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followers who falsify and ader. Trotsky used the term 10 posed as "Leninists" ally.

The policy has been raised to the level of a "theory' in the work of Italian, Spanish and French Stalinist leaders and of the degenerated workers' states is combined with support for bourgeois governments and political blocs with bourgeois parties.

Liquidationism

• The term liquidationist is now applied to political groups and tendencies which seek to dissolve the independence of the revolutionary party of the working class in an opportunist relationship with another, broader, often politically hostile or non-proletarian formation.

Thus Pabloism in the 1950s threatened to liquidate the forces of Trotskyism into Stalinist parties, and, later, into petty bourgeois nationalist movements in the colonial which split with Lenin in 1903 over the issue of party rules.

Lenin wanted a strongly centralised party with discipline over its membership: the Mensheviks wanted a party which would accept "anv striker" as a member, without obligation to act under the party's control.

The Menshevik politics reflected their view that the working class should combine with the liberal bourgeoisie to overthrow Tsarism and establish a "democratic republic" as a stage prior to social revolution, and eventually opposed the October 1917 revolution.

Ecol workers who lack any depth of political awareness.

to fight back against the attacks ism. the second half of the nineteenth century.

The crumbs from the super profits were made available to, in particular the organised skilled sections of workers thus strenathening the view that gradual reform could lead towards socialism.

In reality the reformist leaders, for example, of the Labour Party and the TUC, have no intention of fighting for socialism and are only concerned with preventing conflict between the working class and the capitalists through their "skills" at negotiating to the workforce.

political control firmly hands of the bourgeoisie higher wages and better conditions for the working class.

As capitalism enters a crisis the objective needs and requirements of the working class come into increasing conflict with the needs and requirements of the bosses.

Unable to win further reforms from crisis-ridden capitalism, the reformist leaders are forced to turn to a defence of the capitalist system against their own members and supporters.

Such actions inevitably provoke conflicts between the cratic reformist leaders and the but economic, in that what is at leaves and the ; to enter into or adequate fi actions in res state.

The particular brand of Stalinist politics linked with Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Partv. which had ridden to power in the wake of the collapse of the imperialist-backed Chiang Kai-shek regime in 1949.

Mao remained a diehard defender of Stalin and of "socialism in a single country" but from an even weaker material base than the Kremli Kremlin bureaucracy in the Russia of the 1920s. utionaries was merely to support and "link up" the spontaneous, trade union struggles of the working class, and "lend them a political character"

Lenin referred to these daily trade union struggles of the working class as "spontaneity" and stressed the need for the scientific method of Marxism to be, fought for within such struggles.

The anti-political approach of the Economists, and their pandering to the most elementary levels of trade union consciousness are today aped by the British Socialist Workers Party.

Their political methodsometimes referred to as rank and fileism-avoids any fight within the working class for the programme or methods of Marxism, substituting in their place militant trade union demands.

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