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Under the pressure of acute by many fellow leaders of the isolation and the continued Fourth International. cracy, Pablo was taken in by the for a ready-made revoluticnary appearances of a break from party, and the avoidance of the Stalinism by the Yugoslavian principled struggle for the Communist Party under Tito in Trotskyist programme, thus 1949. lives on today in the. opporPablo developed the theory tunist politics of the various that the YCP had ceased to be a groupings calling themselves the counter-revolutionary party, Fourth International and and had evolved, under pressure carbon-copied by the politics of of its mass membership, into a the present day leadership of centrist, even a revolutionary the 'United' Secretariat of the party. If this were true in Yugo- Fourth International under slavia, why not in the mass Ernest Mandel. "evolution" towards revolution- group to Michel Pablo was secretary utions, of the post-war Trotskyist Fourth International.
survival of the Kremlin bureauWestern CPs?
Seeing this as a short cut to Pabloism. the building of revolutionary parties, Pablo insisted on Trotskyist groups throughout Europe turning towards "entry" into the mass Communist Parties, in the hope that this would speed their ary politics.
This policy led in 1953 to a split in the Fourth International.
Of course no CP did evolve in this way, and every one of Pablo's impressions was proven false.
Nothing daunted, and still seeking a short cut to the building of a mass movement, Pablo then turned towards compromises with the various nationalist forces leading colonial revolHis method of approach to building the party was copied Pabloism, the eternal search Hence Mandelism equals Abstentioni A conscious refusal by : styled "revolutionary" gro involve itself in the strugg the working class.
Electoralism Preoccupation with involvement in elections, creating the illusion that such elections in themselves offer a way forward for the working class.
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Brand of revisionism
associated with Gerry Healy, currently a leader of the British Workers Revolutionary Party, and the "International Committee of the Fourth International' of which he is a founder member.
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