Lew writes:
> Except that neither Marx nor Engels wrote about the Party leading
> the working class. This would have contradicted their often repeated
> claim that the working class must emancipate itself. Of course this
> does not rule out the need for some kind of party organisation, but
> it does specifically rule out a Leninist type of organisation
> because that sets up "sectarian principles of their own, by which to
> shape and mould the proletarian movement."
I agree, and just to add my $0.02US (what is that in the IMF's funny
money, I wonder), the (translated) text cited says that the
"communists are the most advanced and resolute sectors of *THE WORKING
CLASS PARTIES*", meaning that the working class parties constitute
the communists, not vice versa, as in Leninist vanguardism.
--
Curtiss