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. very closely with’4ts counterpart in tho north, tho Lao Dong or Workor's Paxty, . + +The NLF has put forth its goals quite cloarly on rumorous o¢casions, the most. - yoeent of which was on Rovembor 3, 1968. ‘b ropoat theso horo honoring the ros <i "o. > quost of Mao, Nguyon Thi Binh, doputy hoad of tho NLF dolcgation in Paris, te —. * oi . “make those positions know. to tho peoplo of tho United Statos,"® and as an “o7 _ Prossion of our intomational solidarity with tho Victnamoso. ” fe a. South Viotnan is absolutoly dotormined to Wet Se an strugele for tho achicvemont of its saerod ‘yights " mt oe as ofindopendonce, democracy, poaco, noutrality, — - ; TEE progress and tho country's unification. | - n ge et ee TG “2, Amorican imperialism mst ‘ond tho war of cello tBr eo. apgrossion and withdrew all U.S. and satellite . og "7 Shon tyoops and all war material fran South. Viotnam _ wee 2 Sar I. ahd liquidate tho militery bases. . _ Wet civ "+ . 8. South Wietnam's internal affairs mét bo ; * sotticd by tho South Victnamesc pooplos thom ae solves without foroighinterferoncs, » , h, The question of reunification mst bosottled + ~ graduall ycby the Viotnaness poopls in both parts — cee ot of the country in a poaccful mannor, by moans of ame ly. consultations and agreemcnts, without forcign , , * interforenco,: * . 5 South Vietnam will pursue a forcign policy of poace and noutrality, It vill not conclude military - - alljanees with fereign countries and will osteblish friendly relations with all states in conformity ‘ with tho principles of Peaceful cooxistonce. It should bo noted t hat tho PLP has not, yot publishod these principles and has instead waged a slandcrous attack against thon, distorting thom whon possiblo and opposing what 4s corroct in thon, . Any attempt to sclvo tte probloms of Viotnam at this stago of tho strugzlo by tha "scthed of socialist revolution" is bound to drive a vodgo botwoon tho working class and its allies t horoby undermining tho struzglo ; and guarantceing the dofoat of tho revolutionary foreos. It is this othe consequence, i.c, defeat for tho people, and not tho identity of tho view eo with classic Trotskyism that must be kept uppermost in our minds, ‘hb should also not overlook the fret that PL's "theory of stages" is not original but ‘has- a precodont ef the most degenorate form cf Mort" opportunism in the _ communist movements se a7. . aa PLts seab thoory t “hat “ald. nat onal isi is roectionary" . Tho PL les dorship, an order to carry out thoir rcactionary Line or. ¥Viotnam and oppose the Black pcople!s movement havo boon forced to reviso ‘the Marxist-Leninist approach to "nationalisn™ but yot aro parading as supportors of tho Thought of Mao, "All nationelsim is reactionary" suns up - tho view ef PLP on the subjoct. “As vo will soc,the denial of tho no democratic stags moans onbracing tho ideology of vhite national chanvind sms Tt weans contompt for tho nationa)-oxistonee ofthe Vietnamese poople and is -2 erude attonpt at national nihilism, In its most sophisticated - form (which - 25 seldom expressed oxcapt whon PL has their backs to the well), they argiio - . that "nationalism as an ideolory is roactionayy" or "tho lattor lovalty—- ; ' ant ernstionalism--is a fundamental Mamist-Loninist idoa which runs oxactly countor to nationzlism, "7. Ono really has to marvel at this docp grasp of - _— Giaictics. Is net the “sot of idcris" callcod nationaliem tho opposite of, does 4t net ron exactly counter. to intersationalism? All thet PLts _* ' “+ + - propasdtien prevte is thet they hava mct gone boyrend the sche olboy logic of Aristotle. They rost content with ferns} logic without tho slightest undore _ctlanding of dialcoticnl logic, Na thanslisn deos not float around us ar an ; ; idctiogy in the adstract. It alweys manifests a partievlar class contont ar ; part of 3 real secial process | rerlectang. Lobsootive law& and uadergoing « an evolution. Yenin made this very clear when ho stated: : Tmt my wri tings’ en ths nattone2 question, I have elre ady : said thst in abstract presontation of the question ye nationslism 4° of no use et ell, A distinction mist <eec" ) Soe, ; nocossayily be mado: botweon tho nationalism ofan... Fo oppressor natduns end Abst of an oppressed nation, “SS 557 Be ee TT moti BL