NEUE EINHEIT about the Background of Rolf Martens (96/08/17)

[weklu]

The following explanations, which were first sent to Sabina Astete
as a mail, are worth being published in this newsgroup. They are
suitable to show the public some details about the background of Rolf
Martens´ agitation against NEUE EINHEIT:
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Hello Sabina Astete,

we noticed several postings of Rolf Martens directed at you. He is a
former member of our organization, until april 1990. For a while he
had close connections to A. Olaechea, now attempting to cause
confusion on that. His intentions towards NEUE EINHEIT and Klaus
Sender are not at all friendly ones.

Like anyone of Rolf Martens’ statements concerning NEUE EINHEIT,
the last ones adressed to you contain some spiteful slanders,
committed with stubbornness. Instead of providing the evidence, his
statements are full with gossip and prattle.

It will be necessary to read our original documents for forming a
right impression of Neue Einheit.

For your information we are adding a statement we already
published on august 17, 1996.

Uwe Mueller,
Member of Editorial Staff NEUE EINHEIT

Appendix:

Subject: Background of Rolf Martens
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ABOUT ROLF MARTENS

A man from the city of Malmoe, Sweden, Rolf Martens, a former member
of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT), keeps publishing libels on our
organization, at the same time trying to give the impression that
he still has some connection with us, and is publishing articles and
unauthorized translations of publications by us without our
permission.

About him the following facts should be stressed:

Rolf Martens only speaks for himself. He was excluded from the
KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in April 1990. By no means we are responsible
for his activities.He was excluded because of his massive slandering
of our organization: that it had changed sides and had become a
bourgeois one. These were assertions never supported by any real
reasons. The only "argument" was that we did not fight enough against
the Green movement, in this context he attacked an important article
about 1st of May 1989. This is nonsense. Our organization had always,
since 15 years before 1990, been unmasking and fighting the Green and
Alternative swindlers and so-called Ecologist movement, the same has
been done against it in 1989 and 1990 and after 1990. This was
nothing but a pure invention by Rolf Martens. No further arguments
were brought forward by him in April 1990.

In spite of all attempts to bring him away from his wrong and ab-
surd attitudes, he clung to his views, declared his withdrawal from
the organization and at the same time unanimously was excluded.
Within a time of six weeks, a deadline that we had fixed for him to
bring written grounds for his views, no letter, no document arrived
at our organization. Five months later he tried to elaborate a new
standpoint against our organization, with new arguments, using
slandering, distorted summaries of publications, and quotations from
unauthorized papers and discussions from within our organization, to
give grounds for his standpoint. This document, too, is a self-
exposure of Rolf Martens, it does not hit us at all. He did not
translate it, neither into Swedish nor into English, so it is
virtually unknown.

It was a very surprising attack, which Rolf Martens started against
our organization in the April of 1990. In his paper from Sept. 1990
he tried to add some arguments: that our organization had fought the
'Aussiedler'(resettlement)-campaign of our bourgeoisie (see note
below). He demanded 'simply to integrate the new citizens' and
similar nonsense, topics which never had been discussed with him in
our organization, and on which he had systematically avoided a
discussion within the organization.

These points must be kept in mind, if you read the letters and
publications by Rolf Martens. He has no right to speak for the
KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT). He only represents himself.
It is very significant, that his paper is unable to criticize
official documents of our organization. Our organization will go
forward.

The further policy of our organization in current political affairs
after April 1990 also proves the correctness of the theses of our
organization.It was our organization that led a massive campaign
against the Iraqi war of US-imperialism and its allies, it was our
organization that extensively pointed out her position concerning the
Jugoslavian war, the biggest war, also in terms of victims, of the
last decades in Europe, and developed a detailed and correct analysis
of this question. We also took position against the fascist
acitivities and the reconstruction of fascism in our country. A very
large and important commentary which we published was the article
"The State Connection" (April 1992). Therein our chairman dealt once
again, in a very condensed and comprehensible manner, with the
crucial points about the background to the so-called terrorism, and
went into the matter. The article deals with affairs with which
revolutionary organizations in this country have been concerned for
twenty years, that is to say in the very first respect with the role
of organs of the state. Naturally we supported the social interests
of the working class.

