up, the capitalists dec.i.d'3d. to

mis~ investmantS, and no;.r th.:::y wish to malta SU:."'3 the sb:j Ites will no-t U!>cet their new \U":conscionable profits.

And just as radical: oCQnom:tst& have finally len.rnod that "plinniag"-.!sn't bout~eols -----

socia.l:!.sm, so professional · · · econom'!."sts keep repeating th~t~, aftor o.ll,

ev-en Io!<ll.""X nevor Said there would bo an au.tomatic. economic collar-so, 'Ihe gene~l contl'a.diction of. the capitalist l'loda-of ~dllction has it.s ·cow1ter-aating tan­

dencl.es. Thus, they whistle in tho br~t;ht aunahine of .this quarter'o profits,

con·,eniently forgetting, the seconri rart of that sentencti' ~bout no automatic

c.olle.pse of Capitalism, ·whidh rea.l.sJ sinco cap1tal1BIIl also pri>du~:.,., lts gra·;a­

diggers--the prole·tari.at--thoy will bo sure to bring it. dawn, Not only will

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wor;cers not st.and for this-lowering of their li.vincr standards and pe.cmanen·::.

unemploymen·t, but since the governmer,t's :politica:l:- crises are ·as sharp as tbe

economic ones arc, the masses will take to the streets-rather than onlY to th~ '--------~~--- --llaD JtllOx. -------------------~--- -----,-----

That the ~orkers ldll not forever tole~~te their conditions' of labor is

cle~r from the masslva strikes, official and unofficial, that arc constantly

besetting industries, Nor wil.J. the mn.ss diacoutent go a.lo;ay with the enrl of

'the elections. On tl:.e contrary, The crises ·will first then heighten as 1 t. b~··

uomes clear that no fund.ametltal change will be undertake.~ by the new ~drninir:>i.;c~ ...

"tl.on. ·rtle recently concluded genercl 'h'ildcat Strike an:ong miners a.ga.lndt bo't~~

man~ge~ent and labor leadership was ~rae+ ad. als9 at tho government. It is e

pc~tent of things to come before an~ after Nov. 2,

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ID~"sy·:~ ti1at 00:.\.'1 want.ad ~~9~1:.~·~ to be President, .ome total hypoc..~sy a::d ·

, fakery in the con'i.est bet1<een Conso~vatfve Fo::-d and still fuxther-to-the-right

Reagan ~s seen nowhere more cle.arl:r t~an ~·oro do.Jiding r1~t to' contes't the R€a­

ga.n1ta platfo::m1 iih:!.le the latte:::: ac;;reotl not to name Panama in as blatant B.

naked, 19th-century irnperlalist mamH~r as characterized his speeches,

u.s. imperie.lism has, after all 1 never had any int.ention.of letting go of'

this enclave ever since it Was exprorriated "in perpetuity"i:l-19031 and now '"

its per capita investment there is the hi<:hr,st anywhere in La tin America, ~lor~­

over, the figures of per capita investment-··$93 in Fanama as against $_50 aver­

age in Latin America--is likouise a fake. - The reason for being of Fax Ameri~""'"'

l.s not Fanama in general, but very specifically the Canal Zone, And if this io

added to the per capita u.s. invoe~•ent there, it zooms astronom!cslly to $_5,6eOI

The Fanamanian paoples' revolts against. U.S. Jmperial!sm have always been

brutally put down, avon where, no in 1959, all the Fanaman!an studonto war.ted

wns to put up their 01111 Panama:~J:,a flag, T'no current state of unrest is, how-

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eve.r, so arec.. ·. -i;hat Kisslnger-Ford have El~ c.±' :cemoviug ·that. i:.hol'oughly

detestablo 1 old imperialist, slave phraso1 "in perpetuity." And not orJ..~r

will the UN proGent some sort of mealy-mouthed resolution on the question, but --·------.--·-------·wn""':-rs;r-:gr~t<i;;i1mcire;>roo:Tisl1iUet:oll:ii":··cca~pdi.tta;;:il:ism, the Fa~1am~nian me.sa ... s'

constant st:~uggle. also wlth their ot-~-n gove:::nmemt, hhich is not pu;3hine I~cr f1:eedom• may result in a guerrilla movemcr.t,

Just how alike Ford and Reagan are ~perialistically we s~w more clea~ly still when no question of electioneering was involved; the country was nc...t

neo-colonialized·Partama 1 '}-lut "Commonweal~h11 Puerto Rico. It is the::e ~o::d r.::;t ~--,--------------:re;st:J<;urO!lea:tiiiii(f;raj)a:;le;,O rulers in a swn.rnit to which~. r.~wevel.·, :the host

ccuntry was not in vi tC!d.. The very first .words out of Ford's moath as h,:! 1<-:.:~dcC'. were a blast at Cuba, wh.iCh .intend's to introduce .into the UN the "Hasol.'.lt.:i.on

on Dacololli~a·tion and Recognition of .. the N:.tional Li.bera.~ion Mo-tem~:1t ot: ?nr;rto

Rico." Ford warned that inte::ventioil. in ti':.cl dom .... c-tic af:?&.irft in ·Puerto· Rioo torould be ."resisted" by the u.s. "by· appropriate means."

Nor is it only a question of Latin America which u.s. impcri~li~m, ev:.r

Ri::Ice the I1onroc Doctrine in 18~0 1 holds to_ be i't.:-~ '·spherg of :!1-n:'luence/' "!.h,l't

iS to say; imperialist domain. As we sa'w this Yea:r.·. the:re.is no place on ea:.:+.!-1 r;here this nuclear Goliath's roach doesn't extend. from elections i:1 I·t&lj,~ whore Kissinger warned that the U.s. would "not t.olera·te" inclusion of' CoJIUjtll'l:tct3

in tho Cabinet, ~ South Africa, whore beth i~vestmant and political affu>!ty

holdt ~ Po:r:tuge.l, where in disrcga:!:'ding social rbvolution1

NATO conside>ra i·~ its enclaver .Q!: at the present secrot and not··s6-seCZ.et.dualings rd.th tbe

Chris·~io.n Right inLobanon, to which on Sspt. 1 those two u.s. Embassy officialn returned for still further talks,

It isn't that Carter, should he win, will change that imperial hand, just

because tho nama changes for both President and Secret~ of State, It ~~ the absence of a rovolu·t1.o~nposit~on powerful en,Q.~ to challeJ1!.Utu'3 powo:':.'s-

1~at-be (at tho vory time when j.h£:i__~ in political disa.J:ray and bese~ by thQ,

totality of a world economic crio:!.s) makes room for all sorts of pseudo-al tal·r.n-

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And whilo ·tho other nuclear Goliath either gloated or wai"t~d fo1· the chnrade

to et!d ~o that tho two superpowers can got down to "roal businese:"- either

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:for another detente in the tliddle East, or the ground :for the final confron~­

tl.on--the so-called self-designated rJOn-al1gned countries met in Colombo.

* •· * * * ( 1) The Colombo Sua.rrinRs. or tho Non-Event

l1.lthough, e;eographically, the 85 courri;rics in attendance covered almost

all the southern half of the ~orld, spreading acres$ South America and Afr.!.::.~. 1 through the Arabian peninsula, it was a J?-On-event. It could not have l1('ten

otherw:t.~e since, by ~Olf (21 years after its origj,nal founding in Bar,d.ung _in

1955), these lesser powers do indeed· match the Big Powers in the n~~ber and

der,th of na-tionalist Contradict~~ns.* Clearly, .they could har.dly h.?.ve moved·

unani.rnously on any subject, even on tho very question of their Yery reas·:;~;, fn~:·

beingi anti-colonialism.

