On Contradiction
On Contradiction was written within the context of the Warlord Era when China was de facto ruled by various military cliques. With China being ruled by various military cliques, these questions had to be answered:
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Which warlord can you win to your side?
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Which warlord can you threaten into joining your side?
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Which warlord will toady up to you once you’re strong enough?
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Which warlord do you have to ruthlessly crush and make an example out of?
It does not follow that the communists had to declare war against every single warlord. By far the biggest example against this was Zhu De, who was a warlord until he was persuaded by Zhou Enlai to become a communist instead. And when Zhu De became a communist, his troops under his command as a warlord joined the communists as well. By the end of the Century of Humiliation, Zhu De was the first of the Ten Marshals and first commander-in-chief of the PLA.
I suspect this “pre-party formation” will meet the same fate as all the other “pre-party formations.”
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Comrade Wenger
Is that you, WisconCom? Is this me?
I have met Comrade Saul Wenger and am his comrade, but am not him.
https://livingmarxism.blogspot.com/p/about.html
Living Marxism is the official publication of the Committee for a Communist Labor Party (USA). The CCLP was founded on June 25, 2025 as a pre-party formation for the organization of a communist party in the United States which adheres to Marxism and opposes all forms of revisionism, opportunism, and imperialism.
So this organization is three days old. In other words, it’s nothing but a Blogger site.
https://livingmarxism.blogspot.com/2025/06/statement-on-condition-of-american-left.html
China today has a state-capitalist economy built upon exploitation of the Chinese working class and debt-trap diplomacy. Those who consider the Chinese model to be “socialist” in truth seek to reproduce that same model of capitalism, regardless of whether they intend for it or not.
LONG LIVE XI JINPING THOUGHT ON SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACHTERISTCS!!!
Make up your mind.
This is complete propaganda against the Committee for a Communist Labor Party! We have a Twitter account and Discord server with literally dozens of regular members, a fully-functioning student wing, international connections, and members across the United States.
No investigation, no right to speak.
This is leftists in-fighting at it’s finest. A whole new organization, created a week ago, comes out swinging at PSL, which has been operating for years, because they understand the role China is playing in the world.
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Tell me your organization doesn’t understand theory without telling me your organization doesn’t understand theory.
China today has a state-capitalist economy
No comment needed there.
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In addition to these errors, all of these organizations suffer from chronic bureaucratism and are isolated from the masses, not applying the mass line and therefore not acting in accord with the masses material needs and desires.
Oh do they? Really? I have no experience of the PSL falling afoul of this critique. This was written by an MLM malding and demanding that everyone abandon a multi-year project for something that started yesterday because of ideological purity.
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Firstly, to create a party of a new type.
Ugh. Why? On the basis of what theory? Where has this new type been successful anywhere in the world anytime in history?
We are building a party which understands the needs of its members
Not different.
and empowers them to act in a democratic manner
Not different.
We seek to build an organization which operates in a manner free from the bureaucracy of the previous organizations of the American communist movement through accountability structures that flow from the bottom of the organization, a Marxist psychology based in historical materialism, and a revolutionary application of the mass line in all fields of struggle.
Meaningless drivel. You can’t establish bottom-up accountability without a formal structure. All successful revolutions have been Democratic Centralist. This creates bottom-up accountability through formal structure. If you want to do something else, you’ve got a MASSIVE amount of theory work to do.
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Secondly, to advocate and develop a living Marxism. This will be a Marxism which is, in all ways, free from the chains that impeded previous implementations of Marxism — dogmatism, revisionism, and adventurism. This will be a Marxism which, through informed practice, develops in accord with modern demands and the needs of the working class. This will be a Marxism which in all capacities upholds the principle “ruthless criticism of all that exists.”
It is only through this path that the US communist movement can be reborn into a force which is truly effective against the capitalist system.
Yeah. So, you’re just upset that the PSL wouldn’t let you be a leader and required a full year of vetting, aren’t you? This is meaningless bluster. We don’t need yet another ML/MLM split.
Ugh. Why? On the basis of what theory? Where has this new type been successful anywhere in the world anytime in history?
On the basis of Marxism-Leninism. Is this your first time coming across this concept?
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The fact that PSL has existed for years yet has made little progress in revolution shows that it is fundamentally broken as an organization.
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The CCLP was founded from the experience of several previous organizations which were developed over years of struggle, including the Red Spectre.
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Of course you can’t comment on the PRC. It is a fascist and social-imperialist state in every capacity.
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Without a doubt, this article represents a critical analysis on the desperate state of the US communist movement and the need for a communist party of the new type. Thank you for sharing!
To all the revisionists downvoting: EXPLAIN YOURSELF. As Mao Zedong said in Combat Liberalism:
“To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one’s suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one’s own inclination. This is a second type.”
SPEAK YOUR MIND. CRITICIZE
The revisionists would expose their traitorous continuance by engaging with a principled Maoist in these matters.
