Don DeBar's Blog

Revolutions are made when a LEADERSHIP evolves that knows how to unify the disparate and contradictory segments of the working and other (e.g., peasant) dispossessed classes in order to focus their power upon the common enemy and bring that revolution into being. The role is NOT to act as some self-appointed class of ideology instructors and priests to make sure all have the same line on every piece of the minutiae of human existence under the present order which is being challenged. The Russian Revolution is a perfect example. The war-weary victims of WW I demanded "Peace". The hungry in Russia demanded "Bread". The peasants living as serfs, in foreclosure/eviction, demanded "Land". Lenin and the Bolsheviks raised the cry of "Peace, Bread & Land" ("МИР, ЗЕМЛЯ И ХЛЕБ!") and presto ! It really isn't rocket science. The one's who need the proper ideology are those who would organize and then lead. That ideology must begin from...

Please see this before reading. I am trying to determine whether this is a giant error, or evidence of outright service to Langley or some other organ of the ruling class. It is incredible to me that a party aiming to be the vanguard of the working class can continuously side with the class enemy against actual workers. The people I know in PSL seem honest and intelligent but there is a continuous reference to the definition of terms offered by the ruling class on just about every question that preoccupies actual workers in the US. This is just the latest. Brexit was a right wing phenomenon. Trump supporters were fascist dupes. January 6 was a flareup of white supremacy. Now the truckers who are in rebellion against mandates - and a host of other concerns dealing with their material conditions, BTW - are supporters of a "reactionary movement" and should be opposed. When the leadership of a vanguard party that would lead the working class to its liberation finds itself on the...