The enforced dismissal from the industrial and on the masses, to a decline in initiative and cultural spheres of large numbers of qualified people who have expressed and continue to express a different opinion from the leadership is causing and will continue to cause immense mage. I think that the working class and its ading role has been morally affected, 1 should like to be mistaken when I say that the working cast, as the most important component and nottinal bearer of power in a socialist state, lech that it is being thoroughly manipulated. It Bas been deprived of what it regarded as progres uve and has had a different conception forced pon it. Worker participation in public affairs and state administration has been reduced to a Linimum insofar as it exists at all.
In my view the most serious consequences of the present policy is the fact that the people have been deprived of the possibality of discurting party policy withour fear, te freely, and thus of making decisions about matters affecting society.
Fam forced to conclude that the presenr Party line has been succersfully impiemented. Jocial vulves have been successfully destroyed. But none of the conflicts which led to the crini In the Party and society in the sixties lie. not In the years 1968-69, but before 1968] have been solved The present leadership has not led the Party and society out of this crisis through the so-called policy of consolidation' adopted after the invasion. On the contrary, the Party's evelopment has been set back not only to the tage prior to 1968, but to u situation the like of which las not been seen during the whole of a hastory, Since April 1969 the Party, havine talled to solve the existing crisis, has tallen unto an even deeper crisis, the seriousness of whose comequences it has not yet fully appreciated.
I refute the thesis that 'socialism can he overthrown by unperialist bourgeois propaganda. The latter can merely exploit mistakes and detciencies in the socialist countries. Such propaganda can be delested only by overcoming the causes of the shortcomings it exploits. The above thesis is harmtul for it deflects the atten ton of the Party and the socialist state from the solution of their own shortcomings, mistakes and distortions, and from the internal causes thercof, which are the major and decisive ones.
Underestimation or ignoring of internal difPEESCO BE ENG SCLEVELY CLUE CUTEHEIBEUSL Party as the leading force in society after the victory of the working class leads inevitably to a gradual weakening of the Party's influence The Herolutionary Left in Credwokwakia MG pamphlet with documents/analysis from 1968, inc pop| from Red Books, 97 Coledonian Rd. N. Exclusive extracts from his open letter to the Czechoslovak leaders to agree with this analysis: it is necessary to overcome this system consciously, to thwart it through legal norins, prevent its perpetuation and existence; we tried to do this partiallyThis method is incompatible with Marxism-Leninism, What is impurtant is not so much the individuals and personalities who put this sys tem into operation under the pretext of protec ting orthodox Leninism, threatened by various Improvers —although this tactor is by no nicans negligible. It is crucial that the very concept behind this method of governing based, among other things, on manipulating the masses into obedience and discipline in order that socialism may not be threatened" - he destroyed theoretically, organisationally and politically Not to unmask this method, damaging te socialism (to avoid playing into the hands of - bostile propugandists) means to cultivate, parLeularly in the young generation, undesirable conformity and apachy to nurture the idea that conforming, even to injustic guins some advantage for oneself, albeit at the expense of others, not infrequently of one's closest friend or comrade. The idea and active defence of human fights is thererore fully justitied even under socialism. The Party primarily abould up hold this, and its leadership should bear lee The main content of this letter is intended to show more clearly that my 'zuit" (and not mine dione consists of a different enabation of air developinent then tice one earvested in the 'Lessons of the Chinir Perlod" | December 1972 CC document 1, and'a different view of the necessity to overcome the lasting and deepening crimir in the Party and in rociety than zhot keid by the present leadership of the fargy. I reject the injustice shown toward me and core rades who think the same way, incinding even the use of security organs. (In their defence it would perhaps be more correct to say that they are misused.) In this connection it is worth mentioning the fact that the President of the Republic had the habit of placing transistor radios at the windows before opening any dis cussions. This 1 think requires no comment and speaks for itself.
The whole life of our country is festooned with webs, and those who spin them need sustebance and sanction. cannot call it other than by its real name: it is the misuse of power and violation of socialist principles and Party principles, It is a violation of human rights. Journal of Czechoslovak revolutionary socialists, 40) from Red Books. 97 Caladonian Road. N.1
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