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Spartacist 16 (Winter 1979) No. 26 Where Statement of tfte Pabloism lnternationalist Has Led Gommunists the GIM,.ü10 of Buchenwald..a,12 SPARTACIST As a revolutionary leader he is worse than worthless. But cynical Mandel eren lelt a twinge of shame when ltalian as a political weathervane he is almost unerring. Yes,, Communist Part.*- (PCI ) leader Paolo Bufalini told the PCI Ernest Mandel. that internationally renowned guru of the central committee: "l would have given Guevara a medal fake-Trotskyist United Secretariat of the Fourth Interna- for heroism and simultaneously condemned him to death tional (USec). certainly is a master at bending with the l'or indiscipline" (quoted in Mant'hester Guardian )l/eekly, shifting political winds in the European left. 7 May 1978). That's how the Scheidemanns and Noskes of During the heyday of New Left adventurism Mandel Italy today pay tribute to the idealist Stalinist adventurer presented the USec as the true embodiment of the heritage uncritically lioniz.ed by the Mandelites. of "Che." Along comes the pre-revolutionary crisis in But Guevara is dead now. as are manv of the subjectively Portugal and Mandel was to be found providing a left revolutionary Latin American youth who tragically cover for the arch-Stalinist Portuguese Communist Party followed the line of the professor from the Louvain and (PCP) of Alvaro Cunhal. And when Eurocommunism actually "picked up the gun." There is a cynical adage from replaced Portugal in the headlines Mandel became the self- American courtroom parlance which applies to Mandel: appointed lawyer for that arch-enemy of the Kremlin-loyal the lawyer always goes home. Cunhal: premier Eurocommunist Santiago Carrillo of the Mandelite tailing after Eurocommunism did not fall out Spanish Communist Party (PCE)! of the sky. The shift from enthusing over the heroic Such posturing might be regarded as a farcical burlesque adventurism of a "Che" to apologizing for the pro- if it weren't so positively obscene. Here is Mandel imperialist parliamentary cretinism of the Eurocommu- eulogizing "Che" on the tenth anniversary of his murder nists is consistent with Mandel's twenty-five year history of while at the same time prettifying the Eurocommunists, Pabloist impressionism on the question of Stalinism. This who truly hate the memory of Guevara because the liquidationist revisionism which organizationally de- martyred guerrilla still remains an inspiration to their "far stroyed the Fourth lnternational in 1953 was succinctly left" opponents. One wonders whether the consummately stated (a rare virtue for the Pabloists, who clothe their wtl{TER 1979 abrogation of Marxism in bombast) in a document entitled frontism and becoming apologists [or the pro-NA'fO "The Ri.se and Decline ol' Stolinism" which the Pabloist Bcrlinguer. the pro-monarchist Carrillo. and thc prct-lorce "lnternational Secretariat" adopted at its rump "Fourth de ]|appe Marchais. World Congress" in 1954: Arising in the context o1'the anti-Soviet "human rights" "ln countries where the CPs are a majority in the working ol'fensive ol' U. S. imperialism. E urocomm u nism represcnts class. thcy can. in certain exceptional conditions (ad- the attempts of the CP leaderships to prove both to their r anced disintegration of the possessing classes) and under "own" bourgeoisies and to Washington that they can be the pressure of very powerful revolutionarl' uprisings of entrusted with ministerial portfolios and seats in the the masses. be led to project a revolutionarv orientation "independ- counter to the Kremlin's directives. without abandoning cor.rncils of NATO. These parties' much-touted the political and theoretical baggage inherited from cnce" from Moscow and their shedding of even the Stalinism.... This perspecti\e-namelv not an organiza- pretenses ol' Marxist and I-cninist phraseology (to which tronal disintegration ol' the mass Communist parties. but thcy decrcasingly' paid lip se rvice)clearl1, reprcscnt shifts to molecular lor an entire period. of ralher a disintegration. thc right bv the ma.jor mass Communist parties ol'Western the bureaucratic relations which extend lrom the Kremlin -l-he down to the ranks of these parties-is essential l'or Europe. Europcan-based [JSec majority must there- determining the forms o[ intervention by our movement in fore disccrn some kind of "progressive dlnamic" in the this proces,s in order to make it evolve in a direction thoroughlv relirrmist parties which betrared the French favorable to revolutionarv Marxism." strikcs ol' l96tt and thc ltalian strike warc of the lollowing in The l)eveloptrrent attcl vea r. -reprinted )l'orlcl Stalinistu, Socialist 'l-hc Di.tintegratiott ol cmcrgcncc ol' Eurocommunism has provided a Workers Partl (SWP) "Education for Socialists" rallving point politicaltendcncies Bulletin (March 1970) lordive rsc u'ith appetites t() pressure the CPs from the left and thc right. The "l'orms ol' intervention" have indeed varied: from lrotrt