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 ''s the peoples of the world increasingly seize the initiative in their global confrontation with U.S. imperialism, the ability of monopoly capitalism to resolve its contradictions with the U.S. working class becomes progressively limited, setting the stage for the seizure of state power by the working class. —Perhaps the central problem of Marxists in the 20th century, from Lenin's time to the present, is how to make a revolution when the historical Marxist revolutionary force, the working class, is clearly not a revolutionary agent. —There could not yet be revolutionary consciousness among the workers. This consciousness could only be brought to them from without The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. —Look at organized labor: it is still a force in the society, although probably a reactionary one. —We cannot end racism, capitalism, colonialism and imperialism unless state power is in the hands of those people who understand that the wealth, the total wealth of any country and the world, belongs to all people.'' Those who understand can speak for and decide for the entire community only when the state is accepted as the equivalent of the community. —Unless liberation movements from the very beginning are dedicated to socialist principles or evolve into movements with socialist principles while the fighting is going on, we cannot assume that those who fight will assume state power and implement decisions that appropriate the wealth of countries for the entire people.

''he control and use of the wealth of the Empire for the people of the whole world is also in the interests of the vast majority of the people in this country. —The most important aspect to grasp and grasp firmly is the VANGUARD ROLE played by oppressed peoples in general and the most oppressed sectors of the international working class in particular. —The principal contradiction in the world today is that between U.S. imperialism and the nations it oppresses. The sharpest blows against U.S. imperialism are being dealt by the nationally oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America and within the U.S. —The Liberation Fronts are a vanguard force that is leading this struggle. The role of others is to join with the vanguard. —It is possible and necessary to build an anti-imperialist, working class movement in the mother country; a movement that allies with and provides material aid to all oppressed people of the world. —The main task for our organization is to unite the struggles''