Proletarians of all countries, unite!
HOIST, DEFEND AND APPLY
MAOISM TO SOLVE NEW PROBLEMS IN THE NEW SITUATION THAT WORLD HISTORY IS
ENTERING!
Today, on December 26th,
we, the international proletariat and the peoples of the world, celebrate the 127th
anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao, who together with Marx and Lenin is
one of the three great titans of thought and action generated by the
international proletariat in its heroic epic of class struggle of more than 172
years since the Manifesto of the Communist Party of Marx and Engels.
The Chairman has been the
protagonist and leader, the highest leader and chief of the Chinese and world
revolution; he is the one who developed Marxism to its third, new and higher
stage of the ideology of the international proletariat:
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism that we are hoisting, defending and
applying.
Chairman Mao Tse-tung was born
on 26 December 1893, he opened his eyes in a world shaken by the flames of war;
war; son of peasants, he was seven years old when “Boxer Rebellions” began; a
student at a Teachers’ Training College, he was in his eighteenth year when the
empire collapsed and he enlisted himself as a soldier, later to become a great
organizer of peasants and of the youth in Hunan, his native province. Founder
of the Communist Party and of the Red Army of workers and peasants, he
established the path of encircling the cities from the countryside developing
People’s War as the military theory of the proletariat. He was the theoretician
of New Democracy and founder of the People’s Republic; a promoter of the Great
Leap Forward and of the development of socialism; the guidance of the struggle
against the contemporary revisionism of Khrushchev and his henchmen, leader and
guidance of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. These are landmarks of a
life devoted thoroughly and solely to the revolution. Moreover, the centre of
the revolution moved to China as it had moved to Russia and to Germany before:
from France to Germany, from Germany to Russia and from Russia to China, where
Maoism was concreted as the centre of the world revolution.
It is in the context of both the
national and international class struggle that the Chairman has become the
highest peak of Marxism. Historically, this is how it was defined. Lenin said, Revolution
generates the men it needs when it requires it.
The elevation of
Marxism-Leninism to a third, new and higher stage is the main thing of Chairman
Mao Tse-tung, the main aspect of Maoism
Chairman Gonzalo has defined
Maoism as the third, new and higher stage of our ideology and has specified the
basic content of Maoism, pointing out that Chairman Mao Tse-tung developed the
three component parts of Marxism, Marxist philosophy, Marxist political economy
and scientific socialism to a higher level, which implies a universal
qualitative leap. All the rest are derivations that can be included in any of
the three parts.
Chairman Gonzalo, by defining
Maoism, has exposed the basic questions of the content of Maoism, almost simply
enunciated but known and undeniable and has established it on the 1st Congress
of the PCP. This shows the development of Chairman Mao of the three component
parts of Marxism and the evident elevation of Marxism-Leninism to a third, new
and higher stage, and that is the main aspect of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, that is
the main aspect of Maoism and the fundamental aspect is the power conquered and
defended by People's War. What could be greater in the Chairman than having
developed Marxism-Leninism, what could be his greatest contribution? Maoism.
Without the just and correct ideology we would have nothing.
Marxism has three component
parts. It is
very important to reiterate that Marxism has three parts, thus it was created
by Marx, developed and recognised by Lenin and reiterated and raised even more
by Chairman Mao. Why is it necessary to be very clear on this? Because
revisionism has tried to introduce a fourth part, tried to put forward
philosophy on the one hand, materialism applied to the social world on the
other hand, economy as a third part and scientific socialism as a fourth part.
That has no raison d’être, no sense, it goes against the principles.
Now, starting from the main
point of Chairman Mao, which is the greatest aspect that the elevation of
Marxism-Leninism to a third, new and higher stage has given to us,
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, our just and correct ideology, we are going to focus
on the Chairman's development of the essence of dialectics following the
foundation of Chairman Gonzalo.
Chairman Mao developed the
essence of dialectics,
the law of contradiction, establishing it as the only fundamental law, there is
no other. In On Practice and in On Contradiction he states why it
is the only fundamental law. Because there is no other. One could speak about
principles, if we are talking about derived laws, in this case, yes. But the
basis of the problem is that it is the only fundamental one. Its understanding
is a question of theory and practice. That is why Chairman Gonzalo states that it
is with the People's War initiated in May 1980 in Peru that we have understood
Maoism more profoundly. That is why the PCP started the campaign for Maoism in
1982.