Mandel has obvious opportunist appetites to broker a deep entrism into the mass reformist parties of Western grand regroupmcnt ol left social democrats and prc- the I950's and 1960's. to the futile search for Europe during Eurclcommunists-all along appealing to the "l'ar lcli" to the elusive "new mass vanguard" outside of the "bureau- .ioin his l'akc "Fourth lnternational" and get in on the cratic apparatuses" of the uorkers movement follou'ing the action. His schenrc uas quitc clcarlv revealcd Iast May Ma1'events in France. to attempting to broker a lash- 1968 u'hcn thc French l-igue Communiste Ri'r, olutionnaire up of the "far left" that could act as a left pressure group on (l-CR). mainstav ol'thc Mandelite UScc majoritr'. hostcd a the popular front. But the thrust continues to be big löte leaturing Frcnch Cclmmr.rnist Partv (PCF) substitute the proletariat liquidationism: to find a for historian -lean Elleinstein. French Socialist Paltl' lcader organized by its conscious vanguard under the banner o[ (iillcs Martinct. an ol'l'icial delegation from ('arrillo's the Fourth I nternational in resolving the crisis of Spanish Communist Partr'. [J krainian disside nt l-conid revolutionarl' leadership. l)lvushch and two so-callcd "progressivc" ol'ficers. a retired ln the past the Pabloists have tailed those Stalinist Frcnch gcneral and an admiral. Admiral Sanguinetti. who bureaucrats. whether in Havana. Hanoi or Lisbon, who ran in thc March elections on the Sl' ticket. dcl'ended could be portrayed cynicall.'- as resolute opponents of U.S. Frcnch colonial butcherv in lndochina and Algcria and imperialism. But with their positive orientation to pra ised t hc "democrac\"' ol H itler's Weh rmacht ! Ol'cou rse, the Mandelites are now tailing CP tops ()n platlorm such Eurocommunism this -lrotskvistthe l.CR kept mum about r,r'ho desire to break down barriers to Washington. l'undamental positions as class opposition to Mandel's endless maneuvers aimed at conjuring up a "new popular 1'ronts and unconditional delensc ol'the Soviet mass vanguard" lead him to follow the shift to the right in LJ nion. lnstead. l-CR spokesman Bensaid concentrated his radical petty-bourgeois opinion. Thus the Mandelites have rcmarks on cchoing the attacks ol'the Eurocommunists on crawled back to the "bureaucratic apparatuses" which they thc "model ol the Soviet revolution" and posting thc spurned only yesterday: and from there to tailing popular conlinued on nexl Page Mandel (!elt) demagogically claims that Carrillo (right) "completely rehabllitates" Andrds Nin, the Spanish POUM leader (t murdered by the Stalinists. o o ln facl, Carrillo condemns o Nin's role in the 6 Barcelona May Days as o o "an act of treason." l aD o SPARTACIST "cohabitation" ol' the "denrocratic" institutions ol' bour- nists are seeking an ever greater integration within their gcois dictatorship u'ith "proletarian democracl'" after the "own" bourgeois order. His article begins on a seemingly rcr olution. orthodox Trotskvist note: "More than anything else Capitulation to thc popular I'ront has led the Mandelites Eurocommunism represents a codification of the right- to oricnt ttru,ard the righti.tt currents in Western European u'ard evolution of the West European Communist parties Stalinism as ucll as their social-democratic would-be allies. since the Scventh Congress of the Comintern." Moreol'er. "Euro-l-rotskf isnr"-as thc Mandelite linc was so aptly hc admits that "the decisive factor" motivating the CP dubbed bv that Spanish prophet of Eurocommunism, leaderships is the attempt "to overcome parliamentarv Fcrnando Claudin. at thc Mav t.CR föte-represents a isolation. and to link up with Social Democracl and the signil'icant social-democratization of the USec majority. lts 'l iberal' bourgeoisie." adaptation to Eurocommunism put the centrist Mandelites But lor Mandelite "dialectics" there are t$o sides to on a rightist. anti-So\iet course uhich led to a genuine cvcrv contradiction: that u'hich e.rists in rc'alitr and that though limitcd narro\\ing ol dil'lerences with its main u'hich exists as an objectif'ication o1'opportuni\t appetite. 'l'hus lactional opponcnt rvithin the USec. the visccrallv social- this high priest ol' Pabloism writes: dcnrocratic Amcrican Socialist Workers l'art1' (SWP). "l- rom lhc historical standpoint h\r\\ ii\ cr. Eu- 'fo datc thc most slnthetic prescntation o[ the [JSec rocontrtttrnisnl r\ n()t srmpll'a conl;r:tJl:.rn rrl the (f urthcr) rightsard turn ol'most \\:.t E:r-rrpean the recent ol th; majoritl''s linc on Eurocommunism is book by ('ommunrst partrc: It also represent. r:r_{i:::urn under Mandel cntitlcd f'rtttn Stalittistrt to f-urtx'ortttrtuttisttr particular conditions. rtew in atul ttl 1i11 ,t'', .. F rr:t. it is (l97tJ). lts kcr chapter is "-fhree Facets of EuroCommu- occurring during a period ol'rising and ..r::!'llm3) \tormv nism." u hich lrrst appearcd as an articlc in the Mandelite upsurgc ol nrass struggles in Southern F,-:rpe.
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