Last May Day, among
the joint declarations of MLM Parties and Organizations, there was one signed
by the Communist Party of France (mlm) and the Marxist Leninist Maoist Center
of Belgium entitled: “With the people's war, under the
banner of the MLM , in the face of the second general crisis of capitalism!
” . In that statement, which seems more like an anathema
to communist pontiffs, the comrades expose "their" Marxism "well
understood", refuting with phrases the "heretics" who in
different parts of the world are really fighting to lead the forces of the
world proletariat to the fulfillment of its historical mission.
The statement of the comrades could be
dispatched with any phrase, as some comrades do, however, it is necessary to
take their ideas seriously and refute their mistakes because some are
disqualifying phrases without any argument, others only show "their"
contradictory and mutilated Marxism , and others coincide with the ideas of
mistaken comrades who seek to introduce within the Maoist Leninist Marxists,
formulations and dogmas contrary to Marxism.
The comrades begin
by affirming: "We are entering a new era
..." Do they mean that we are in a different era than
that of the World Proletarian Revolution? However, from what they say
below, everything seems to indicate that they are not talking about something
different, but that it is a “small” slip, a meaningless phrase that belies
those who pose as “infallible” Marxists.
Later arguing why we are entering a
"new era" they state:
This general crisis appears
with covid-19, a disease whose virus that produces it is the result of a
mutation that comes directly from the contradictions developed by the
capitalist mode of production: the contradiction between humans and animals on
the one hand, and the contradiction between cities and the countryside on the
other.
Firstly, the economic crisis of world
capitalism already existed since 2008, even the imperialist agencies already
announced the decrease of the world economy and warned of the worsening of the
social crisis days before the coronavirus appeared. What caused the
coronavirus pandemic was an extreme flare-up of it, revealing it in all its
magnitude and throughout the world. Second, it is unilateral and inaccurate
to refer to a "contradiction between human beings and animals", when
the exact Marxist formulation refers to the contradiction between society and
nature, since there are no humans outside of society and nature is not only
animals.
Then they sentence in bold:
We affirm, on this May 1, 2020,
that the capitalist mode of production is a complete obstacle to the
development of humanity and to the valorization of life itself. All the
states that are at the service of the capitalist mode of production must be
overthrown, so that humanity can establish socialist, dialectical and
non-destructive relations with everything that forms the planetary Biosphere!
Without going too far into reasoning about
what they mean by the “valorization of life itself”, the suspicion that the comrades
have that there are states that are NOT at the service of the capitalist mode
of production is striking. What would those states be? An unfounded
"suspicion" when it has already become evident that imperialism has
become a world system of exploitation and oppression, subjecting all modes of
production and putting all States at its service.
In the words of
the Proposal for the Formulation of a General Line for Unity of
the International Communist Movement of the UOC
(mlm) it is stated:
Imperialism, as an
internationalized mode of production, chained all countries —with their specific
modes of production— in a single world economy, where the economy of each
country is a link in a single chain, which obeys and serves production, the
realization of surplus value, accumulation and centralization of world capital.
Consequently, ALL STATES "are at the
service of the capitalist mode of production."
Later and also in bold, they give us
another papal sentence:
In imperialist metropolises,
where capitalism triumphs 24 hours a day, there must be a spirit of rupture to
equalize, an ability to be consistent to the end in the affirmation of
communism. We underline the growing weight of subjectivity in the
imperialist metropolises and remember that revolutionary consciousness never
arises mechanically, but as a fracture with the dominant values.
Proletarian ideology does indeed represent
a break with bourgeois ideology, but it does not emerge from an exclusive
struggle in the sphere of ideas. It arises from the contradictions of
capitalist society and class struggle, but it develops independently of the
struggle of the spontaneous movement that has the same base. However, the
“fracture with the dominant values” in the social field is only possible
through and through the revolutionary activity of the masses. By merging
socialist consciousness with the labor movement. Consequently, proposing a
"cultural battle ..." outside the class struggle is pure
"ideologism", according to Engels; It is, among other things, a
coincidence with the "cultural revolution" advanced by Avakianist
revisionism a few years ago, and from which nothing can arise but,
And from that anti-Marxist statement, they
arrive at the following statement, also highlighted in bold:
We affirm here that only a
correct dialectical materialist understanding of the crisis can lead to a
correct political and cultural orientation, not to mention the ideological and
scientific dimension.
