Revolutionary Organization Quotes
Rival to Mao. This quotation is historically important because it shows how intensively the Chinese Communists concentrated on organizing the fringe and unpopular groups of society to the point where the struggle was between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and everybody else. The Chinese Communist coalition included many who had not idea of what communism was but knew that Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists were not very good for them or the people they knew.
This principle represented one of the rifts between Gorter and Lenin. Lenin and most Russian Communists insisted that labor unions be subservient to the Communist Party and the State. Gorter, and a few other socialists argued for the independence of the unions from the control of all but its membership. Unions subservient to political parties have been disastrous in some of the Communist countries but also in the Fascist nations where the right wing took over control of the unions. Even in America, the Communist Party attempted to take over the unions in the first half of the 20th century and actually succeeded in a few cases. Those opposing unions of any kind saw little difference between the unions and the Communist Party. Some American unions came under the control of the communists and others under the control of the companies, but most have been independent.
Vladimir Lenin. In this one respect Lenin was far ahead of the capitalist countries. He saw the importance of diversity in the national leadership. At the time, the only governing diversity in America and England, for example, was from which region of the country the White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants came from. Ironically, under Stalin uniformity of view was so stringently demanded of Party Members, that diversity disappeared in Russia. In the U. S. and England however, various reform forces diversified the political party leadership with which these Democracies thrived.
