-SJ Otto
From Communist Party of Ecuador- Red Sun/ Partido Communista Del Ecuador- Sol Rojo.
To see this document in Spanish, click here.
Some time ago the comrades of the RCP of Canada published a document "ON MAOISM ITSELF" launching a severe and subjective criticism of the Communist Party of Brazil Red Fraction and other parties that it vaguely branded as its "satellites".
In the first instance, we think that the document, due to its content, support and objective, did not deserve to be refuted because it contributes little or nothing in objective terms to the ideology; However, with the idea that the pronouncements do not "remain in the air" and generate confusion, with a certain imbalance in time we allowed ourselves to issue a response to try to clarify some errors and disagreements of the comrades.
It is important to point out (self-critically) that we know very little about the comrades of the RCP of Canada; Therefore, we do not have the necessary elements and political arsenal to be able to analyze their future, work, struggle; but rather focus on his document and based on it, try to argue -without hasty and adventurous academic pretensions- some responses and observations from a unilateral position of the Communist Party of Ecuador- Red Sun.
The comrades of the RCP of Canada made public a document entitled: MAOISM AS ITSELF: AGAINST THE IDEALISM OF THE “MAINLY MAOIST” CURRENT, and the virulent attack on the PCB-FR and other parties that uphold the thesis of Marxism is still worrying. Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism, and that we recognize the universal contributions of Gonzalo Thought.
Something that draws the attention of this extensive, dispersed, subjective and eclectic document is the forcefulness with which they assert certain information:
" Currently a small group of organizations active in a few countries "; " Some satellite groups in Latin America "; “ Handful of organizations constitute a very small, even insignificant fraction, whose actual practice is limited”; “The PCB (FR) and its supporters”, And thus a series of terms that in addition to showing a certain contempt for this group, falls into the dangerous error of underestimating us; expressions that are repeated repeatedly throughout the text and that account for the little or no seriousness of these comrades as a result of either the serious ignorance they have of the parties in the process of construction or reconstitution that make up an important current within the MCI, as well as the strange and equivocal handling of the revolutionary theory of the proletariat.
If the PCR starts from a quantitative analysis, it would be good to ask how much does the ideological rise of communist parties in Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Austria, France, Ireland and the United States represent for Canadian comrades? others who are joining this red line with an important impact on the MCI ?, apparently little or nothing, without considering that Latin America has become a land of storms, of struggle, and that in Europe the awakening of the class and the masses is transcendental in the ultimate purposes of the international proletariat: communism.
But let's see, if to the quantitative aspect we add a qualitative assessment of the work and struggle of the PCB-FR “orbit” in the ICM, what does the fact that this group strengthens the international proletariat's struggle to crush decisively to revisionism, opportunism and centrism ?; What does it represent for the RCP of Canada that this group has had as a transversal axis supporting and defending the people's wars carried out by the international proletariat in various countries of the world; support from the perspective of proletarian internationalism to organizations, parties, whether constituted or in reconstitution processes; sustain and develop the two-line struggle, in addition to applying, developing and defending Gonzalo Thought as a dialectical leap from MLM, It is obvious that nothing, and what is more, he rants at a gallop, he does not apply a two-line fight but rather looses his strange fixation on the comrades of Brazil and to some extent on the rest of the small, precarious and dysfunctional parties that support him.
The comrades are unaware of the conditions in which this red line was generated within the MCI. With their precipitations and infundies they attempt against a process that has only been able to be lifted after a strong ideological struggle, as corresponds to the historical tradition of those who believe that unity in ideology is forged in criticism-self-criticism-unity; endorsed in countless meetings held in various countries, even challenging the threat of reaction; historical events in which delegations of parties and organizations have also participated, with which there have been serious disagreements within the framework of the necessary and unavoidable two-line struggle.
The ideological struggle with comrades from the UOC or the GCR of Colombia (spearhead of Avakianism in the region) has not been alien to us; at certain times with comrades from Italy, France, Spain, Panama or Afghanistan; In fact, within the group we have also had many and profound disagreements where the criterion of unity has prevailed, without this referring to having avoided the ideological and political contradictions presented between us and we have ended up handling eclectic positions or becoming a shameless political and ideological submission .
