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Workers Vanguard No. 1158 |
26 July 2019 |
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TROTSKY |
LENIN |
The Fight for an International Trotskyist Party (Quote of the Week)
From our inception, the Spartacist League/
U.S. has been committed to building the necessary instrument in the fight for a socialist future: an international revolutionary proletarian party based on strong national sections. A statement of this purpose is contained in our 1972 article “Genesis of Pabloism,” a seminal polemic against the anti-Leninist revisionism that had destroyed Trotsky’s Fourth International two decades earlier. The perspective of the International Communist League, of which the Spartacist League is the U.S. section, is to reforge the Fourth International to lead the working class to power worldwide.
In his struggle to found the Fourth International, Trotsky repeatedly underscored the imperative need for revolutionary organization on an international basis. Prolonged national isolation within one country must ultimately disorient, deform and destroy any revolutionary grouping no matter how subjectively steadfast. Only a principled and disciplined international collaboration can provide a counterbalance to the fierce pressures toward insularity and social chauvinism generated by the bourgeoisie and its ideological agents within the working-class movement. As Trotsky recognized, those who deny the need for a programmatically founded democratic centralist world party deny the Leninist concept of the vanguard party itself....
The Spartacist League has refused to passively acquiesce to the national isolation forced upon us. We have emphatically rejected the ersatz “internationalism” which achieves its international connections at the price of a federalist non-aggression pact thus renouncing in advance the struggle for disciplined international organization. We have sought to develop fraternal ties with groupings in other countries as part of a process of clarification and polarization. Our aim is the crystallization of a cohesive democratic centralist international tendency based on principled programmatic unity, the embryo of a reborn Fourth International.
—“Genesis of Pabloism,” Spartacist No. 21, Fall 1972
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