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ee . . ere ee See Ene cone rae reve | i . | ; | . | Peer as on ase rd . ‘ ~ yal fd eae) i a ee eee LLM, stato on eucar Nouveau. Chellongo: a noose ego: ; . wtle wird: :o%..Bveryono knows that Miboration and socialism can't “0 "™*s a“: ori. bo mogotlated for. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE ONLY WAY ~*~” va hs SOCTALISM CAN BE WON IS BY DRIVING OUT THE OPPRESSOR. + | city e° 2" And this is oxactly what tho Viotnamoso pooplo waro . '. : of.2. doting so well until tho rovisionists 4n Moscow and |) Ranoi agreed to soll thom out to U,S, imporialism... steel c22: © Jt sooms that tho north Vietnamoso loadors, by enter? ° felucc.-+.4ng tho phonoy negotiations in the first placo, ere" =: * ry .f VAL VO Dai Sw, Wee spies es See ee Jt forees on tho battlofiola, ys, wal .. a a tiohs in principle, ‘hoy agruo: all tho ovils of negotiations: "..-ncgotiations, whother in Cambodia or Disnoylend aro a sot back for Pooplos ‘Var. * And againt aa e La : wT “.. Dospite a few monningloss iittoranéos to tho contrary, PL opposos neg 7 * ied ny ot oe the nee: bee cuviy-t- 1+ > Now many good pooplo viow thé fight ovor a sito as ~~ .. -bickoring instoad of tho U.8, boing viowod es aU weed fie.» barbarous agErossoy; tho U.S.. canonly bo logitimlzod -*- “And onco morons UE See os : - tus, :Tho logie of nogotiations must advorsoly’ affoct tho eae nad aay Yo. moralg of ALL rexblttionaries north and south, (ce ~*~ + : vol ine: - again, inasmuch as there is nothing to really negoe- + - hate “ud: .- tdate except the Peoples "‘ar in tha south, unity Me Trt ‘between north and south mst be undermined by the ee eall for negotiations, But some will say: "You are not really being fair, You are quoting what you want to quote, Ths PLP has in fact stated that negotiations is a tactic,” ‘, So we will quote in full this position of PL and see how, in fact, it does not ore affect our charge at all. . wo _ , wh - + Negotiations, like elections, are no: more than tactics a .: +2 . whose validity can be judged only by the standard of _ the strategy for scizing state power form the imperialists _for the purpose of setting up a workers! dictatorship rn _; over the imperialists, As an examplo--in 1949 the Chinese. ‘ |... ‘fomunists engaged in negotiations with the Kuomintang. © - i. . |' But firsttho Communists had shattered the Kuomintang army | “hy. and put its remnants to flight, hed disintegrated its - _, politdeal organization, had isolated the Kuomintang ~ ’ from every section of the Chinese population and had won the support of ell the democratic parties and me , _ peoplost organizations. As far’as the nogotiations «=. elon. ah woos: were eoncerned the communists insisted that the Kucmin= " "°° tang accopt in advance all the ccmmnists' terms in | _ ‘their ontirety and allowed no bergaining. The purpose - of tho negotiations, in Mao's words, was to ‘reduce many ‘ TO obstacles to our 2dvanco into thgsouth and to tha.tcko- =~ _ ot over of tha big eitics theroe...! 7 . ae VoD Vl Gi oS Cflbits 7 PL States that "this is an example of the propor tactical use of negotiations."'9 What in fact they do is to ‘choose e givon exemple of negotia- ticns which thoy feel will support their slendcr of tho Vietnamese. PL mekes it sound like this is the ONLY CIRCUMSTANCE under which negotiations is ccamunist practice, PL is saying that total military and political hogemony is the. pre- requisite for negotiations--that nogotiations is the icing on the cako. In fact, te 43} content footnote - bee, 12} Mao Tso Tung, Gtotations, p. 175 . ae 43) "Black Liberation Program," Progressive Labor (Fobruary, 1969), pe 19. - ih) "How Low Can You Got?" Progressive Tabor (Juno, 1968), p. 18. 15) oid. | ee Ts a 2 Progroszivo Labor (March-April, 1968),p. 10. wo, ” Bdatoréal, Progresive Labor (Vol. 6, No. 6), February, - 1969, Pe Pe. id. wT Te 0 1 ~ : . . on om f - on