A sophism that only the enlightened
pontiffs understand and not the mortal revolutionary proletarians, for whom it
has always been clear that only relying on the dialectical materialism of
Marxism, that is, on the materialist conception of the world, on the
dialectical method and on the position of class of the proletariat, they can
derive a correct political orientation for their revolutionary practice.
But not there for the pontifical
discourse:
Anyone who does not use the
concepts of the Biosphere, who does not want to understand the dignity of the
reality of the animal question, who has never understood the scope of global
warming, who does not use the city / country contradiction in his approach ...
cannot understand our times.
Poor of us who do not use the concepts of
Biosphere (capitalized) and who definitely cannot understand the entelechy of
the "dignity of the reality of the animal question"!
However, such discourse only seeks to
obfuscate the proletarian conscience, since for Marxism it is clear from the
very beginning that there is a contradiction between society and nature, which
has been pushed to the extreme by imperialism, especially in the last 30 years.
years, highlighting it as one of the most important contradictions in today's
society, because the very survival of life itself on the planet is at risk.
A problem
recognized by the Communist Workers' Union
(mlm) in the Program for the Revolution in Colombia (to
save nature from the depredation to which capitalism has subjected it) and in
the proposal for the formulation of
a General Line for the Unity of the Movement International Communist :
Imperialist capitalism is a
social regime that survives on the depredation of the only two sources
of wealth: the labor force and nature ; their life
expectancy depends on strangling society and destroying
nature. Transforming the relations of men with nature is only possible by
transforming the current social relations of exploitation into social relations
of collaboration. The aspiration to save nature without touching the power
of capital is bourgeois reformism, repudiating natural disaster, but it does
not attack its main cause: the capitalist mode of production. Stopping the
destruction of nature is part of the proletariat's socialist program because it
demands an end to the cause of its destruction : imperialist capitalism.
But pontificating
over the biosphere and other matters of that nature has a purpose: to highlight
as a main global contradiction the contradiction between society and nature or,
as the Declaration says, "between
human beings and animals." It
is possible that it is not a ruse of intellectuals, but of the own confusion of
the companions. Regarding the current main world contradiction, the
situation created by the crisis and the pandemic has made it completely clear
that this is the contradiction between the world proletariat and the world
bourgeoisie; fact that also left bare the error of the comrades who
mechanically and dogmatically affirmed that such a contradiction, since the 60s
of the last century or since the rise of imperialism, has been the
contradiction between the imperialist countries and the countries, peoples and
oppressed nations.
With apologies to
the reader for the length of the quote it is good to bring up the words of
the Proposal for the Formulation of
a General Line for the Unity of the International Communist Movement :
Today, the main world
contradiction pits the world proletariat against the world bourgeoisie, being,
finally, the contradiction that best and most concentratedly expresses the
fundamental contradiction of the system; the most decisive for being its
direct manifestation in the field of class struggle, and as such, the one with
the greatest revolutionary influence over the other world contradictions of
imperialism, the one that most helps the advance of the revolution and the
progress of society, accelerating the transition to socialism.
The world economic crisis that
started in 2008 has especially aggravated the world contradiction between the
proletariat and the bourgeoisie, reaffirming its character as the main
contradiction in the imperialist world, in extension and depth, where the vast
majority of the world population lives subjugated by the chain of wages, he
accumulates misery in the midst of the wealth he produces, and supports with
his labor power a few monopolistic parasites that privately appropriate world
production. Both the bankruptcy of medium and small landowners, and the
ruin and displacement of millions of peasants by capitalism and wars, swell the
ranks of the proletariat en masse, whose existence is increasingly threatened
by unemployment, cuts in benefits, massive dismissals and the reduction of the
real salary,
The extension and depth of the
world contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie clearly reveal
that capital is a social relationship where - for the first time in the agony
of capitalism - the owners of capital and the owners of the job; fact of
utmost importance for the World Proletarian Revolution, but of little interest
to many revolutionary communist comrades, tied to the analysis of another
previous period, which no longer corresponds to the current world reality and
the perspective towards which objective trends in society point . This is
a great divergence between the Maoist Leninist Marxists, about what is the main
world contradiction at present: between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, or
between the oppressed countries and the imperialist countries.
