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qa ft ee ie i ee ee then) = a ewer (i.e., the proletariat) is anycne who has no power over their ectivities and the uses to which they are put, because they must sell them to somehody else. This does not refer to those henevolent “servants of the people” whose real wish is not . the power of the proletariat but their power over the proletariat, whether they be whitc, black, brown, yellow or red bureaucrats. Just look at China, Russia, and Cuba. In this respect, life there is the same as here: you take orders; you work for somebody else. These countries are still capitalist, only there, the state is the capitalist!! Once we are running things for ourselves, instead of following orders ‘from the people who extort our time -- producing what they tell us, how they! tell sus--<.we can start to remake the world in the way we want it to be. The SLA idea:of “scparate, sovereign nations” is backward and _ bourgeois.” We will have to. plan production On a werld-~wide scale to-get what we want;-what people all over the world use every day already comes from all parts of“the world, not just..- their own-part. But it is vital that we keep control over . | what is planned and what is produced, and not give up this .-- power to some new- bureaucracy.. This: means that we will have to-organize on the basis of councils ~~ assemblies of aii-the people concerned in communities, factories, offices, farms, etc., which make all decisions which concern themselves alone, and coordinate larger decisions hy sending deputies to city- wide and reqional councils, and finally to a world council. These deputies must not be representatives, elected on the basis of personality, to make decisions for us, but should be selected to carry decisions already made by the workers' assemblies to the city, regional, and world coordinating councils. The assemblies must be-able-to recall the deputy right away if he or she deviates from.those decisions. In conclusion, we want to say that the ‘revolution will not be made by an army, no matter how well-intentioned .or well-organized, any more than by a "revolutionary party”. The brothers and sisters of the SLA are on the wrong road, a rodd that leads to sacrifice and defeat. Political power does not come primarily out of the harrel of a gun, but out of control over the means of production and out of new social relationships. The revolution must oppose all nationalism, because national “inderendence" in the modern world is a myth. Inffead, we stand for the interdependence of working humanity, ‘which:ds already a concrete fact. The freedom we will discover ‘in overthrowing canitalism and in running society together goes far beyond any “national freedom".