Marxism does not begin from the proposition that every political line possesses equal historical validity.
Marxism begins from the proposition that every political line expresses definite class interests.
Politics is never neutral.
Organisation is never neutral.
Every programme answers a class question.
Every strategy answers a class question.
Every theory of revolution answers a class question.
To suggest that the various tendencies within the Kenyan Left merely represent different but equally legitimate approaches to socialism is to replace scientific socialism with ideological relativism.
History does not advance through the peaceful coexistence of political lines.
History advances through struggle.
Marx and Engels struggled against utopian socialism.
Lenin struggled against Economism, Menshevism and anarchism.
Stalin struggled against both Right opportunism and ultra Left adventurism.
Mao struggled against dogmatism and revisionism.
Cabral struggled against petty bourgeois nationalism.
None believed that the unity of the Left required silence regarding incorrect political lines.
They understood that the greatest service one can render the working class is to distinguish correct ideas from incorrect ones.
This is precisely why Marxism insists upon ideological struggle.
Booker Ngesa Omole, The Vanguard Is Not a Matter of Opinion