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: of revolutionarios. Tha considerable 4nfluonce of rtadls class and formorly . 2 middlo class olomonts ductd tho historical poowldaritios of tho movement in : the U.S. means that bet must mltiply our vigilanco “in provonting inporialist- . _ Adcology from domin:tion tho movoment of wassos and blunting the grcving rovolu. tionary upsurge. alsv mist be borne in mind that sinco” revisionism is clearly °i,. the primary dangor within revolutionary ranks, it cannot bo fought effectir ‘ with simply another varioty of rovisionisn maskod in "Loft* Phrasosy THE VIETHAMESE WAR OF NATIONAL LEBERAGIOM AND REUNIFICATION : UT, ) FiPts Incorrect Thoory_ of Stagos -. Toh position of tho Progrosivo Labor Party on. tho Viotnamoso foopls's strugglo for national liboration and’ reunificationis 4 primo example of those: ~~ "loft" orrors,s Tho Chineso havo.ccrrectly pointod out that tho principal contra= “diction in tho world today, tho one whoso solution is key to solving ell otbor contradictions, the one that 4s sharpest, is the contradiction betwon the U.S. Amporislist ruling class andthe oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin dagrica, In the world todex the sharpest manifestation of that principal contra | . Giction is tho struggle being waged by tho peopla of South Vietnam and their brothers in the North egainst tne ruling circles in tho. United States and their puppets in Saigon. - - + ge Dw Fobruary issuc of Progressive Labor magazina oxprossos quite cloarly © |. thoir inability to grasp tho principal contradiction of our time and its parti- _ eularity in tho Vietnimoso people's war. They advocate e tots]ly confused notion of the stages of struggleand the nethods for advencing the struggle. They state: at + poasantsto fight for ths dictatorship of the - - prolotarict as the eee way they can determine ~ s -" thedr +1 destiny.” P Ghalies eddod) oe Mba 7c 4 H : ~ Ve also call ‘upon. the Vietnemess workers and =; ii H Furthers ; Soe . : If the imperialists actod to physically destroy thismovenent wo would support at egeinst impor “Galisn. “Wo would support it by fighting for the dictatorsldp of tho prolotariat as the snlysotution.9 And again: . This is our attitude in regard to Vietnam, Though : . mo we no longer believethat the Vietnamese leedcrship =~ nT ds fighting for the dictatorship of tho prolotzrict, an " we support the efforts of the people ageinst imporielism and-domandtho U.S. Got Out Now, rogardloss of what typo, ofgovornnentthe Vietnamese wish to sot up.? 3 PLP has advanced a clever combination of false “Sdoology end tridindlogy.. Tho trick is to suggest that tho Viotnemeso havo abandonod somo oarlior goal to fighting for the dictatorship of tho proletariat whon in fect thoy novor put forward that formulation es thoir immediate goal. Tho socond trick is te pro- claim "support" but to qualify that support by making it contingont.on ‘fight- - ing for the dictatorship of the proletariat," If the dictatorship of the pro- lotariat is not tho corroct goal at this stage, as we vill show, then such "support" comos to nothing but psoudorevolutionary phrasomongering which under mines tho st: lo and throws confusion into car ranks, ~ . ‘en vin that Web's Thought ropresontsthe highest. expression of sore Marxisn-Lonini i vin our ora. Why do vo say that? For ono thing, it mms tho and the Chinose Communist Party that solved the problom of how to conduct revolu- tion in a colonial and somi-coloniel country, and how to link that revolution up with tho socizlist ievolution. Tho result way tho Tibsration of ono fourth of mankind from feudalism and imporialism and the creation of a body of theory to guide the struggles ofothor opprossed pocples. Moo pointod out that tho rovolution is @ividod into two elesoly related but scparate stages. ‘Tha two stagos aro the nov-domocratic stagoand tho socialist stago, THo first stago ~ establishes the pooplo's dinoorstie dictetorship and the sccond.ostablichos on dictatorship of the Frolotariat, Tt is inpes: sible to roach tho socialist stago T) content footnote. Seo th writ. Ainge of Lonin and Stalin, pspoctally . ‘the History of tho Conmnist Party of tho Soviot Union, by Stelin and the Contral