'!bus, none dared move against ono of "thoir own"--Indonesia--ti1ough c:i.~t:.:r..·:i.y~·.

brutally, it had invaded East Timor fight11ig for .its independence, Needloss t.o

say, .Prime Ui!11.s:tcr B_andnranairto, who hosted Lhe co!lfe:r.once, didn' ~. ilnd i.. Jr,.·;;;,.:!'!t;

a3 s"Jpposcd 1-~a.tional and !~omen's. Libo~ationist, ~o remc~ber ROc:! "MuJ~i"' nor..:tr...:"zotc,

Secretary at' the P~p~lar Organization of Timorese W'omen, who was lr:1.lled Dec. 71

1975, by. tho Indonesian· troops invading Dili. Let me read you part of hor last s·tatciment•

"'Ibe ideology of· a syot..:ln in ·~od:!.c..'l Women are considered as 'infer!or. b31ngs' submi ttad Time~·.:. sa women to a double ezploi +..atio.1 r A gen(;:r~l form, which applies ~l~hoat distinction to both men and women and which manifests itself by forced labor, starvation salaries, racis:t., etc., .Anothsr form o±' i:. specific character, directed· to ·rromen in pit-1':­ticular, By separating them from ·!;heir husbancl:e ··chrough forced labcr, by depriving them of the means of sustenae~ce for home and children, colonialism has thus c1~atcd conditions which force ~oman to sell their bodinr:: i!!'!:!': ;=::.:;t!t~-:.lvu.·-·

As the .total destruction of all forms of exploitation !o a.n objective of our revolution, led by Frotil1n, ,tho front has adopted a. fightl.l'.g . . .

* Lot mo just read you soma of thoso who attended• Assad, Sadat, and QaddafiJ t;u:· K'ng of. Na,pal, Cuba, and instant tnt.a11 ta'!'~_~ni~~--I.-.i!==. Gan~!b.:!.';:; In.ua.1 Forolgn 11inisterT.Ra.jaritnam of Singapore, Nakarios, and BMdaranaikc, not to mo11tion such othox· "non-a.lignod" :ike North Korsal

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st.ra tet;Y to restore to women the posl tion and rights dt.1.t~ i..o them iu the no;-r society which we are buildir.g th:cough. r~7~vo~utio~-:. •••

, • ,the militant women of OFNT l:ein:fvrce their political conscious::Ic..s> through classes ~n revolut.iona:::y theory and pra~tir:e, and d11velop their efforts in the directiqn of the fl.nc.l objc:ct!ves c-=: the rcvol1.:.·· ticn, the _:cev?lution of tlJa Ha.u Bore people of East Timo1·.

Long live the Popular Organization of' Timorosc lfomen! I.-o:ng li vc the Re·.:olutiona:=y F'ro~Jt i"or an L,dependent East T..:.~r.o.r! ., •. i..c-ng l:!.::e t.he wo:r1d revoluti::m!"

Thera was a lot of anti-colonialist talk directed· aga:ins·t; ''tho ~Vest~ 11 es··

:pccial:i..y the u.s., but CY;:m here it was only 'talk. And the declaration th::.t

:.he IniH_RI'J. 0~~;!: "!:::: :::. "I•I':-a.cl;l 40ne:: was again a non-even-t, ·s:in-Je nothi11g ,,·a~ c.:·.:i.:.

-?.bout "u:1e of thGir own~" Inciia, already having the nuclea:=- bomb. Fir..aJ.ly, Wheo.i·.

n2s supposed to cli.rn:lx the coni'ercnco--a va:t·iation of nothjJJg oh:>rt of a "Nex

:!:.::anomie Orci.C"~r"--ended up just calliug for the es·t.ablishment of' a .:Sat.Jc :for tha 1'h:itu l:orldl

The press coverage of thG conferchce, 1:-:. fOcuSing en 11Non-Allgw~d Natj,cat.:

Have Come a Long lfay Since Bandung," has stro::med hon they Nere but 29 in j.9.55. ti.i:d a:t:e now 85! how more powerful ar..d "recosn:J.zed'' thoy arc; and how, ·sin~e c:)J.onie:lism has ver-;1 nearly been "eliminated,'! they c~n shi.ft to economic is­

S'.!es, 'h'herc they do have clout, as l;i tncss tho OPEC• s success in qundmplir..::;­

oil prices. As their povor :!.s ·non· tho nia.jo4'ity at ·i.ho UN1

they can dem~d a

tct.::1.l!y neu rela.tiollship between i!1J.l!st=:oializod and the non-:tndusti-!alized . ~~Jrld1 c. "ifew Eqonomic Ol:dor," -

Natu.-mll7t the bouigGojspress doas not call the UN a "·Chiovcs kitchen" (tn~ u~.me Lenin hung en 't~1e old League of Nationo) ~ as this ~rlQ _boGy of ::"..l.lers io,.

o.nd their quantitat:t•13 descriptio:ls avoid faciilg qnu.l~.-t~-~~VG t::~:~.r.s:fc::::r.atioa::.:, n1e :reo.l questions, hOtroVA!"_, "d.2l nut gu ~way. How ~OUld the n"ear-revolutior~y "!ieicn oi" Bandung, 1955, become tho non-event in Colombo, 19?6? How could a

ctallenGe to imporialiom bci reduced to plans for tho establishment of a barll:? :sn't that a transformation into opposite?

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Co~eidor1 Chou En-lai, Nehru, and along camo Sukaruo, collaborated o:~ tho

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·"!O-ehistence11 as "Rus~ian rovisionism," it wns he, in fact, 1-;ho came out uith it.

f~.1·st ~sa w-d.y to get into neu compo.ny, aw-.;:.y :from total Russ:lilll c!e!)andence: l'!nd

:1. ~ay ~t:o p--:omoto his original ph:!loG~,.ophy of national existence uupercoriir.:g etr~ot.

;JJ.ass divisions. Tncs, frcm the start, to a:ei·. Lhe Ar:-,b notions to a.t.teild, !ofu.o ~~~~ud to excluding ls1~el.

By the ti.me··-a. whole decn.c.'h:: c.:th :;ward--Russia wns c!C!:ii~ted E'.s l!:t:3my :t·;c. J,

;b.o and SU~rno o.imed not just at non-aU.gnmc;nt of some~ but u glo~:i. Th.ir:l e;:ic.,

~pa~~ from Cath RuGsi~ and its· satellites, ~s WGll as tho U.S. an~ its. S~ta~o

:J.Ult the UN; Djaka.ri:.a.-Peking ~as to be the new HC.:ld center. Before, l" •• ::n·PlV-3r~

·l.}·.at co:.:J.J _be cons;.u.lmat.Ad: . t.he b1 ~.n~!~!=l't---~O!..'...~tc::-!"C·:o!.•:.t~on. c-..·~::- =gw~.-;Q:_ ::uA.;.r.:to

u!!d b.r:ol:e relctions r:i th Chi..'12. It is that tr..tn.lly different _r;;.:g:i.me ·i;hat not.;­

=ules. Nevertheless, Indone.'JiO. is consiiored 3. 11fuunder'' :~::.ti,n- .. eXilctly on whr1.·~

~:c:i'lci:g:c~ is n~t explcinec.. Tno .noose :'I'O.S ncrC· e.ro\md ii:., o:a- C..:•lO:ilbo; ii; 1-i..lR a:':"':oi!!~cl

!~c.-.st 'l'imorese 11bcra.tion. To avoid Incl.onesia.'s walking OL!'t.~ no resolution ;re.s

:,.~ssed. aguinst its imasio:l of Ii:ast Timor!

