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For Socialist Revolution in the Bastion of World Imperialism! ~ For a Workers Party That Fights for a Workers Government! For Socialist Revolution in the Bastion of World Imperialism! SEE PAGE 2 Organizational Rules. and Gui'delines of theSpartacist League/U.S. ! SEE PAGE 30 Opponents of' the Revolutionary Internationalist Workers Movement SEE PAGE 37 ®~759-C -,t.;'ra viort(ers~arlY·Th8i Fight§lOr'l a Workers Government! For Socialist Revolution in the Bastion of World Imperialism! Programmatic Statement of the Spartacist League/U.S. I. The Spartacist League/U.S., Section of the VI. Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants! International Communist League (Fourth Defend the Rights of Racial/Ethnic Minorities! .... 24 Internationalist) .................................... 2 VII. For Women's Liberation Through II. We Are the Party of the Russian Revolution ........ 3 Socialist Revolution! .............................. 25 III. The American Imperialist State and the Tasks VIII. Open the Road to the Youth! ..................... 26 of the Revolutionary Party .......................... 9 IX. For ClaSS-Struggle Defense Against Bourgeois IV. American Capitalism, the Working Class and Repression! ...................................... 27 the Black Question ................................ 13 X. In Defense of Science and the Enlightenment .... 28 V. For a Workers Party That Fights for XI. For a Proletarian Vanguard Party! Reforge the a Workers Government! '" ........................ 19 Fourth International! .............................. 29 I. The Spartacist League/U.S., political/military global hegemony, an ambition which both conditions and is reinforced by the relative political back­ Section of the International wardness of the American working class. Communist League The U.S. is the only advanced capitalist country lacking a mass workers party representing even a deformed expres­ (Fourth Internationalist) sion of the political independence of the proletariat. The 1. The Spartacist League is the U.S. section of the Inter­ central enduring feature of American capitalism, shaping national Communist League (Fourth Internationalist). As and perpetuating this backward consciousness, is the struc­ stated in the ICL's "Declaration of Principles and Some Ele­ tural oppression of the black population as a race-color ments of Program" (February 1998): "The International caste at the bottom of society. Black oppression with its pro­ Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) is a proletarian, found and pervasive ideological effects is fundamental to revolutionary and internationalist tendency which. is com­ the American capitalist order. Obscuring the class divide, 'mitted to the task of building Leninist parties as national racism and white supremacy have served to bind white sections of a democratic-centralist international whose pur­ workers to their capitalist masters based on the illusion of a pose is to lead the working class to victory through socialist commonality of interest based on skin color. revolutions throughout the world." With our comrades The shell game through which the Democratic Party-the around the world, we struggle to reforge Leon Trotsky's historic party of the Confederate slavocracy-is portrayed Fourth International, world party of socialist revolution. as the "friend" of blacks and labor has been essential to pre­ 2. The program and strategy put forward by the Sparta­ serving the rule of racist American capitalism. Our principal cist League (or proletarian revolution in the American impe­ task in the U.S. is to break the power of the pro-capitalist rialist state are based on the principles of scientific social­ trade-union bureaucracy over the labor movement. It is this ism and historical (i.e., dialectical) materialism-a Marxist bureaucracy-itself a component part of the Democratic understanding of the specific, historically derived features Party-which politically chains the proletariat to the bour­ of the present-day United States. Militarily the most power­ geoisie and is the major obstacle to revolutionary class con­ ful imperialist country in the world, the ambition of the sciousness, to the forging of a revolutionary workers party. supremely arrogant U.S. ruling class is to exercise complete Thus the struggle to bring revolutionary consciousness to 2 a. 4iiiJWIII;4iiiil' i the working class-a precondition to socialist revolution and the establishment of the dicta­ torship of the proletariat-poses the strategic tasks of the fight for black liberation and the political and organizational independence of the proletariat from the bourgeoisie, its parties and its state. 