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oc x & , ede neces lumpen--8 anarchism ultimately 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 characterized by the Progressive Labor Farty and other varieties of Trotskyites, see the struggles of any group other than the proletariat as inconsequential if not downright counterrevolutionary, PL carries this so far that they assert that students and street people 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 pamphle pp, 7-9) Unlike PL, Marxists-Loninists understand that theory must be based on objecti- reality, They conclude, therefore, that the key revolutionary tesk et the present momez is spreading the intcusely political struggle of the alienated and the disporsessed 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 iff the workers were to listen to PL), Workers may perceive anarchic rebellion as a reat 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 people have bee evicted, and then derand that this be a free People's Pad, while workers in the surroun. neighberhood caniot afford the rent they are being forced to pay. That part of the luapenproletariat thet consists of students who have dzopped out of petit beurgeois, professional, and bourgeois families has been filled with the most virulent anti-worhin, class fceas, And the lumpenproletariat js, aftet all, a parasitic class thet lives off the laber of the working class, This all means that the tack of first linking and then uniting the slruggles of the lumpenproletariat and the working class is net enly essent. tut extremely difficult, Among Third World people, there is a less clear demarcation between lumpenprolctariat and vorking class than there is between street people aud the white working class, Black and Broun vorkers are the last hired and the first fired, so that a large per- centage knows what it is to be among the unenployed, Many 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 prograus to Serve the Pecple in areas where the oppress of the lurpenproletertet is an extreme form of the oppression suffered by Black workin: people, Beginaing with a base almost entirely vithin the lumpenproletariat and coumitt to defending the people against police brutality, the Panthers now have wide support emeng Black vorkers, and thanks to the Breakfast for Children program, throughout the What has been central to this success has been the Tauthers' refusal <e the opportunistic course of organizing around lumpenproletariat mands per secs nther orgenizing through the lumpenproletariat as the most victimized members of the Black people and therefore as ones capable of raising demands for the people as 2 wacle, Although now and agein contradictions have intensified het luppenproleraric? aud working class within the Third World communities, it new seems certain that revoiu tiorary leadership, national oppression, and the intensifying crisis of imperialism vii" cembine to forge revolutionary unity, In the mothar ccuntry, the problems ave far nore difficult, Cezteinly the lesson oF the Panthers, Serve the People, is just as crucial here, to say the least, ‘The privesp2l organizing concept here must be the Revolutionary Youth Moveucnt, which is sary and possible by crose-class youth culture, the draft and imperialist wai. among, youth, and the pigs, '