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armen . - _ o . ' mo, ‘ PLPts Incorrect Thoory of Stages ene inate the eee . aa of revolut4onarioss Tha ‘considerable snflnoneo or riddlo class ‘and formorly middlo class olomonts dueto tho historical poculdaritiss of tho movement in: a _ the U.S. means that wo mst mltiply our vigilanco “in proventing inporialist ; ae “ ddeclogy from domination tho movement of masses and blunting the greving rovolu- - tionary upsurge. It aiso must be borne in mind that sinco revisionism is clearly - the primary dangor within revolutionary ranks, 4t cannot bo fought effectively |: with simply another varioty of rovisionism maskod ain "Loft® phrases, ” _ THE VIETHEMESE WAR OF NATIONS AL LIBERATION AND REWNEFICATION : te te ee ~ 1. Poh posttion of tho Progrosivo Labor Party on. tho Wiotname so ‘peopla!s struggle for national liboration and’ reunificationils 4 primo example of thoso:: "left" errors, The Chineso have.ccrreetly pointed out that tho principal contra “diction in tho world today, tho ono vhoso solution is key to solving ell] otbor .. _ eontradictions, the one that 4s sharpost, is ths contradiction betwoon the US. ‘+ dmperialist ruling class andthe oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin - --— . America, In the world todex the sharpest manifestation of that principal contres ] . Giction is the struggle being waged by the peopla of South Vietnam and their brothers in the North against the ruling circles in the. United States and their “puppets in Saigon... - . Ino Fobruary issuc of Progressive labor magazina axpressos quite clearly * thoir inability to grasp tho principal contradiction of our time and its parti- — ‘eularity in tho Vietnimeso people's war. They advocate 2 totelly confused notion ~~ of the stages of strugeleand the nethods for advancing the struggle. They state: Me also call ‘upon. 1 the Vietneneso workers and — vat wo, ne poasantsto fight for ths dictatorship of the - ~ - Eas * prolotarict as the pooly way they can determine Me a FR. their a destiny.? 7 GE alies eddod) “s fe If the inperialists acted to physically destroy — thi smovonent we would support at against impor- “4alisn, “We would support it by fighting for the . 5 dictatorship of the prolotariat as as th: sulysolution,9 _ And again: | , eee Dee Toa, This is our attitude in regard to Vietnam, Though ‘ we no longer believethat the Vietnamese leadership ee ds fighting for the dictatorship of the proleteriat, uy "we support the efforts of the people agsinst inporialism . and-demandthe 0.5. Get Gut Now, rogardloss of vhat type, ee ofgovernment the Vietnamese wish to set up." . cet PLP has advanced.a clever combination ‘of false “Sae0logy and tricknélogy,. ' Tho not trick is to suggest that the Vietnamese havo abandoned somo oarlior goal to- fighting for the dictatorship of tho prolctariat whon in fact thoy nevor put forward thet formation as their immodiate goal. Tho socond trick is te pro~ claim "support" but to qualify that support by making it contingent.on ‘fight- - ing for the dictatorship of tho proletariat," If the dictatorship of the pro- letariat is not tho corroct goal at this- stipe, as we vill show, then such . "support" comos to nothing but psoudorevolutionary phrasomongoring ‘hich under- mines tho strugzgla end throws confusion into car ranks, Ue maintain that MS's Thought roprosonisthe highest. oxpresst ton of Pepe Marxism-Leninism 3n our ora. Why do vo say that? For ono thing, it ws Mo _ end the Chinose Yommmist Party that solved the problom of how to conduct rovolus _ tion in « colonial and sonmi-colonial country, and how to link that revolution i up with the socielist revolution, The result was tho Tibsration of ono fourth of mankind from foudalism and imporialism and the creation of a body of theory to guide the struggles ofethor opprossed peoples. Noo pointed out that the revolution is dividod inte two eclesoly related but scparate stages. Tha two stages aro the nov-domocratic stagoand tho socialist stage. Tio first stago ~ establishes the pooplo's dimocratic dictetorship and the sccond.ostobliches tho dictatorship of the Froletariat. Tt is impossitle +o roach tho socialist stago “ I} content footnote. See th writ 4ngs of lonin and Stalin, papoctally | the History of the ConmurAst Party of tho Sovist Union, by Stelin and the Contrad