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One ·~g_ic-comic--or pe:r:ha.p.;. this tilr.e l-::._-Cette:: jU'.it C3.ll it canic--occu=enr:a

r.ul:.side the conference Cl1Jl illumjna.te some u..~taJ.kec~ .. n.bout essences. Franc~ hev5.r.g_

'"on singled out for condemno.tion for. its Bll1e of a uu:>lear. power station to South

Africa. France's. Foroic;n Iiinist.er Jean S~uva.crnorgue3 ho.d Routers distribute a stll·i.;e­

roent for it before tho non-aligned leo.ders left Colombo. Tho "ignific.ant pt.ssage

~.n the denia.l tha-t such a sc.le would "in~l-e!lsa South Africa's r.~ili iat'y potor.tial" reads:

"It appears difficult to imagine that tho oil prc>ducinc statas could givo offoct to ~ recc•~ondction ~~ut is so without ju3tifi~tion nnd so lna.nil'~Jotly in opposition to a.ctions un:lerta!;ens largaly at hnnce'c initiaUvo, :limed nt introC:.uc!nc; more equity into international pol.:l.­tical and oconolaic rel<>tions. "*(.Qhrl.stiun Science 1-ionitor, 8··23-?6)

" Vory cb•;ioualy ho t<on, bo011use the Arnbs thon Sllid thnt they sitmsd it only ns a lar.t l"CSOl't "if Frunco did not chur.tto hor \l!lys." (!J!!!9~~ Gua~, 8-29-76) lt 1s 11r.·~ to be buttres3od by lillY l'Oycott or other 011ti-Fr.mo~ act.1o1:a nou!

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c".u·::ing equity in~o 1ntet'!"..ation3.1 pol~.tic..."ll Md ecouo:niC l:'ola·t.~.ons"--!s France's

vi~w of its ~ct!on~ in the Al."ab··Israe:.i Uo.r, 197:3 5 "ind'd~endently of the u.s." ;.,;r.a, "Z:..cn!sm" on the question of the Arab boycott and quad~.:uplir!{; of .oil pr.t~e:.., ;~a !:.ura:!.ly, this led to the very special esteem in wh:i.r;h Fra.uca. l-.'as htJld by t.."t~ ,'ral~ countr:tes ·nt the 197:3 confcn:euco of the non-<!.ligned nations in Alg~t:J:"s.. hl'.i.

·f,hey:s·o~ocaeded in stop:PinB: the Asinn dulegato3's' ati;e-r.lpt at. get·:..tr.g F'rrmce c.:.r,­e~'ll.'i.c:i fox lts nt•.cleo:c tecting 1:1 the. Pacific.

It is true al~o, and tlJa.t as rece.o;,"tly as· Fcrd's summit

ide:1 that._ · nat:tcns must not ~:t,loH the underdi3Velcp.:id. countries "tr.> saddle the worltl .w.i.i:h a

~:~yat'cm of cc:.UT!odi·~.y ca.rt'3ls ,-" . that Gisc..'1.l'd ;;;u.id ye~:, but. 1-t:1en ~.t c;oinfis _ .-tQ ~ha llid<!la Eao.t. ·si,tlll'.t!.~n and q_W7~~liilg of oil pz:ices, F:ro.nc.o h;>d worked ol!·t "a.

c..peci,.a~. ~"Cl~t-ions~ip'.' ~th .~e.Arab wor~d tb.a:t:. ~s .psst ·st:titod ·~o hi;:; n'atior.."·.~ .

If Gisc..·u:d wt:.s· f~i:C1Y.; CrYinG ·a~ the 19'1~ "nori-al~gn~dii' ~or~fe:~.:_ence:' ~ ine;r..l-f::l.··

~u:lR,· t.h:i.nk o£ tl';G .\1.-a.h: oi{ ria.t1on3 wh:m ·they. omot 1-:hat their oii iuOney wroo.:c;h·:: . ' . . . .

ld.f;.hin tho liid.1J.e East ,ib.eJ.f. Th.1is:- droicpite thor;e sperJta.oula.r oil ;rices t-:h~ch;. by 1974~76, brought them ~o le::}]Lt!}f!l"I :P!46 billioq_in stn.';!?I,1;1s ·~·nles1 cles,t.l'!:·.e i•t13

E.:ha!:ihg up oi :the i'ndLJst:toi3.:{ na:t:l.."J:ts' .· compia~en~Y.J ·da3p:{to Se1.Li~g a 'iot -ox' ·.rot~a r·.t -!;h.:! UN.·; and' ti'~s!)ite all they hn,;e ~to:1~. 'for thoi~· ·~;.~1: ~~~nd1s, What. conf:roht!i th~m

. . ' ' . ' ,,. . . . .-. ' . a of; hcme--nnd ho.11 they fear a. g!'o~t C.cn.l rnoro to :~Orne! _:_<\re undei:c:~r'rantz of s;;cn

unrest that' it led tci the murder of the King of StluU<~. Aiubie.

Ju;yone. who· thlrika th~t th~y ti1ink_.it~·~s· Only t:ie u~t~· ~tan ~.divldul, ur.d.

that s~nco they. PraCtice su·c~ 1~un1m1ii j,n ·xu?-~ 'thr.t th~ -kin ~f the· sttiden·;;;-mur­

del.'er w.s· th~ one t.O exooutO .. h,~m; · th:it iherGfore th3 SaUdi A:!:nl:::lnn :.:all?:t.·s hnv:J no

t'll::'thar discontent to won:y about 'there', . or eise',•har.e in th~ 11iddl~ Jlr.g~~Jfd~li "­·second look n.t Leb:.mon. Hoi-e we See both the> AXa.b ?11 ki~dom~ and Syrj.a brir.s

the P<tlestini.mo "do:m to size"' oven to the point of colluOor"t:lll8 h'ith the Cl,rlot­

l~n Right! Rull.ncr cl:\ss sol1dnri.~y--c..:>p1tnli.o~ tdth or wl~hout ieudnl t.rnppiue;c--

---*flo thO. "pJtro-ma.chu" nntions nnd UN votos, soo "'!'he Stonos of Jerne:l~om:" by Herbe~ ri!tgo.ng who quotes a- youn13 IS%nol.1 novOlist, Am:-,s· Oz, as t:~ay1J1GI "li aon1eono introdncCo!d a. ret~olution in 1:.he UN deolar!ne that the eu-th· was flco.t, it wou1d pass by c. t:ro-thirds rnajorlty of the Arabs o.nd the Third lforltl bloc, with i'ral>co absto.inl.ncr." (i'lot< Yorl'..J'i.2'!2!!.• 8-19-76) · · · ·

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The tzaaedy is that even the Left keeps mum when ;t comas to being tied

perenn:L::llly tn a single issue, whC'n :tt is ?nd i2..J~!L~ the isst~e.:..-anti-Isro.el. ~·;;.

thls Iil.Oincnt, Russia bas finally come 01;1t uith a caut~ou.~ critique ~:t Syric.., .:l.f'lt··

"~c; it to wit~drau its azmy fro'll Lebsnon, so tl:at as J2..!!Y:<l!!. (8-29-76) puts it,

t:1e t.r3.b "'orld can "return to the strucrgle agn.in.;;t Isr.:~.el," and "Sy·.::ia. c:~.n c0-

operate ld.th its natural allies in the ant:!.-impe~io.list struggle." And that, ?f

cot:rse, is the singl~ and only issue on which Arab oil ba11I:rolls the PLO. It

cannot be the issue a.":'OWld nhicb revolutionaries unite ru1d open new z:oalis to

Just takto~ a look at what happened to Afnca as :tt turned t.)_ align with t.h~

A1-ab world and d.."Ca.'t dreams of wealth and ·power as· oil and """'• 197.3, made OPEO

rich end powerful. African countries which followed the Arab world from 1973

w1til 1976, voting on the Arab-sponsored "Zionism_ is racism" reoolution, havo ·;:·_,,

far not seen even the_ $200 million tho Arab League had promised the OAU to <\~h-:o<· to the bsnkl Emboldened by the automatic mtljorities obtainable .1n the ml, ·•rd.~h

. BCO)lOmic · , · · they, a.olude themselves rnea.lG/pol·:or,. they fil1d wit~ the latest cl.:rzi!l'! st:U! g'ir.:~ on a·t- the oo·, 0~ the "La.li of the Sea;' where oConoini~ and mili taey pomn:' :!.s .. _-;d t:,

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tho two super-powers 1 ·Russia and the U.S, These 1 the U.S, especially,. and o·r.r

that matter, Other induntrialized na.tions as uoll_, are resisting 1m1uement:in[t :;;he

"consent a.greem'ent" that the richo~ .,'f the ocl.lan are "the common, he:r:i tag~ o:.:' :::~rikind."

