This piece was written by a collective of writers who support the
PCR-RCP Canada in response to a critique published by a supporter of the
American Kasama Project organization, with the objective of clarifying the
Party’s strategic line and deepening the discussion on what we think is the
most important question the revolutionaries need to answer in the imperialist
countries—that of the strategy we should uphold and apply for destroying the
bourgeois state and establish workers’ power. Any comments could be sent to info@pcr-rcp.ca.
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First we should begin with some qualifications regarding
our wariness in engaging with Curtis Cole’s Idealizing PPW: A Response to the
PCR-RCP. Although at first glance Cole’s critique appears to be
written in good faith, it is littered with a number of throwaway and ungrounded
comments, some of which we feel are unprincipled. Cole appears to have rejected
PPW outright before conducting a thorough investigation before even engaging
with the documents we have released in this regard, and this is evident in
Cole’s poor representation of our position. In hack internet speak we could
accuse Cole of “straw-personing” our position, and we will go into this in more
detail in later sections, but since it is not enough to just dismiss a critic
of making this mistake (after all, it is equally unprincipled to accuse someone
of this without going into detail—as Cole does at one point), we’re left with
the unfortunate job of trying to correct an erroneous depiction while, at the
same time, responding to those critiques that are half-correct.
Simply put, Cole’s article is a mess. Our wariness comes
from having to respond to this mess, forced into the position of rectifying a
misapprehension, while at the same time responding to those criticisms that are
based on an understanding that is halfway correct, as well as responding to
someone who demonstrates disdain for our work. That is, Cole’s critique is not
comradely, no matter what he maintains at the outset, because if it was it
would: a) be based on a more accurate understanding of our position; b) refuse
to devolve into sectarian name-calling (even the title is antagonistic); c)
actually engage with our practice and analysis of the concrete conditions of
Canada rather than degenerate into snide dismissals that are treated as
accurate assessments.
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