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Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Only through storms is the world changed
May the Chinese Revolution serve us as a powerful spur to fulfill the Party’s tasks in the place that falls to us!
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 77TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION,
we publish after these introductory lines, the document of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, from the Chairman Gonzalo’s
Intervention at a meeting of leaders and cadres on the occasion of the
40th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, held on September 30, 1989.
In this intervention, Chairman Gonzalo emphasizes what the
Chinese Revolution contains and the role of Chairman Mao. He tells us,
that the Chinese Revolution calls us to reflect on the democratic
revolution, the socialist revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution, and restoration and counter-restoration which, in essence,
is the permanent revolution, as Marx said, the tumultuous march of the
class to enter communism passing through the dictatorship of
the proletariat.
Today more than ever uphold that communism is the future reality
toward which we march uncontainably; it is the necessary march toward
our final goal but we have to pass through very hard stages and
processes and each stage contains new, more difficult problems, but we
communists have the necessary strength to overcome them starting from
having the most powerful ideology. We reaffirm ourselves, then, in that
this is the necessary goal of the communists which the class, the
proletariat, has to reach however many difficulties it has to pass
through. The problems we see today, restoration in China and the USSR,
do not negate that goal, they do nothing but show the long and complex
process of the march to communism. Today when the supposed obsolescence
of communism is proclaimed let us take up, then, the Chinese Revolution
and may our Party, as part of the world revolution, serve the
goal: communism.
Chairman Gonzalo calls us to reaffirm ourselves in the great
slogan of 1979: Uphold, defend, and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
principally Maoism! (readjusted, then, at that time we said Mao Tsetung
Thought); more so today when they seek to negate it, Vain dreams! Maoism
is the new and the new has never been easily accepted; it has been
imposed, in hard contest, by the leadership of the proletariat in the
revolution under the communist parties. And he underlines, that Without
Maoism there would be no people’s war and more, this people’s war would
not be a burning flame that imposes itself against wind and tide.
Maoism has transcendence for the international proletariat and
the peoples of the world, consequently the task of striving to place it
as command and guide of the world revolution continues to be valid, it
imposes itself as a necessity. Let us think of the immense power that
Maoism contains, of all the might with which it is capable of arming the
proletariat and the people. Chairman Mao said in difficult times to
think of our all-powerful ideology, we have Maoism; with reason it was
said that the proletariat had the most powerful atomic bomb: Mao Tsetung
Thought, then.
Only through storms is the world changed, Chairman Mao said. May
the Chinese Revolution serve us as a powerful spur to fulfill the
Party’s tasks in the place that falls to us!
PERU PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT
October 2026
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
Questions to reflect on and strive to fulfill more as communists
THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
It is evident that it has been a transcendental revolution in
humanity for various reasons: one of them because of the immense mass it
has mobilized, 400 million at the beginning and in the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 800 million; a zone of great
conflicts at the world level, extensive and grounded in long struggles
of the people, of the peasantry, peasant struggles of long standing, and
wars such as the Opium War of 1840, for example. In the Cultural
Revolution a summing-up of the long process was made, it was said China
has been marked by various struggles that were waged through arms. Upon
this come the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chairman Mao, third
luminary of Marxism, the highest summit. All this has given very special
conditions to China and what has occurred there has shaken the world.
