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The entire international Communist movement today is passing through a profound crisis.
This was caused by the necessity of readapting to a reality that is more complex and dynamic than ever, in constant, extra-swift evolution.
Theory runs the permanent risk of lagging behind in relation to life, to reality.
It is not only the official Communist movement educated in Stalinism that is seeing the bankruptcy of dogmatic, vulgar schemas, to which the Soviet bureaucracy reduced the flexibility, the richness of the critical thought of revolutionary Marxism.
- All the other tendencies of the international Communist movement likewise find that they must get. rid of much schematic, sectarian or opportunist dross and demonstrate in creative thought combined with consistent action their genuinely revolutionary~-Marxist character.
The historic movement known today under the name of the "Fourth International” is not an exception to this rule either.
At a time when the entire international Communist movement is differentiating into ideological tendencies, the Fourth International cannot be identified with one tendency.
For some years already, the revolutionary-Marxist tendency of the Fourth International which we represent, has carried on an ideological fight to reorient this entire movement, historically born in the advanced capitalist countries (Europe, the United States), along the following fundamental lines: |
To "deeEuropeanize"™ and to "de-North Americanize”™ the international organization of the world revolutionary-—Marxist current, and to make it genuinely international.
To give priority at the present stage of the World Revolution to work within the Colonial Revolution, and to the process of "de- Stalinization" of the Workers States and the Communist parties. To combine, in the advanced capitalist countries, centrist Lentrist?]
work within the workers mass organizations, with open defense of the full program of revolutionary Marxism, These objectives flow from the entirety of the analysis of the international situation and of the dynamics of the World Revolution at its present stage.
The revolutionary-Marxist tendency of the Fourth International is for the free, objective discussion of all the points of view now existing within the Fourth International, including openly, publicly.
Because it is convinced that the crisis through which the world Communist movement is passing will prove wholly salutary on condition that the discussion among tendencies is free and genuinely ideological,
The revolutionary-Marxist tendency of the Fourth International is not inclined to reply to slanderous attacks by factional elements whose obtuseness, in particular toward the Colonial Revolution and “de-Stalinization" is incompatible with the traditions and spirit of the historic movement founded by Leon Trotsky.
They are free to hold, if they like, that they must continue to exist at the margin of the Revolution, absent in practice from the Algerian, African and Colonial Revolution in general, and separated farther than ever, by their attitude, from the elements and currents being born in the Workers States and the Communist parties in process of. "de-Stalinization."
They are also free, if they like, to continue “critically supporting" from Paris, from Brussels, from New York, the Chinese bureaucracy, allegedly more "revolutionary" in practice than that of the USSR, while systematically minimizing the aid which the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary are granting as Workers States to the colonial movements in Africa, Latin America, Vietnam, the States of Cuba, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, etc.
They are also free, if they like, to continue supporting Roberto Holden and his "G.R.A.E." against the M.P.L.A., committing the same very grave error which some of them committed in the recent past, supporting the M.N.A. against the F.L.N. and then the G.P.R.A. against the government of Ben Bella.
The revolutionary-Marxist tendency of the Fourth International, which includes a large number of organizations, cadres and militants, will never agree to being identified with such a line, for which it places the entire responsibility on P.Frank, L.Maitan, E.Germain and a few other hardened champions: of a dead past without a future,
April 25, 1965
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