This pseudo-Marxism is generally believed to be real Marxism, and the capitalist establishment, through millions of books, newspapers, the electronic media, movies, etc . , etc . , is continually fostering this belief for it serves capitalism very well . Thus we must not only be encouraged by the existence of a large wing of the movement explicitly attacking capitalism, but realize that its present situation shows the need to work patiently to defeat state-capitalist, Stalinist and Trotskyist views about what Marxism and socialism is . This is what we call anti-revisionist work, i . When masses of people come together in protests like those in Seattle against the WTO they can see better than before that they're not struggling alone . They learn about many other battles which are being fought against the common enemy .
Political outlooks are broadened and there's an inspiration to organize .
They could agree on denouncing the WTO as the symbol of what was hated by the masses . Of course this reasoning forgets all about the struggle against sweatshop conditions in these very same countries . It doesn't ponder over how these struggles bring economic development in their wake, and economic development more beneficial to the oppressed masses . They couldn't agree on any of these questions . This is why the leaflets we distributed at the demonstration didn't only denounce the evils of the WTO, but dwelt on clarifying the path forward for developing a revolutionary movement against these evils . .