Steele: Why the RCP Can’t Lead a Revolution
by Rosa harris
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 at 11:07 PM
rosarl13@yahoo.com
I’ve been associated with the RCP, often closely, over a 25 year period, ending about two years ago. I helped work on the 9 Letters with Mike Ely. While the RCP public Orientation charges the 9 Letters with vague “distortions,” I can say, from my own experience, that the Letters’ description of the RCP’s line and analysis is carefully accurate.
By John Steele
I've been associated with the RCP, often closely, over a 25 year period, ending about two years ago. I helped work on the 9 Letters with Mike Ely. While the RCP public Orientation charges the 9 Letters with vague "distortions," I can say, from my own experience, that the Letters' description of the RCP’s line and analysis is carefully accurate.
I thought it might contribute to the discussion to post some of what I wrote in making my own break from the party orbit in the spring of '06. I got essentially no reply of any substance to the critical work I am posting here. I was instead told two things (almost in passing): That I was wrong to imply that the Party was demanding "unquestioning" recognition of Avakian, and that my differences would lead me to turn my back on the revolution.
I removed any passages on internal party functioning and made some clarifying edits (mostly questions of party jargon).
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