He teaches us that Chairman Mao
established the law of knowledge, developing what is in Lenin and what was
specifically put forward by Engels. Lenin said, Capital is a monument of
dialectics a monument of contradiction; in the commodity and its
definition. This is how he conceives it as a contradiction. Then you will
understand how Marx understood it. The problem is that it was not explicitly
stated, because more time is needed for a deepening. On the basis of what
others like Marx or the Great Lenin did, the Chairman could reach that far.
We must emphasize that he
applied masterly the law of contradiction to politics like nobody else! From
the point of view of knowledge, the Chairman handled the general political line
as a problem of theory of knowledge, and therefore as a contradiction. He
brought the philosophy to the masses, fulfilling the task that Marx left.
During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, he put philosophy into the
hands of the masses in order to solve concrete, real problems. He said: Philosophy
is a weapon to clean the mind, to clean the cobwebs, to make reality visible!
He applied the dialectics, the
law of contradiction, philosophy, to analyse the basis-superstructure
relationship and by continuing the struggle of Marxism-Leninism against the
revisionist Bernsteinite thesis of 'productive forces' held by Liu and Teng, he
concluded that the superstructure, the consciousness can modify the basis and
with political power develop the productive forces. Developing the Leninist
idea of politics as a concentrated expression of economy, he established
politics as the command, (applicable at all levels) and political work is the
lifeline of economic work; which led to a real handling of political economy
and not just economic policy. He crushed Liu and his theory of "developing
capitalism" and imposed the uninterrupted transition from democratic
revolution to socialist revolution.
Politics is the command.
Chairman Mao takes the 'concentrated expression' established by Lenin
and elevates it to the command of politics on all fronts, also in the economy,
of all action, everything has to be under the command of politics, the economy
as well; because if economic construction has no politics, it has no soul, it
has no direction, it has no new class character: What we would do is simply
leave the overflow and the development of capitalism and therefore we would
maintain the old order, the old classes, that is what we would do. In "The
Yenan Forum", 1942, he said, politics is the soul and he who has no
politics is soulless, he has no soul. War also has to be under the command
of politics, that's why it is directed through plans, otherwise you fall into
improvisation, into haste. "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun",
but "the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to
command the Party."
Chairman Mao is struggling
against the revisionist thesis of 'productive forces'. In On Contradiction, he
states that although the basis is determinant, otherwise we would not be
materialists, the superstructure, politics becomes the main aspect, especially
in the revolution is it principal. And
in politics, if you don't have a programme, it is principal to
define, to sanction it; and when you wage war and you don't have a plan,
the plan is principal, because if you don't prepare the war, you will fall
into improvisation, into haste. He states only by taking politics as command
we can have a political economy, otherwise we would fall only into economical
policies; but the problem of political economy is the set of relations of
exploitation in one case, or of production in another case, according to the
historical moment. The Chairman arms us against the idea that 'capitalism must
be developed', with political economy, and against 'the intermediate
revolution', defending the uninterrupted revolution. Furthermore, anyone who
does not understand the Maoist thesis of bureaucratic capitalism, which is
vital for Asia, Africa and Latin America and even (Eastern) Europe itself, does
not understand the two revolutions, nor their condition as an uninterrupted
unity with two stages, that is the problem.
The Chairman masterfully applied
the law of contradiction to politics and war. Thus, based on political economy, he
established the strategy of world revolution, of villages in the world and
metropolises in the world. Of course from the point of view of political
economy. It is the thesis of the high international political strategy, but
where did he get it from? He bases it on the economy, on the forms of relation
of production of the backward countries and the forms of relation of
exploitation of the advanced, imperialist countries or whatever you want to
call them, on this interrelation, on this contradiction.
That about the theory of
political economy in general, on the basis of dialectics, on the basis of
contradiction, because all relations of production and exploitation imply
contradictory aspect. As Marx said, in the very cell of capitalism which is
the commodity there is the bourgeois-proletarian contradiction. Political
economy can never be understood apart from philosophy, apart from
contradiction, we would be going against the one fundamental law. The lesson we
are drawing from this foundation of Chairman Gonzalo is that we have to see
everything and war even more as a contradiction, warlike confrontation
between revolution and counter-revolution in the world, between revolution and
counter-revolution in each country and who is the axis for the Maoists to
handle these two contradictions? The Communist Party. And this is a
contradiction, therefore it is up to the communists to handle the two-line
struggle in the party to impose the red line, to keep the party red, to keep
the right wing crushed to fight revisionism as the main danger in the party.
