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tee a ee oe aan adie LAR Ns co EEL laliamiac cea ie Rada Sar TE sata cake alate = - = o lumpen- -8 9 aA alsllmaliseh scomaaatl ion ms ian tang anarchism ultimstely means attacking the working class as well as the etate,) but in this obvious historical fact lies the danger of dogmatisu, which ignores living reality for historical certainty, The dogmatists, best chiracterized by the Progressive Labor Farty and other varieties of Trotskyites, see the struggles of any grovp other than the proletariat as inconsequential if not downright counterrevolutionary, PL carries this so far that they assert that students and street peopJe are not part of the people at all, Because they assume that “when Mao or Lenin talked of the people they were referri only) to workers and peasants," they arrive et the preposterous couclusion that “the ‘fight for People's Park was a reactionary struggle." (The Battle of Berkeley, PL pamphie pp. 7-9) Unlike PL, Marxfsts-Leninists understand that theory must be based on objecti reality, They conclude, therefore, that the key revolutionary tesk at the present mome: is spreading the intcusely political strupgle of the alienated and the dispossessed to the working class a8 a whole, which, mired in economism, can win its own battle only in revolution, There is nothing automatic or certain dbout the relation betucen the present Insurgenci: and the working class, On the contrary, there is an extreme danger that the contradict. between the lumpenproletariat and the working class may become antagonistic (particular if the workers were to listen to PL), Workers may perceive anarchic rebellion as a hreat to the marginal security they have been able to win from the ruling class, Stud. and street people. occupy a houSing development from which working-class pecplic have bee evicted, and then derand that this be a free People's Pad, while workers in the surroun. neighbernocd caniot afford the rent they are being forced to pay. That part of the Luapenprolecariat thet consists of students who have dzopped cut of petit beurgeois professional, and bourgeois families has been -filied with the most virulent anti -vorkin, cless fceas, And the lunpenproletariat js, aftet all, a parasitic class thet lives off the lsber of the working class, This all means chat the tack of first linking and then uniting the struggles of the lumpenproletariat and the working class is not enly essent. but extremely difficult, Among Third World people, there is a less clear demarcation between lumperproletariat an? working class than there is between street people and tha white working class, Black and Prown vorkers are the last hired and the first fired, so that a large per- centage knows what it is to be auong the unerploycd, Hany Black and Brewn women ere on welfare or enployed in part-time “domestic” (i.e, servile) positions, The Black Pauthcr Party has shown the way to unite lumpenproletariat with working class--by constantly developing practical prograns to Serve the Pecple in areas where the oppress of the Llurpenpreietariet is an extreme form of the oppression suffered by Black workin: people, Begiweing with a base almost entirely vithin the lumpenproletariat and conmitt to defending the pcople against police brutality, the Panthers now have wide support emeng Black workers, and thanks to the Breakfast for Children program, threughout the Black comacnity, What has been central to this success has been the Fanthers' refusal to take the opportunistic course of organizing around lumpenproletariat domands per se, but recther orgenuizing through the Lompenproletariat as the most victimized members of the Black t2ople and therefore as ones capable of raising demands for the people as 4 wnele, Although now and agein contradictions have intensified between lumpenprolyrarict aud working class within the Third World conmuntetes » it new Seems certain that TOWNE tdovary leadership, nationel oppression, and the intensifying cris BLOT GACY staGrasiiap, foe ks ppe ces ,Orn, mad Che pukens RAYE erauis 4a itohl eeabine to forge revolutionary unity, In the mother country, the problems ave far wore difficult, Cesteinly the lesson oF the Panthers, Serve the People, is just as crucial here, to say the least, The prinvcipal orgenizing concept here wust be the Revolutionary Youth Movencut, which ts -tiede wecessary and pessible by cross-class youth culture, the draft avd jmperialist vat. AS high saerpicyrent anonp, youth, and the pigs, i 4 site 4 aa — He aE py ee ge oe ser ae Pesta aaa ete 5 aetpmaste + whee Gin eck cae a ee me 2 ae once nt lace tel dM got