I cennot _here go into this at any length, The point is that tho maritir~

discussions--and they, too, began 1n 1973 when the developing nations did think

that UN vot.es were Pt;JWer--would mean 1fork1ng 011:t a.n agreement be~woen the cap1-

t~listic-1mperialistic ocean countries that are rich in capital and toch.~ology, . '

and those not riel)_ or landlocked, who like1<1se "-'"" entitled to some maritime pr!··

vileges, The u.s. rejects p;ropossd 1nternational12tion of seabed mining, es­

pecially ss even non, 1<1thout new discoveries, navigation fisheries, and offshore

oil and gas fields annually yield almost $100 billion in revenues. Henry Kissin­

~er is on tho .uy to the UN, allogee!y to work out a compromise, but 1n fact

~ddiiii't t.hin!t it.'s only Saud! .. ~l'<''Jio. that is the most rel!ctionary, Kuwo.~it, which is listed as "radical," has su~denly suspended the 66•member National Assom- . bly and applied s strictly restricted press law. The reason?1)Worry about Lebsr,on's cr!.sis erilling over to Ku11a1t, c.a witness tho bombing o:f "' Syrio..'l airline off.tce tho:co ""C. C>the::o t¢:rrorist act!vltios. 2) 270 1 000 Pc.i.aatl.nl.ona live in thG PersiM Gnl:a:" a.:.:r.JU.J 3) 'rhe noHs,a.p•n: Al Ha.ta.r was suspe•tt19d Us::auses it quo,.:r~iout"~ 1~:: g,jV-0l:!l!r.ont' -:~ ll.otion.

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~onclu:liw;: l•Y the early 1980s, an en"ti't'cly new industry L1volvin~; b:!.lJ.ions~ :1~-~·-·

be even ·Cr.!.llions 1 . of dollars, may flourish--with or withcilt ~he blesEing of "';t~s

liN or. ·Chc 11gt:t'up oi' 7'7." {.Qh:t:is-tian S~ience No:U. tm.:, 9-1-76)

The norld he.s r.ever been i"'l greater disc.:rr.ay out~~de of a wur-ld wur.

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Dl, Crcat!.~n of a ?hi.lt'sorhic Ht!£~-l~-.:.~.J:.!!_N0?_Jus't_al~ Or!3fi!-1..za}_i..£~C:::! '-~.'esk. ·u,,t

}.he .P:::as§1.g Hee.!Lfo!" Ongoipt:: RevoluM.on_~~!cl. RP..Y,Q),2:~iOU§.:~

I-t· io time to draw all thre!::.o:\S t.og.athe.r:, 9Sl)e•:.i~.lly 31i1ce ~ere ·l;h.gre ID.ll h;t . . . no

11peaceful co-existence .. of ~C.~as, or, to -..·.se HE:t;::tl' s expres:;io;~~ :tdec."s ::Oha·t

11come befoLe consciousness wit.hL'Ut being in c011tect. 11 St?t'io~s l:evclutillna:":".~..e.'J

know that no·::. only c-annot Ideas of f-':'aaf!.~m co-Gxi:r;;. l·rith··P..ctual e:-cplnitaJ..;ir:n.1 ~:acism ar.d s~xiom~ 11Cor.1ing in con"W.c~·-• becomec a l!fe-and.-tiee.th s·C"ruggl9 to ra·­le.a~EI -4:.ota.lly new dimensions, whe·;:.her thet be of ."":lass s1.ruggl~::: Black dim .. m~ion,

netional l~beJ:a·Cio~lJ Ho;r..ei,' s Libe:r:a.ticn, e.nd the. Youth w!!o Hi:.l ~pro::lt a r:!l:::l:t -chey diu- net ma;ce1' · a;.1d c:!.·Acita ·-~~ll'_ hum~n relati,ns.