Think of the democratic revolution; think of its essence as
revolution, as the overthrow of one class by another, which is done with
people’s war, with violence, think of this universal law, more so today
when they want to consider it superseded. The democratic revolution in
China is a paradigm, a prototype of revolution that goes against
imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism. The democratic
revolution leads inevitably to the second revolution, thus the Chinese
Revolution not only leads us to think of the democratic revolution but
of its uninterrupted continuation as socialist revolution; thus without
the democratic revolution the socialist revolution is not feasible in a
country like ours. Chairman Mao teaches us that the socialist revolution
is the continuation of the democratic revolution; and still more that,
as cultural revolution, it is the continuation of the revolution under
the dictatorship of the proletariat sustained on a people’s army capable
of defending the New State based on immense masses; he has made us see
with great clarity that the construction of socialism is posed to the
revolution, that its construction is extremely complex and demands a
long time; still more, Chairman Mao told us that even we communists had
not achieved a thorough and complete comprehension of the laws of
socialism and that this required a long time. He told us that it implies
sharp and violent class struggle, that there are two roads that
confront one another: the capitalist road and the socialist road and,
that it is not settled who will defeat whom; it is clear that he never
doubted that socialism would win in perspective, what he made us see was
the sharp class struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat, in
the concrete.
He taught us that socialism demands supporting oneself on immense
masses: peasantry, proletariat, people, to generate new modalities, to
avoid repeating the old capitalist roads, demolished by the revolution
and which would throw the socialist road off course; more, that
socialism would have to generate new forms. He left well established
that class struggle continues and very sharply, that the center of the
contest is for the dictatorship of the proletariat supported on immense
masses. But furthermore, the Chinese Revolution has demonstrated the
necessity of the Cultural Revolution, that the revolution demanded
determined struggle but that it was necessary in order to continue the
revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Obviously, the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is an epic song of the revolution
in the world, a milestone of victory for the communists and
revolutionaries in the world, it is an indelible fact. Although it has
to be a process we have to confront, that revolution has left us great
lessons that we already apply as, by way of example, the question of
changing ideology as fundamental for the class to seize Power, today
generate an ideological leap to conquer Power.
Apart from these two questions the Chinese Revolution has shown
us how the revolution takes place within a process of restoration and
counter-restoration (a contradiction with two aspects). No class seizes
Power just once—restoration presents itself. Therefore, one must strive
determinedly to counter-restore, until, finally the class settles in
Power definitively. On this road the proletariat has already passed
through the greater stretch.
Thus, the Chinese Revolution calls us to reflect on the
democratic revolution, the socialist revolution, the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution, and restoration and counter-restoration which, in
essence, is the permanent revolution, as Marx said, the tumultuous march
of the class to enter communism passing through the dictatorship of
the proletariat.
Today more than ever uphold that communism is the future reality
toward which we march uncontainably; it is the necessary march toward
our final goal but we have to pass through very hard stages and
processes and each stage contains new, more difficult problems, but we
communists have the necessary strength to overcome them starting from
having the most powerful ideology. We reaffirm ourselves, then, in that
this is the necessary goal of the communists which the class, the
proletariat, has to reach however many difficulties it has to pass
through. The problems we see today, restoration in China and the USSR,
do not negate that goal, they do nothing but show the long and complex
process of the march to communism. Today when the supposed obsolescence
of communism is proclaimed let us take up, then, the Chinese Revolution
and may our Party, as part of the world revolution, serve the
goal: communism.
Thus, we have seen what the Chinese Revolution contains and the role of Chairman Mao.
MAOISM
It is the decisive question, Chairman Mao teaches that the
ideological-political decides everything, and our ideology is but one:
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. It is not the moment nor is
there reason to make an outline of Marxism; we are interested in seeing
that the ideology of the proletariat as a grand reality unfolds through
leaps and by stages. It has had a first stage Marxism, a second
Leninism, and a third the greatest and highest expression: Maoism. Thus,
we find as communists that Marxism is an uncontainable, living,
vigorous force, in full development; many fools have declared it dead,
but Marxism was afterward more highly developed giving a severe
refutation to that verbiage; already in Marx’s time the same was said,
similarly in Lenin’s and today the same; it cannot surprise us, then,
that falsifiers now come forth, supposed buriers of Marxism. And Maoism
is attacked, craftily, sinisterly, because it is the highest conception
of humanity. However, precisely, when we rise to higher stages of the
ideology of the communist parties it is attacked, negated, and declared
obsolete; but all that clamor of the supposed obsolescence of Marxism is
but, and this is very important, the prologue to a new development of
Marxism, thus it was with Marx and with Lenin. Maoism is the highest
scientific ideology, consequently the highest transforming reality;
issued from matter, material expression, because spirit is but a form of
matter. We have received, then, the highest ideology of
humanity: Maoism.
