Recently I posted an article on
examples of Marxist
democratic countries and Marxist democratic institutions.
Here is one more example of democratic institutions set up by the Communist
Party of Peru (Shining Path). They had democracy set up on local levels of
their new society. -សតិវអតុ
Translated from French by Google:
By Serve in Home
The conquest of popular power is the central objective of
every revolution. Under the conditions of each, the task is to begin to
implement it in part, in the form of open popular committees.
These committees are made up of five members, called
"commissioners" because they are commissioned by the masses and can
be revoked by them at any time. They are appointed by Assemblies of
Representatives who, wherever possible, are elected by People's Assemblies from
the whole population of a given village or sector. They are led by the Party
and consist of communists, peasants and other local progressive forces. Their
mission is to begin to create a new policy, a new economy and a new culture in
the countryside, as a preparation to be able to do it across the country.
Among the five commissioners, the Secretary represents the
Party and the proletariat (present mainly in the campaign through the Party).
The Security Commissioner, also a member of the PCP, is responsible for the
defense of the New Power by the local population as a whole, organized in
militia, alongside the local guerrilla forces and the main forces of the
People's Guerrilla Army. It also means preparing for the tactical withdrawal of
the inhabitants of the area if necessary. He or she is also responsible for
police powers and takes action against counter-revolutionaries who attack the
New Power and against common criminals who harm the masses. Theft, drugs,
persistent intoxication, prostitution, gambling, violence against women and
children, rape and other plagues that have for so long prospered under the
protection of the old established order are now being suppressed.
The Production Commissioner directs the organization of the
new economy based on a new type of social relations. The land is divided and
distributed first among those who do not possess it, and only then, if there is
anything left, among those who possess few, on the basis of the number of
members of the family. The land is given to the family as a whole and not only
to family fathers or men in general (to young people who wish to leave their
parents and to found their own family is also given land). But if the
possession of the land is personal, the seeds and harvests are collective and
organized by all. The Commissioner shall ensure that the lands of elderly
persons, widows and orphaned children are maintained. He or she also organizes
the production of direct ownership of the Committee, such as raising poultry or
cuyes (guinea pigs, equivalent to the rabbit there), as well as collective
irrigation works.
Frequent changes are made in plants and cereals grown to
allow the Bases of Support (groups of several popular committees) to be as
self-sufficient as possible. The Committee is concerned with the scientific
selection of seeds and the diversification of crops. With the efforts to
replace chemical fertilizers dependent on importation, all this puts an end to
the need to go into debt. These measures and the abolition of rents
("rents" for agricultural land) free the peasants from the heavy
burden of government bureaucracy, which for so long sucked the blood of
agriculture, and the tyranny of local potentates whose power on land, control
of credit and inputs was exercised in the most arbitrary manner. These new
relations of production and exchange, designed to satisfy the needs of the
People and the People's War, free the productive forces from their barriers and
improve productivity. In some cases even embryos of clothing and work tools are
developed, so that the Bases of Support are even more self-sufficient.
Small and medium-sized traders are allowed to continue their
important activities; In fact, for them also it is a liberation. But the open
popular committees also organize the exchange activity. This may mean, locally,
a People's Fair in which the goods can be sold directly from the producer to
the consumer or traded. It also means convoys of mules that can safely cross
the mountains and allow trade with other localities because the Bases of
Support can not be totally self-sufficient and the Party must take care of the
solution of this problem.
As the revolution gets militarily stronger and its political
power begins to be relatively consolidated in a number of areas, these
[To facilitate the understanding of things, it is possible
to take this page (little glorious) of the history of the PCF:
"On September 24, 1922, a report was unanimously
adopted by the Second Inter-Federal Communist Congress of North Africa, and
said that" what characterizes the indigenous mass is its ignorance. , The
main obstacle to its emancipation. "Thus envisaged," the emancipation
of the indigenous populations of Algeria can only be the consequence of the
Revolution in France. "" Direct communist propaganda among the
Algerian natives ... is Currently unnecessary and dangerous. ""
... and to extrapolate it to the Peruvian situation => in
Peru too, after the premature death of Mariátegui (the main communist theorist
of the colonial situation of the country), for the "Marxist" left
with mainly criolla (white, Spanish, although it is less a matter of European
physical appearance than of lifestyle), the "main problem" and
"obstacle to the emancipation" of the "Indian" was his
"ignorance"; Its only salvation integration with the working class of
the cities and the interbreeding both biological and progressive cultural; And
its emancipation "necessarily" a "consequence" of the
"revolution", or rather of the electoral takeover or military coup of
this "left" - there in Lima - the creature of Spanish colonialism
separated from the metropolis in 1821 .
At the "best" one "thinks very strongly of
him" and is celebrated in a mythologizing way, "good savage" in
a sense, like Haya de la Torre in his time (before drifting ever more right to
try to win the elections ) Or in a more contemporary way the mandarin and
talkative parrot Quijano (who at the time of going to the end of the
consequences of his brilliant analyzes, did little if not conferences
"even in the dark" and to perfer on the massacres Of Fujimori by
referring implicitly back-to-back the Power criollo murderer and the only armed
and organized resistance consequent to him).
Until one day in May 1980, in the Andean countryside of
Ayacucho, the ballot boxes of the semi-decennial ballot collection by local
(including "left") political caciques ... and Begin to rise in
thousands by the ignorant and despised forever, sounding the time of the
reparcelling of Inkarri, the return of Tupac Amaru in the form of millions
("I will return and I will be millions")!
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