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y Trevor Loudon
You may think the Occupy Wall Street movement is fading away. You may think that colder weather and tougher local authorities will see Occupy crumble into nothingness. You may think it was all much ado about nothing.
Well you may possibly be right, but the communist forces who have increasingly infiltrated the movement have a very different view.
To them Occupy signifies is the beginning of the end of capitalism. Occupy is a sign to Leninists the world over that we are entering revolutionary times, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Larry Holmes
The following excerpts are from opening remarks by Larry Holmes, First Secretary of the pro Cuba/North Korea Workers World Party, to the WWP national leadership meeting Dec. 17 in New York City.
We are in the opening stages of a wholly new epoch.
This epoch in all likelihood will be protracted and long. It will be uneven, it will be explosive, it will be fraught with dangers all of it necessary to that which we have been waiting so long for: the awakening of our global proletariat, and especially the awakening of that section of the proletariat whose development we are responsible for the working class of the U.S.
The epoch I am referring to is the beginning of the end of capitalism. The epoch will end with the destruction of capitalism and the expropriation of the capitalist class
To Holmes, capitalism has come to end of the road. It is the responsibility of Marxist-Leninists to hasten an inevitable process through organization and international solidarity.
The important point is that anti-capitalist consciousness is growing on a global basis. It is actually surging. Some of it is incipient, not well articulated; some of it is better articulated; some of it is articulated by those who are not real revolutionaries and who have another agenda with whom we have differences. All of that will be part of the terrain that we are developing and fighting.
The Party and the revolutionary movement and all who are moving in a revolutionary direction should not underestimate the depth of the radicalization of sections of the working class, especially the youth but not only the youth. Because radicalization, especially when it abets the struggle, becomes contagious.
And so, if the Party is ultimately going to play its role in helping our class to move toward what is sometimes called the maximum program socialist revolution it will be necessary for us to be very conscious, very meticulous and serious in how we go about it.
There are sections of the world capitalist class that are more aware than even the most militant sections of the working-class movement of the reality that this capitalist crisis is no garden variety crisis; but rather something infinitely more profound than all previous crises and more importantly, a crisis from which there is no way out.
This is no small matter because our class and its organizations cannot fight that which it does not fully understand. It goes without saying that we communists must assist the working class and the oppressed in defending all the gains, be they significant or meager gains, that are under relentless attack. However, let there be no illusions the epochal class struggle that is in the making on a global level will not be resolved on the basis of concessions or reforms, or a return to some semblance of capitalist stability. Those days are over.
It is important, henceforth, for us to see the possibility of socialist revolution no not tomorrow but neither as merely some idea that has no relevance to the class struggle today. To truly understand how unprecedented and irreversible the present world capitalist crisis is, is to understand that the question of the need for world socialist revolution is not something that can be postponed.
Whatever other work the Party undertakes in the day-to-day class struggle, we will not be of help to our class and only cause more confusion, if we fail to illuminate the road to the socialist revolution.
Holmes sees Occupy Wall Street as an a re-energization of the revolutionary movement young people not jaded by the sordid past failures of socialism, leading the way into a new, and final revolutionary upsurge. Holmes admits that revolutionaries of his generation need to catch the new red tide, or be left behind.
all of it here..
» US Communist Leader: OWS ‘a Wake Up Call to All Who Remain Committed to a Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Direction’ - Big Government
SNIP:
y Trevor Loudon
You may think the Occupy Wall Street movement is fading away. You may think that colder weather and tougher local authorities will see Occupy crumble into nothingness. You may think it was all much ado about nothing.
Well you may possibly be right, but the communist forces who have increasingly infiltrated the movement have a very different view.
To them Occupy signifies is the beginning of the end of capitalism. Occupy is a sign to Leninists the world over that we are entering revolutionary times, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Larry Holmes
The following excerpts are from opening remarks by Larry Holmes, First Secretary of the pro Cuba/North Korea Workers World Party, to the WWP national leadership meeting Dec. 17 in New York City.
We are in the opening stages of a wholly new epoch.
This epoch in all likelihood will be protracted and long. It will be uneven, it will be explosive, it will be fraught with dangers all of it necessary to that which we have been waiting so long for: the awakening of our global proletariat, and especially the awakening of that section of the proletariat whose development we are responsible for the working class of the U.S.
The epoch I am referring to is the beginning of the end of capitalism. The epoch will end with the destruction of capitalism and the expropriation of the capitalist class
To Holmes, capitalism has come to end of the road. It is the responsibility of Marxist-Leninists to hasten an inevitable process through organization and international solidarity.
The important point is that anti-capitalist consciousness is growing on a global basis. It is actually surging. Some of it is incipient, not well articulated; some of it is better articulated; some of it is articulated by those who are not real revolutionaries and who have another agenda with whom we have differences. All of that will be part of the terrain that we are developing and fighting.
The Party and the revolutionary movement and all who are moving in a revolutionary direction should not underestimate the depth of the radicalization of sections of the working class, especially the youth but not only the youth. Because radicalization, especially when it abets the struggle, becomes contagious.
And so, if the Party is ultimately going to play its role in helping our class to move toward what is sometimes called the maximum program socialist revolution it will be necessary for us to be very conscious, very meticulous and serious in how we go about it.
There are sections of the world capitalist class that are more aware than even the most militant sections of the working-class movement of the reality that this capitalist crisis is no garden variety crisis; but rather something infinitely more profound than all previous crises and more importantly, a crisis from which there is no way out.
This is no small matter because our class and its organizations cannot fight that which it does not fully understand. It goes without saying that we communists must assist the working class and the oppressed in defending all the gains, be they significant or meager gains, that are under relentless attack. However, let there be no illusions the epochal class struggle that is in the making on a global level will not be resolved on the basis of concessions or reforms, or a return to some semblance of capitalist stability. Those days are over.
It is important, henceforth, for us to see the possibility of socialist revolution no not tomorrow but neither as merely some idea that has no relevance to the class struggle today. To truly understand how unprecedented and irreversible the present world capitalist crisis is, is to understand that the question of the need for world socialist revolution is not something that can be postponed.
Whatever other work the Party undertakes in the day-to-day class struggle, we will not be of help to our class and only cause more confusion, if we fail to illuminate the road to the socialist revolution.
Holmes sees Occupy Wall Street as an a re-energization of the revolutionary movement young people not jaded by the sordid past failures of socialism, leading the way into a new, and final revolutionary upsurge. Holmes admits that revolutionaries of his generation need to catch the new red tide, or be left behind.
all of it here..
» US Communist Leader: OWS ‘a Wake Up Call to All Who Remain Committed to a Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Direction’ - Big Government
