Translated by Google and SJ Otto.
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From Communist Party of Ecuador- Red Sun:
“The enemy attacks, we withdraw; the enemy is approaching, we
disperse; the enemy rests, we harass him; the enemy retires, we chase
him.”
-P. Mao
That class hatred be strengthened with every student, worker or peasant
killed.
That the hatred of class grows as much as the ideological force that
moves us, that way there will be no way to stop in that hard and irrevocable
struggle to bury the old bourgeois-landowner order.
President Mao already pointed out that: “according to the Marxist theory of the State, the army is the main
component of state power. Whoever wants to take state power and retain it,
has to have a powerful army. ” But not only that, but he warned that
"without a popular army, the people will have nothing."
In other words, having an army is an unavoidable necessity
since it constitutes the backbone in which the State Power is sustained.
How much foundation and forcefulness do these quotes from
President Mao (Zedong) have, however, in a class society, not only the
proletariat and its allies think this way. Imperialism, the great
bourgeoisie, the great landowners are also clear of this need, to have an army
that allows them to hold power; consequently the role of that army is
subject to the class to which it belongs and represents; to which
dictatorship he responds and is willing to defend.
In a society like ours (third world), semifeudal and
semicolonial, there cannot be an army that represents the people. Not
because its components, the troop elements are of peasant origin or extraction,
worker / popular means that it is an army of the people and therefore may eventually
launch itself to defend its interests.
This point is very important to understand once and for all.
In the October rebellion in Ecuador; in the struggles
that the Chilean masses are undertaking against the (Sebastián) Piñera government: the confrontations that are taking
place in Bolivia, Colombia, on a recurring basis, the calls made by the popular
leaders, trade unions, peasants to the military to listen to the military are
heard. The struggles of the people, that redirect their weapons against the
government.
The response to this request has been clear. Military
and police laughing satirically at the way they cause irreparable physical
damage to their victims. Soldiers and soldiers of popular, peasant and
indigenous origin, laughing while shooting at the masses. In fact, now,
following the Zionist doctrine of repression of protesters, they deliberately
fire gas grenades or rubber ammunition in the face of protesters. Today
more than ever, among Ecuadorian, Chilean, Bolivian and Colombian protesters there
are already more than 200 mutilated people, affected with the loss of one of
their eyes; more than 3000 wounded with low caliber ammunition and about
120 dead with war ammunition.
Eventually there have been cases in which the military has
turned to support certain demands and struggles of the masses, but in no way
can this confuse us and generate some expectation that the armed forces can
fulfill a role that takes them away from their essence as guardians of the old
bourgeois-landowner power; if they have done so, it has been because with
fine calculation they have devised aligned with positions that can place them
in the presidency or in a privileged position in the new government. In
the country we have felt it, they are generally military or police of medium
ranks, captains, elders and at most, colonels, it happened with Vargas Pazos,
who had the support of the entire Ecuadorian electoral left, including small
bourgeois organizations that raised the fight armed as AVC and Montoneras
Patria Libre; Lucio Gutiérrez, to whom the indigenous movement (Conaie)
after a great day that also cost the people to put their share of blood, handed
over the reins to become president of the country.
The objective facts send us much evidence of how the members
of the Armed Forces and the police have shown themselves in the most abject way
against the people. In fact, there is no major difference in the
repressive format that the state has used (in Ecuador ,
Chile , Bolivia and Colombia ) against the
masses. Extreme violence, torture, murder, humiliation, mockery, sevicia
has been the common denominator. And they have been precisely children of
poor peasants, or workers, who have pulled the trigger against the fighting
masses.
And without fear of criticism we must state that yes, it is
understandable that repressive devices are shown or acted in that way. It
is understandable that they torture, that they repress the people, that they
kill him, in the end, they defend the old state, they defend imperialism and it
would be proper to naive, rascals or opportunists to think that it could be
otherwise. The Armed Forces become pragmatic, they do what they have to do
in order to neutralize the "subversion", the "terrorists allied
to drug trafficking", the "vandals". They, the repressive
apparatus of the state are there for that, to defend those who hold the Power,
and if the conditions require it they will be cruel once and a thousand times,
because they are clear that the Power is defending that way. They already
say it in their documents or in their martial formation processes:
If not, we should ask ourselves, if the proletariat would
have the Power in its hands it would not have to also use violence to
neutralize, as appropriate, those who want to seize the Power? Of course! (Vladimir
We cannot raise peaceful and friendly songs to pretend to
win "the good will" of the police and the armed forces. We
cannot call them to fold the struggles of the people because structurally they
will not do it, they cannot do it, they must not do it.