ThEi self'-dete_j__"'dt)at!,~~eas, (2.s of strul!,~l..f..fi•.~'-~!!~-~£!!1;'?xt1J.-ior: lo2_­

~~~d!at3~...!1l(~~~.t1mates. u 'DJLt off .fQ.\:. t.La 11clz:.!...!-1ft.er. 11 dooms th£ r.o·~". .. ~uticns tho day befo~~·

\·IQ haven~t discUssed the ont;oinJ re'/olu~ion:sin· Poztugal and Ar.gola~ e.;I!.i

how !_n Portugal it has to fw1c·c:.:..·n undOr the whip of cou..t'ltol~-:r:e\-olution. Aa ·th'!.:;

still remains a focal point for revolutionari~s th~ 1rorld ~ver, le~ uc firs~

now re::resh our memories lrl.th what ne wroto in the Dra.ft Perspective.:J, C~.nd then trace the latest developments•

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So varied 'H'ere the new revolutlonaey for::es--p:roleterian e.nd peesant, youth and women li~1o!~a.tionist, at:d even .:_.l&t~y-·bourgoois ar.d lit.c:rat'Y-·· tha~ w!mt erner!!ed in 1975 .-as a n:o•temon~ that lli1s not only PJ:t!.­fe.ocist, but anti .. o:t._pit-?.).ist, and not only SociG.liat and Comu.--:ia~, 'but iil'icpenchmt o±' Call ex1etir13 state pot-rors·. ~-That or.aer~ed, in a 1-1ord, Has a strong rovolu-4:.1onary Q:urront that~ was unti-Stal.inir:st. and an:-1-l!aoistr what o!'ler$o1 1-.'t\~- the porspeutive that the 1mpucslbl.o wa.s possible, -

Thuo, th<·~gh Portugc>l was the mnst underrlevalopod country in !Te<tern

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Europe, it had, at_r~.!J~nJ the~~ tir11~, the gre.ai:.est ap1-:cee:iatio41 of African reaJlty, t·ro:.:kiile with thA zu.,.tlone.::. l:t.be::o.J.ti.un mcvem-ent:J !~ Guinca.:..niosau, Nozam"oi-]_l.!e, Angola 1 a!1q tho mo~t '"ae.ssiv_e a11d active proletari~!! ~~-:!oman"i~ • .;.

lie have Hitneased the birth of a whoJ:e·:rte~-r gone:-cit:ion of re··/Clluti~Jn·· aries--ar.d 1n this cc:.se they are 1:':1-th old anJ. young sinc:3 the nm; rt:!lates to the new pE:::...~~pectives ra-:.~ed," aud not to _aga--who ure in­dependent of both Sod<.i.bt and rJo;nmua:ist psrties. This enti-Stal~n­ist,. anti-Ma.olst rrt·voJ .J.+.~ )llar; Left·;-PR?* l'ES1 LUAR··-h~s :r:aiu&rl quoe-­tions against e3.i:h:;m and t.he "p.;.rty tn lead" -concopt: not becaue'3 they do not apprecia.t~ tho need of' a revo:!.ut!.ona.ry organ:":.zatio:t. b1tt the: party tc lead has b~en a noose aroUlcl the :t:li!volutior:.::.~ moven:'i!nt that appreciated the need to wo:rk out new relat.ions of theory to practice, • , " · ·

C.Jritras·t. thoJ e:ff~~tivenesa of th'J sj)ontc:.nee~us revoJ.t of the student::. !.n

':'he.:ll~,dt w~o s'.lCCt!edc\], in t~oldng out tha old Pr~.e Ni:rln·ter tha· minute h~ d:n·~d. Gilt f'oo·c.··in thr country from 1-:hich he hc-.d bean expelled by .tha·!;. sa.11e mass ym.\th

x~yol t·, with ~an sa·L~ia~ist Pl'""lma lriinister Soa;-eo ve1--y nel\."t:l,y w~:i..corning b:lck +-!~t.: :leo-fascist General Sp~t.noln..~ That is one sure sian of, hou short-livccl ·14!.11 th·".s

:lo-called soc1alj,st state,. s stay in pOwe:!:' be.·

Hare ue ·~eve a. 'reactic ll!'LrY. GaH~-l:-.. 3.1 w:~o b.:-.1. bet;.~, •.:nl'l.li~ll~d tC ht!A bec.an:.;:~) o.;

h!.s t:Ol'l!Jl'toity in the :dg:-:t-·lfinr: ,;.ttel!lpt tc :re-est~bl!Sh iu~_oi=r.1_r~.:fter _·;he, z'lrs"'...

3-l:S.gf.' Of' t.'1e ~~evolution he 'h:i.Jnse1-£• haJ" "led: II WhO Sesms :teVt#rthe::ler::s "l..Q ie9~- a\;

hcma. And r,o lionder• +.he So::ie.l!.s·t P:r.ime J~:tnister f:?.c'., :-.:ter all~ appoirttcd a.~:; Defense I1ln1ater an ou-tr~:JI·,t rigir~-~-;jnge-:-1 tt. Col; Ni~:;~·.Jl, tdlq_ lfc:~e ,dth Sp~.r,v~.:.:.

·:ln GuineC.-Disscu in 19'70. :-iere" ie 0'1-3 Wl.lO, 1-.: .. ;:le !.~ ,_,;:.i:e, wa.a buRy ldih anca~s3 cr;uuter-revoluticnrs.ry 3-cti"litie:.~ ·L-, ~ ';op the .:ieepem.l~ :~volut~.~.m in his h::>t:lelf!.r.i

1.r. l"!'.s tracl:s. Yat he n(n; fen~.!::> n-J :faa.r of r~tel~.shmeai.. fio;n the :rulers that emcrg~d

<.>nco· the i-evol\.\tionary. st:rugG}.e had been di Vo:CtGd int:.l ~ontrol:Led parli~en+..ar; ·~hanne1s, t101-r p:::.::sidad over by G~nera1. 1l:a:-J.tes.

1-lhat is far mo:;:-e telling of the ro'L"'"Dgross!.ve mvves of tha present ·e;ovarnme:tt

are th~ acts o~ its Pri:ue H1nister1 a Soaio.list1 tektng xes1;10nsibility !or "cli:.;­

c:Jplinir.s labor:" i.e., Bf'.l1cC.ing _it with a caritalis~ic austerity program. To

-~heu, .the capj:to.lists, he is promlsing i'!:ee reiGh. 1he mar.ses: houever, aro wcr,i.-:::1

:o.ga~.nst :further se~zu....,.s of land or occupations of factor1ea, or constituting

T6nants' Ccmrnisssions -:b:.1t woUld tcl:a the law .lllto their Otr.'l h~dz. To them, ~he

workers, he closes nll the avenues o.f sJ::.f-devolopment that ha.d bnon released dtrr­

ing the. rovolttti~n. ·lnd so <>like l.n cllpit<lliot mentality is the C:ommuniot Cunhal

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with tlli::: Socialist Prime !•iinister1 'that after a ztilc!, very miln cr..t!cism, ·te

assu:t"ed him· and the capitalist wcl·ld that there is, :!.nUeeJ, "a pcss!bi11 f:.~r of

the capi ialist. economy to recu:pe~.te."

He wonder PreE:ident Eannes is satisfi:d that very li+.tle1

indec~d, nill br· dr.­

mat:d.;:d. of him, though he pledger! tc.o :follcw the new Consti tt:.tion vn ·i;he roaC ·~o

soctuJ.isrn. Here ~.s ~ihat he said of the rr.inority goverrtr.crJ.-: Scares !a ~:urudn.:;F "A

minozoit.y gD"'~:cntlent which has the suyport cf the Prt3sident is ·not a. ffiincr~.t.v go·r-

1. e:rr.!1!1<:nt." If it weren't so trn.c;ic it would. c.jJ. be. ·.rr::::::y condcal indee1, fol~ wtl:J.~..

So~es is b:ess'n& private capita2, he is de:m:u:dlng t..l-tat the wCrkerc not ir:t.cc-

·As we: see~ p!lilosophy and revolut~on-··a.J.~tl it.s tCital,. absolute opp?si~e . rovert~r of ideas a.nd counter-revolution.--:far :'!:oi.l b'..;!ing anything S.caC.el!lic, oro ·

t'"llY ·~o be d:iscus~ed "th~ r:la:Y af·~er, ." g_ain _t;_J.~p:.e-:;e:y fCJ?L_da.t.ly ~¥s:; -~LCL.!~iiu,: f>.t..!:...l'h!.;.Q§!!!=il!_~_l,lil£;.~.!-'..3 i~ by no ·means l.'es"t:;::j,cted to FWmP.thil!R we ne:3tlr a!':_£:

~~!!:!.<m.:......Jt .is~~~ssi ty for ~.he A ~!Vole fiovamt?nh_.itS ·1·her.'re-t.10.~::a,t· ... ~~:.;, . . . . . ' . . .

f·Jl:.J!Ot ~:ml;v p~~EY.i~~ bertlnnJ.BE§ of ·the .!!Y-'?.~ut.ion, l)"t ra:'..e(!~ 1_~ .r,:r:. j:o·~l c1.evl?1opmei1·;;,

It -iS no ncciden;:. tl'-J.~:lo the yvtmr l1arx had· no svoner d:lscoVered a: wt.o,.e m·;.;