We must reaffirm ourselves in the great slogan of 1979: Uphold,
defend, and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism!
(readjusted, then, at that time we said Mao Tsetung Thought); more so
today when they seek to negate it, Vain dreams! Maoism is the new and
the new has never been easily accepted; it has been imposed, in hard
contest, by the leadership of the proletariat in the revolution under
the communist parties. For Lenin Marxism is the tree of life and
idealism is but a parasite; thus, today the idealism they spread is but a
putrefied parasite, on the other hand Maoism is the living tree of
life. We are convinced of the greatness of Maoism; we, how much we owe
it, we would not even be here together; without Maoism there would be no
people’s war, and more, this people’s war would not be a burning flame
that imposes itself against wind and tide.
Maoism has transcendence for the international proletariat and
the peoples of the world, consequently the task of striving to place it
as command and guide of the world revolution continues to be valid, it
imposes itself as a necessity. Let us think of the immense power that
Maoism contains, of all the might with which it is capable of arming the
proletariat and the people. Chairman Mao said in difficult times to
think of our all-powerful ideology, we have Maoism; with reason it was
said that the proletariat had the most powerful atomic bomb: Mao Tsetung
Thought, then.
Thus, let us reaffirm ourselves in Maoism as the most glorious summit.
NEW REVISIONIST COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE THAT AT THE WORLD LEVEL GORBACHOV AND TENG CARRY FORWARD
It is clear that they carry it out in collusion with the blackest world reaction, imperialism, because both converge.
Each day what that new offensive contains becomes clearer;
everything sinister and perverse in Gorbachov and Teng. The most
elementary questions are negated; thus, the Chinese revisionists, Teng’s
henchmen, pose that capitalism has moments: embryonic, primary,
secondary, and higher, four moments and that from World War II
capitalism would have reached its higher stage; they negate Lenin’s
central theses on imperialism, still more they say that capitalism is
far from its obsolescence, that it has sufficient strength to resolve
its problems. Writers in the international press sustain that the world
capitalist system, the American one, is demonstrating the falsity of
Marx’s theses, that Marx in essence was mistaken regarding the fact that
in capitalism overproduction generates crises, that today those crises
are manageable, that they do not demonstrate the obsolescence of the
system but in turn they say that nobody could negate that crises are
generated by an overproduction that could occur; as can be seen they
contradict themselves, but what interests us is how the Chinese
revisionists and the imperialists collude in negating Marxism.
On the role of the Church. An entrepreneur of
the big bourgeoisie, tied to imperialism, mainly Yankee imperialism,
says that the Peruvian economic process leads necessarily to a very
explosive moment and that, because of this, they already apply, together
with the Catholic Church, plans to contain that explosiveness;
precisely Community in Action administered by Cáritas is part of these
plans to rein in the revolution and traffic in the hunger of the masses.
In China today they say one must see the new role of the Church, that
in socialism it cannot be said that religion is the opium of the
peoples; this is open negation of Marx, with the tale that it had
already been said that way before, but it was before Marxism gave a
scientific explanation of the role of religion. And we also see in this
how revisionism coincides with reaction. For us the role of the Church
is clear, we have posed it before differentiating the class interests of
the hierarchy and the religiosity of the people; furthermore nobody
forgets the Pope’s furious injunction: “lay down your attitude” while he
blessed the reactionary armed forces; the Pope goes where there are problems and fulfills a counter-revolutionary role, Poland is another example.
Thus, revisionism is showing specific forms in its negation of Marxism, negation that contains its own death and disintegration.