They, the repression, the armed forces, the police do what
they have to do. The problem happens because we do not do what we should
do: have our own popular army that is opposed to that armed apparatus that
always, is always willing to shed blood for defending the bourgeois-landowner
dictatorship even while going against its origins or extraction of
class. So it has been before, today, so it will be in the future.
The latest demonstrations in the countries of South America account for 120 dead in the ranks of the
people; not a single casualty from the enemy. We count our dead,
injured, tortured, mutilated, imprisoned, persecuted, gives the idea, referring
to the objective results of the struggle, that the popular victories have been
pyrrhic in these last days, which is more what we have delivered in costs of
human lives of what we have really won, at the end of the road, who
have strengthened in their elusive purposes have been the opportunists who
already have their own electoral agendas using our martyrs and other victims of
repression.
In enemy does not count dead, perhaps many wounded. But
not because we count our victims, let's exalt our martyrs means that we can
balance the correlation of forces in military terms, but it must be recognized:
something is wrong here!
What should we do ?, Having a popular army with correct
ideological leadership. Launching it to fight and destroy the bourgeois
army is what we must do. Do we want weapons? Well, let's get them back
from their hands. We want war resources, because we are going to storm their
barracks. Men have them, they are the masses, the poor peasants, the poor
workers, they are the force that will allow us to infringe a definitive defeat
on our enemies.
Rabid opportunists say: "We have not been militarily
prepared to fight repression on that plane." They forget or do not
want to look at the historical future. The experience of the international
proletariat is rich in school, in military line. President Mao drew up the
military line of the proletariat, the people's war, there we have it all.
We also have the experience of the international proletariat
in Peru, the Philippines, Turkey, India; in the armed experiences in
Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and here in the country; that is to say, we must
systematize and understand that, in the course of the war, with the correct
ideology, we will know how to draw lessons and incorporate the struggles of the
international proletariat into our particular experience, to our reality in
particular.
It is necessary to see and understand that the military and
the police are the way in which the dictatorship of the big bourgeois and
landowners is expressed in an armed manner. Enough of summoning them,
pretending to sensitize them and think that they work in "good
will". The only good military is the one who discards his unit and
comes to the ranks of the people with all their weapons. Three soldiers in
Colombia
have just demonstrated it; denounce their leaders, fold the struggles of
the people. Of course, the cost is high, one of them decided to immolate
himself; another: disappeared and the remaining prosecuted and
imprisoned. Outside of that there are but murderers and executioners of
the people.
Experience tells us a lot. In the popular struggles
that have been unleashed in Latin America , it
has been shown how and under what conditions the military has operated:
miserable, violent, bloody, manipulative (sheltered in the basements of the
Catholic Church), that is, in defense of the old State and its
institutions. And not fed up with the trail of blood and pain they have left
in their repressive orgy, they want more, they feel humiliated because yes, we
also gave ourselves ways to humiliate them, so they want revenge because they
don't want to leave us with any victory in their hands. A few days ago,
the commander of the Ecuadorian Army asked the regime and the National Assembly
to "give them guarantees to fight against the violent." That is,
they want a Corsican patent to kill, torture, persecute.
Should we be intimidated?
Should we show the other cheek? Impossible!.
In Bolivia ,
the military played a decisive role in the inter-bourgeois contradictions
(buying bourgeoisie and bureaucratic bourgeoisie), now, serviles to the buying
bourgeoisie repress a beaten, disenchanted people, fighting and pouring blood
to align with one of the bourgeois sides, totally oblivious to their true
interests.