Independientemente de los
deseos y de la voluntad, la subvaloración de la contradicción mundial entre el
proletariado y la burguesía, es una posición errónea y desenfocada en lo
político, idealista en lo ideológico, y común con el revisionismo post-MLM del
PCR,EU cuya subestimación del peso del proletariado se deriva del reniego de su
papel dirigente en la Revolución Proletaria Mundial.
The anathema of the
communist pontiffs of France and Belgium indicates that there are two
tendencies within the Maoist Leninist Marxists that have led the movement to
ruin and qualify, without further arguments: the first, of wanting to “make Gonzalo a classic from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in an
abstract-formal approach (...) a stereotypical style led to this tendency to
deny the Covid-19 crisis, to see it as a kind of bourgeois conspiracy to mask
the crisis and strengthen political and police control " ; the
second, in the case of the Maoist Communist Party of Italy, of having "a syndicalist-populist approach" which
they miss talking about "the
people's war" when before "it seemed to him simply anarchism" the
armed struggle being waged there, and the case of the Revolutionary Communist
Party of Canada, "openly assumes that the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is a completely secondary fact, much less
important, for example, that the Chinese revolution that culminated in
1949" . A trend "that is part of a union-populist approach, without any
depth, without any breadth . "
In no time the comrades were condemned as
heretics! And not because there are not some deviations or erroneous ideas
in the condemned comrades, but the comrades in their pontifical style, simply
take out a phrase to utter their condemnation, thereby only showing their own
ideological poverty.
Then they pass another sentence, also
highlighted in bold:
We affirm that there are three
lines in the movements that claim to be Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. There is
the opportunist line of the left, which proposes a turnkey ideology in which
Gonzalo would be the universal key to do what we want as we want, which is
leftism. There is a right-wing opportunist who wants to unite all Maoists
regardless of ideological content. There is, finally, the correct line
that makes the teachings of Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru
To begin with, the communist pontiffs show
here their lack of dialectics and their mechanistic Marxism, since the two-line
struggle is inherent in our movement; that is to say, the tendencies and
nuances do not exist outside of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, but they fight
within the International Communist Movement itself.
Indeed, there is a
"leftist" line based on the belief that "the teachings of Gonzalo and the Communist Party of
Peru" are the "correct
interpretation of Maoism and advocates the formation of guiding thoughts to go
to the people's war" , in whose bosom there are also
nuances; one of whom is represented by the communist pontiffs who signed
the declaration, another is represented by the comrades of Brazil and Germany,
and other comrades are halfway there; they all have in common to claim the
correct interpreters of the teachings of Gonzalo Thought and the PCP. This
needs to be specified in order to differentiate comrades and companions from
those also on behalf of "The teachings of Gonzalo Thought and the Communist Party of
Peru" supported
the "letters of peace" and championed the Right Opportunistic Line -
LOD, which also has followers among some organizations that also call
themselves Maoist Leninist Marxists, as is the case of the “Maoist Communist
Party of Colombia”, but that they are people who are no longer part of our
movement, precisely because they abandoned the ideological basis of Marxism.
There is also a correct line that during
all these years has fought both against right opportunism and against
"leftist" deviations; it is a line that has not sought to become
a “red fraction” because it accepts the fight of lines as something necessary
and beneficial for the development of our movement; and various parties
and organizations at different times have played a prominent role, as is the
case with the comrades of the Communist Party of Maoist India, and others
modestly as in the case of the Communist Workers' Union (MLM) of Colombia
against treason. in Nepal
Finally, in the middle of these two lines
there are comrades halfway, but in general our movement has managed to avoid
the fight against the main danger, the opportunism of the right or revisionism
and against the conciliatory centrism, managing in the course of these years to
differentiate the field from the Maoist Leninist Marxists of all kinds of
opportunists.
Recognizing this
situation is part of the application of dialectical materialism to the analysis
of the phenomenon, where the disqualifications made by the communist pontiffs
of France and Belgium
In this regard, the
silence of the parties and organizations in the face of the Proposal for the Formulation of a General Line for the Unity of
the International Communist Movement , presented by the Communist Workers'
Union (mlm) in 2016, shows not only contempt for solving the fundamental
problems of the World Proletarian Revolution, but also the dogmatic and
sectarian attitude, if not confusion and nationalism. There has been no
solid argument against what was raised there, except for some critical ideas
from the comrades of "Reconstitution of Communism" in Spain that, in
addition to not being correct, have not deserved a response because the
comrades do not share the basis of unity. from the Maoist Marxist Leninists; They,
like Avakian, and as the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) have already done,
believe that a "new communism" must be "done",
"re-founded" or "rebuilt".