There are three contradictions, by handling the contradiction in the party as a
two-line struggle we handle the other two contradictions.
Law of knowledge. Philosophy,
contradiction: objectivity and subjectivity in understanding the laws of
revolution.
Finally, says Chairman Gonzalo, we must take into account the teachings of
Chairman Mao on objectivity and subjectivity in understanding and handling the
laws of socialism. Law of Knowledge: Is it or is it not philosophy,
contradiction? It is only a few decades, not enough time has passed for us to
know profoundly the laws of socialism, and if we do not know them profoundly,
how are we going to manage them? There are those who despair of the
restorations (which is expressed as a restoration-counter-restoration
contradiction), they despair of not having built socialism. Well, but what
examples do we have before, if we have never built a socialist society? In a
few decades its laws cannot be known, it takes time, time, time.., but we still
need the matter itself, the very relationship of socialist production to be
expressed, the dictatorship itself to be developed, the dictatorship of the
proletariat, and then, understanding these laws, we will handle them and we
will have to handle them specifically, applying them to concrete reality.
Power, conquered and
defended through People's War, is fundamental in Maoism
Revolution is a lever. Principally the relationship
between revolution and the economic process cannot be separated, it cannot be
broken: the relationship boosts economic development. No class in history has
fully developed its forms of relationship of exploitation without taking power:
first there was the seizure of power in England by the bourgeoisie in 1688 and
in the following century there was the industrial revolution, not to be
forgotten, even within the bourgeoisie. Socialist forms are only created with
the New Power, elemental and largely with the dictatorship of the proletariat,
so we understand that it takes time and we understand that the revolution makes
it dynamic, opens the field for the new form to take shape. Revolution is a lever, that's why Marx said: the
most revolutionary thing that exists is the class as a productive force because
it is revolutionary par excellence and generates revolution, and by
generating it, it develops the revolution economically, it develops the new
forms, that is the biggest thing that exists, so Marx and Engels said.
Chairman Mao masterfully applies
philosophy, materialist dialectics, contradiction to war, revolution as the violent
replacement of one class by another. The Chairman reaffirms this once again,
and even more so when he says that it is a universal law, without exception.
That is extraordinary. The Chairman says it is a universal law and specifies
violence as war and an army to conquer power and thus resolve the
fundamental contradictions of a society; he states universal law,
without exception, it rules everywhere, that is to say universal, it is he
who has put this forward. And, war for Maoism is People's War, led by
the Communist Party. The need to take into account the situation of the two
hills, ours and the enemy's, the hill of revolution being the principal one for
us. Also, according to the contradiction, the internal conditions are the
determinant and the external conditions are for initiation, development and
victory of the revolution. That every revolution is part and in the service of
the world revolution.
He establishes the way of
encircling the cities from the countryside for the backward countries. "Power grows out of the
barrel of a gun", 1927, that is when the Chairman raised this thesis,
at the August meeting, after all the massacre made by the miserable Chiang
Kai-shek, then the Chairman raised: Power grows out of the barrel of a gun
and then he raised the problem of the way: to encircle the cities from the
countryside. The Autumn Harvest Uprising is 9th September 1927; as everyone
knows, he gathered soldiers, organised them into the army linked to the Party
because they were within the Kuomintang army but there were some parts that
obeyed the communists, he gathered those parts and made battalions also with
workers and peasants. This is the Autumn Harvest Uprising. It came to an
initial clash and disbandment, then regrouped the forces and marched to Ching
kang and created the power, after having created the red army of workers and
peasants. In Introducing ‘The Communist’, he teaches us: Why many
comrades fell into opportunism? by mechanical application. It is in a
long process that the general laws are established, it is 1936 in Problems
of Strategy in China’s Revolutionary War that the law is established for
the first time, 9 years later. With this, it solves a pending problem,
because it was not known, how to make revolution and how to conduct it in a
country under imperialist rule with feudalism in its base and bureaucratic
capital. This is how he solved the problem, it was the Chairman who solved it
and in this way he is developing the democratic revolution under the leadership
of the proletariat led by the Communist Party.
