Editorial Board
The Politically Degenerate Right Liquidationists (PDRL) have begun slandering and releasing the private documents of Revolutionary Study Group. Such repugnant counter-revolutionary activity must be condemned. The breach of trust and leaking of such documents brings risks to revolutionary activists everywhere and not just the comrades of RSG. First, it opens private exchange and exposes reports leading to greater surveillance by the Old-State, and second, it is designed to sow distrust between comrades and provoke disunity. It is the dream of the PDRL that a spy mania will grip the comrades, or that when real spies are found and ejected, some number of comrades will defend them and go with them causing a split.
The attack against the comrades comes as no surprise. The Worker has expressed that the PDRL kept its supporters inside of organizations that uphold Maoism; the recent activity of the rats on their website confirms it. This indicates the desperation of the PDRL and of their friends who do police work under Maoist-sounding phrases, who are growing isolated and lash out as the struggle for unity under Maoism progresses. Such a gamble on their part undermines their ability to maintain spies; these frantic and miserable people seek to blow the whistle on the simple fact that Maoists desire unity, but, by taking such action and showing their filthy hand, exposes their own position.
The PDRL seeks to blow up the two-line struggle within RSG to bring things to a head prematurely in an attempt to disadvantage the Left. The PDRL uses intrigue, such as leaking documents, to provoke splits. The fools are dreaming, because it is the Left more generally that has learned patience. The Worker denounces the leaking of documents and discourages anyone taking them at face value—private documents which pass to the public through the hands of the liquidationists cannot be assumed to be unaltered, let alone complete or capable of painting a clear picture.
What does the attack prove besides the fact that the PDRL maintained spies to collect internal information and disrupt the process of Maoist unity? That the attacks and political line of the PDRL are not and have never been about “abuse”—this ill-defined concept is used opportunistically as a specter to avoid politics and political struggle. RSG has not been accused by anyone of “abuse”, yet they too are attacked; the PDRL establishes here what we have always known: it is not about “confronting abusers”, but about attacking Maoism and seeking to prevent unity among the Maoists.
Such an attack would not be complete without the liquidationists again attacking the unity of Maoists internationally by targeting the International Communist League. The lazy and dishonest approach of the PDRL is on repeat in full display, writing that they “don’t have the time or energy to go as in depth on this stuff right now.” This indicates that they have not even seriously evaluated the political positions of those they attack, and have not considered the hundreds of pages of leaked documents or how they might harm so many activists who have nothing to do with any of the accusations the PDRL throws about casually.
The Worker expresses solidarity with RSG against the PDRL rats and snitches. The correct thing is to denounce the PDRL fully, to unite against them in principle and in practice, to confront each of their lies, rumor-spreading, and red-baiting, and to crush them decisively. Armed with a correct political line, revolutionaries can overcome any and all attacks. With each passing attack the PDRL isolates itself more and more and creates conditions more favorable to Maoist unity. With the many existing disagreements, Maoists can and must agree to liquidate liquidationism.
To paraphrase the great Lenin, to apply his teachings to our conditions, we conclude that: our organizations and movement cannot make headway unless it decisively liquidates liquidationism. Liquidationism does not only refer to the direct liquidationism of the PDRL and their opportunist tactics, but also includes their ideology inside and out. It includes the rejection of secrecy, violation of democratic centralism, sectarianism, police-work (or rationalizing it), red-baiting, postmodern criteria, and bad faith engagements that are impeding the immediate task of struggling for unity under Maoism. In this respect the PDRL is a mirror of our worst errors, and a challenge to overcome as part of and in service to the World Proletarian Revolution.
