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ar Fuylaiv. Chetlongot .Evoryono knows that liboration and socialism can't bo nogotiated for. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE ONLY WAY ~~ SOCIALISM CAN BE WON IS BY DRIVING OUT THE OPPRESSOR. « ‘And this is oxactly what tho Viotnamoso pooplo wero doing so woll until tho rovisionists in Moscow and Ranoi agreed to soll thom out to U,S, imporialisn.. stevl Jo.) - Tt scoms that tho north Vietnamoso loadors, by ontors +. .4ing tho phonoy negotiations in tho first placo, ero” bartoring eway tho hard won offorts of revolutionary « forecs on tho battlofiola, 4 .. w ROUT pigpito a few monningloss iitteranéss to’ tho contrary, PL opposos nogotias , tiohs in principlo, ‘hoy agruo! all tho ovils of nogotiations "...ncgotiations, whothor in Cambodia or Disnoylend aro a sot back for Pooplos Wars 1+ > Now many good pooplo viow thé fight ovor a site as ° “bickering instead of tho U.S, boing viowod es a” -% { - barbarous ageressoyy tho U.S. canonly bo logitimizod’ - by tho Viotnamse. . ‘ . _ - ity And onco moro: ates ~ “Tho logic of negotiations must adversoly affect tho moralo of 413 retdlttionaries north and south, Once -o> + again, inasmuch as thore is nothing to really nego- : -- tiate except the Pooples ‘ar in the south, unity between north and southpmst be undermined by the eall for negotiations. . te tod But some will say: "You are not really being fair. You are quoting what you want to quote, Tho PLP has in fact stated that negotiations is a tactic,” So we will quote in full this position of PL and seo how, in fact, it does not affect our charge at all. - + Nogotdations, like elections, are no+ moro than tactics whose validity can bo judged only by the standard of | tho strategy for soizing state power form the imperialists _ for the purpose of setting up a workers! dictatorship * - over the imperialists, As an oxemplo-=in 1949 the Chinose Tormunists engaged in negotiations with the Kuomintang. :' But firsttho Communists had shattered the Kuomintang army and put its remants to flight, hed disintegrated its : - political organization, had isolated the Kuomintang ~ * from every soction of the Chinese population and had won the support of ell the democratic parties and peoplos' organizations. As far’as the nogotiations : wero concerned the conmunists insisted that tho Kuomin- _tang accept in advance all tho ccmmnhists' terms in |. their ontirety and allowed no bergaining. The purpose of tho negotiations, in Mao's words, was to 'roduce many . obstacles to our advanco into thggouth and to tha-teko- - over of the big cities thoro...'17 a oo - PL States that "this is en example of the propor tactical use of negotiations,"18 what in fact they do is to choose e givon exemple of ncgotia~ ticns which thoy feol will support their slendcr of tho Vietnamese. PL mokes it sound like this is the ONLY CIACUMSTANCE under which negotiations 4s communist practice, PL is saying that total military and political hogemony is the. pre= requisite for ncgotiations--that nogotiations is the icing on the cako. In fact, 11) content footnote _ Be : - 12) Fao Tso Tung, Quotations, p. 175 . os . 2 "Black Liberation Program," Progressive Labor (Fobruary, 1969), pe 19. 1 "Bow Low Can You Got?" Progrossive Labor (ino, 1968), p. 18. 15) Ibid. - ae : : : 16) Frogrossivo Labor (March-April, 1968),p. 10. : “. 4 Bditoréel, Progresive Labor (Yol. 6, No. 6), February, 1969, Pe Ve. Ibid, ~~ ~ > 3 eS a