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Liquidationism does not necessarily result in the organisational loss of membership: but it does, invariably mean an abandonment of the independent programme of Marxism.

While any revolutionary movement must argue the case for revolutionary socialism through the distribution ot propaganda material-leaflets, newspapers, pamphlets, booksthis is only part of the work necessary to construct a revolutionary leadership in the working class.

Here, trade unions are seen as sufficient ends in themselves. The syndicalist argues that politics should be kept out of the trade unions and in fighting for this opposes revolutionary politics.

This can lead militant workers completely away from becoming revolutionary because it plays on their hostility to bourgeois, parliatary politics and, using this progressive feeling, turns workers away from their only source of development, i.e. revolutionary This is basing itself on the backward consciousness of sections of the working class and attempting to limit the development of revolutionary leadership in the working class.

Revolution will not come through trade unions alone, it will only come through the development of a revolutionary party that fights within the trade unions but also in all spheres where capitalist oppression takes place for soviet-type organs of power that include all the oppressed sectors of society.

Trade unions are defensive organisations that are not designed for state power.

Within them the forces can be developed that take state power and they should be the educational training ground for the working class.

But the working class needs to develop new organs for its dictatorship over the capitalist class.

The syndicalist wants to limit the working class to defensive, reformist struggles within the trade unions; but the revolutionary wants the working class to learn within those struggles of the necessity to take state power and so he struggles for a communist perspective in those struggles.

Trots!: -. mour labour bureaucracy.

Lenin, in Done? pointed revolutionaries against this, th. consciousness class, if a lea built capable capitalism.

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