It is important to point out that although it is true, the communists of Latin America recognize the achievements that the PCB (FR) has had at the organizational levels in order to assume the responsibility of undertaking the New Democracy revolution in Brazil at the service of the international proletariat ; the important impulse that has given him to fight to impose the red line within the MCI, we have never established a relationship with the comrades under the figure of the "parent party"; In fact, throughout this journey it is important to remember that it was from the joint statement between the Revolutionary Front of the Bolivian People, MLM and the Communist Party of Ecuador-Red Sun issued on December 26, 2008, where it was alerted about the non-existence of a correct direction within the MCI due to the bankruptcy of the MRI; Prachanda's betrayal of the People's War in Nepal or the need to combat the new scourge of the peoples, especially in Latin America of the so-called 21st century socialism; statement that established, -to some extent-, the starting point that coincided with the efforts developed by the PCB-FR in the ideological struggle in the international arena, to generate the ideological and political discussion group on the problems that afflict the ICM, the World Proletarian Revolution and the struggle for a new and superior international communist.
Comrades, “there is no worse blind than the one who does not
want to see”, in that sense we cannot refuse to recognize the efforts made by the
PCB-FR, its correct leadership, leadership and militancy to sustain the
ideological struggle and the unity of the international proletariat ; the
hard struggle made by the comrades of Peru to reorganize their leadership in
the midst of the people's war, confronting not only the armed enemy, but also
the ROL and the winners of imperialism who permanently deny its development
today. The very important leaps that the comrades of Chile have taken in
the reconstitution of their Communist Party or those gigantic efforts of the
comrades of Colombia that reconstitute their party in the midst of many
difficulties, among others, a society plagued by armed
revisionism. Impossible not to greet and approach the struggle that the
communists undertake in
It is impossible not to recognize the constitution and reconstitution of communist parties of a new type that are emerging throughout the world in the midst of the 2-line struggle, which is the only thing that at the end of the road will allow us to strengthen the ICM and create the conditions for a new international that will inexorably It will be MARIST-LENINIST-MAOIST.
But not fed up with their myopia and ignorance, Canadian comrades brand us as “insignificant” organizations. For them, our complex process of construction of the instruments for the revolution that has had to confront and overcome many vicissitudes represents nothing; in fact, even our errors of interpretation and application of the correct ideological line, a weakness that led us to experience a defeat that, without being definitive, cost us a high price in lives and, of course, political. A construction that also, faithful to our line and conception for applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought to the particularity of the country, has taken place by mobilizing the masses, and not necessarily in a peaceful way, but rebellious, belligerent, combative, applying and developing revolutionary violence.
And it is that in
Contrary to what the RCP has shown throughout its lengthy
document, the PCE-SR's style of work fully conforms to what Chairman Mao
pointed out: “ the communists have to ask the why of all things and make
use of his own judgment to carefully
examine if they correspond to reality and if they are well founded; they
must not at all blindly follow others or advocate slavish obedience”. In
fact, comrades, carrying out this practice, not only for us but for all those
who have propped up this "orbit" has led organizations like the
FRP-MLM of Bolivia (co-managers of the creation of this group) years later to disdain
of some aspects that consolidated this unity in ideology (MLMPG) and has taken
a step aside to support theses that varied over time and that, like you, deny
Gonzalo Thought and the existence of people's war in Peru, an aspect that
reflects the political maturity and seriousness with which the ideological
struggle has been handled. By the way, that decision of the comrades of
It must be remembered that at a certain moment we signed
joint declarations with other organizations that have nothing to do with the
“idealistic orbit” of the PCB-FR. Without having tried to endorse
positions that by conception the UOC, from Colombia, a sector of comrades from
France, Panama and others have; perhaps sinning as
pragmatists, we adhere to the one that made a call to THE INTERNATIONAL UNITY
OF COMMUNISTS DEMANDS THE DEFEAT OF REVISIONISM AND CENTRISM !; and that
by the way brought us serious contradictions with some organizations and
parties in Europe, especially with the comrades of Italy and Spain, thus
evidencing, our sovereign decision-making capacity. And we did it
because we considered it appropriate, correct; because the document proposed
by the comrades of
(…) The comrades of
In this regard and for the exercise, in the very specific case of the Philippine comrades, we are going to present some arguments from our experience.
