This work was originally published by the Communist Workers Party in 1981. In the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre, fear allowed revisionism to fester in the party, and in 1985 the party was dissolved.
Nobody Owns Land reproduces it here for digital and physical distribution in the hopes that the sacrifices of these comrades are never forgotten. Though they played a bit part, these comrades nevertheless contributed to revolution in our time.
Remember the CWP 5:
Comrade Cesar Cauce
Duke Hospital Organizing Committee, head of union drive newsletter
Comrade Bill Sampson
President-elect, ACTWU local 1391
Comrade Jim Waller
CWP Central Committee, President of ACTWU local 1113-T
Comrade Sandy Smith
Chairperson, Cone’s Revolution Textile Mill Organizing Committee
Youth Organization of Black Unity
Comrade Mike Nathan
People’s doctor, organizer of medical supplies to Zimbabwean freedom-fighters
Author(s): Cynthia Lai
Publisher: Nobody Owns Land
Year: 1981
Language: English
Pages: 134
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Tremendous Implications
Victory in Lessons
1: Theoretical Basis
Relation of Base and Superstructure
Basis of Revisionism
Problems of Cadre Core
2: Political Manifestations: 1949 to 1965
Build Socialism or New Democracy?
Revisionists’ Overstretched Conclusions
Collectivizing Agriculture
Dictated by Conditions
Foundation of Feudal Rule
The Great Leap Forward
Agricultural Decline
Chart an Independent Path
“Going All-Out”
Chain Reaction Consequences
“Walk on Two Legs”
Poor Planning for Communes
Productive Forces Outstripped
Successful Comprehensive Line
Developing Science of Economic Construction
Major Two-Line Struggles Within CPC
Favoring Bourgeois Experts
Managers as Representatives of Workers
Party to Lead or Follow?
Non-partisan vs. Marxist Media
Academics Pitted Against Politics
Reforms and Upgrading
Effect of Retrenchment
Health Care for Whom?
Sino-Soviet Relations: From Good to Bad
A Sad Turn
Pushed to Open Polemics
Line of March’s Blatant Opportunism
People’s Army or Soviet Model
Parrots of Soviet Revisionism...
...and Soviet Chauvinism
Danger in Slavishness
The Prelude: Socialist Education Movement
A Truly Mass Education movement
The Real Sabotage
Targeting Capitalist-Roaders
3: Cultural Revolution Unfolded
Unleash or Restrict the Struggle
Trying to Narrow the Target
Model Shanghai Experience
Disruption by Ultra-Left
Official Conclusion
Consequences of the Cultural Revolution
Steady Economic Growth
Old Apparatus Destroyed
Key Problem: People
Step-by-Step in Sphere After Sphere
Undoing 2,000-Year Myth
Airing Opposing Views
Metaphysical Lines After Ninth Congress
The Mistakes and Our Lessons
Lack of a Leading Core
Incorrect Method: Naming No Names
Oversimplified in Application
Combining Propaganda and Slogans
Inevitable Limitations
Obstacles to Real Democracy
Line of March’s Idealist Line
Academic Games of Idealists
Disbelieving Revisionism
The Magic of Mechanical Materialism
Preferring Business-as-Usual
Idealism on Party’s Leadership
A Revisionist Equation
Denying Both Mao’s and Masses’ Successes
In Sum: A Necessary and Valuable Battle
End
