Workers are thinking beings, they are not stupid or misled.

The disguise of revisionism is applying the conclusions of Engels, Lenin, and Marx to emerging situations rather than applying their methodology to reach new conclusions. To illustrate what I mean by that, consider that Trotskyites applied Lenin's conclusions about World War I to World War II. Rather than applying the methodology Lenin used to reach his conclusions about the imperialist character of the first war, Trotskyites simply parroted what Lenin had said in an attempt to seize legitimacy by association. What they didn't realize, because they weren't really thinking about it, was that what made sense for one war didn't make sense for the other war.

To be a Marxist-Leninist isn't to fetishize history, but to learn from it and apply its lessons to new situations. The next steps to take in building socialism differ from situation to situation. In the United States, for example, the epicenter of capitalism and imperialism, the task at hand is to expose the American proletariat to Marxist-Leninist science and to make available the facts of its successful application in history. The American empire obscures the fact of socialism's superiority to capitalism through sheer volume, the way a less mature individual might plug his ears and sing to drown out criticism. The task, then, is an organized and large-scale endeavor to expose the masses to Marxism-Leninism and to establish its political legitimacy in the wider public consciousness.