co:1t1neni• of thougbt-~Histo:rical Na.terf}!.lism Hit~ its.' sel±'-devE!!.'opitl€; SUbject, ·

manseo a-c. R~a.son ns u-ell a.~ Fo:cca--'!:'·::.:1 he V..":"te~ 11Phlloso;:ihYt having extend.Jcl.

1:Cself ·co tho ~rld, turns against +,!le ar,a.r,mt world·." .ttJ.l~ ... F.J.~!!~~ ~~'~ !,~1a •r.:Jr'td. wll.!2h is tho ins!3't~b~~l.'! ao'Liv1~~h.~~:r>h1l:.:2§.Q.E[lic contantt C..l~­!e,1t.ico of lib.,ration.

Otherwise, llhat is lei't? ·.lil.ndlcss terrorism? How ean that ·stop the .ret~ntic:o of ca!»itel1r.m 1 ruuch less its &ve:: deeper· entr~nchment·, rtot only with mt:lti-nati:;n­

als; but NA'IO? And looking Ov(•.t' HA'!C' s shoulclaio, ·r,;:;.ture.lly1

is "tha Gcdfether,"

u.:::.- im~z.:.G..l.Lw",:. ~..:v1n_v~-t.ing ·wi."cit ftussllin-,state.;.cap,_tP.liSm ·tor- Single· WOl:l~- .na.ste~~y.

Ta!te still onothar look nt LoCo.no01, where. no loss than 4o,o·oo have die:l., and . . .

seo ~<!:ere anythill(; short of a tots,lly noll bo.nner of liberntion, anything· u_ar>"CWdc.

tu slnglP, ~no~.y No. 1 isoue--be t~at Israel or Russia--leads to. Tho ve>y tott.J.­

Hy' of· the crises co,:pals philosophy, ii total outlook that is riot· just an ou~ock but r.u action. To limit oneself tO'· the sill(;le issue of baing ngainst -Israel--and

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d.··m•t let's forget that th_e PLO doea say Israel, and not just Israel's capitali~t. gcve:cnment, is wha.~ they wish to destroy--doesn't just doom others, it doom:5 !~~

A:~d the .Pe.lestinion masses hunge:>:in:; fo:r: self-determination cannot ent..'"Ust the1:: J:~.te to an:.· leaders other than themselves,

fhere are some who say1"Yes, you are right ~hon it comes to the U.S.-Ruseir' ...

struggle for 'hegemonism,' that is .wllat the worloi IDUst struggle egsinst, Also

-wh?..t ~rou s·~y of t=ancf..:.:::ii..J.tion c;,i: 'Uie ncn-ttligned co\Ultries 1r true. But, lcok~ China was not there thi_!)~~~~ nnl y_~ho.t--muc? aho,ra fha"-- .. :1:-~to-fz-~----

!-c-----_: _________ w_o_::r';l~d;-::v;l."'e,~r~, ':oo:-_"g':'-1nnlng w1 th philosophy but by no means stopping there, is Mao' s

revolut~.one.A:"y Thought,

"lolhy, the Chinese Revolution 1-1as not only, the __ grea~est revolution to eme1.·go

out of Tforld !Tar II, that not only·-stopped the U.S. in its tracks in Korea; but . . ' .

so much does ilao move from revolution to. revolution to revolution, that he . aJ.t-.·'J

initiated the struggle against his own co-leaders and his. own Party and.his own

Army, Although these revolutiona:des had -~~n with. him dl!l:'ing tl:e.Long !;larch,

-ntd.oh p?.Verl t.he Hey_:"or th~t m'cst '6r!g~.ri&l. and mo~t ~:l.s~iv~ Of :revol~'tions:• l"P.•.'

thinks only of the people, SJ1a: not in past, l:"r. prer,·.•:lt terms •. Hia Tnougl!t }c

.::;::-eator _evan than Ho.rx or Lenin (E'.nd this 1n o. til1~· whispe>r, tO%- my c:d .. tic dos.1:~ ~ :0.

really wish to be heard on .this) or SWin, oocause it is our age, u· is i:c:l .. y, ·.it is tqe future, 'The Great·Prc-ietn.r1an Cultu...-al ~ovolut1on polr.ted t~e·ms.y ftJ:• all of us the 'H'orld OYer, "

OK, for tho sake of argument, anol only that, I will, ""ith you, shut :ou:o o.Z·•;)• mind +~e ~lobal struggle that is not at all limtted to U.S.-Russia, but that

oruci&J, most ~assivo power on earth--800 million Chinese. I will also delUde

myself that that massive power, being part of the Third Tforld that is ·the real

fooal point of revolution, can obViate the truth that 1-!ao himself ia the head o;;­

an existing state power that exploits its own masses, as do all rulers. I'm ev~n l<illing, for a moment, to blind myself to all reality, and.liston, listen, listen

only to l!ao's Thought, that Cultural ?evolution wnnld put an end, onco and for all,

to all division ootween mental ..,;a· ·manuai labcr. I will take all rfao' s undisci­plined verbint;e for the only, the tot"l truth.

OK, what is that Thought, that philosophy of pure, unadUlterated nnd contin­

uous "sreat proletarinn cnl tural revolutions"? It is, first, wht>t it had bean

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f.rom the momt:lnt Mao started his mo~t ~rip;inal path to ::-111 ~r.; powel:' by Lai(liiC

the peasant army he led on a different pe.th ·th~.n the proletar!an revolution

Chianff Kai-shek had just destroyed~ aft~r which Chiang continued hiR endless

C'Xt.~:r:m~nation campaiens agains~ Hao • s _army. Philoso;~hicaliy, 1 t had blC'SsC'n•e,~~ ~.n Ye:1e.n, 1937, as On Contt?.dj.Ctton.

New, if I H·ere willine to forget that, strictly phiJ.osophic~lly, it is a

vi t1at1cn both of i·IarXian class struggle and Hegelian objectivity cf Y .... "lOP1.;.c1ga

l;hich eme:cge::. tlu:ouc;n co:l~Iadiotion, if, furth~r, I alla;r lia.o io com .. ince :;e

tha·~ Japan's invasion of_China made it correct to rewtite with Chiang l{a.i-nhel:··­

after l'.ll, nothing succee:i.s like success, a.l'ld. He.c did. wi!1 ?ow.:r in 19!i9-<~:·::s !

no~ th9 ~ight. to ask: han O.oes it ha:p?en tn~t. a decade after ·tile 191.~9 -con.quE""s.;~; -·-·-----·- --

uf JiOw~:t':;-ilO"t a..3afilst -acJ:ass--ene'my1 bu·!;. -;he VSi.'-y IliS.sses WhCI lll~e the :':CVO:!..nt:·.c:~··-the 19J? On_(]En-!;.ra;iiction -assumf:ls a net-t formt How To Hai~Cle C_o~tradic-t:inns J.r.-.:~··}t: ~"~• at t-thi'=h point it is di~acted against the Left. This time theri.' .l~ no cc:llabOrationiem, not Hith "revisionists_,"

Hv'!d fas7-, please, to the fnot_ th~t orieina.lly, i.e., in 1956,-.·Go the

norld Cominunist Pa=ties 1!1 Mosc.)w, _with Chiria .very mu~h ::ri. the forefront~ ·"::::e­

;•:lsionit:~m" t-:as the epithet d.L"":"e ... ~+.ed against Hun&a.ri~ revr..lutlonaries whc:. w~r"l f~ghting R·.,;,ss;;.an s_tate-ca.pita:!.._.!.sill_ anC ~per!:~1sm, .. This time ~o 'k'B~- tn R. !'!ros·;.

~otherly emb!:'ace l:ith the nu:::H::.tans in a cou~,ter-revoluti'onary ac·G; indeAd; t-:ao

urged !Glrushchev to se~d the io._n!•~ -~.nto Eun ~t!.!'y to put dotm the revolt. Clearl:.·,

oven philosophically, the On F-.:~;·:··..:_-:~.:.. which hl!d be~n inseparable fl-Qm th~ con­

.-;:ept On Coutxadiction in 1937, was ~~!..E:~t:. of revolntion~ries. In­

stead,. this tir.~e, 1958,, Hau To Hand.l~ Cont::l!Q.ict1cf~f? AJIIone; the ?eo">le war) ac­

companied by the practice of ordering the Chinese masses to toil endl~ss !;ours