But instead of making some serious
reference to serious arguments, instead of making the effort to understand the
dialectical materialism of the unity of the communists, the communist pontiffs
only manage to complain and incidentally attack us with a gratuitous insult:
It is a great pity that
Prachanda's international refutation did not extend politically to the point of
becoming an international unit. It is necessary to emphasize here the
damaging role of the UOC (MLM) of Colombia ,
which yesterday denounced the Maoist Communist Party of Italy
“No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere
oír ni peor ciego que el que no quiere ver”, reza la sabiduría popular y los
pontífices comunistas encerrados en su ensimismamiento cismático, no son
capaces de advertir que hubo en efecto un GRAN ROMPIMIENTO y que la lucha de
los comunistas (en la que ellos también participaron) impidió que la plataforma
revisionista de Prachanda y sobre todo la de Avakian se impusiera en el MCI.
The lack of dialectics of the comrades
prevents them from noticing that several comrades, who initially adopted
centrist positions of conciliation with Prachandism, definitively broke with it
and some even bravely and publicly admitted their mistakes, as is the case with
the Galician comrades. It has not been the UOC (mlm) that has changed its
firm ideological and correct political positions, but the wrong comrades who
have rectified and that, which is a source of joy for the Maoist Leninist
Marxists of all countries, bothers the communist pontiffs they do not see
beyond their noses.
For those who are not scared by the
insulting words, as well as for comrades who are not familiar with the events
of recent years, it is necessary to do a bit of history, for which we apologize
in advance regarding the length of the quotes.
Over there on
February 17, 2007, the companions of France
What happened next was of
greater importance. There have been, since June 2006, documents from the
Communist Party of India
(Maoist), which criticized the prospect of "peace accords" in Nepal Colombia
The UOC (MLM) of Colombia
It is clear that
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communists must support this initiative.
It is also clear that within
this process, the Communist Party of India
(Maoist) has a great role to play, as much as the Communist Party of Peru Peru
As the UOC (MLM) did in its
call "To the proletariat of all countries and to the Marxist Leninist
Maoists", we have to lay the foundations for a new definition, to guide
the international communist movement, within the grandiose perspective of the
world revolution .
On August 31, 2016,
the Appeal was published in the Workers' Revolution: Let's unite and draw a clear line
of demarcation between Marxism and revisionism! which
had been sent by the UOC Executive Committee (mlm) in April 2013 to the
following parties and organizations:
To the signatories
to the Joint Declaration of December 26, 2011 THE INTERNATIONAL UNIT OF COMMUNISTS DEMANDS THE DEFEAT OF
REVISIONISM AND CENTRISM!
Arabia - Arab Maoistes, Argentina - Maoist
PCP, Bangladesh - Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Spanish State - Collective
Hate of Class, PC MLM of France, Communist Party of Ecuador Sol Rojo, Peru -
Base Mantaro Rojo, Panama - PC (ML ) Panama, Colombia - UOC MLM
To the signatories
of the Joint Declaration of December 26, 2012 THE INTERNATIONAL UNITY OF COMMUNISTS DEMANDS THE DEFEAT OF
AVAKIANIST REVISIONISM, CENTRISM AND ALL FORMS OF REVISIONISM!
Afghanistan - MLM Workers Organization
(PM), Arabia - Maoistes arabe, Bangladesh - Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist,
Belgique - Center MLM, Ecuador - Communist Party of Ecuador - Red Sun, Spanish
State - Hatred of Class, Spanish State - PERUCRPM and Reconstruction Group,
Spanish State - Red Flag Communist Organization, Panama - PC (ML) Panama, Peru
- Mantaro Rojo Base Committee, Colombia - UOC MLM
To other Marxist Leninist Maoist parties
and organizations:
Afghanistan - Communist Maoist Party of
Afghanistan, Germany - New Peru, Brazil - Revolutionary Front, Colombia -
Maoist Organization of Colombia, Ecuador - Reconstruction of the PC of Ecuador
MLM, Spanish State - Great March towards Communism, Spanish State - Proletarian
Revolution, State Spanish - UCCP, India - Freespeech, Mexico - Lijuc Gran
Marcha, Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist (TKP / ML)
And also, he was personally sent to some
Comrades from various countries.
