Positing a most dialectical
analysis with Marx, Lenin, Mao, (MLM) perspective by Chairman Joma Sison on
Comrade Ajith's viewpoint.
1. It is wrong to accuse Lenin and
Stalin of committing bloody purges[1] in the anti-communist sense of
violating the right of people’s rights to life and due process and in
construing ideological and political opinions opposed to Lenin and Stalin as
criminal offense subject to severe punishment. It is the anti-communists who
have twisted the meaning of the term “purging from the party membership list”
members who have become inactive or culpable for proven acts of indiscipline or
criminal misconduct.
2. Lenin is well-known and
celebrated for using inner party debate and persuasion to move from a minority
position to a majority position. He is not known for physical purges to get rid
of other Party members who hold opinions contrary to his position. The Red
Terror ascribed to him was a judicious response and counter under the laws of
war against the prior White Terror in the course of war. Guidelines and rules
were issued for differentiating types of criminal offenses and for conducting
military court trials in the battlefronts.
3. Stalin relied on the mass
movement to identify, denounce and isolate counterrevolutionaries or enemies of
the people and allowed the security agencies and the courts to prosecute and
try the accused. Mao made an ideological and political critique and evaluation
of Stalin as prone to errors of mishandling contradictions among the people
(due to denial of classes and class struggle in socialist society) and likewise
to administrative measures instead of revolutionary educational and cultural
work. But still Mao considered Stalin as a great revolutionary leaders, with
his merits outweighing his demerits. 7
4. Mao agreed with Lenin that the
resistance of both the international and domestic bourgeoisie is multiplied
10,000 times after the victory of the socialist revolution. He had the
advantage of observing the rise of modern revisionism in the Soviet Union and
revisionist currents in China
5. It is an old and cheap trick of
the imperialists, revisionists and other anti-communists to denigrate and
vilify the personality of great communist leaders and use the subjectivist and
personal slander as short-cut to discredit the entire socialist society or revolutionary
movement. It is unfortunate if some revolutionaries and progressives become
influenced by the term “personality cult”, first invented by
Khrushchov and then broadcast by Western propaganda. It is a smart subjectivist
phrase for attacking the collective character and mode of decision-making by
the communist party and revolutionary mass formations.
6. Regarding the Comintern, its
merits outweighed its demerits. The Comintern must be honored and celebrated
for having promoted the establishment of communist and workers parties in so
many countries. Of course, there is the well-known case of Wang Ming invoking
the authority and prestige of the Comintern in order to push an erroneous and
extremely damaging line in China
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