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-The NLF has put forth its goals quite cloarly on rumorous o¢casions, tho most -prossion of our intornational solidarity with tho Victramoso, ae aa very closely with"ts counterpart in tho north, ‘tho Lao Déag or Yorkor's Party, recent of which was on Novcmbor 3, 1968. ‘kb ropoat thoso hore honoring the quost of Mno, Nguyon Thi Binh, doputy hoad of tho NLF dolcgation in Paris, to “mako thoso positions known to tho peeplo of tho United Statos,” and as an'cx 1, Soxth Viotnam is absolutoly dotorminod to struggle for tho achicvomont of its sacrod rights ofindependones, domocracy, poaco, noutrality, _ progross and tho country's unification. woe ~ 2, Amorican imperialism must ‘ond tho war of ~— - aggrossion and withdrew all U.S, and satellito - troops and all war material from South Viotnam = ahd liquidate tho military bases. . ee - 3. South Wotnan's internal affairs must bo - * Settled by tho South Victnamesc pooplos thom= % solves without foroighinterferonce, ~ ” . 4, Tho quostion of reunification mst bosottlod + ~ graduallyvby thoViotnameso poople in both parts of the country in a peaccful mannor, by moans of consultations and agreoments, without forcign ~ interforcneo.: SE . 5. South Vietnam will pursuc a foreign policy of poace and noutrality, It will not conclude’ military > ‘ alliances with fercign countrios and will osteblish - friondly relations with all states in confogmity with tho principles of peaceful cooxistonce. It should bo noted t hat tho PLP has not yot publishod these principles and has instead wagod a slanderous attack against thom, distorting thom whon possiblo.and opposing what 4s corroct in thon, . . Any attempt to sclvo tte probloms of Viotnam at this stago of tho strugglo by tho "acthed of socialist’ revolution" 4s bound to drive a wodgo botwocn tho working class and its allios t horoby undormining tho strugglo and guarantcoing the dcfoat of tho revolutionary forcos..It is this consequence, isc. defeat for tho people, and not tho identity of tho viow with classic Trotekyism that must be kept uppermost in our minds. ‘bo should also not overlook the fuet that PL's "theory of stages" is not original but ‘has- a preecdsnt of tho most degenerate form cf "loft" opportunism in the cemmunist movement. PLts sez thoory that "all nationalism is recctionary" . Tho PL lcsdership, dn order to carry out thoir rozctionsry Mine or, Viotnam and oppose the Black people's miovement havo boon forced to roviso ‘tho Marxist-Leninist approach to "nationalism" but yot aro parading as -ctanding of @iatcotioni legic. supporters of tho Thought of Meo, "All nationelsim is reactionary" sums up tho viow of PLP on the subjoct, “As wo will soc,tho denial of tH.o now domocratie stago moans onbracing tho idoology of vhite national chauvinism, It weans contempt for tho national-oxistence ofthe Vietnamese pooplo and is 2 erude attompt et national nihilism. In its most sophisticated form (which -- $5 seldom exprossed oxcopt whon PL has thoir backs to tho well), they arguo that "nationalism as an idooloey 48 roactdonayy" or "tho lattor loyalty» | ant crnstionalism--is a fundamontal Mancdst-Loninist idoa which runs oxactly eountor to nationelism."7. Ono really has to marvol at this docp grasp of a @ialctics. Is not the “sot of iders™ eallcd nationalism the opposite of, does it not ren oxnctly counter.to intersationalism? Al] that. Pi's propssiticn p: net” heva-nct gono-boyord the sehcolboy logic of Aristotle. 7 fernal logic without tho slightest undor- anslism dcos not float around us ac an ideology in tho al ifests a particular class contort as part of a real secial process yoTlocting.ckjectivo lawé and undergoing an evolution. lenin made this very closr when ho stated: - : gsen tho nattonal quostion, I havo elroady 1 abstract presentation of tho quostion nationslicm 4° of no use et ll, A distinction mst nocossarily be made: botweon the nationalism of an oppressor nation, and that of an oppressed nation, : ‘ 'n etdouns and» oF Raber a ee matine Re