Everything is a contradiction. Another great development is
about the theory of classes in socialism. The continuation of the
antagonistic struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie, between socialist
and capitalist road, and between socialism and capitalism. The Chairman,
taking into account what has already been said about classes, raised the
fundamental law of socialism, of the general political line, that is why it is
called the fundamental political line. What is the problem? The problem is
that there is an antagonistic class struggle, it is not defined who will defeat
whom; historically, yes, we know that the proletariat will win, but
politically, concretely, it is practically an arduous contest, a fierce
contest. Here the Chairman begins to unfold more and more the temporary
largesse of the class struggle and of socialism, that the process of the class
struggle and of socialism will be long. A process of settling the dictatorship
of the proletariat until its extinction in the midst of the process of
restoration-counter-restoration.
Lenin taught, setbacks,
defeats are not mourned, lessons are learned. What we have to see is how the power of
the dictatorship of the proletariat is established and is advancing and these
are undeniable advances: 1871, The Commune, ephemeral, but the Commune, new
power, dictatorship of the proletariat for the first time concreted on the
Earth; 1905, the Soviets; 1917, 1949, 1966. These are steps in the development
of the power of the proletariat towards the establishment of the dictatorship
of the proletariat, the establishment, it cannot be said definitively, of the
proletariat's power for a long historical period until the definitive leap to
communism is made, where it will be extinguished as has been masterfully
established by Engels. To draw lessons, to see the course of how the class
advances to its own settlement, how the dictatorship of the proletariat
advances to its own settlement, how the vanguard of the proletariat
advances in leading the revolution all over the world, that is what we have to
think about.
The Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution. Utmost
important! It was not known how to make the revolution in the backward
countries and the Chairman solved the problem; it was not known how to make the
continuation under the dictatorship and the Chairman solved the problem: the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and without that it would not be possible
to advance. These are two great milestones for the Chairman. It is historically
in perspective the most transcendental thing about Chairman Mao, but today it
is not the order of the day, today it is the order of the day to assume and
embody Maoism as a new, third and higher stage of the ideology of the
proletariat, generating Communist Parties of a new type,
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist militarised to make the democratic revolution and the
socialist revolution. The revisionists and the right wingers want to focus on
cultural revolution to counterbalance.
On the question of new
democracy. The
Chairman establishes it in order to develop the theory of the State by
proposing a joint dictatorship as a State system; that is what the Chairman
does and that is the basis of the new democracy. There, what the Chairman does
is to shape the democratic revolution led by the proletariat through the
Communist Party, that is what he does, part of the world revolution; he
reiterates this question expressly in the new democracy; every revolutionary
movement after 1917 is part of the world proletarian revolution, whatever the
stage of the revolution is and only the proletariat can lead it, nobody else.
Here we also see the masterful handling of the three contradictions of the
democratic revolution and under which conditions one becomes the main one, for
example, the contradiction nation-imperialism when imperialism invades the
country. But how to do it: armed, as he
states in Problems of War and Strategy, only with guns can the whole
world be transformed, because otherwise it cannot be done.
Then he develops on the problem
of the construction of the instruments of the revolution, he poses to
the Party the understanding of the interrelation of the Party, the army and the
united front; and understanding and managing the interrelation of the three in
the middle of the war or in the maintenance of the new state based on the power
of the armed people expresses a just and correct work of leadership. The
construction is guided by the principle of the just and correct ideological
line deciding everything, and it is on this ideological-political basis
that simultaneously the organisational construction is developed, in the midst
of the struggle between the proletarian and bourgeois lines and in the storm of
class struggle, mainly People's War, as the principal form of struggle whether
it is actual or potential.
THE PEOPLE’S WAR: Military
theory of the international proletariat established by Chairman Mao
Thus, everything is a
contradiction and war is even more, the highest form of class struggle as a continuation of
politics by warlike means. THE PEOPLE’S WAR - Military theory of the
international proletariat: How is the military theory of the proletariat
concreted in two words? People's War. People's War is the term used by Marx and
Engels, they used it; Lenin more insisted on problems of the masses. Obviously
it is part of the People's War, but it is the Chairman who has developed the
theory of the proletariat. Every class in history generates its own way of
waging war; the bourgeoisie generated it and without generating it it would
not have been able to triumph; Napoleon, in this sense, did enough.