As seen among the signatories of those
correct statements, there are the now communist pontiffs and among the serious
arguments that were expressed there and that the comrades now ignore were the
following:
The Joint Declarations of
December 26, 2011 and 2012, and the pronouncements of various parties against
pseudo MLM revisionism, already contain and express a common basis of unity in
the principles, which enables the Maoist Leninist Marxists to unite to draw a
clear line. of demarcation between Marxism and the main revisionist danger.
The Communist Workers' Union
(MLM) considers that the Maoist Leninist Marxists today have "a general
identity with a base of unity characterized by recognizing the historical
merits of the MRI and accepting its defeat at the hands of
revisionism; for the commitment to fight for the unity of the Maoist
Leninist Marxists in the MCI on the condition of a deep demarcation with
revisionism and conciliatory centrism; for the defense of the fundamental
principles of Marxism Leninism Maoism on the class struggle, the State, the
revolution, the historical role of the masses, the path of revolutionary
violence of the armed masses to overthrow the old State, the historical need
for the dictatorship of the proletariat including semi-feudal and semi-colonial
countries in the form of the New Democracy State,
He added about the correct method to fight
for unity:
Consolidate the
general base of unity of the Maoist Leninist Marxists, treating their
differences (including differences of principle) consciously practicing
the method of Unity - Struggle -
UNITY, as contradictions within the people . Without this method and without the common thread of a General Line to discuss and take a position on essential questions, the
fight over everything and against everyone will cease to be a fight for the
unity of the Communists, and will end up undermining the task of defeating and
isolate the main revisionist danger.
And it ended:
Faced with the international unity of the
communists, the commitment and fundamental struggle of the Communist Workers'
Union (MLM) is for the new International.
In this perspective,
in these years the UOC (MLM) has proposed to contribute to the theoretical
defeat of pseudo MLM revisionism, and to contribute to the elaboration of
a proposal for a General Line for
the unity of the International Communist Movement .
As can be seen, consistent with its words,
its line, and its plan, the UOC submitted this proposal to the Marxist Leninist
Maoist movement for discussion in 2016.
And as the facts demonstrate, the Joint
International Declarations of recent years signed by the UOC (mlm) are correct
and make no concessions to revisionism, centrism, or
"leftism". The world has changed for the good of the
revolutionary Marxist line and this has been of great importance for the
advance of the revolution, but the communist pontiffs cannot notice it.
The commitment of the Communist Workers'
Union (mlm) with the International Communist Movement and with the World
Proletarian Revolution, have their own orientation that corresponds to the
understanding of the development of contradictions and only have to do with the
struggle between right and wrong within our movement. Hence the insult
that the UOC (mlm) became a vassal of the PCmI is an offense that only denotes
the visceral hatred of the communist pontiffs for the comrades in Italy
In this same anti-Marxist tone of the
"know-it-all", the spiel against the Communist Workers Union (MLM)
continues:
It must be seen that the
failure of the UOC (MLM) is all the more damaging since this organization had
the qualities of its defects. He did not understand the notion of
semi-feudalism, semi-colonialism and mistakenly considered his country, Colombia
A statement contrary to his own sentence
of lines below where they stand out with the usual bold:
The basic problem of each
country is the question of assimilating the principles of dialectical
materialism and the concrete study of reality from a revolutionary subjectivity
that recognizes the dignity of the real.
Precisely, the
scientific rigor of the Communist Workers' Union (MLM) led him to conclude,
after the examination of Colombian society that this was a capitalist and
semi-colonial country. In other words, to recognize the real capitalism
that developed in an oppressed country, renouncing empty doctrinal formulations
that seek to frame reality to empty formulas. That is the dialectical
materialistic method that allowed him, from the class position of the proletariat,
to conclude that the pretension of making a New Democracy Revolution in this
country is an illusory reactionary petty-bourgeois aspiration. This is the
depth of the revolutionary conclusions of daring to recognize the dignity of the real .
