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Today we are excited
to announce the formation of a new Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collective in the
Kansas City metropolitan area: The Kansas City Revolutionary Collective (KCRC).
This is no small announcement as Kansas City has been without a Communist
movement for some time now, other than Anarchist collectives the KC Left void
is filled by the Alphabet soup of NGOs, Non-profits and otherwise
“non-partisan” groups. How perfect of a day to announce the formation of our
collective than on International Workers Day, the only holiday the proletariat
can call it’s own. It is on this day where we walk in a tradition of those came
before us; from the day the Red flag flew over Paris to the Red flag over
Peking to the day the Red flag will fly over Manila. We are here to serve our
role in advancing the world proletarian revolution. KCRC was in formation
during the crisis that would come to later dissolve the Liaison Committee for a
New Communist Party and has weathered the storm to push forward and cast aside
the corpse that is the NCP(LC) to form a collective, small at first, but with
the mission to revolutionize, educate and most importantly mobilize the
oppressed communities in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. We seek to
form a rival dual power to challenge and overthrow the capitalist and
imperialist system that is in place. KCRC seeks to integrate ourselves into and
promote mass struggles, while simultaneously providing communist leadership, as
well as when necessary create mass organizations to take on the task of
building the tools and infrastructure which shall be the vehicle of carrying
out the revolutionary tasks of the proletariat. Through the creation of these
mass organizations, united under the ideological and political leadership of
KCRC, the basis of the unity of the revolutionary masses, on which the
construction of dual power depends, can be solidified. As such Kansas City
Revolutionary Collective (KCRC) shall be founded on the following basis:
1) We are Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
The principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) shall be the guiding force which shall inform the political practice and ideology of the Kansas City Revolutionary Collective. As an independent Maoist collective we recognize Kansas City, albeit more important than others give it credit to (it is a central hub for commerce) cannot exist in isolation, as can no other revolutionary collective in this country. With this in mind we are for the creation of a Maoist Communist Party in the United States and shall organize to create such a Party to lead a proletarian revolution composed of all oppressed peoples in this country as part of the global proletarian revolution. This party shall lead the proletariat in a Socialist Revolution in which the bourgeoisie shall be completely overthrown and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat established with the goal of elimination of all class distinctions and the eventual victory of Communism around the globe. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism represents the summary practice and synthesis of over 150 years of revolutionary class struggle with four focal points: The Paris Commune, The Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Each progressive period marked a continuity and rupture with the pre-existing modes of thinking of the day, in each one, lessons and summations were drawn only after the fact. In classifying the revolutionary ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism we also are drawn to three main components in the realm of philosophy, political economy and scientific socialism.
i) In the realm of philosophy Maoism has developed and
stressed the fundamental law of contradiction, the unity and struggle of
opposites as the principal law in nature and society. It has stressed and
recognized that all unity is temporal while struggle between opposites is
absolute and endless which gives rises to radical ruptures, revolutionary leaps
and continuity-breaks in social struggles which was popularized in the phrase
“one divides into two”. In this realm as well Maoism has stressed that the best
gauge for the correctness of social theory was only through social practice and
that this was the well from which all knowledge streamed, and it is only gauged
if it is taken up by the masses in the millions. It is then through this in
which the understanding of the “masses make history” comes together, and in
providing leadership to the masses by applying the mass line by first
gathering the unsystematic and scattered ideas of the masses, concentrating
them and through study turning them into systematic and concrete ideas and
returning them to the masses until they embrace them as their own. Through
actions and the testing of ideas through social practice.
ii) In the realm of political economy Maoism
recognizes the reciprocal relationship between the structure and the
superstructure of a given society and stresses that under socialism special
attention must be paid to ensuring that the construction occurs in content and
form in which politics is primary. In essence Maoism stresses that it is
politics in command, that is revolutionary politics of the proletariat in
command, which is the marker which determines whether the dictatorship of the
proletariat exists. Maoism thus states that revisionism in command thus is the
beginning of the return of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie through seizure
of the commanding heights: The Communist Party itself. As well as due to the
contradictory nature of the transitional socialist economy, the Party-State,
the retention of a wage-labour system, the existence of, albeit a suppressed,
law of value etc. The lessons drawn here is the important role of the
subjective forces and superstructure can transform the base through political
power as opposed to the economic deterministic theory of the productive forces.
Because of the transitional nature of socialism and the existence of the state
as a marker of irreconcilable differences between classes Maoism also
recognized the existence of class struggle under socialism which could be of a
low-level of intensity or of a higher one (cultural revolution) but which would
exist until the dissolution of classes and the state with it.
iii) In the realm of scientific socialism
Maoism is marked by the theory of class struggle and its existence during the
dictatorship of the proletariat as well as it’s centrality in the construction
of socialism. It is also characterized by the strategy and tactics of the
revolution through People’s War led by the revolutionary Communist party of the
proletariat, proletarian feminism, the national question, the mass line as well
as the classline.
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