Military theory of the
proletariat implies universal validity; this is the point under discussion.
People's War is universal and it must be understood well, because, what does it
mean? Applicable in all circumstances in which the proletariat leads, taking
into account the character of the revolution: if it is democratic, if it is
socialist or if it is cultural revolution, apply it; and take into account the
specific conditions of each country.
Chairman Mao raised the
guerrilla warfare used as a tactical instrument to a strategic level. Guerrilla warfare is very old.
It has been and is being used by the reactionary armies as a complement, as a
tactical instrument; it is the Chairman who raises guerrilla warfare to a
strategic level, he has been. What does this mean? That he proposes that a
war can be waged in the whole country with guerrilla warfare, managed as a
whole, thus raised to a strategic level. As he himself says: our case is
not that of the USSR where there is a regular army that uses guerrillas, so
he states, this is very clear in Strategic problems of the anti-Japanese war
where he raises the six strategic problems, of which war, then, of the
guerrilla war, starting from establishing it, I reiterate, as strategic. In
China the Chairman is raising it to a strategic level; it is no longer
complementary, that is what we need to understand.
Chairman Mao planned the
development of the People's War for the atomic war. Some people say that in order to oppose
the universality of the People's War, but the People's War will not be like an atomic
war. Well, Chairman Mao planned the development of the People's War after the
reorganisation of the army of a new type, for the atomic war, -because the
atomic weapon appears in 1945, don't forget, August 45, and what did the
Chairman said about the atomic bomb? Chairman Mao Tse-tung said that the atomic
weapon doesn't change the war, it is one more weapon of generalised killing,
that's right, but it doesn't change the character of the war because the
character of the war is political, it is politics by warlike means, that
doesn't change. Chairman Mao Tse-tung ordered the production of the atomic bomb
and hydrogen bomb; in 1964 they exploded the atomic bomb for the first time;
the following day Khrushchev's beast fell, so we should remember 1964; in 1967,
when the Albanian Congress, the 5th, was held, the first Chinese rocket with an
atomic charge was fired. So did the Chairman know about atomic bombs and did he
know about missiles or not, did he? The question is, what new weapons are
there in the war: more powerful atomic weapons. Military theory has to be
studied profoundly, because what are weapons, a development from stone to
rocket, because what else is it? Military theory is well studied and it is
a great thing that this is so, it had to be so because it is one of the most
serious things that men do on earth, that is extremely serious. The Chairman
conceived of the development of People's Warfare with atomic weapons and
rockets; was this simply an imaginative idea of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, no; military
strategists say it is clear and understandable that People's Warfare can be
developed using atomic weapons as well. So the military theory of the
proletariat does not change.
The military theory of the class
is another masterly application of Chairman Mao of the contradiction to war,
the highest form of the class struggle of the proletariat and he has given us
the military theory of the proletariat, the last class of history, the People's
War of universal validity, that is to say applicable to all kinds of
revolutions and circumstances where the proletariat leads through its party,
the Communist Party. We reaffirm that the greatest contribution that Chairman
Mao has given to us is the development of Marxism-Leninism to
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Without a just and correct ideology we would have
nothing.
We reaffirm that without Gonzalo
Thought it is not possible to understand the theoretical and practical work of
Chairman Mao - Maoism. We reaffirm the need to understand more deeply the
theoretical and practical work of Chairman Gonzalo as a whole, starting from
how he understands Marxist theory in order to embody more its universally valid
contributions to the world revolution.
Hoist, defend and apply
Maoism - our just and correct ideology - to solve new problems in the new
situation that is opening up!
It is appropriate to hoist,
defend and apply Maoism, our just and correct ideology, in order to solve the
new problems in the new situation we are entering in the world history, which
will be increasingly marked by the warlike contest between revolution and
counter-revolution, a contest that inevitably leads us to a new period of
revolutions within the new era, of the world proletarian revolution, opened
with the Great October Revolution of 1917 led by the great Lenin and the
Bolshevik Party.
