My Comments on MPP's piece: "Unity and Struggle" is Utterly Revisionist

By A. Gelabert, Texas, U.S. Political Prisoner USA.
I found the MPP reply to "Unity and Struggle" brilliant and endorse it wholeheartedly. It is Leninist and Maoist. Your observation that in the United States (US) of 1997, there is no longer a peasantry, but a rural proletariat, is accurate. Also, those who are actually working the farms, sewing the clothes, building the houses, doing the hardest construction works, the ones in the service industry, the dishwashers, the low-paid waiters and waitresses, most non-union temporary workers in refineries, chemical plants and other industries and plants, who earn much less than the unionized permanent workers, make up the true US proletarians. In summary, all the lowest paid but essential jobs without which the US could not function, are done by this growing proletariat.

It is important to note that overwhelmingly this proletariat comes from Latin America. We, the 1997 "niggers" and "coolies," are also the most revolutionary class in the US today.

US born Afro-American and "Hispanics" are still more exploited than the so-called "Anglos," however after the 1960's equal rights movement and laws, Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE)/Affirmative Action (AA) Act, a sizable number of US born Afro-Americans and Hispanics joined the ranks of the worker's aristocracy or became self-employed. They generally take a right leaning petty bourgeoisie and compradore bourgeoisie position in US society.

As you know, even those higher-paid workers are now under attack with the "downsizing" and "merging" policies of the corporations plus the forcible overtime, "outsourcing" too cheap labor in semi-colonial countries; "delayering" by reducing benefits for new hires and firing or early-retiring old timers, whose effects are also felt. However, we "spics" are the most exploited workers in US society of today, the true proletarians, the most revolutionary class THE NEW MASSES. Any "United Front," which does not include Latin Americans, will end in complete failure.

Since there is no longer peasantry, without a doubt the capitalist bourgeois revolution was completed to its end in the US. Therefore, there is no need for New Democracy in the sense there is no semi-feudalism or semi-colonialism to eradicate, and no bourgeois revolution to complete. Here, we must note as an exception the case of Puerto Rico, which is a colony that must fight not only for independence but for socialism.

Now, what do we do with the very large workers aristocracy? So many of them are utterly reactionary and their leadership entrenched in the Democratic Party. Then, there is a need to struggle and change their reactionary mentality by applying the lessons of the revolutionary experiences of the post 1917 Russian Civil War, China's cultural revolution when it abolished the "Confucius" way of thinking, and the generation of Party generated organizations such as People's Committees and class conscious workers' movements following the example of the People's War in Peru. Yes, the idea of forging People's War in the North is brilliant. The Black Panter Party attempted to organize the masses in the 60's, but it failed because it was not led by a Communist Party and a correct ideology. There were other attempts to organize the masses in the 80's which also failed. No established self-proclaimed revolutionary organization is interested in waging revolution in this country, the RCP and later every "leftist" sect or cults we know: WW, SWP, CPUSA, PLP, even that "police precinct at large" called MIM. The former MLP-USA at least raised up the issue once but it simply proposed a crude reformism: "all you have to do is create a free health care clinic," etc.

People are sick and tired of Afro-American nationalists. At one time they seemed to make some sense and a viable alternative. African Americans are still very oppressed and exploited, no doubt about it. But increasingly we note that what these "nationalists" really want is to "insert" themselves in the imperialist structure and become exploiters themselves. To this end, they preach racial hatred even against communists. For example, most recently some Black anarchists encourage attacks on the Seattle RCP-USA branch, if they "dared" to enter the Black neighborhoods, which obviously does the dirty work cops themselves cannot do! So, quite true, what is needed is not more oppressed nationality nationalism in the US, but more proletarian internationalism here and elsewhere.

A reader of The New Flag.
Gatesville, Texas.