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| | The Militant - July 15, 2002 -- What is independent working-class politics? |
 | | For revolutionists, education, propaganda, and agitation for working-class political action, for a labor party, for a socialist party, for a break with capitalist politics is part and parcel of the struggle against the Meanys and Reuthers, the Rustins and Kings, the Thomases, the Harringtons, the anonymous editorial writers of the Worker. |
 | | Their problem is not a rejection or an acceptance of an Old Left--again an imaginary, false, homogeneous concept--but understanding how to reject the reform-pressure-coalition perspective that the Communist and Socialist parties developed to a fine art from the thirties on, in place of a program of revolutionary opposition to the Democratic Party and its allies. |
 | | That is, the program that the revolutionary socialists fought for in the 1930s, in the 1940s, in the 1950s, and that we still fight for today. |
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