A new period is opening, since revolution has become
the main historical and political tendency in the world; world proletarian
revolution, which in the 80’s of the previous century entered its stage of
strategic offensive and sweeping imperialism off the face of the earth. When
imperialism expresses more and more its greatest decomposition, in the midst of
which its general and ultimate crisis is worsening, it is currently suffering
from the greatest overproduction economic crisis of its whole existence and the
aggravation of all its contradictions, in the midst of greater imperialist
collusion and struggle; which shows that imperialism is sinking in the midst of
wars of all kinds; The anti-crisis measures which, in the midst of the
intensified collusion and struggle between the reactionary factions in each
country, are unloaded on the masses, the objective conditions for the
revolution are maturing more and more; the uneven development of the
revolutionary situation in the world, with the development of the subjective
forces of the revolution, will be more and more increasing. The new great wave
of the world proletarian revolution is developing and the explosiveness of the
masses is manifesting everywhere and filling the world reaction with fear.
Representatives of imperialism, reaction and revisionism are calling for plans
to lower the explosiveness of the masses and to avert the liaison with the
leadership of the Communist Party to organise themselves in revolution, in
People's War, as a scientific organisation of poverty.
In the situation described
above, lightening torches illuminating the path, to follow the People's Wars in
Peru, India, Turkey and the Philippines. Showing that Maoism is being embodied
by the proletariat and the peoples of the world and is moving towards
generating Communist Parties of a new type, militarised Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
parties to initiate and develop new People's Wars that will mark this whole new
period of world history as the new period of revolutions, showing the
inevitability and invincibility of People's War.
The new situation is testing the
communists of the world.
A new situation, which puts us before two different and opposite tactics and
paths in the International Communist Movement (ICM). There are those who try to
mix the way of People's War and the just and correct tactic of boycott with the
old way of parliamentary cretinism and participation in the reactionary
elections by supporting reactionary candidates or launching "own"
(opportunist and revisionist) ones. Those who take this position within the
ICM, proceed not as Maoists but converge with revisionism, which as Lenin says,
Revisionism sacrifices the cardinal interests of the proletariat to conform
with the needs of the bourgeoisie.
Those who assume this position,
because of problems of understanding or because of absolute bad faith, confuse
the need of the Communist Parties to struggle for the lead of struggle of the
masses for rights, freedoms, benefits, etc., in order to defend what has been
won in the hard days of class struggle, to raise it to a struggle for power.
Confusing the incorporation of the masses into the People's War by leaps (once
everything serves the development of the People's War as the main form of
struggle), if it has been initiated, or to bring the struggle of the masses to
the overflow if the People's War has not been initiated yet (if it has not been
started yet, to start it) with focusing on "democratic" struggle, on
participating in the elections to legitimize the change of reactionary
authorities. This is rotten liberalism, which Lenin condemned as:
"... the form of socialist
opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great
battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the
slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves
of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social
peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle,
etc.”
It is not possible to mix up the
two ways, to
pretend a third way that passes between the two. It only serves the old,
inconclusive way of votes, of elections to facilitate and
"legitimise" the replacement of the reactionary authorities of the
old state. Therefore, it is not a "tactic" but another line as far as
the revolution is concerned that is known as the right opportunist line (ROL),
which is revisionist and capitulationist. We call upon those who are putting
forward this wrong path and agreeing with the revisionism of the ROL to rectify
themselves and practice Marxism and not revisionism. Ask yourselves why revisionism
proceeds in this way in the question that has to do with the fundamentals of
Maoism, with the People's War? Lenin said, The dialectic of history is such
that the theoretical victory of Marxism forces its enemies to disguise
themselves as Marxists.
Stop following revisionist
recipes!
Therefore, it is not a question of "tactics", of "using all
forms of struggle", which always according to the core of materialist
dialectics, the contradiction, should serve the main aspect, that is to say we
use everything and everyone to serve the development of the principal form of
struggle, the People's War, and we reject everything that leads to deviation
from this path, leads to capitulation and betrayal of the revolution. Those who
are proposing to combine the People's War with the parliamentary way are deeply
wrong from the Maoist conception, they are rapidly marching to break through
the path of revisionism and call upon us to follow them. What they are
proposing is not only a contrary tactic but a line that is contrary and
opposite to the just and correct Maoist line of People's War to conquer and
defend the power.
