- "Pursuing reform or revolution involves two totally different tasks. Reform builds the system (tries to make it work better); revolution destroys it. Therefore, the theory and action of trying to win immediate reform demands can never, in and of itself, lead to a revolution. ...Feb 4, 2026 16:34
- ... By definition, it is not designed to do that. We participate in reform struggles in order to get the opportunity to put forward communist ideas and goals. These communist ideas cannot be drawn from the reform struggle itself. ...
- ... Workers do not come to Marxist-Leninist conclusions merely from working on the assembly line. These ideas must come from outside the reform struggle and are directly opposed to reformist goals or working within and building capitalism. ...
- ... Communist ideas have always been brought to workers from outside the reform struggle itself, from Marx to Stalin to the present day. The Party's role, therefore, is to make a revolution that destroys the system, not to make reforms and build it. ...
- ... The Party leads people in reform struggle to the goal of a better union or of rank-and-file power. ...
- ... Building the Party is primary, not building the union, although a by-product of building the Party, of building for a revolution, can be, and often is, a better union." ~ PLP KEY DOCUMENT: REFORM AND REVOLUTION (1976) www.plp.org/key-document...
