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+ ° 4 Scredt fod Nara sa gointon in the eyes of many hon, people,: ” trend. within the "ovement thereby providing a basis of respect between the B) toes ‘ z : f the Draft Week Demobtrations went e long way toward\éfe,ting the open pacifist Black Liberation struggles and.the anti-war struggles. PL took an essentially °* conservative position in that demonstration refraining from real participation and finelly sharply criticizing the action the night before on the grounds that: the students movement's main fight was on campus - getting rid of ROTC etc,” PL did- participate in Stop the Draft Week through the Black Anti-Draft Union. They argued that the pigs might chase the students into the ghetto which was adjacent to the site of demonstrations, thereby provoking a massacre.in the_ ee black community. Their line was supported by a group from the now defunct Northern = California Black Panther Party. It should be noted that. these Black Panthers .. .... have nothing in common with the Black Panther Party of Ruey Newton and Bobby Seale, This little group wes a notorious band of cultural nationalists and renegades, ~~ -#:.. Considering PLP's line on “naticnalism",this {s a curious “alliance” indeed, = ~*~ When the Oakland 7 were acquitted and the announcement was made at the March SDS > ~*- IC, PLP and many of its supporters sat silently while the rest of the Convention -..... cheered the victory, One final example, On the occasion of the massive and militant — Pentagon dexonstration, they opposed mass marches resulting in "futile" con- ‘frontations to long term base building as if these were necessarily in contradic- — tion. Bcsabuilding as a strategy was used as a club to beat down an important ~* .- asi “action, In short, they have proven again and again that they oppose in’ practice mobiliging broad, militent, united action against imperialism. .* -- * oscar How is it that the PLP is able to put forth this pernicious and.false line and.’ gain a certain amount of sympathy? There are a number of reasons: First, there is ~:~ a general worldwide struggle against revisionism led by the Chinese and Mao Tse Tung. The restoration of capitalism in a number of formerly socialist aa countries, the betrayal of the struggles of the peoples of the world, has outraged — . many people and has underscored the impértanca of vigilance in preventing the _ an strengthening end temporary victory of revisionism in the struggle between two ales ‘“foads.. It 4s somewhat natural that in the struggle against right opportunism : that one would be prone-to “left" opportunist errors, Second, there is a ten- ve joe dency, which stems frow superficial radicalism, radicalism not steeled in the struggle of the masses, to establish one's revolutionary credentials through rhetoric, Third, as we have observed, there is within the imperialist homeland, particularly among those belonging to the white national majority, a powerful disposition toward national chauvinism manifesting itself in arrogance, feelings of of superiority, subtle racism, condescension, etc. Fourth, the peculieritias of the the American movement--the triumph of dogmatism and revisionism in the 0.5, Communist Party, the "generation gap" induced by the repression of the fifties, the slanderous attack. by Khrushchev on Stalin and the dictatorship of the proletar- fat, as well‘as the errors of the Marxist-Leninists--have all bred a distrust for the teachings of the leaders of the worldwide proletarian moverent, Despite the new worldwide triuzphs of Marxism-Leninism a general ignorance prevails within the U.Si en tKerst elerentsry principles of scientific socialism which is only just beginning to be overcome, It is our view that many of the errors of the membership of the PLP fall into the category of infantile leftisn, aa reflecting the newness of their participation in the movement and the sincerity of their, convictions, in contrast to the matufe neo-Trotskyism of the leader- ship nurtured over a long period, St ee But the. key to’ the confusion on a theoretical level has to do with the psculiarities of the world situation, he are feced with an entirely new situation as a result — of the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, The Chinese party has taken the Russian revisicnists to task and exposed them for al] the world to see, The Vietnamese party has not seen fit to join in this attack nor have the .. Vietnamese launched a cultural revolution. It 4s also true that the Vietnamese 4n the north have accepted "aid" from the Soviet Union, It is certainly our view that every nation building socialism mst undergo a cultural revolution, ‘§ Ased they will undoubtedly go through 2 serZes of cuitural revolutions, but it. would be idealism in the extreme for us to become grand strategists of : everyone else's eultur2] revolution especially when we have not yet ourselves a ror ~ gecomplished the preliminary socialist revclution. The difficuity stems partly, 8S we have sid, from an idealist, ahistoricol method of analybis,.. By judking all. events werely, from the vantage point of the most advanced developments, 2+€«,,the cultpral revolution, all other events seem pale beside it, Why dossn*t evervone see what we see? khy have they not done what needs to be done? We hzve witnessed this error before in the utopian socialism of the 19th. century. Bot this ‘enlightenment’ wcrld outlook has gained new vitality because in this instance we are dealing with state power in the hands of the proletariat, Henee ~ 4t seams as if anything can be accomplished, - °° |” Jou To, i rt 7 se he er ros : : Tol ya 8 habe me cm eo. if. - Dons : f°