If not, then show us, in
which country has the People's War advanced, through this "tactic"
that is claimed to be smart? It is a reprint of the "fool's tale"
of the so-called third way, which was raised by the revisionist Avakian in the
beginning of the 80’s of the previous century, which was crushed within RIM by
the PCP with People's War. Then, in 2006, there was another attempt to combine
the "People's War" through talks and "peace agreements"
with the way of parliamentary and constituent cretinism. Prachandra and the
opportunist leaders joined the old state and betrayed the revolution, and the
people of Nepal did not get anything from the parliament and the elections.
They have shown that this way is the abandonment of the People's War.
Let the way of renegade and
betrayal of the ROL in Peru serve as a negative lesson. And what about the revisionist
and capitulationist right opportunist line (ROL)? In the Yankee CIA-Peruvian
ROL hoax against Chairman Gonzalol, Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, the Party and the
People's War, raised "peace talks" in the "peace letters"
prepared by CIA agent Merino, because the enemy had achieved successes and the
Party had entered into leadership problems. Then in 2000 "solution to the
problems of the internal war and national reconciliation" to later raise
its "tactic" of focusing on "defence of fundamental rights"
and then the "front for fundamental rights" was formed as an electoral
front and they raised their registration with the authorities of the old
Peruvian State (Office of Electoral Processes). They took the path of
revisionism, capitulated and went to openly serve the plans of imperialism and
the Peruvian reaction, as always, not only in the country but also in the
world.
Now, in the face of the new
situation in the world, of the new period of revolutions that we are entering,
Peruvian imperialism and reaction fighting Maoism and the People's War, is
trying to raise the revisionist and capitulationist ROL, through a "Yankee
CIA operation" led by an agent of it from the Ministry of Interior of the
old Peruvian state. The ROL is a political party, which has raised the hoax
again and through a widely publicised denunciation of the prosecution, it is
promoting the idea that Chairman Gonzalo is behind the creation of the
electoral ogre of the ROL, the so-called MOVADEF, which is allegedly led by the
Chairman, the PCP and is the would-be third instrument of the People's War and
that the propaganda for the "new constitution" and its electoral
body, the MOVADEF, is the second instrument, the People’s Guerilla Army, and
through it the ROL carries out agitation and armed propaganda actions. Trying
to present the ROL and its capitulation as a tactic.
It is necessary to defend the
leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and Gonzalo Thought against all reactionary
lies, to reject, condemn and crush this new attempt to muddy the image of the
leader of the world revolution, the greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist on
the face of the earth, to infame him as a revisionist. To defend him against
the lies of the CIA-Reaction-LOD. It is necessary to continue to push forward
the campaign for Maoism inextricably linked with the campaign for the defence
of Chairman Gonzalo as a Maoist counter-campaign against the ongoing
counter-revolutionary campaign as part of the general counter-revolutionary
offensive led by the US imperialism as the only hegemonic superpower, in
collusion and struggle with the atomic superpower Russia and other imperialist
and reactionary and revisionist forces of the world.
Go against the current and
practice two-line struggle.
To see that as a result of the ideological dynamics what is reflected in the
open revisionist positions taken by the right wingers within the ICM,
interviews and statements of the people representing these positions follow one
another, under the guise of greeting the anniversary of Chairman Mao, without
mentioning it directly they join the attack against the definition of Maoism
and on the Peruvian revolution, the People's War in Peru, Chairman Gonzalo and
Gonzalo Thought; these people defend social imperialist China, repeating
Kaustky they focus on saying that China did not have military bases abroad yet.
Despite the fact that China invaded the territorial waters of other countries
in the Pacific; like good disciples of Avakian, they want us to believe that
the revolution comes from the inter-imperialist struggle. The revolution does
not come from the reactionaries but from the theory and practice of the
revolutionaries, concreted in the People's War.
Demolish their
"tactics".
The alleged impossible mixture of the two ways and the "two tactics",
in reality mixing two opposite and contrary lines, can only lead to confusing
the masses and to the capitulation of the parties and organisations that
practice it under the tale of not being "dogmatic", of not
"isolating from the middle and backward masses". All this is
nonsense, it is only a pretext to put oneself behind one or another reactionary
candidate. The result is to isolate the masses fighting in the countryside by
taking the main form of struggle (armed struggle) from the broad masses in the
cities; this tactic leaves the cities entirely in the hands of the reactionary
power and does not prepare the cities for the insurrection from the very
beginning. The cities where they concentrate on the legalist activity are left
alone and the party organisation takes the forms corresponding to the electoral
participation, the party committees become district committees or rather
electoral district committees. From underground party committees they become
legal committees (right-wing liquidationism). Thus, the People's War, which
should be the main one, becomes secondary, a mean of pressure for the electoral
participation or the famous "peace dialogues" for the pre-vendors and
sinecures of opportunists and revisionists in the service of the old order of
oppression.
