From the Pen of Marx and Engels

The need for a committed vanguard party of revolutionaries that represent the working class has never been more. Sadly, this need will only increase until it is met. Multiple parties in the United States are currently vying for crumbs and table scraps, for representation of the working class, for money, for influence, etc.. The failure of the CPUSA, PCUSA, PSL, FRSO, DSA, Greens, APL, etc., consists of many things, namely, a lack of resources, repression from the state, a century of anti-Communist propaganda and lies, and a rich history of betraying and revising Marxism-Leninism.

The American left is more fragmented and divided than ever before. We face a foe unlike any that has ever been fought before — the state, the most advanced and powerful bourgeoisie in the world, and over 100 years of lies and slander against Communism. This is not what the Bolsheviks or the Chinese Red Army fought against and defeated. It would be nearsighted to think that our enemy could be defeated through parties that have revised the solid and clear principles that Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin laid out for us, or, even blinder, to think that these parties will become the vanguard of the working class always representing and pushing for the advancement of working people.

There is no proletarian movement without a proletarian vanguard leading the way for the millions of people that cannot dedicate their precious time for organizing, protesting, rallying, agitation, polemicizing, theorizing, and all other activities that constitute a revolutionary movement. There is too much to do and too much at stake to leave these things up to an undedicated and wholly unsure sum of people. Our goal is not to form an elitist group, but to upgrade the amateur revolutionary to the professional, to turn the worker struggling to form a union at his workplace into an expert on unionization that can help many workers create unions at their respective workplaces.

Of What Does a Vanguard Party Consist?

Marx said that the liberation of workers must be the their own struggle. The workers, in the United States, are so divided due to a lifetime of bourgeois lies and propagation. Few truly understand the need for the destruction of the capitalist system. Consequently, the class struggle is a concept so foreign to the American working class. The level of collective class consciousness in America is so low, the ones who have class consciousness at this stage are your revolutionary vanguard. The ones that can already see the need for change in such an early stage and can help bring it about are what a vanguard party consists of.

We take into our ranks those who know that change must be brought about and we transform them into professional revolutionaries that not only know why we need Socialism, but know, also, how to go about achieving Socialism. Members are to actively represent and guide the mass of workers in the struggle for liberation. This is a task so momentous that it can only be carried out by the most class conscious among us, those who have particular skill in proselytizing, organizing, leading, teaching, writing, agitating, etc..

All parties are the vanguard of a class, and their duty is to lead the struggle for the class they represent. A party should not reflect the average political level of the masses, for it would effectively become an obstacle in achieving the goals of the class it represents; rather, a party should lead the class it represents in all struggles for the betterment of said class. That is what the vanguard of the working class should and will consist of.

Building a Revolutionary Workers’ Movement

Revolution cannot be achieved until the mass of workers is pushed to their limit, until they can no longer sit and take the abuse from the bourgeoisie, until their level of class consciousness and political agitation reaches an equilibrium that constitutes the point of no return, of revolution.

Thus, the task of the vanguard is clear: agitate and educate as many workers as possible, as much as possible. This is easier, much easier, said than done, but it can be done, and it must be. How does one go about this necessary task?

The worker will not listen to you if you wander upon them and begin spewing revolutionary theory and telling them how much they’re exploited. You must show them that you have their best interests in mind. Get to know the workers, help them out when they need it — with menial tasks and ones of more significance, i.e., unionizing, workplace disputes, etc.. Once they know you, and, more importantly, know they can trust you is when you begin educating and agitating them. Show them how to handle contracts with their employer, how to organize workplace strikes, and the avenues they can go about protecting themself from their employer. Let them know, at every opportunity, that they are being exploited and that a better society is possible — one without the majority of people being oppressed, repressed, and exploited by the tiny, insignificant minority.

This is a task that takes priority for the vanguard. We must build the movement as far and wide as we possible can. We do this not because it is easy, but because it is the only way that the workingperson will receive their proper and necessary lot in life. We do not do the things we do because we are power hungry, rather we are starving for the pie from which we have only received mere scraps for so long. History has taught us time and time again that we will not achieve what we need unless it be through means of revolutionary mass struggle. That is exactly what the vanguard sets out to do.

The Workers’ Party

We have the understanding of the vanguard and its task, but we lack the vanguard itself. We truly do not have a single party that represents the average American worker and their best interests. There is not one party in the United States that has not deviated from Marxism-Leninism, and, therefore, Marxism. The need for a vanguard Marxist-Leninist party could not be more transparent, yet all the current parties rest on their laurels, satisfied with what they have done, or rather what they have not done.

What we need is a new party based on the principles of Marxism-Leninism willing to adopt the need of the current revolutionary situation in the United States. Take Cuba, China, and the USSR for examples; all of these countries and revolutionary movements adopted Marxism-Leninism and stuck to the principles and foundation that Lenin set, however, they all adapted this or that in order to fit their unique situation hence their success. They did not fall into revisionism because they upheld the firm principles of Marxism-Leninism, but they were strategic and understood that a revolutionary movement needs to adapt to its one-of-a-kind situation.

A party of and for the workingperson is a revolutionary concept in and of itself in the United States. A party that the great mass of workers believes in and can get behind is the only way to achieve the revolution we need. There is a new generation of American coming up under a more neoliberal and fascistic government than we’ve ever had; this serves us tremendously, but Social Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are ensnaring the new generation into mere critiques of capitalism, into bourgeois-collaborationism. Bernie did two things; first and foremost, he proved that consciousness, at least to some degree, can be brought to the people, and, secondly, he failed to lead the charge for an actual workers’ party.

What is evidenced by this is that an American Marxist-Leninist workers’ party can be truly successful given it does the necessary work right and does not fall into revisionist or opportunistic tendencies. Although it is significantly late, a new party forming during the current epoch is better than any alternative. As such, I will continue to make the case for a new Communist movement and a new vanguard party whenever possible.

Comradely yours,