3. The proletariat is the only revolutionary class in modem society. Only the revolution­ ary conquest of power by the multiracial working class, emancipating the proletariat from the system of wage slavery, can end imperialist barbarity and achieve the long­ betrayed promise of black freedom. We seek to build the Leninist vanguard party which is the necessary instrument for infusing the working class with this understanding, trans­ forming it from a class in itself-simply defined by its relationship to the means of pro­ duction-to a class for itself, fully conscious of its historic, task to seize state power and reorganize society. The struggle for proletarian power is the most ruthless and irreconcilable struggle in all history and requires that the revolutionary party be organized in accord with the principle of democratic-centralism. The party must unconditionally demand of all its members complete discipline in all public activities and actions of the organization. Such a party can only be forged by a self-acting and critical­ minded membership which solves the problems confronting the party by collective thought, i discussion and experience, requiring the widest Bolshevik leaders V. I. Lenin and L. D. Trotsky (center) at celebration party democracy. As James P. Cannon noted: of the second anniversary of the October Revolution, 1919. , "Democratic-centralism has no special virtue per se. It is the specific principle of a combat party, united by a of the same property party. The facade of democracy is single program, which aims to lead a revolution. Social designed simply to obscure the fact that the capitalist state is Democrats have no need of such a system of organization for an instrument of organized force and violence-consisting the simple reason that they have no intention of organizing a revolution. Their democracy and centralism are not united by a atits core of the police, army, courts and prisons-for main­ hyphen but kept in separate compartments for separate pur­ taining capitalist property and profits through the suppres­ poses. The democracy is for the social patriots and the central­ sion of the working class and the oppressed and fending off ism is for the revolutionists." foreign challengers. The proletariat cannot lay hold of this - "Leninist Organizational Principles," 3 April 1953, Speeches to the Party (1973) state machinery and use it for its own purposes, but must smash the bourgeois state and establish a workers state, lay­ 4. We live in the epoch of imperialism,the last stage of ing the basis for the abolition of classes in an international capitalism~ an epoch of wars and revolutions in which the communist world. Our task, in the bastion of world imperial­ world economy comes into violent collision with the bar­ ism, is to build the· multiracial revolutionary workers party, riers imposed by the capitalist nation-state. "Marxism takes section of a reforged Fourth International, which will lead its point of departure from,world economy, not as a sum of the proletariat in the overthrow of the American capitalist national parts but as a mighty and independent reality which order, the expropriation of the bourgeoisie as a class and the has been created by the international division of labour and establishment of a planned socialist economy. the world market, and which in our epoch imperiously dom­ inates the national markets. The productive forces of capi­ talist society have long ago outgrown the national bound­ aries" (Leon Trotsky, Introduction to the German Edition, II. We Are the Party of the The Permanent Revolution [1930)). 5. American "democracy" has been purchased through Russian Revolution brutal exploitation of the colonial and semicolonial masses 1. As stated in the ICL's "Declaration of Principles": "We around the world, generally through imposition of murder­ stand on the work of revolutionists such as Marx, Engels, ous anti-labor dictatorial regimes. America is ruled by.the Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg and Liebknecht. Above all we dictatorship of a single class, the bourgeoisie; alternately look to the experience of the Bolshevik Party which culmi­ administered by the Democrats and Republicans, two wings nated in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the only revolution 3 "'tq ::i:"uW;Ui4.U44,4 P4;=.;:14£ ;";UUMiSA4.¥'""",--"'-;11.'.111 111 11_ 1' ....._______ ...., _____________ l1li*II'1II, •• 1'1•• 11'1.11l1li1111111.--- I as yet made by the working. class. This history illuminates alist perspectives of the Bolshevik Revolution. In opposition where we come from, what we seek to defend and where to Stalin's nationalist opportunism, Trotsky's Left Opposi­ we want to go." tion was founded to defend the program of revolutionary In leading the small but young and militant working class internationalism. of Russia to the taking of state power and the consolidation After being expelled from the Communist Party (1927) of its own class rule through workers councils (soviets),
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