STATEMENT ON THE QUEEN CITY MLM COLLECTIVE
On February 2nd, 2017, we are
excited to announce the formation of the Queen City Maoist Collective.
We believe that as a revolutionary organization, we are guided by the
scientific principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
MLM is a higher stage of Marxism-Leninism. It is necessary as the
objective conditions in the US call for application of the mass line,
criticism and self-criticism. Marxism-Leninism has become outdated as a
revolutionary science, fundamentally, because it has not been held
accountable to the masses, the people who are necessary to make
revolution. Most importantly, MLMs see that class struggle must continue
under socialism and that the end goal of communism is the most
important part of our struggle.
Some of our members are former candidate cadre with
Workers World Party, and we have fully broken with this organization. We
saw that there was no worth in trying to remain in the party and slowly
agitate for Maoism, instead we chose to rupture completely.
Legal-leftism and bureaucracy within WWP are among our
principled critiques that ultimately contributed to the creation of the
Queen City Maoist Collective. Some concerns and critique of WWP, while
based in a larger critique of legal-leftism, crossed over into liberal
subjectivity and anticommunism at times. Without pandering to
liberalism, we acknowledge the objective critique of the reformism
within WWP. Ultimately, building with the proletarian masses is more
important than scattered movementism.
In the coming period of rising fascism, we must take the
historic task of building for communism seriously. This includes the
scientific application of unity-struggle-unity as opposed to the
“struggle-struggle-struggle” characteristic of WWP.
A revolutionary communist party must be constantly
sharpening through both practice and theory. From the masses and to the
masses. We must provide leadership for our class in leading revolution
in this country and ultimately for worldwide communism. In this time
period, there are consistent attacks on our class, particularly on the
most oppressed. It is our duty to defend the most marginalized of our
class, centering their leadership and needs. Black and brown people are
the masses. Undocumented and immigrant people are the masses. Queer and
Trans people are the masses. Women and femmes are the masses. Muslim
people are the masses.
Make no mistake, these groups were historically oppressed
before Donald Trump. And they will be after if we don’t intentionally
make revolution, seize state power, suppress all reactionary elements
that will come up, and ultimately destroy all class division. The Queen
City Maoist Collective has the ultimate goal of linking up with other
Maoist collectives to form an MLM communist party in the US, to fight in
the immediate against attacks on the oppressed while building a party
ready to destroy capitalism-imperialism. The task of leaders is to build
more leaders and bring the masses to adopt MLM principles as their own.
No comments:
Post a Comment