The split put the RCP in the position to go out broadly in society with revolutionary politics and to grow, organizationally, on a correct ideological and political basis. This, in turn, laid the basis for further ruptures with all aspects of the revisionist package. Furthermore, since revisionism is never just one wrong line but always a complete package, 2 the struggle over “the China question” forced comrades to unravel the whole revisionist package of pragmatism, economism, and reformism wrapped up with the wrong line on China. Party members had to study the events in China, the polemics back and forth within the RCP, 1 and the MLM “classics” for theoretical grounding, and they had to make a decision: which line is correct? Engaging in this two-line struggle required comrades to make leaps in their understanding of communist theory and to argue for a correct line when the very Party was at stake. Its remaining members had been steeled in a bitter two-line struggle that determined whether the RCP remained communist. The RCP emerged from the split over the counterrevolution in China smaller but much stronger. 1978–81 “Better fewer, fewer better”: Taking a bold stand with cold revolutionary politics in command See the table of contents to understand how this preview fits into the document as a whole. The following preview is a summation of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP) from 1978 to 1981. This document will be published in early 2023 as kites #8, which is now available for pre-order. The following is preview content from the forthcoming document The CP, the Sixties, the RCP, and the Crying Need for a Communist Vanguard Party Today: Summing up a century of communist leadership, organization, strategy, and practice in the United States so that we can rise to the challenges before us by the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US).
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