The Network of Communist Blogs (RBC) considers it
appropriate to point out some considerations about the Catalan process and,
ultimately, about the right to self-determination of all peoples.
Like José Díaz, when he advocated, in his speech at the
Monumental Cinema of Madrid, for the creation of a " Popular
Antifascist Concentration " on the basis of four specific points,
the RBC also defends the "liberation of the oppressed peoples by the
Spanish imperialism. That the right to freely govern their destinies to
Catalonia, to Euskadi, to Galicia and to whatever nationalities are oppressed
by the imperialism of Spain be granted ".
José Díaz, Secretary General of the PCE in the years when
the Party was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard of the Spanish proletariat - faithful
follower, therefore, of Lenin and Stalin - applied the doctrine and principles
of what Lenin called "the double
task of proletariat in terms of the right to self-determination " [1] . On this basis, the RBC emphasizes
the following points on the so-called Catalan procés , the last
link, for the moment, of the historic struggle of the Catalan people for their
liberation from Spanish imperialism:
1.- In the first place, the Catalan independence movement is
not just a bourgeois movement as many leftist chauvinists point
out. From its multiclass character, reflected in an enormous social
support, stands out an evident emancipatory, popular and worker component,
whose interested concealment seeks, above all, to separate the current Catalan
movement from the struggle of the workers of the rest of the State.
2. The Communists, therefore, must not limit themselves to
supporting or criticizing it, but, as in any popular or revolutionary movement,
they must actively participate in it, directing the masses, especially the
proletariat, and becoming their Vanguard.
3 .- The open wound in Catalonia is not going to close and
with simple legal or budgetary patches.In the context of political struggle in
Catalonia, to which, it is to be expected, other nations of the Spanish State
and the most diverse popular sectors will be added, the communists must not
contribute at all to the fact that the monarchical regime can take over the
situation and suffocate it.For the communists the main task of this day,
theoretical and practical, goes through the transformation of the Catalan
problem of the Bourbon regime into the problem of the Bourbon regime
in the Spanish state as a whole.
4. - As Federico Engels wrote, when, referring to the
problem of Alsace and Lorraine, said that such a problem would not exist if
France and Germany were socialist states, only the end of capitalism and the
construction of free states of exploitation can resolve the issue Catalan
national[2] . Ultimately, in the liquidation of
the regime of 78, that is, the socio-political and economic system that
"tied and well tied" the Francoism is the only possibility of
overcoming the "Spain one, large and free" that aherroja to the
nations and popular classes of the State.
5.- The objective, then, is to eliminate private property
and replace it with the socialization of the means of production, that is, to
end capitalism, to end the barbarism that this system represents for workers,
peoples and humanity in its set The task of the Communists is to support
unambiguously any progress, however small, towards socialism. In this
concrete sense, the passage from the monarchy of 78 to the Third Republic, with
the deep meaning that this word has in Spain, constitutes a step forward that
we must help to give, no matter how bourgeois this may ultimately be. Let
us never forget the famous words of Stalin in his Fundamentals of Leninism about
the national question and its relation to the struggle against
imperialism! [3]
6.- Following Lenin, it is about fighting, first of all, for
class unity: All workers, regardless of our nationality, are class
brothers! All workers have the same common enemy, which is the bourgeoisie
of each of our nations! This does not exclude, in any way, neither the
belonging of each worker to a specific nation or people nor their
identification with a specific culture, which, as such, can never be enemies of
the working class of any other State. In the concrete situation of
Catalonia, the only enemy of the Spanish working class is the great Spanish
chauvinism, heir to the fascists of 36. The only homeland of the Spanish
bourgeoisie, of the parasitic class of the Bourbon monarchy, is its pocket.
7.- Finally, the RBC must mention the lamentable role of
Podemos, whose ambiguity demonstrates, once again, that its main objective and
raison d'etre is the demobilization of popular protest and the dismantling of
the workers' organization. Instead of taking the side of the republican
forces in Catalonia, instead of articulating a democratic and progressive
political front against the 78 throughout the State, instead of taking to the
streets the republican masses of the entire State, Podemos, it has placed, in
the least bad of the cases, in the equidistance, that is, on the passive side
of the monarchy and of great Spanish chauvinism; has chosen to assume
the status quoinstead of putting aside the progressive and democratic
aspirations not only of the Catalans, but of the working class of the entire
Spanish State; has renounced the construction of a Spain different from
the current one; it is his accommodating and servile attitude, and not the
legitimate struggle of the Catalan people, which has allowed fascism and chauvinism
to reappear through the streets of Spain.
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[1] "Such a state of affairs presents
the Russian proletariat with a double, or rather a bilateral, task: to fight
against all nationalism and, first of all, against Russian
nationalism; recognize not only the complete equality of rights of all
nations in general, but also the equality of rights with respect to state
building, that is, the right of nations to self-determination, to
separation; and, at the same time and precisely in the interest of success
in the struggle against all kinds of nationalisms of all nations, to advocate
the unity of the proletarian struggle and proletarian organizations, their most
intimate fusion in an international community, in spite of the bourgeois
tendencies to national isolation. Complete equality of rights of
nations; right of self-determination of nations; fusion of the
workers of all nations; such is the national program that teaches the workers
Marxism, which teaches the experience of the whole world and the experience of
Russia. "
[2] "We could not take or retain power
without compensation for the crimes committed by our predecessors for other
nationalities, and therefore without: 1) facilitating the reconstitution of
Poland, and 2) placing the population of northern Schleswig that of
Alsace-Lorraine in a situation of freely deciding who should
belong. Between a socialist France and a socialist Germany there would be
no problem of Alsace-Lorraine "(Friedrich
Engels, Letter to A. Bebel, October 24, 1891).
[3] "The undoubtedly revolutionary
character of the vast majority of national movements is as relative and
peculiar, as is the possibly reactionary character of some specific national
movements. The revolutionary character of the national movement, in the
conditions of imperialist oppression, does not necessarily presuppose, much
less, the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a
revolutionary or republican program of the movement, the existence in it of a
base democratic The struggle of the emir of Afghanistan for the
independence of his country is an objectively revolutionary struggle, despite
the monarchical ideas of the emir and his supporters, because that struggle
weakens imperialism, breaks it down, undermines it. On the other hand, the
struggle of democrats and "socialists",
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