Regarding the
development of capitalism in oppressed countries, it is necessary to quote,
once again apologizing to the reader, what was said in the Proposal for the Formulation of a General Line for the Unity of
the International Communist Movement :
To condition the revolution of
the proletariat in the oppressed countries to an alleged capitalist development
similar to that of the imperialist countries is to revive the rotten
revisionist theory of the "productive forces", opposed to the
proletarian revolution burying a dying system. It is to be unaware that
oppressed countries, even those with elemental conditions of industrial
development, have been incorporated into an internationalized mode of
production, and that imperialism has become a world system of financial
enslavement.
In the oppressed country,
capitalism is a mode of production that interweaves, influences, undermines and
tends to dominate the surviving precapitalist modes of production, all
integrated into the country's social economic formation, united to the world
economy by the internationalization of capital.
The capitalism of an oppressed
country is an aspect of the world mode of production, an
aspect of imperialist capitalism, therefore, subjected to its inevitable
economic crises and bearer of the fundamental peculiarity of modern
capitalism "the domination of the monopoly associations of the big
businessmen " . It is component and dependentof
a dying world system of oppression and exploitation. It is monopoly
capitalism closely linked to world financial capital, only marked by the deep
marks of the shackles of semi-colonial dependency, of imperialist parasitism,
and of its tendencies: both to stagnation, to violently and artificially
contain technical progress, the pace of growth of certain branches of
production, including the entire economy of the oppressed country; how to
accelerate its development - the most general trend under imperialism-
accentuating the decomposition of the peasantry, sweeping away vestiges of
precapitalist modes of production, or assimilating them, and even in some cases
reinforcing them, but always subjecting them to the needs of world production,
the realization of surplus value, the accumulation and global centralization of
capital .
Denying the existence of the
capitalist mode of production in oppressed countries, claiming to be "a
strange capitalism", "not national but artificially introduced by
imperialism", "no producer of capital goods", "no
articulated national market", "no classic ”… means moving away from
Marxism along the path of the already defeated 19th century Russian populist
petty bourgeois theories, unable to objectively study the laws of operation and
development of the oppressed country's social economic regime, to which the
capitalist mode of production is not exported , but capital, which acts and
influences its germs and capitalist development originated in the economic
process of the ancient feudal society. The considered "defects"
of capitalism in oppressed countries, they are the characteristics of semi-colonial
dependency and its role in the world economy; do not suppressessential
characteristics of all capitalism: commodity production under a regime
where accumulated capital buys and exploits free labor labor.
The rise of capitalism in the
bowels of the old feudal society of oppressed countries is an economic law
recognized by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. The capitalist predominance in the
social economic formation of some oppressed countries was admitted by some
Leninist Marxists in the 60s of the last century and timidly by the Maoist
Leninist Marxists of the 80s. The complete dominance of the capitalist mode of
production over the other modes of production in the social economic formation
of oppressed countries, becoming the determinant of the capitalist character of
their society, it is a real phenomenon of the last and current period in the
dying phase of capitalism, accelerated and highlighted by the economic crisis
of world capitalism unleashed in the dawn of the new century. Even so,
except in exceptional cases,
It is not only a problem with
the scientific method of investigation for the strict knowledge of reality,
seeking the truth in the facts; It is above all a fight against theories
that are foreign to Marxism, which have influenced the ranks of Marxists since
the 60s of the last century, passing directly from the social democratic
economic literature to being erected as a "Marxist guide" to know the
reality of the economic social formation of the oppressed countries.
Theories alien to Marxist political
economy, which serve the reactionary conjugation between the material —
economic — interest of the small owner and the opportunistic political
commitment auxiliary to imperialism on its deathbed. They are the theories
of the fear of recognizing the sign of modern times in the proletarian
revolution, and in the proletariat the gravedigger of imperialism. They
are the theories of the petty-bourgeois propensity to "look back",
denying not only the existence of capitalism in oppressed countries, but also capitalism's
own historical victory over feudalism, on which the maximum world program of
proletariat proclaimed in the Communist Party Manifesto .
Longing for the return or the
existence of an “independent and monopoly national capitalism” under imperialism
is an absurd contrast to the reality of the integration into the world economy
of all the old isolated national economies, and contrary to recognizing in
imperialism the superior and last phase of capitalism, after which only the
socialism of the World Proletarian Revolution follows.