In all these countries are the petty bourgeois, the
"pacifists" who claim not to drag the masses into violence to the
"non-confrontation between brothers", "the military are also
people"; Trite and miserable speech that neglects the formation of
society in classes and the permanent and antagonistic struggle that exists
between them. It is precisely the petty bourgeoisie that becomes guard
dogs of the old bourgeois democracy calling to march like lambs, disarm the
people, because in that way they not only take away their tools of violent
popular struggle, but also demobilize them ideologically.
Lenin and President Mao understood very well the role that
war plays when it is exposed as a class struggle. They quote Clausewitz
and his brilliant reflection on the matter:
Lenin in The Principles of Socialism and Wars of 1914-1915 pointed out that “we understand the inevitable link between wars and class struggle in the interior of the country, and in which we understand that wars cannot be suppressed without suppressing classes and without establishing socialism ”, or that“ War is the prolongation of politics by other means ”, and of course, that task of war will not be an anarchic way, without order, without structure, without line, without specific purposes, much less, with cantatas, drums, clowns, casseroles, musicians and other manifestations of the troupe. The struggle is violent, and if for some reason it cannot be violent, the action itself must serve to it take that character, violent President Mao held: "To make the revolution is not to offer a banquet, or write a work, or paint a picture or make an embroidery; it cannot be so elegant, so leisurely and fine, so gentle, kind, courteous, moderate and magnanimous. A revolution is a insurrection, is an act of violence through which one class overthrows another."
Today the reaction in Latin American countries declares war
on workers, peasants, on the exploited masses. Should we lower our arms and
put ourselves in a safe position as cowards, opportunists already are? No,
definitely, we must “oppose war to war, oppose revolutionary war to
counterrevolutionary war, oppose national revolutionary war to the national
counterrevolutionary war and to oppose the revolutionary class war to the
counterrevolutionary class war. History knows only two kinds of wars: the
just and the unfair. We support fair wars and oppose unjust ones. All
counterrevolutionary wars are unfair; all revolutionary wars are
fair.
Marxism teaches us that we must be forceful and inflexible
with the enemy. You have to learn from the experience of the Paris
Commune. And without pretending to be biblical, one should not leave stone
on stone of the old bourgeois-landlord order.
You have to be blunt with the enemy and his
allies. President Gonzalo and the people's war leave us the open book of
his experience. We cannot grieve or lose our objectivity in ignoring the
necessary forceful and timely actions in their context such as those of Taratá
in Lima and Lucanamarca in Ayacucho; or the fair measure taken against
María Elena Moyano in Villa El Salvador (Lima), which has also bequeathed
us; legitimate answers that are not only inscribed within the plane of war
and its meaning, but by the message it emits that the class struggle is a cruel
act where the antagonistic contradictions existing between them are
settled. Didn't the enemy have his blood pack in Socos, Pucayacu,
Accomarca, Barrios Altos, La Cantuta? Word for word, blow for blow, blood
for blood,
The problem of war will always be a problem of Power, and in
fact it translates into how to subdue the enemy, take away his combat capacity,
if necessary, annihilate him bluntly and we do not mean basically the military
problem, but also the field of the ideas. Stalin argued that “ideas are
more powerful than weapons. We don't let our enemies have weapons, why
would we let them have ideas? ” and you have to think about this
well. The old State has its armed apparatus, but that apparatus moves
according to the ideology, the ideas that allow them to hold power in all
orders. Then you have to fight your ideas, also in all orders, we do it
when we fight revisionism, opportunism, it is important to do it, that is where
the ideas of the ruling class are refined, amalgamated to revolutionary
discourse or claims of the masses. These weapons are powerful,
tremendously hostile to the class and the people, so they need to be fought,
and not only with ideas, with ideology, but also with bloody weapons, because
they are the same enemies as the bourgeois army.
(Prussian General Carl von) Clausewitz points out important things that must be observed
and considered, are not alien to the requirements of the class and the people
when confronting their antagonistic enemy. He states that “humanitarian
souls can easily conceive that there is a uselessness, an artistic disarmament
of the adversary without causing too many injuries, and that such is the true
tendency of the art of war. However beautiful it may seem to us, we are
forced to destroy such an error, because in matters as dangerous as war, errors
that are allowed to subsist due to kindness are precisely the most
damaging" And to make that mistake is precisely what opportunism
pushes us when he announces that we must mobilize, that we must protest, but
with pampering, bombs, with banners, with pitiful chants, they try to have an
army of lambs that end in the table laid out of the ruling classes.