All this proves that we have been continuing the revolutionary
proletarian line in the years 1991-94, with all our knowledge, all
our information. Simultaneously we have been deepening our
theoretical work and have been working all the time on the
continuation of the foundations of revolutionary policy. To all
that Rolf Martens turns a deaf ear, declaring it nil.
Rolf Martens has to come out on the policy, which we have been
continuing: is it a revolutionary policy or not?

A letter of the Central Committee to Rolf Martens of Sept. 1994
will also be translated and published.

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* What was the role of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) - Communist Party
of Germany/Marxist-Leninist (New Unity) - in the development? *

In the beginning of the 70's our organization defended the Cultural
Revolution against the resistance of the whole revisionist and
social-democratic mafia. During the years 1970-72 we fought with all
our energy against our state and against the political powers, which
were present particularly in Berlin (West), where our organization
had come into being, worked in trade unions, in other institutions,
did social propaganda, did propaganda for the revolution and also
did not shrink back from applying it in practice. The activity of
our organization stood out in particular due to the concrete
analysis of the concrete situation, due to the concrete application
of the fundamental teachings of Marxism-Leninism and of Mao Zedong.
Reversely we had to defend ourselves against the heaviest subversion
by the state in Berlin and West Germany, and were exposed to the
hardest tests.
We fought against the labor-aristocratic and revisionist conception
of the so-called KABD (today MLPD). We fought against pseudomarxist
and swindler organizations like the "Roter Morgen", the "KPD/AO",
the "KBW" and the so-called "ZB", who all were really phoney
organizations with state and direct bourgeois influence. The latter
was divided between the former three in 1972, and these former three
changed sides as quickly as possible, as soon as the turnabout in
China had become reality. As quickly as possible all these
organizations went to the enemy, to the revisionists, and fought
against Marxism-Leninism, against the politics and teachings of Mao
Zedong and against any creative revolutionary implementation on the
whole.
In the time of 73 to 74 our organization fought, against all
resistance, for the line of Mao Zedong in international questions,
in the same time organized resistance of our group against the
suppression by the authorities of our country, alone, without help
from any organization abroad.

During all that time our organization continued working practically
in the factories, fought for the social interests of the workers and
of other suppressed and exploited strata, as far as the size of this
group did permit that at all. Although by the repression by the
state the organization had been much decimated from 1973 on it
nevertheless continued its work by a host of publications and public
propaganda appearances.

* About some questions of the situation in 1976 to 1977 *

In the end of the 70's our organization defended the line of Mao
Zedong against the revisionist usurpation in China. We - and not the
TKP/ML - defended Mao Zedong's line, refuted the Albanian line and
those who worked together with them. There are many documents of
that time which prove this assertion. Everybody can come and ask the
details. We shall explain our assertion by many proofs from that
time, which are interesting for the communist and revolutionary
movement all over the world.

It was also during that time that our organization under the
guidance of Klaus Sender developed a criticism of the rising
ecologism and of the attempts to disparage modern production and to
disseminate in the whole country ultra-rightist attitudes against
development and growth. In particular against the so-called Anti
Nuclear Energy Movement our organization was the only one to make
stand. It defended the revolutionary modern productive forces,
defended in particular the natural sciences and revolutionary
materialism. Therefore it was also solely our organization which
defended the basic view of Marxism of productive forces and
relations of production. In this role we stood exclusively and
solely within our country and furthermore, as far as we know, in the
European countries. Which organisation elsewhere in the world has
played this role?

But the defaming of our organization by all these forces especially
in that time - end of the 70's, beginning of the 80s - and their
striving to cut us off from any foreign organization have had no
limits.