To deny capitalist development
in oppressed countries, under the pretext of its dependent, unequal,
unbalanced, and classical developmentless character, is to ignore the nature of
imperialism and the essence of its semi-colonial domination: real economic and
political dependence, at the exclusive service of increasing accumulation and
world imperialist centralization of capital, and against the masses and the
progress of society in oppressed countries, whose disjointed and unbalanced
development is an articulated pinion in the great chain of the
world economy, imperialist world production and world market.
Limiting the development of
capitalism to the peasant revolutionary path - of the bourgeois revolution -
ignoring the slow, painful reactionary landowning path for the peasantry, but
the most common under imperialism, is to "forget" the ABC of Marxism
on the agrarian question, "Forgetfulness" that leads to the awarding
of a fantastic "evolution of feudalism or semi-feudalism", both the
unbalanced decomposition of the peasantry in the oppressed countries —almost
always accelerated by blood and fire—, as well as the unbalanced concentration
of the population and misery in the great cities, ignoring in the great
division between the city and the countryside a necessary condition for the
development of the capitalist mode of production, a great inequality typical of
capitalism that only socialism can create the conditions to eliminate it.
Furthermore, there
is no arrogance when considering the problem of the contradiction between
society and nature (not "with the issue of animals and climate
change") in its proper dimension, as expressed by the Program for the Revolution in Colombia and the Proposal for the
Formulation of the One Line for the Unity of the International Communist
Movement already mentioned above; on the contrary, the
UOC (mlm) starts from the humble recognition already expressed by Federico
Engels in The Role of Work in the
Transformation of the Monkey into Man :
Indeed, every day we learn to
understand better the laws of nature and to know both the immediate effects and
the remote consequences of our meddling in the natural course of its
development. Especially after the great progress made in this century by
the Natural Sciences, we are in a position to foresee, and, therefore, to
better control the remote natural consequences of our acts on production, at
least of the most currents. And the more this is a reality, the more men
will feel and understand their unity with nature, and the more inconceivable
will be that absurd and unnatural idea of the antithesis between spirit and
matter, man and nature, soul and body. ,
(…)
However, to carry out this
control requires more than just knowledge. A revolution is needed that
completely transforms the mode of production that exists until today and, with
it, the current social order.
Later, and
regarding the recognition of the dignity
of the real , the comrades continue in the declaration and
with the same already familiar bold letters:
This constitutes the basis for
the generation of a guiding thought that guides communist commitment in class
struggles that, by definition, have a national framework.
Precisely, a dialectical anti-Marxist and
anti-materialist theory fought by Marxism from its founders to the present
day. A theory that corresponds to the old bourgeois ideas about the
"supreme saviors" and the superstitious faith in the
"geniuses" who "illuminate" the struggle of the masses with
their "thoughts", "ways" and "new syntheses".
That is the "Maoist" version of
the cult of personality, which was directly criticized by the Masters of the
world proletariat: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, who clearly expressed
their rejection of everything that contributed to the superstitious prostration
before any authority.
This is clearly
expressed in the Proposal for the Formulation of
a General Line for the Unity of the International Communist Movement :
Committees and not individuals
direct the Party at all levels. Without leaders the proletarian revolution
cannot triumph, but they are historical products that materialize the
application of Marxism Leninism Maoism to the study of reality and the
transformation of the world, in a program, a tactic and an organization, and not
as ideas from heaven to the heads of cool and almighty bosses.
The Maoist Marxist Leninist
theory of chiefs is diametrically opposed to the cult of personality of the
so-called "guiding thoughts", "ways" and
"synthesis" coined in the MRI; This anti-Marxist conception of
the leaders, in the MRI's own experience, was found to lead to revisionism, the
disaster of the communist organization and the defeat, resignation or surrender
of the revolution.
From these anti-Marxist
theories derives the peregrine prediction that the Party of the proletariat
will not be able to build itself, it will not be able to successfully lead the
revolution in a country, if it does not have a brilliant leader who gives
national form and content to Marxism Leninism Maoism.