in so-called 11

C01M1W1es" in something called "Th~ Great Lsap Fo:-war-J, 11 which 1-:as

so disastrous an act that even ~ho had to E~ep. back from it a year later.

It is true ~rou, my critic, has one r:•ther or~i!lal Meo concept--the Second

!l~x·ld--and it is not son.ething in the 19.50s, but in the 1970s, This deP"r'Ow:e

fi'Om l'.at-xism is spo!ren of as if it were the needed bringing-up-t.o-dt. te of Mar::­

iorn i tsolf, a la fiao' s Thought, This i4D.o Thought of the ·1970s was developed

afte~ tho Cultural Revolution, ~ Russia had already bean decla=ed to La

·renemy No, 1,* ~tho removal of not only Liu (the Party man), but Lin (the

*Ti,i;·-ao;s not, exclnde the feet the.t thero m;:.y ve:-:y w~411 h-J, among tht" l.'lllil"'S ejJ.·tt-J ~-~~-t~.rz !:-"J:• Hao tc ~"..c~ th~::;G Wh:J, despite a st:-:or.g cppcsitic.r.. ·~c· n~l~a~.tl. :t:'IL-:i.tl rt~ihor nc..t have Ri.:.ssin the cmolrny toli(-lr ovor IJ.S. '!.mpc ..... ie::.ti:t,. ~·.'C't::ffo:r:.'".l.r._s P·;.tdl~.~tllilCe :!'l.·om both.

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~~ ::w.n)--ar1d i:.h!.& th.o1Jgh he h~d been the one t'ho bad :tni+.iat.ed., c~'Tie:d -!.;h-:.:..::.:::•.

r.nd brought to o. clim3.x the Cul tw:al Revolution, :for 'Which he 1\as ju~ged to be

.. the <JlosP.st. co;,lr'lde-!.r,-?.l:ms of I1ao, '.' and named wit.hl.n the C!>n:::tl1:.ut~.on it~el:l:'

a.s the st!CC3f:;eor ·:~n Nao. It was a per~od .when Hac, and Nao alone, had e.C.;;e:l.tt::.1y

~~disputed tot~l power.

· A1:d 1;ha-t. W'..i.S the apHX of the or~einality which came a±'ter all that t:rc:.,·~::J

is to· say; the in~ustrializad na:t.ioas, e::.p9.:ially l"lest_Et~ro:pe: es!lec~.DJ,J.y ,Ta_p.?l~r __ _

.. and. also medium-sized and &i.'IP..ll coun"!;ries11- -:-anywhere :tn ··the whole ~d.de W:lr.l.i

outside of -the tHo supPr..f)'1"Wer~. Tl-;::lt sx.clusiv-'9 -tHCJ··fc:~r:.t \""PJ:tl is further :naC.J

ro:xclus:1.ve .. -R'.lssi¥- is th~ more 0....1.:-Jg<;ti·ous of the t:·ro :-;u:par.powera.

Now, this concept, "Se.cor..:l World" wh:!.ch h!S!:r~tOfore e,'al.oyl)rJe, l1a.o ir~cl".•.d.e~l~ ·

cons~dl9red. capitalistic~ was sl.l•.,C.enly nno5.1rCad eu poesible lllly of the Th~:J,:J

Hcrld, socialist·China illclude,L. ':';,:is concept 1-le!.R delivered not or.ly in a r.pc:-,~~h

"~o ·;;h~ UN as "foreibl'l policy," but b~Jfore thi:!.t. ·w~s presente-d ~s .--.:.he g.roe.tOE:-t

cve!:t cf "Hen Chin.:!.':: P!'l.!.loso:phto F'~-,!it Sinr:c :c::~.-: Fottr..i:'LD3 ~~· ~.911-1-;,' ;·' !-c·-tQ~.C. • -~"

"The Revolu~~~~na:cy l·iaa_s· (h:iticierr. '·J.:-::'.;ir:g GI:cup o:? the ~arty Srhpol," J.cou.r;;!:i;

in~o the his-t~1·ic deVelO}'o"lent of' -~"!"ne Thre9 f-t-tjor S·trug;;les on· China's l'hilc~ur::liC .

F'ro:tt., 1949-19611·." !t reached its breath•taking climax in the 1970n with ·;;,oio cone-~ udillS -;pa:.ar;:~:·.:>t.:

"The ~::ihcr~~:::.:. J.n.ws of d;l..~l-..l~':.~c~ a"!'e ihdep0·:s:i.l.':~"=- o-: tho will of th:> _:revis.v:mists.· !t has bectlDJa an :.::reslot.~.~le· histo:d.c&J -tre:1d ·::.od::y :Cor tha paople of· t.'":le Hhc.rle rro.rJ.d., D.!l:"l mar.y !.!ecU.u.'U··S!~ed and sn:r.l:t. ·Ccun-~:i.es, to "un!.te anrl. opp.,se h'2gori~O:-lY by tba "two Sup~rpolii;Jrs, u.r:. imper.tulio!:l and oocj.a.:l-1nperiaJ.!.::m •• ~llovolu·CionarJ dia.lactios is strildl!g i'l.::m root :i.n tha. hoa.rta of the poopl.e, 1a being greopecl. by more and more Ihrxist-Leninist pcl1 tical rJSrtioG a::tl ·ravolutio-.: r"l people. It has become their Aharp 1-raa.pon in ma.king rovolution •• ,u

The rhototic notwithste.r.ding, Nao' ~'llll!£ept. of_:lll~.§!ll.or.i ;;orld •1itiates

rgnJ.etc-.r1P..n.JJ1~1ol1!.i.:1&-].1_~nlacin...tLU..Jtl.:~.1he n£~.x~;rest na+..ionalirtt "a"l·:::t­

~.m;:a±inlidt t·ti~~~--'-ovcn c.s "O~c.n+.t-q~-0~lQ\l" vitiatecl t!le cl~~

Rtrt~gg:'..e e.r.d -~~d it ta nnJ.,i_.jJ,~:mar-st:rnatura. In both histor:l.c

pe::::icds--1937-49 and 1966··76--p.'lilosophy ur.a tre.n•.:t'01'1'led from theoretic r.·ror:ar­

fl.tior.. fo:- _social revol;ution to lT. "'.!.to1ry st:rataay cud tactics 01 .. reachinG power.

For all factions now 1n·;~lvcd in tho power strll$8lG for Nao' s IWitle, l.n-

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.:lt:.~i!lb 11t:ad1caj.s11 --lluss.ia. as 3nemy No. 1--and those who argue fo:c equidista.n.::~

~om both the- U.S. and Russia, n1ilitary preyared.necs 5.s the predorn.in::u1t qu.ost:.on,

I·e isn•t just 11p~·eparedness" as ~o;nething thE-t co:tcerD.s a wa.:r; it is rui~J.ta:.r.~y

:pro\Jess that hn.s ilh:ays been t!').e pre.dominan-:. concept. :'ro:n t.:w ·1~lJ fi:!:::.t eta:;!.

1;±' IIa.o ·a now legendary Hunan Iit3port, followed hj' M.s Lone March t~J BGt:'aJle ~e

r:an:..r l?'::te!'mlnP.tion ca!llpa.igns of Chia.'1g; thxm.:gh Q:.1. _QontrodiC!t!QE. auJ 9:1 !'tt.ct~!-~ r:hi~h led to collabo:ratioh with Chiang; to the COilCept o'!'. the Second ro::;ld) t 1!(,

military has beer. ,:the determining factor. Even- among C•:unnr..misi; cou:.:~t::iee, r;;,~.r:1.

uas the 01:ly one that r::;.lsed the Army along with the Party as two f~r;al po.irt$

~-----~---AS -a--tht::creticiar. of guerrilla HZ..rfare, a.s philosopher of Contra~~~- :1!10

held that no theoxy existed outslde of' .Pn ?:ac·i:.ics, war l:as so~ehow .sairl a~ 1.:':

1 i were a synonj'ill for revl)lutioi~, though clo;1arly the .9Jl_fracti~ he m:.s t~J.I .. inr,

c-J:aut ,.,"as _not, HaS ll?t, the pracl;ice of proletet.riatl :revo:..uticn. hba.t T.cctsY.y

\i'l.'ote of Stc.lin's th~orias--"the empili.cism of a. 111£&.chine gun"--is evon r.~or~ z;.:;·­

pl1cable to Ha.o, .Hhose empiric met:1odoloepr is the .:!!~lil:.;,_'!bsolutel~:...§'~!'l.."~~

of ·roe Heg&!.Rn-liar.d.an AbsoJ.u·to Method, th(ll Dt~!_~:t.£•

·• .. .. .. .. · Absclute }lathod1 not for purpooes of He~:elian sc~o2es.st:t:ciam ( thuugl~ otc Old

Pol~ tlcos could certainly be:nef1 t f::om .sorae !:now2e0ge of the d:' .. alec~lc, Al:isclut.<J

Hethcd), but Hi thin the histori:.: co:JtaY.t of lt!a.rx•s theo·:y of -p=olo'ta.:::"ian r:)VO­

llltic:~l, and Lonin•s development of na~iona.1 self':--det1.1rrclna:~ton &.-s w.;:ll· a.s· worlcl

z·evolui;.ion, uhether that begins 1!1 Hoscow, Berlin--vr Peking, Turkey, Af£bar--1s .. ;S.~1-­

or tod:.1y 1n Portue~l. ~~

Thua·method.ology, i.e., dialectics of liberat1o:1, Hhe·Gher "at h0ree11 ozo

