Manifesto of the Communist Party

curtiss_leung at ibi.com curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Thu Sep 2 08:03:47 PDT 1999


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



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