The Party posed that the moment would arrive for the great battle
for the defense of Marxism on all planes; that moment has arrived, the
moment to defend Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. The
question demands studying revisionism thoroughly, as the enemy is
studied, because we are in a war to the death with it; study it,
disembowel it, demonstrate its monstrosity before the entire world. Aim
to make precise how Marxism is questioned, negated from revisionism,
imperialism, and world reaction in collusion.
On the economic plane they sustain that capitalism has found the
solution to its problems and, consequently, does not march toward its
collapse; they want to make the peoples of the Earth, the proletariat,
accept that capitalism is eternal. Politically they also want to stupefy
us, make us believe, fools!, that the bourgeois dictatorship is not a
system that marches toward its ruin, that the bourgeoisie is not
obsolete but has entered its renewed greening, the perpetuation of the
bourgeois dictatorship. Ideologically, they proclaim the validity of
idealism patched with religion, mainly Catholic which contains more
superstition and deception, the most reactionary.
Armed with Maoism, which is the summit of Marxism, with the
people’s war, with the Party, mobilizing the masses, we have to unmask
all those hoaxes and crush them—the main thing is to serve the advance
of the world revolution.
THE PCP
It is the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought PCP. The
Communist Party and the people’s war it leads are a demonstration of the
invincibility and vitality of Marxism, of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
principally Maoism; consequently, extremely high responsibility.
Therefore, we must develop the people’s war so that it shows all the
validity of the power of Maoism and conquers Power in the
entire country.
The conquest of Power will be transcendent because we are in a
key part of Latin America which at this moment, in relation to Asia and
Africa, is passing through the hardest economic, political, and
ideological crisis, a general crisis of black perspective in the
immediate years; as is shown by the fact that while Asia has countries
growing above 9%, in Africa 3%, in backward zones of Europe and in North
Africa and the Middle East 2.5%, the countries of Latin America grow at
1%, which goes together with a high population percentage.
Meditate on the role of the PCP and what the conquest of Power in
the entire country implies, it is of historical transcendence; that the
facts show what was established by the Party, for example that two
decades would come together for reaction, today they themselves say it.
Reflect seriously on the campaign of American imperialism, Bush says to
go against coca; Peru is the main producer, Bolivia the second and third
Colombia, it is true. But, where does the United States aim? At
unfolding its counter-revolutionary war in the Andean countries which
are the backbone of all Latin America, especially South America; and in
this backbone where does people’s war burn? In Peru, because of the
leadership of the Party and the action of the masses. Thus, they aim
against us; what implication does this have? It leads to the development
of the contradiction between nation–imperialism, main American
imperialism, without forgetting the other superpower and other powers;
it contains the change of contradiction: Let us not forget that other
countries can be used; within this perspective, they pose carrying
forward Brazil’s outlet to the Pacific through the ports of Matarani and
Ilo has serious implications, especially for the South of the country,
as well as the denounced policy of the Peruvian State of distancing
itself from Bolivia and drawing closer to Chile. Yankee aggression
directly or using puppets leads us to a war of national liberation; and
despite the sacrifice and effort it demands it will be a magnificent
perspective for uniting ninety percent of the Peruvian people, at
moments when the Party poses conquering Power in the entire country,
more conditions although very hard for the triumph of the Peruvian
revolution. Imperialism dreams then if it thus seeks to suffocate the
revolution; and however much it may be an extremely difficult, complex,
bloody period, it leads to the triumph of the people, serves the
emancipation of the class and the world proletarian revolution; what is
decisive, to place Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, as
command and guide of the world revolution.
Only through storms is the world changed, Chairman Mao said. May
the Chinese Revolution serve us as a powerful spur to fulfill the
Party’s tasks in the place that falls to us!
Central Committee,
Communist Party of Peru.
Chairman Gonzalo’s Intervention in a meeting of leaders
and cadres
on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Chinese
Revolution.