"S.broad".1s.unavo1c1.a.ble a.s it is life, it is everywhere, it is an Absolute Un!:m::­

eal, but absolutely conc:cete and everywhere. And yet eo far distant from· l.to ::.o­

tua:i.ity havs Harx~--l·!arx~, not l!arx--gono, that they keap.rel1giously1 l..A,

•Ailowrne"to skip diroctl.y to todAy, directly to Portugo.l, for what would appec:::­to be a minor footnote. In fact, this little item buried in the paper, "Isrd.cl Seoke Diplomatic Relations with Poo-tu~"l," touches, touches exactly, tho role­vance of Hegel. It reads• "Directo:-General (of Israel's Foreigo Ministry) Sl:lor.:o A•rine:d.' a· t:r!p to Portugal· 1m.s occasioned by the convening of an int_ernational conference dedicated to ths philosophy of the 19th-centu%y German genius, Georg 1/llhel:.o Friod:r.ioh Hegel," (Chrieti.an Science Honitc;:, 8-26-76) ·

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myst~cally, vt·J.:5a:c materit.J.istically o.way f=vm it.

l~ilo could have appeared to be more internationalist. thnn Tt·o~sky with M .. "';

theory of parrim.l!on·i;. :revolution and hi~ acttul leadership c:f the Russian P.evol;I·p

·.;jon as "\:.he s·ta.rt. of the No·cld revolution~/ In fact, ho~·tever, the concept o7'

·~he wo:."ld revolution o.r!d that of the Russia..TJ Revolution wh~o1 it· wa.s 1nstitLitlo!"'.­

r.J lzed as r.ationaltzed pror.erty--that fix:gd particular---:-rere sitting a.lorJgside

cf each otherf ~~tner than being jammed up against ea~h oi~er. Ho~· could ii b~

otherwise when it left out -the self-developing Sub~ect --~s ~ainst Lenir- who

ti.svolo;:cd it as, fizost, the: Nati.:>U:ll Question, ard th~n a new de~ure f'o:&:

is ~rue :t-evoluti_orulry philosop:!.l-;! m:;:dit!:!.ion.. !i!:thout. :>p !·>t-;,j~-:"~;.. !!.!:· c~n~c;-: c~.~ ilecc~e ::::-eaJ. s a. subject that 1~ '..:·.:;_,.~h:!.bited by any ·;o,J.it.:i.St Vietr ~f "the 1-..aci:­

~~a.rdne::;s of the pe::asantr-1" whil~ ..::l!agin~ to Pa._-ty ~tructur.e as the be-i t-..:..1.1.

E•:cn O.uring the darkest. period o:' countcr-::.·e·.,olutica1

1900, Lerdn alwa.~~s ir.~.sicted that the positive, the highest achieve~enJ~ -of -the l''i!Vclutiou' befo:.:e it<:

defeat, must be held on to as the e;ro,._Uld. for the next :cevolutlar1. :a~~- 1914:

nhe!l con..."""'='ont:.e:d 1-1i th tho be·tra:yal of the Second L'"l·te±nations.l ~ noth1...'1g ,of the

He:geliau d..ialt:.t:.l;.i.: so moYed h~m as Hegel's- prlnciple "'to hold :f'ast the posit~:m in the r..e~tive." And wl th the die.lcc:tic of sacum! llege-t-ion---th~ r.~.ega.tio:J of

the State a""rJU the ~eati_orJ of th~ non··sta.te, "the populat!o:J to a ma.."11

wor~:a!l·, ~JhilQ."--Lenin rras r~acl.y :fpr OctobE:t::-, 1917. And ev•:n oa his d~at..~ 1:·ed, hs n::!-.re;o

otopp~d repe3.ti."lg thc.t -:·:h:~n a revo: :·i~io:'le:zy _!a.Z..ls "to g:t.'E.S.l) ~he dialectic,'-' Lt3

he :fea:-:cd ])~khar~ failed, the H!lo~e revolLt.t:ton is ondi.tr.gared.

1-lhich is exact.ly Nha.t was i:i."IVlved in actus.li.ty t'nCI. :L."'l Hegel's celebrate~! last three sylloGisms of the Rhllosoplw of ·idnd, ~·hich become tho center-point Cl±' t.:h. 1 of Philosophy and Revo~ution. ~;-e i~_?th~\@l.....Pf' ecca.ping the

'th9r;ret.ic void since Lenin's death sucking yl1U into -the abyss of incoli'.plete" ~buxte~ revolutions.

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·1t·1.s :for ·thiS .. renson,thn.t tho Committees' Perspectives, in centerin13 on

the creation of a philosophic nuclou", have held it inseparable fro~ pol1tica21-zat1on as the concretization of philosophy.

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The six M-i ti~-Ph1losonJ.io Letters that have ab:·ead.y iJel3n w.cl.tten P.Ia r,

becrinning. 'I'hey will continue. 1-1!. th them, Wli! will ~.lso e~:paJ!d News & Letter~ to 12 ~~gP.o three times annually.

The c·ne :-.ew Ccmmi ttee that will be b1.4il t t.his year is in i.ha.t. very c:r."-:.c!.: 1

r.s. labor city9 Chica.r;o, where cur next par.!phle~ en the lOOth anr.iYersary of

the S~. Louis 1877 General 3trii::;;~ will have spt:>ciu.l s1gz,5.f~.C3J1C'e~ not. &impJ.y •~.;;.­

cause its author3 n.ro going there as orga.nlzers, but 1Je.12use clJjec·t.•.·:ely Chioa.g1

hac alnays--from the Hayrua~·;cet, to 1937 LittJ.o Sta:~l rnase:G:.c=e, -.~D the p:':c·sellt­

Bla.~k e.nd ~·Tonen' s Libe:rat.ion and Youth develcp:'.an·~s--bar.n a !'i.vot.nJ. -z.:-:!.r!t ~or

:c~vol!lt.iono.:::.r. development. So c.ontl:~dictozy .l!~r'. -..rg:.mt a"::'~ thea~ C:)•;.,J.C";;:::rt·C:::

'tn::ce !IC':I5 that both !Jo;£_Ii,~;:to: Hor.!l!1'1 Fe.; F::c~£.C2!1! and the pamphlei'.-to-be, P.lil.9~

~qogp.j: (thot:eh i..ha.t nil~ come out' oi the 1·lest Co.,.st) ldll be e:antnl nls'.J t.-;

t.he wo:rk :Ut Chicu.go, indeed: to the ft.L""ther development of the BlacTt movement j,t:Jelf, I balieve.

·The !forkini.~ 'lolllet1 For Freedom pamphlet needs now to beco:1Je an orgc!.nizc.tl~'n

'bu:tldor. Nh;.;.t grea.te~ oJ~ectivo g::ol.l!ld f~JIC c:e'lclcpment cf ~hiu is t.:li:l:t"C t:'l~J: t.oday~··ancl. I'm uo·t l.'l3!"er:.n:; cn:.y to the U.S., bUt th13 'i::.:..·~c.": ,o .. ,~.:..:·~ H!'let.'.'!o:-:::: i i. bt-;

E'o.st 'l'!mor or 13P.lfc.st.- wh,;re c:·.r; rk:.y 101000 l-TJ:nen, ~ath:1:L~.r.: au~ :Fl"o!-.~r.t.u.n'· ... !r.~ .. :-':'i~­~'1 in r~o·tesi• ·~cgethel:, at~d the n~~:t time 1t was ~c.~oo. And ·~hls i:.'! a. oct:.rd•:l.'71'·

that has had such ~,loody war beili~en Prot.:o~tant a:1n Ce.'t!"lo:aC-··1 t tc~k ·~he wc:1~rl to ~how that·th:!t tro.s not the ::-czl J!·.ris-ton •. A ncH :,age h_f;'.s d~vl3:::.c;u;.•d· bt?o:a.c.3a

~'!omen'~ 111:-e::-a.t!.on is truly· an B.ea Hhose t.i.i1e_ ha:J Cl"::no.

The Yout.h r..a.y not yet be ini:!.S!i~.ve e~ough to ple:-1 i:o1.· a penrhJ.et CJf ths::r cw:1,

bu·t they ara r:lc.dy, very :..3aii.y, fnr tt.a act:~o:-1. ln ~hi~~ teo" pi':il,JCOJ.Jh1c madia·· tio:>n as n.ctivn i~ Itey.

A single dialc~ctic proce:Js upsurges i'ror:;. actuel!.ty and frcm thought;. ""h1.c~'l. is 1-:hy ph!losoph1c mediation is siniultD..YJ.eou.3ly the :;:;ubjectiv·e-objective method,

t.~1~ p:cocesa t·:hlch r.:al~as of JcnoHlec!ge i·tcelf e. ioiciy to produce libe1.·ty. It is hJ.c;h

tL-::e !. t Has he:re o.s reality. Let' s get down t.o tl.·yit;g to make 1 t so.

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