Opportunists have always been
the defenders and promoters of the cult of personality: Liu Shao-chi and Lin
Piao, in socialist China ; Arce
Borja, in the Communist Party of Peru
The current fight against
pseudomaoist revisionism has forced this discussion about the glorification of
the bosses to air again. The comrades of the Communist Party of India
The 'fight against dogmatism'
has become a buzz phrase among many Maoist revolutionaries. They talk
about discarding the 'outdated' principles of Lenin and Mao and developing MLM
to the 'new conditions' that have supposedly emerged in the world of the 21st
century. Some of them describe their effort as 'enriching and developing'
MLM as a new path or thought, although this is initially described as something
confined to the revolution in the country in question, which at no time assumes
an inexorable universal 'character' or of universal 'significance'. And in
this exercise individual leaders are glorified and even deified to the point
that they appear infallible. Such glorification does not help in the
collective functioning of the party and party committees as a whole, since that
line is never questioned, as long as it comes from the infallible individual
leader. In such a situation it is extremely difficult on the part of the
CC [Central Committee], not to mention the cadres, to fight a serious deviation
in the ideological political line, or in the basic strategy and tactics even when
it is absolutely clear that they are against the interests of the
revolution. The 'cult of the individual' promoted in the name of the way
and of thought provides some degree of immunity to deviation on the line if it
emanates from that individual leader. (Open letter to the Communist Party
of Nepal Unified (Maoist)
from the Communist Party of India Nepal
Unified (Maoist) from the Communist Party of India Nepal
Unified (Maoist) from the Communist Party of India
And to finish this
refutation of the communist pontiffs of France
and Belgium
An affirmation of those who claim to
defend the historical importance of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
in China, which developed, not through the People's War but through the
revolutionary mobilization of the masses in the massive criticism of the
followers of the capitalist path and whose The purpose was to banish them from
all leadership positions, both in the State and in the Party.
People's War to Communism is an empty and
false "leftist" phrase. Because it is not part of the teachings
of the historical experience of the construction of socialism, the first stage
of communism, and because it does not correspond to the development of the
class struggle in the march towards communism.
In socialism, as a
stage of transition to communism, where there are still classes and class
struggles, where still, according to Mao, it is not known who will win, there
is a need for organized violence, for the State that is no longer properly a
State, according to Lenin in the State
and the Revolution :
There is still a need for a
special apparatus, a special machine for repression, the "State", but
this is already a state of transition, it is no longer a State in the strict
sense of the word, since the repression of a minority of exploiters by Most of
yesterday's wage slaves are something so relatively easy, simple, and natural
that it will cost far less blood than the suppression of slave, servant, and
wage-worker revolts that will cost mankind much less. And this State is
compatible with the extension of democracy to such an overwhelming majority of
the population, that the need for a special machine for repression begins to
disappear. Naturally, the exploiters cannot repress the people without a
very complicated machine that allows them to fulfill this task,
Lenin's words in his Salute to the
Hungarian workers on May 27, 1919 are forceful:
“But the essence of the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat does not reside only in violence, nor mainly in
violence. Its fundamental essence resides in the organization and
discipline of the advanced detachment of workers, of its vanguard, of its only
leader: the proletariat ”.
The State of Dictatorship of the
Proletariat, about which the "leftists" refer very little, is no
longer properly a State, insofar as the functions of the government
increasingly become matters of the administration of social things ( planning
and control), perfectly achievable by the masses and officials without any
privilege, eligible and removable at any time; and where the central
pillar of the state machine, the professional army necessary by the parasitic
classes to crush the vast majority, is made unnecessary by replacing it with
the people in arms; consequently, war becomes a thing of the past, except
to face foreign aggression or carry out international war.
With regard to the new type of state, the
“forgetfulness” of the teachings of the Paris Commune by the communists, is
where the main error and the deepest cause of the defeat of the proletariat in
Russia and China, especially, continue to maintain a special army separated
from the masses, which in China was not touched by the Cultural Revolution,
becoming an instrument in the hands of the new bourgeoisie to crush the people
and allow them to restore capitalism.
But going back to the phrase of the
"people's war until communism", it is clear that to the extent that
the proletariat triumphs in more and more countries, that the socialist field
is expanded and that all countries are dragged into the revolution , the
people's war will also be extinguished, along with the State; to the point
that when the last bastion of the reaction falls, almost the next day, the
rifles may be melted to be used to satisfy the needs of society. It will
no longer be necessary to have a rifle to make any lazy man work or to change
an inept official.
Therefore, one of the first institutions
that become extinct in the transition from socialism to communism, are armies
and their reason for being, wars, caused by private property and the
exploitation of some men by others.
In short, communist pontiffs should be
more concerned with examining their own anti-Marxist dogmas before condemning
the "heretics."
Communist Workers Union (mlm)
June 2020
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