That is the great mistake that the class and the people make
when we let the actions of those who betray the struggles of the masses, when
they deal with the blood of the people in the elections, or when without any
embarrassment give themselves to the enemy as informants for a handful of
coins.
In the October rebellion we had everything to conquer
weapons for the enemy, however, the indigenous leadership put the stop, picked
them up and returned them with a delivery receipt. When the enemy could be
hurt, as much as they hurt our people, the stop was also put on, because the
leadership of the indigenous, union and popular movement mobilized the bases to
be those who neutralize the action of the conscious combatant.
The enemy of the class and the people does not deserve any
mercy. If they have to shed blood, well, they pour it, they are
willing to kill, then they are willing to die.
Folding the aphorism of Causewitz, we point out that “ war is
an act of force and there are no limits on its use; each belligerent
imposes his law on the other; a reciprocal action is established that,
logically, lead to the extreme”; that is, the enemy permanently and daily
seeks to impose its law, does not measure how or under what conditions to do
so, only impose its law; Shouldn't we, the class, the poor
peasantry, the masses, do the same?
It is clear, war is not a clean war, do not expect an enemy
that "respects human rights", do not demand that you respect human
rights because it does not respond to the masses but to those who hold
power; let's not expect an enemy that respects the elderly, pregnant women
or children, the war against the people is total, and the answer must be
equally, total, without euphemisms, hard, bloody, “ whoever uses that
force without regard, without economy of blood, it will acquire superiority if
the enemy does not do the same ”.
We must counter reactionary war with revolutionary
war. The enemy of the class, of the people unleashes military,
psychological, economic, political campaigns against the majorities; well,
we must also confront it in that order, total, without losing the perspective
of relying on what they, the enemy, fight in their own way, we do ours, without
losing the initiative, that is the key to the action .
We have felt it in recent days. First they kill us,
they take our eyes out, then they show up guarding trucks with “humanitarian
aid”, “a lifetime” plan they call him here in Ecuador, not unlike the Alliance
for Progress, the government and the reaction have turned to make psychological
campaigns, take food, fertilizers, seeds to the field, want, or pretend to buy
the consciousness of the masses with a plate of lentils.
We must establish or reconstitute communist parties, but as
President Gonzalo taught us, militarized. The three instruments for the
revolution must be built concentrically and simultaneously, but it must be done
while fighting, while actively participating in the class struggle, while
revolutionary violence is unleashed, that coins, that puts a seal on it, that
he prints the rubric that said construction aims or is aimed at a single goal,
unleashing the people's war. If we do not do any of this, we will pass by
the people counting dead, mutilated, tortured, imprisoned and disappeared while
the power will remain in the hands of our oppressors, exploiters and
executioners.
IF WE DON'T HAVE A POPULAR ARMY, WE HAVE NOTHING!
IF WE DON'T COMBAT REVISIONISM, WE WILL HAVE NOTHING DONE!
IF WE ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR OUR IDEOLOGY, WELL, WE MAKE THE
ENEMY OF THE CLASS AND THE PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THEIR BLOOD FEE!
PREPARE THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN THE MIDDLE OF REVOLUTIONARY
VIOLENCE!
ACCEPT FOR POWER EVERYTHING ELSE IS ILLUSION!
TO CONQUER THE RED SUN OF LIBERATION: COMMUNISM!
(I should point out that this article
was translated from Spanish to English and some of it may have gotten mixed up
in the translation. For example, the title of this is “OPPOSE REVOLUTIONARY
VIOLENCE TO REACTIONARY VIOLENCE” and it appears to present an opposition to
revolutionary violence, when in fact, the articles appears to present the
opposite, view. A more accurate statement from this article is: “We must
counter reactionary war with revolutionary war.” Also for those
unfamiliar with President Gonzalo, he is also known as Abimael Guzmán -SJ Otto)
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