On 12
August the CARC Party, within its National Festival, will
hold an initiative to celebrate the Centenary of October Revolution, were there
will come comrades representatives of parties struggling for socialism from
Venezuela, Turkey, Philippines. The issue is “Teachings by October Revolution
for advancing on the road taken and lead the communist movement on the world
level and in each country to new victories”. Task of the initiative is to show
to Italian popular masses the rebirth of the international communist movement
and the cooperation among Italian communist movement and the parties and
organizations at the vanguard in the struggle for socialism and against
imperialism.
August 9,
2017
Greetings from the (n)ICP to the P.CARC Festival of
People’s Revival on the occasion of the celebration on August 12 of the
Centenary of the October Revolution
Dear comrades,
first of
all I would like to thank the comrades of P.CARC who gave the (new) Italian
Communist Party of Italy the opportunity to bring you its greetings. The
Centenary of the Victory of the October Revolution is the occasion to evaluate
the situation about the rebirth of the communist movement in our country and in
the world. The international community of European, American and Zionist
imperialist groups has succeeded in imposing to the world a catastrophic course
of things. All humanity is dragged and affected in it in every field, the
economic, the political, ecological, intellectual and moral ones. That
international community has been able to do it thanks to the exhaustion of the
revolutionary wave raised all over the world by the victory of the insurrection
of 7 November 1917 in Petersburg and by the consequent construction of
socialism in the Soviet Union, promoted by the communist movement first led by
Lenin and then by Stalin. Even the Great Cultural Revolution promoted by Mao
Tse-tung in the People's Republic of China has not been able to stop the
exhaustion that is the expression of the decadence of the communist movement.
So, the
rebirth of the communist movement is the task of the moment. It was the
conscious and organized communist movement embodied by Lenin and Stalin’s party
which promoted the revolutionary wave in the world: It is therefore its
decadence that has allowed Kruscev, Teng Hsiao-ping and their members and
successors to break up in the second part of the century the first socialist
countries, communist parties and the revolutionary movement. Their work allowed
the bourgeoisie to take over the direction of humanity, and humanity today
suffers the effects from one end to the other of earth, and in every field.
Some who
call themselves communist today claim that the capitalism studied, explained
and described by Marx in his work, The Capital, is no longer the
basis of the current bloody and painful course of things. They argue that a new
way of production was born with globalization, with the entry of new powers in
international politics, with the great development of the productive forces
created by the systematic application of the entire wealth of knowledge
acquired by human species to the production of goods and services and with the
unlimited multiplication of those goods and services producted. "The world
is completely changed": this is their litany. This thesis is wrong and
damaging. It repeats the thesis already proposed by bourgeois sociologists at
the beginning of the last century when imperialism was arising. It was resumed
in the communist movement by Bukharin and others, refuted by Lenin and denied
by the experience of the whole century.
This thesis
is born from the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie spurns any science of history
because it shows the end of its dominion, and its responsibility of the past
that the bourgeoisie does not want to bear. This thesis is the premise to set
aside the political aspects of communist conception: class struggle, special
role of the working class, communist party tasks, establishment of socialism.
No one has ever managed to give any consistent evidence of such a thesis. The
repeaters of this thesis are only able to make empirical narrations. They are
only able to put unilaterally the focus of attention, isolating it and thus
giving it a deformed representation, to one or another of the many new things
that there certainly are and that we Communists must carefully consider.
To say that
the current configuration of production relationships, political relations, and
the whole system of human relations is a superstructure of old capitalism is
not equivalent to say "so there is nothing new", nothing important,
nothing which we must carefully consider. The superstructure is not a hat or a
mask that one puts and takes off at his will. It is the top floor of a building
that grows on the same foundation. Those who want to demolish the building must
take it into account!
We are
facing capitalism and the superstructure that it had and have to generate due
to the effects of the first wave of the proletarian revolution and its
exhaustion, and due to the new general crisis of absolute overproduction of
capital.(1) Humanity
still needs to establish socialism in its three basic aspects: political,
economic and social ones. We must guide the classes and the oppressed peoples
to establish it. It is therefore necessary to build the Communist Party able to
carry out its task of leading the working class and the popular masses. October
Revolution, building socialism in the Soviet Union, the experience of the
aborted socialist revolution in our and in other imperialist countries are the
fields of experience to which we must draw. The main aspect of the exhaustion
of the first wave of the proletarian revolution is precisely the failure to
establish socialism in the imperialist countries, where all the progress that
humanity can make in the context of capitalist social relations is basically
accomplished.
(1) About this matters see
http://www.nuovopci.it/eile/en/f-issues.html
At the time
of October Revolution Lenin and the Communist International already since its
first Congresses clearly said that the communist parties born in Europe and the
USA on the wave of the victory of the October Revolution were still guided by a
conception of the world that made them unable to establish socialism. In
his Letter
to the German Communists, of August 14, 1921, Lenin explains it
clearly, but he had already explained it in more detail in the October 1916
script About
a caricature of Marxism. These are teachings that Stalin has
repeated again and again and so did Zdanov in 1947 when the Italian and French
communist parties abandoned the task of advancing the socialist revolution in
their respective countries. Gramsci has been the only leader of the communist
parties of the imperialist countries, who endorsed the task of transforming the
Party, the task that the Communist International had entrusted to him. It is
the task which he explicitly states in the February 1926 document Five Years of
Party Life and that he continued to carry out with the Prison
Notebooks.
The
Communist Party only advances with the struggle of the line inspired by the
communist conception of the world against the line that reproduces in the party
the intellectual and moral influence that bourgeoisie exerts on popular masses.
Comrades,
even today our main and immediate task is to elevate the knowledge and
assimilation of the communist conception of the world and the ability to
translate it into the particular situations in which they operate and to apply
it concretely, in all the comrades who want to end the catastrophic course of
things. It is indispensable not only for making them capable of taking the
direction of the working class and the popular masses, but also for making them
persist in their own way. Today, there are coming up to us people attracted by
the memory of heroism and of the achievements of the old communist movement,
generous people dedicated to the claiming struggles, people fascinated by
the potential of organized masses, people curious to understand where the world
is going, people afflicted by mal de vivre and that want to feel better. We
need to welcome them all but to each one we must teach the science and art to
transform the world and make the socialist revolution advance. Only so they can
become communist. The course of things is so catastrophic today in every field
and the situations created by the imperialist bourgeoisie is so serious that
anyone who abandon himself to the impressions that his direct experience and
narrations, sounds and images spread by mass media and Internet aroused
momentarily in him, becomes cynical or desperate. What distinguishes us
Communists is that we have an analysis of the course of things, we know its
reason, and we realize a line to work it out. Just because we have deeply
thought about these issues (analysis, cause and line) and we have clearly
defined them, everyone of us acts serenely and at his best the task assigned to
him in the party's action plan.
There are
many breeding grounds where comrades are already struggling for the rebirth of
the communist movement all over the world. We wish all of you to contribute by
embracing the heritage of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
The future
is Communism! The more we fight with science and art, the faster we will
advance to victory!
Comrade
Ulisse, general secretary of the Central Committee of the (new) ICP.
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