The situation for the revolutionary party in Germany was very
difficult not only and not in the first place because of repression
by the state. There have been overwhelming changes in the structure
of the working population already in that time, there was a
widespread substitution of industrial workers and low paid jobs at
that time by foreign labourers and employees. They soon constituted a
very big part of the concentrated proletariat at the assembly lines
for instance. Later on more and more work of domestic and foreign
workers was being displaced into so-called "cheap labour" countries.
This process began on full scale in 1974, with many social effects
like setting free of workers, underemployemnt among the youth,
sectionalism on one side and a widespread increase of
labour-aristocratism and corruption among the workers on the other
side. The foreign workers became an important part and got a decisive
role in the world of Germany's workers, the biggest rate of the
foreign workers being of Turkish origin. So also foreign
revolutionary organizations became important in the whole situation
on the revolutionary side in Germany in the early seventies. From
the early beginnings the German state authorities saw these problems
and infiltrated and controlled foreign workers associations. There
has never been any longer-time-unity neither between German and
foreign revolutionary organizations nor between organizations of
different nationalities. And if they work together, like the TKP/ML,
then only with a purely studying group like "Gegen die Stroemung" -
at that time a pro-Albanian organization without any revolutionary
practice. The fundamental course of the TKP/ML was to orientate the
Turkish workers in Germany to the events in their mother cuntry. All
this made the role of a revolutionary party in Germany even more
difficult than it was anyway.

That there is something wrong can be illustrated by interesting
facts. For example: The name of the great hero of the early Turkish
revolution of the beginning 70's, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, was published
in Germany in 1979, when two Germans had gone to Turkey and had
brought back the name and the destiny of the first chairman of the
TPK/ML to Germany. Ibrahim Kaypakkaya had been murdered by the
Turkish state as early as 1973. The TKP/ML had been working in
Germany from the beginning 70's to the end of the 70's and had never
said any word about the destiny of the own chairman. What was wrong
in this movement?!

In the 80's our organization defended Marxism-Leninism and the
teachings of Mao Zedong as before, and also began to develop the
fundamental theories, for instance about Soviet history, about
Leninism, and began to investigate questions about Marxism, which
was dictated by reality. We never denied revolutionary war. But in
some important questions it is necessary to look for the whole
historical conception. It is not possible to stay upon the level of
the theory of the 40's, of the 50's. Mao Zedong himself has
developed the theory 'again and again', and it is quite clear that
the historical step that now has happened and will happen, will need
new theoretical impulses to the revolutionary movement in the world.

The first result of Klaus Sender's investigations were the
articles "Lenin's attitude towards Alexander Herzen", 9 chapters
published in 1986 and 1987, and more important, the fundamental
analysis "Leninism and Civilization - introduction to criticism",
which discusses certain real problems not in order to destroy
revolutionary movement but to bring it forward. We had no problems
in refuting the dirty attack of Rolf Martens which we mentioned
above.

A profound discussion was continued. The last two decades were a
period of very great changes and new phenomena, on a world-wide
scale. The supreme guide-line must be the complex reality, not
forgetting all the historical experiences which in the theories of
mankind and of the working class have been laid down. These two
maximes we have to regard.

After gaining victory about a destructive and obstructive force in
our own organization between the middle of 1992 to May 1993 we have
launched the biggest theoretical program for the investigation of
cultural questions, which will play a big role in the coming
international and internationalizing world. A check-up of Marxism is
indicated.

But all the things we deal with we do in a very well-founded way and
with long tests of argumentation, in order not to embarrass the
revolutionary movement but to come to a better starting point in the
time to come. Rolf Martens, the slanderer of our organization, knew
our concepts and our criticisms, and although he was enforced to
admit that the criticism "Leninism and Civilization" was correct,
which had been published in 1989, he asserted that it was just in
that time when we made great theoretical efforts and progress, that
we "degenerated to a bourgeois organization". The nonsense of his
assertion jumps into ones eyes.

