RESIGNING FROM THE CHILEAN COMMUN TST. PARTY".
[On November 27 Jaime Barros, a senator from the provinces of Valparafso and Aconcagua (the second most important zone in Chile] announced his resignation from the Communist party, The following is a ton) of the paragraphs” explaining his: basic” reasons for this 2OELON. ;
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r have made up my mind, to- leave the Party: definitively. . ete There are, after cold analysis, still deeper reasons. I have meditated on them lately alone with my, conscience. Reading the Second Declaration of Havana has convinced me: that we are sitting at the side of the road-waiting for the funeral of imperialism. ...That:we are waiting for the high-paid parliamentary candidates to solve. without trouble or glory, the crisis of hunger, despair and anguish, © That. comrades who live the passive existence of our bureaucracy, enclosed in the four-walls of an ivory tower, or whose merit consists of having made. some: trips abroad, are: now the candidates. who are supposed — to-sense the feelings of the masses. The issue, according to you, .. is to coexist peacefully. -We who: are. uneasy, who are sick and: tired. of tail~endism, of talk-fests, we are the reprobates, the wild men, the nuts, the ones playing -the game of enemy, selling themselves. to. imperialism, to Peking, to the rotten bourgeoisie; in short, we are: * the ones on whom adjectives are heaped so that anyone at any time can say: 'You don't recognize Marxism; you're not a revolutionist; you don! t read, comrade .' =.
I am “leaving the. Party’ ‘An: order to. remain a “Communist. I a know what to expect from the..central leadership. According to you, ... it is possible to coexist peacefully, interpreting. Marxism: through a monologue and the national ideologies, The dialectical process... ends up, via collections, meetings, postponed conferences, in tooth-~. ache powders, when what is required at times is to pull the tooth and not think like revolutionary astrologists, for whom it is necessary to be completely identified with the Ministry of.Labor,.. Invitations. are sent to little nuns to have tea with us in parliament, to- hold forums in Catholic temples in order to tell them not to be afraid. of the lion. . . In the recent presidential elections the deluded party had us play "cops and robbers," going to the president of the republic and playing the miserable role of asicing the boss not to break with.CGuba. »s°.
. “yes, we. must uphold Marxist morality; put this. -- ‘with the permission, of. Roger. Garaudy -- begins: with'many of our Cato!s at..the. navel and:ends.in-the pubic region. I am leaving, comrade, with the | great satisfaction of: having. worked in the vanguard, .Was I. not: -in...- Pachacama de Artificio, in Natalia, when the land was. seized?: Iam. ruined, in.very bad health, but -I-am not crossing over to the enemy-~
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