Neither with the elections nor
with these famous "dialogues" have the people, let alone by the
revolutionary party, managed to win anything. Nothing good for the people can
come from the reactionary elections, the parliament and the reactionary
governments; everything good comes from the People's War.
In the imperialist countries we
see revisionists like Avakian who call to vote for one of the reactionary
candidates (Biden from the DP) under the pretext of the struggle against
"fascism" (the arch-reactionary Trump from the RP) and following the
same logic others congratulate the voters for having rejected with their
electoral participation this reactionary candidate by voting for the rival
reactionary candidate, celebrating the victory of the candidate as a victory of
the masses against the Trump government. Even the candidates themselves have
denounced the US elections as a fraud; each one with different reasons, but
they have hit the nail on the head; that is to say, the US electoral system is
so fraudulent, the thing is so scandalous, that the questioning of the
elections comes from the system itself. Thus, elections in an imperialist
country or in any other country of bureaucratic capitalism elections are not
means to express the will of the people. They are only means to change the
reactionary authorities. Therefore, in the face of the spontaneous rejection of
the elections, parties and other institutions of the imperialist state by the
masses, which was shown in their disinterest and ever decreasing participation
in the electoral process and voting, the elections that are celebrated not only
by the declared revisionists but also by some right-wingers, were crucial for
the US imperialism, internally and externally. This spontaneous rejection of
the reactionary elections by the masses is served by the tactic of boycott of
the reactionary elections that converge with the People's War or its
preparation, as it has been just and correct applied by the Maoists in the USA.
The revolution comes from the
people, from the action of the revolutionaries, as shown by the People's Wars that
persist despite difficult and complex situations they have to face, thus they
develop by overcoming and challenging all kinds of difficulties. We salute the
communists who are rebuilding their parties and challenging death to fulfil
their new tasks with new forces. The supporters of the third way such as
Avakian have always talked about doing parliamentary struggle in the cities and
People's War in the countryside trying to make us believe that the two
antagonistic ways can be mixed, and then end up as renegades of Maoism and
People's War.
The year that is ending has been
a year of great storms where the great explosiveness of the masses has been
expressed and in the middle of them the advance of the communists in fulfilling
the pending task of the Communist Party and preparations. We salute the
communists and other revolutionaries of the world for the victories achieved.
We salute the communists, who
are called upon to take up new tasks, to boldly mobilise the masses in the
struggle for their rights, especially the most sacred of all their rights, the
power, for the new year that is already at the gates and that is announced as a
new year of bigger and more shaking storms and tempests of the class struggle
all over the world that will shake the old order of exploitation and oppression
from its foundations all over the earth. The communists must show their courage
in this situation. It is up to the communists to develop the world revolution
through the People's War by starting new People's Wars, in the current stage of
strategic defence within the moment of the Strategic Offensive of the World
Revolution[i],
in the present conditions of greater difficulties of the imperialist and
reactionary enemy due to the greatest decomposition and collapse on all levels
all over the world, it corresponds to bold advance with the wind in their
favour.
We welcome the forthcoming
holding of the First International Unified Maoist Conference and the New
International Organisation of the Proletariat as a great victory that must be
realised in order to give a new great impulse to the task of the reunification
of communists on a world level in a redivision of the International Communist
Movement on the path of the reconstitution of the Communist International
through the coordination of the People's Wars, today, in development and those
to come and those that will come together in the great torrent of World
People's War.
The Editorial Staff of El Maoista Magazine
26 December 2020
[i] Chairman Gonzalo has stated that there
are three moments in the process of world revolution, of sweeping imperialism
and reaction from the face of the earth: 1st Strategic defence; 2nd Strategic
balance; and 3rd Strategic offensive of the world revolution. He did this by
applying the law of contradiction to the revolution because contradiction rules
in everything and every contradiction has two aspects in struggle, in this case
revolution and counter-revolution. Moreover, every moment has three stages,
which are also of the strategic defensive, equilibrium and offensive.