It is all the more conspicuous that Rolf Martens does not give
reasons in his international papers and statements, why our
organization is being accused of degenerating, of being a bourgeois
organization. Not by a single word he tries to substantiate this.
This however is easily explainable, because he does not at all want
to show what is the subject, but wants to abuse our organization for
his own purposes.

Editorial staff of NEUE EINHEIT

concluded 15.Aug.96

Note:
By the 'Aussiedler'-campaign ('resettlement' campaign) is to be
understood that the German bourgeoisie causes millions of citizens
of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania and other countries, by
several methods, to leave these countries for Germany, arguing that
these people have German ancestors and have the right to be German
citizens. The bourgeoisie plays these people off against the
population of Germany, workers from Turkey and other countries
included, who have been here working for a long time. For example,
in the eighties the 'Aussiedler' were being privileged against all
others in getting jobs and apartements, in a country with an
unemployment of several million people and extreme shortage and rise
in prices of apartements.

First published in Internet 17 August, 1996
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neue einheit
Zeitschrift fuer Politik, Oekonomie und Kultur
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[Rolf Martens]

In article <33dd00da...@news.nacamar.de>, we...@aol.com says...

>
>The following explanations, which were first sent to Sabina Astete
>as a mail, are worth being published in this newsgroup. They are
>suitable to show the public some details about the background of Rolf
>Martens´ agitation against NEUE EINHEIT:
>____________________________
>

Please note, people, that this present-day group, Dr Sendepause 6
the Klasberries, which are the bourgeois-degenerated remains of a
once really excellent M-L party, with which I was in close contact
in the years 1974-1990, should not be trusted.

In this article which I've mainly snipped here there are a number of
untruths too. I shall not just now take the trouble to refute them,
since all who follow the discussion among those forces who say they
adhere to Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong, at least, very easily
can see the swindle character of this group - which does retain some
knowledge on certain matters but which is only interested in using
that knowledge for the imagined good of those circles among the
bourgeoisie which it represents.

Above all, this group has not said a word about the CIA-sponsored
phony "International" the "RIM", which the PCP in Peru so unfortunate-
ly was tricked into endorsing (by signing the anti-Mao document the
"RIM Declaration" in 1984), and hasn't stopped endorsing yet.

The Klasberries have known of this document for many years, almost
certainly for a decade or so even, and with the great knowledge that
they as a formerly *very* advanced proletarian party had, were
bound to see through very quickly. If they had had the lest interest
in helping the international proletariat, they would have publicly
attacked and refuted that nasty stab in the back against the workers
and against the oppressed peoples at once.

But they're keeping silent on it. This shows that they in reality today
are rather closely connected to ultra-reaction in general and to US
impeialism in particular, although their recent criticism of the
ideology of the 1920s Peruvian revolutionary thinker J.C. Mariategui,
the founder of the PCP, admittedly was quite good and something useful
for the proletariat too.

But folks, there are good reasons why you shouldn't believe certain
bullshit which these people are writing about current or recent
events, such as their conflict with me. - I do have a 40-page
criticism of them, written in German in 1990, but I shall not take
the trouble of translating and posting it just now, since I hold
this to be unnecessary.

Rolf M.

[etc, etc]

[Wayne Campbell]

>- I do have a 40-page
>criticism of them, written in German in 1990, but I shall not take
>the trouble of translating and posting it just now, since I hold
>this to be unnecessary.

Please don't. Thank you. Enough has been said about so many microscopic and
strange groups and organizations. It is impossible to keep track of who is
who,
and frankly, I don't think you guys know either.

[Rolf Martens]

In article <01bca0d9$edd778c0$6865...@bonaqa.mars.com>, w...@rocketmail.com
says...

>Please don't. Thank you. Enough has been said about so many microscopic and
>strange groups and organizations. It is impossible to keep track of who is
>who, and frankly, I don't think you guys know either.

Sometimes, when you've made many mistakes and think
that you must be very stupid, it's a comfort to
read certain postings in certain newsgroups. They
show that there are some people out there who're
even considerably more stupid than yourself and
not one bit ashamed of showing it off to the world.

Rolf M.