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don into the fighting organisations of the common people, the role of the conscious advanced guard of the proletariat in organising the revolution— all these have been pointed out by them as decisive in laying the ground for, expediting the process of, or arresting and disrupting the revolutionary movement.
That was why Marx and Engels in their day fought a consistent battle against alien ideologies and established the supremacy of the proletarian ideology in the revolutionary democratic movement of Europe. That was again why Lenin fought an uncompromising struggle against the revisionist ideology and collaborationist political practices of the leaders of the Second International who betrayed the revolutionary working class tnovement. That is again why present-day Marxist-Leninists have to fight a two-front ideological-political battle against revisionism and dogmatism in ideology and right and left opportunism in practice.
A glance at the international scene today would be enough to convince any objective student of politics that international capitalism is 9^ its last legs. The 'mighty' American imperialism is being successfully challenged by the great people of Vietnam who are inflicting defeat after defeat on that 'mighty' imperialist power. So are the anti-war, peace and democratic forces inside America itself including the militant sections of the white and almost the entire black people, who are making it increasingly difficult for the militarists of their country to carry on their predatory attacks. Allied to the Vietnamese people and the anti-war forces in America itself are the proletarian movements in capitalist countries as well as freedom movements in developing countries.
The forces represented by these and other forces fighting against monopoly capitalism everywhere are so powerful that, had it not been for the right and left opportunist mistakes leading to disunity in the international proletarian camp, American imperialism and monopoly powers in the rest of the capitalist world would have been decisively defeated. That is why we Marxist-Leninists in India, along with our comrades in the rest of the world, are fighting for the restoration of the unity of the international movement on the basis of a principled and simultaneous struggle against the right and left opportunist deviations which are unfortunately strong in the international movement.
1 People's Democracy, Vol 7, No 50, December 12, 1971, pp 5-8, 10 and 12. 1 Joan Robinson, Marx, Marshall and Keynes, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, 1955.
3 Ibid., p 26.
4 Ibid.,?? 10-11.
8 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol 111, pp 397-8.
6 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1969, Vol 1, pp 503-4.
7 Joan Robinson, op. cif., pp 21-22
8 Ibid., pp 24
9 Ibid., pp 25-26.