Greg Schofield wrote:
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> Was it not Marx who specified the role of communists in realising the IMMEDIATE interests of the working class as one of the defining differences between them and the the sects?
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Absolutely _not_. ALL working-class parties, including the communists, fight for the immediate interests of the working class. BUT:
*** The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement. In France, the Communists ally with the Social Democrats * against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phases and illusions traditionally handed down from the Great Revolution.
_Manifesto_ ****
Carrol