A few decades ago, the Maoists of Ecuador were ready to develop people's war, and we did so in difficult conditions where an opportunist left line prevailed. It's the truth, and those mistakes cost us a lot. We were weak, we were not well equipped with MLM, nor with Gonzalo Thought, and therefore we gave the initiative to reaction in very difficult circumstances.
By way of synthesis , we better understand how much the New Democracy revolution loses in the country and in the world (or socialist revolution where it belongs) when we communists give the enemy a little space to establish negotiations, conversations, agreements, truces, etc.; and based on our meager experience we hold with vehemence and determination; there is no reason or condition whatsoever to establish agreements, pacts or negotiations with the enemy except to define its final defeat or its capitulation.
If we offer a truce (bilateral or unilateral) to the enemy,
the class and the people lose. In
It is in this context in which we have particularly dared to criticize the Philippine comrades and their recurrent calls to “negotiate” truces / cease-fire with the enemy, because even, saving the distances in favor of the Philippine comrades in the development of the war, we understood that this is atrocious for the interests of the class and the revolution, and not only that, but also for the international proletariat, therefore it is worth noting the danger they are incurring.
At this point it is difficult to know, but if the comrades of Nepal had considered and assumed the timely alert and criticism in this regard, Prachanda would probably be where it should be: underground, and the people's war: close to victory.
But without going beyond that, there is another aspect that
is important to highlight. The tremendous impact that certain erroneous
behaviors of Philippine comrades have in their international line of work,
especially in
One of the most recalcitrantly revisionist, opportunist and
harmful parties that exists in the country is the PCMLE (Popular
Unity); that from Hoxistas, they have become Bolivarian; perhaps one
of the main obstacles to destroy in order for the People's War to develop in
A few years ago, in a joint action between armed elements of this Party (PCMLE) and the national police, they captured party militants who, basically armed with brushes and paint, were carrying out a campaign of paint in support of the people's war in Peru, India, Turkey and the Philippines in a public university in the capital (Central University); In addition to the arrested comrades, their torture and their subsequent imprisonment, we had to confront the loss of a very important arsenal and the repressive escalation of all the armed apparatuses of the state against the Party that had its climax with the siege of a populous neighborhood from Guayaquil (48 and K) where with 1500 soldiers, tanks, boats and helicopters concentrated the population, they raided house to house until they shot 4 people in front of their relatives (literally), 3 of them members of the Party. Of course, our response against revisionism was bloody to make them understand that under no circumstances were we going to tolerate or allow this and other types of attacks.
This same organization participates in all electoral processes, including in alliance with the most recalcitrant sectors of national politics (they called to vote for the banker Guillermo Lasso- buyer bourgeoisie and today, facing the 2021 elections, they support indigenous reformism) and they repeatedly traffic in the struggle and pain of our people. Staunch enemies of Maoism.
Every year, the PCMLE organizes the International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America, which on some occasions has been attended, in a curious and inexplicable way, by Philippine comrades who, after that, end up defining “strategies” for the called revolution in Latin America with organizations such as: Círculo Jaques Roumcin de Montreal - Canada, an organization that you surely know; the PCR of Argentina, of Bolivia; Popular Unity for Socialism of Brazil, Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil; American Labor Party of the USA, George Grunental, Red Star Editions - USA; Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru and obviously the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and other organizations.
