1966 - ICP, Theses of Milan S/A+C

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Published 2024-05-04

Welcome to another human-read audiobook by the United Marxist Pact discord server, link below in the description. In this series, we continue our investigation into the initial construction, the organizational structure, and the principles and tactics of the form of worker organization capable of seizing political power and establishing the Revolutionary Proletarian Dictatorship and Communality which can in turn produce the Communist Mode of Production through the shared class interests of the workers of the entire world. Our goal is to compile, analyze and elaborate on what all of these texts have to say about this, and at the end have a strong understanding of the exact, scientific process of this, particularly in general terms. At the end of our readings as a whole, we will try to put it all together and present it as a coherent whole in an educational video with associated notations.

Today's reading will be [Reunion of Milan: Supplementary Theses on the Historical Task, the Action, and the Structure of the World Communist Party][www.international-communist-party.org/BasicTexts/E…]. This video includes a prewritten textual analysis on the terms of the aforementioned topics, which is also posted in the pinned comment if you prefer to read it in text, or follow the link in the description to a Read Only version of my Google Doc's notes. This will summarize the contents of the text, but is no replacement for the actual reading itself for the sake of understanding the context- I am reading these specifically and only for the pertinent content, and am not including items that are not of interest for most conditions that are related to the topic at hand, but only historically (e.g. the Peasant question). In addition, in the reading, I supply my own commentary- critiques, additions, etc. which may be helpful for understanding some particularities.

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All Comments (2)

@daemonsultanump 12 days ago

Opportunism is fundamentally emergent from a preference for a shorter, less dangerous path to achieving goals, and the abandonment of programme and the proper development of principle. It is not a moral issue of individuals, rather it is an attitude amongst the workers. To combat this attitude, the Party needs to present the correct mindset, refusing to carry out any work that implies the taking of a less difficult road for momentary benefit. For example, within the Party, everyone needs to read texts properly rather than relying on others to take the reigns and accept their vision implicitly, which is lazy- such an attitude needs to be adopted throughout the Party as a whole, in all things. All members of the Party need to be able to express their understanding, which should be the correct one, through rigorous discussion which is applied throughout the Party on all levels in the form of Revolutionary Pedagogy. The Party's membership should obey orders spontaneously and completely, which requires all members to have full understanding of and harmony with the center. They should rotate functions and activities regularly, and reject the systematization of a division of labor within it (again, pre-figuring Communist society as best as possible) until conditions require a militarized party. This means that there should not be a system of competitive examinations to determine who can enter into what position. Any systematization occurs when needed, and dissolves when unneeded (Note: there are many structures that do not seem needed all the time, but are in fact needed. Consider a Fire Brigade- the vast majority of the time they are unneeded, but those rare times that they are, you better hope you have a well trained corp of Firefighters ready at a moment's notice. Whatever you can save in the long run, or short run, by dissolving and reconstituting it whenever immediately needed, is less than the costs which are in different forms.) When the Party is in the militarized phase, it will have precise hierarchical schemes to organize effectively under war conditions. The worker's organs within such a militarized structure will still need to be dynamic and integrated with the dynamics of the whole, though.