Discussions Must have their Time and Place
While purity of theory is great, being divided won't defend us from the rising reactionary threat
Recently, some of my comrades have been discussing schooling. What types of schools should exist? How should students be encouraged to study?
The discussion was in good faith: they were trying to apply dialectical materialist thinking to a subject as important as schooling.
However, the discussion was misplaced.
Our movement is in the fringes. We have barely enough power to put up posters, and not much else.
In these dire situations, surrounded by reacitonaries and rising fascism, our movement has to focus on more important questions, and keep to the basics of forming a Marxist-Leninist movement.
What's most important in our gloomy situation is to maintain as strict and tight cohesion of the movement, at the expense of some topics being sidelined.
Does it mean we should forgive mistakes in key Marxist theory? No!
Actually, we need to focus only on the core tennets of Marxism:
Forming a vanguard for the proletariat
Engaging in discussions with the proletariat to spread class consciousness and awareness about the movement
Defending ourselves from reactionary threats
Only once we have strenghtened the communist movement should we engage in more detailed discussions about finer points of Marxist theory.
Decimating the cohesion of the movement over topics that are not key to improving our political position is stupid.
Hence, until our Marxist-Leninist movement is strong enough, it is important to put our miniscule differences in understanding theory aside.
It is useless to have five weak communist movements, each considering itself the purest stage of communist. What we need is a single, unified movement that can oppose the rising reactionary force.
So, shut up about useless details until you have the basics covered!