Those are the alliances of the Filipino comrades in
From the foregoing, it is obvious that this type of
political decisions by Philippine comrades does nothing to contribute to unity
in the ideology of the international proletariat and to the need to
reconstitute the Communist International; However, there are countless
campaigns of support that our party has developed in favor of the people's war
in the Philippines, the historical value that we have given to its martyrs,
among them Comrade Ka Parago, because we do not let this correct criticism make
us lose the perspective and ignore the fundamental aspect of the Filipino
comrades. So, for the comrades of
Comrades. As we initially pointed out, years ago we were wrong, we fell into the ravine, we were hit by the enemy, and many Maoist organizations and parties were harsh in criticizing us, and we assumed it; We do not take it as poisonous darts that seek to annihilate us, nor (in the pure Modavef style) do we change our strategic course, on the contrary, along the way we have been reconstituting better equipped with ideology. We learned to criticize ourselves, because we use this method as a form of partisan catharsis and, given the historical trajectory of struggle that the Philippine comrades have, we believe that they will know how to take criticism in that order, as a two-line struggle, as "medicine to save to the sick one".
(…) In truth, comrades, you have lost all objectivity to assert that we "oppose the people's wars" that are taking place in the world. The comrades go astray, launch any infamy at the gallop of a mule. Without detracting from the important campaigns carried out by the communists of the world in support of the people's wars that are unleashed in Filiadas, India, Turkey and Peru, it has been precisely the organizations that wield MLM, mainly Maoism and we recognize the universal contribution of thought Gonzalo, who have carried out the strongest and most decisive campaigns in favor of these wars. Just look at the fabulous and internationalist work carried out by Dem Volke Dienen's comrades; the Red Flag Committee at Tjen Folket in Norway, New Peru from Germany; the rest of the organizations and parties of which it is enough to see that from the forms, the slogans, and the practical activity, they have deployed thousands of internationalist actions in support of these people's wars, indeed, at certain times making use of sabotage actions such as those carried out in Ecuador in favor of the People's War in Peru.
Read comrades, investigate, absolutely all the pronouncements, declarations and publications of these Parties, either individually or collectively, we revive the people's wars, the same ones that even in the framework of setbacks, twists and others have had the militant and internationalist support of our parties; Quite the contrary to you, who at the first blow of wind come out to deny the People's War in Peru. Apparently their accusations are nothing more than a projection of what they feel, what they think about this and other issues addressed in their document and surely in their practice.
(…) Continuing with the document, the Canadian comrades
return to what has become a true tirade: that we support an “imaginary war” in
In this regard we must say, denying the existence of the
people's war in
Lacking in knowledge the comrades from
(…) In their document, the Canadian comrades also point out
that we have no respect for the people's war in
The comrades recreate shadows. They do not know the
support that was given to this process in Latin America; what was not done
was to support those like Kiran and others who were involved in contradictions
with Prachanda for the sharing of power, who wanted to be shown to the world as
the red line in Nepal and were timely fought not only by those who comrades
from Canada branded as "idealistic line", but by other organizations
with which they now sign joint statements. In fact, comrades, there are
countless campaigns of pints and mass mobilization that we have undertaken in
support of the reorganization of the people's war in
(…) And yes, the Canadian cameras are not only clinging to the tail of the ROL, they are also holding onto the revisionists and other opportunists who in their time criticized and branded the Chinese comrades revisionists and opportunists when you held the VII Congress of the CCP (1945) that the guiding thought of the party is Mao Tse-tung Thought and that it was specifically –by then- the application of Marxism-Leninism to the reality of China. Today they reply, today it is the Khrushchevs of the ICM who howl and oppose Gonzalo Thought. And like it or not, Mao Tse-tung thought despite having several detractors who clung to the hands of the dog Deng Xiaoping, Khrushchev, Hoxa and others, there were also some parties and organizations that began to value Chairman Mao's contributions for consider them to have worldwide validity. In colombia, the PLA ML Thought Mao Tse-tung; in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Spain and other parties and organizations in the world they were renamed ML Mao Tse-tung Thought and to propose New Democracy and others. Of course, the historical evidence tells us that none of these organizations and / or parties came up with defining Mao Tse-tung Thought as Maoism, why? Because that definition had to be subject to certain historical conditions that allowed deepening its study and application.
To be continued=>
MCI= International Communist Movement
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