Nine Letters to Our Comrades. Getting Beyond Avakian’s New Synthesis

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PUBLISHED: December 2007

ABOUT: These letters emerge from a collective process.

Mike Ely has been a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP, USA) since its founding in 1975. Over the last 25 years, he worked as staff writer and then an editor of the party’s press.

Many comrades, inside and outside circles of the RCP sharpened the work. Among them: J.B. Connors, Rosa Harris, DMC, JB and JS shaped and deepened the letters at every stage, fighting to go from perception to underlying dynamics.

PRINCIPLED RESTRAINT: These letters attempt a critical excavation of political and ideological substance. However, they carefully avoid direct reference to internal events, documents, organizational structures and internal activities of specific personalities. This restraint means that potential documentation of some arguments remains submerged.

FOOTNOTES & QUOTES: I have used footnotes to fill in background information for readers not familiar with the history and terminology of the RCP. Quotations that are not directly cited are formulations used by the RCP.

DISTRIBUTION: Feel free to reprint or quote these “Nine Letters.” Please give attribution to Mike Ely and link to mikeely.wordpress.com.

CREDIT: Cover photo by J.B. Connors.

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