Criteria of a mass organization like MOARA (on Revleft the same concept is called United Social Labor, but you can call it Goulash if you like, the name will emerge as the organization does) for members (lines of demarcation, who's in who's out, outer boundary of minimal agreement, whatever) would likely be considerably less stringent than the criteria of a vanguard party. But that is part of the point, isn't it, to construct a looser movement that can become the incubator of a future communist party (or parties). During the incubation period, several different lines will emerge and contend, probably organized around protoparty formations within the larger whole. A good line will attract people within the movement to the grouping proposing it while simultaneously drawing the previously uninvolved into the movement. A bad line will wither and die or maintain itself as a factional sect at best. It is not impossible that different tendencies within MOARA will have different strong suits (areas in which they excel theoretically and in practice) without necessarily having enough points of unity to coalesce into one protoparty for some time into the future. That need not be a tragedy if they can remain united on a minimal basis within MOARA (someone PLEASE find a better name for the concept). What would be a preliminary minimal basis of unity? We want to exclude CONSCIOUS reformists, I assume. Everyone has his own take on who is or isn't OBJECTIVELY reformist, but broad unity can be achieved by taking the announced positions of subjectively revolutionary groups and individuals at face value, at least at first, to provide a fairly big tent.

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