The Coordinating
Committee for the Unified Maoist International Conference – CUMIC deliver to
the international proletariat the following proposal regarding the balance of
the International Communist Movement and of its current General Political Line,
with the aim to serve the debates and preparation of the Unified Maoist
International Conference.
Proletarians
of all countries, unite!
For a Unified Maoist International Conference!
Proposal regarding the balance of the
International Communist Movement and of its current General Political Line
I. INTRODUCTION
As communists, we are sons and daughters of a single
class in the world, the international proletariat, which has its destiny undeniably
welded – communism – which either all or none enter. For that, we firmly
subject ourselves to proletarian internationalism as a fundamental principle
for the ICM, we unfold our powerful and immortal lemma that was established in
the Manifesto of the Communist Party from Marx and Engles: “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”
Communism is the inexorable goal of history, humanity
marches toward it and this unfading goal will be reached no matter the
vicissitudes we face today.
The principal task for the communists is to conform
and develop themselves as a marxist-leninist-maoist Communist Party to initiate
and develop People’s War to conquer Power – which we have to develop according
to the particularity of each country – serving the World Proletarian Revolution
to reach our final goal: Communism. The existence of a communist party is
decisive to make the proletarian revolution at the New Era in which we develop
ourselves. Without a marxist-leninist-maoist Communist Party, revolution can
not be carried out and neither can it develop itself to conquer and defend the
New Power.
The International Communist Movement is the vanguard
of the international proletariat. The principal problem today for the ICM is
the dispersion of forces and the main danger is still revisionism. Its unity is
built on the base and guidance of marxism – today marxism-leninism-maoism,
principally maoism – and its application to the concrete practice of revolution
on each country and to the process of the world revolution.
Chairman Mao told us: “the
history of the international communist movement shows us that proletarian unity
is consolidated and developed in the struggle against opportunism, revisionism
and divisionism”. The current dispersion was originated with the
capitalist restoration in the USSR and in People’s China, and it was aggravated
by the emergence of the right opportunist line, revisionist and capitulationist
(ROL R&C) in Peru, the revisionist treason of “Prachandism” in Nepal and
the “avakianite” liquidationist revisionism in the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement (RIM), among other manifestations of new revisionism
in different parties and organizations. Splittism and the following dispersion
were the result of new revisionism’s treason to the fundamental principles of
marxism in the proletarian movement.
The demarcation line between marxism and the new
revisionism consists in: 1) acknowledging or not acknowledging maoism as the
third, new and superior stage of marxism and the necessity to combat
revisionism and all opportunism; 2) acknowledging or not acknowledging the
necessity of revolutionary violence – as People’s War – to make revolution in
one’s own country; 3) acknowledging or not acknowledging the necessity to
demolish the old state apparatus and replace the dictatorship of the
bourgeoisie with the dictatorship of the proletariat; 4) acknowledging or not
acknowledging the necessity of the revolutionary party of the proletariat.
The ICM can not give a single step toward its
reunification without combating revisionism and all opportunism implacably and
inseparably from the struggle against imperialism and all reaction. This is why
we base ourselves in the principle of “two-line
struggle as a driving force for party development”, which is decisive
to formulate and defend the red proletarian line and to combat the other
non-proletarian lines, in other words, to keep the Party red.
The general counterrevolutionary offensive that was
unleashed in the beginning of the 90s of the last century, mainly by Yankee
imperialism, is being defeated by the marxist-leninist-maoist revolutionary
counteroffensive through the People’s Wars, the struggles for national
liberation and the struggles developed by the proletariat and the oppressed
peoples of the world. We greet the heroic People’s Wars in India, Peru, Turkey
and the Philippines and the armed struggles for liberation of the nations
occupied by imperialism.
Class struggle in the era of the world proletarian
revolution and of the general crisis of imperialism and its sweeping away, the
era in which we develop ourselves, follows the logic of the people that was
established by Chairman Mao Tsetung, according to which there is no definitive
defeat for the proletariat. Thus, the capitalist restorations in the USSR
(1956) and in China (1976) can not stop the revolutionary march of the
international proletariat on its path to ultimately settle down in Power. These
defeats are only moments in the development of the contradiction between
revolution and counterrevolution, from which we draw lessons to prevent
restorations in the future. The few decades of dictatorship of the proletariat
– which started the construction of socialism in more than a third of the world
– produced the greatest social achievements for the masses in human history,
which were never reached before.
The end of the social-imperialist USSR in the
beginning of the 90s did not represent the defeat of marxism nor the failure of
socialism, but the bankruptcy of the decomposing revisionism and
social-imperialism. Marxism – today marxism-leninism-maoism, principally maoism
– is the most complete, progressive and rational doctrine of the whole human
history; it represents the new because it is the world view, the ideology of
the last and most advanced class in History: the proletariat; the class that is
conscious of its historical role of being the gravedigger of capitalism and,
consequently, of all class society. Maoism is opposed to all the decadent and
obsolete bourgeois ideology and its revisionist deviations.
During more than 170 years starting from the Manifesto
of the Communist Party in 1848, the ideology of the proletariat has emerged and
developed itself in the crucible of class struggle in three stages: 1) marxism,
2) marxism-leninism and 3) marxism-leninism-maoism. Maoism is the almighty
scientific ideology of the international proletariat, it is almighty because it
is true; the third, new and superior stage of marxism; the current marxism that
we uphold, defend and principally apply.
The new revisionsim of the ROL in Peru, of the called
“prachandaism” and “avakianism”, etc., act within the international proletarian
movement as part of the general counterrevolutionary offensive, as an
anti-maoist counter-current that attempts to hold down the World Proletarian Revolution.
The new revisionism negates marxism, the party, socialism and the dictatorship
of the proletariat. However, the center of its attacks are condensed in the
negation of the People’s War as an essential question of maoism – a question
that is inseparable from it.
The fundamental of maoism is Power, in other words,
the power to the proletariat, the power to the dictatorship of the proletariat,
the power based on an armed force led by the Communist Party. Notably: 1) Power
under the leadership of the proletariat within the democratic revolution; 2)
Power to the dictatorship of the proletariat within the socialist revolution
and the successive cultural revolutions; 3) Power based on an armed force led
by the communist Party, conquered and defended through People’s War.
Chairman Mao established the strategy and tactics of
the world revolution. The development of the world revolution is the principal
aspect for preventing the world imperialist war and, if it starts, we
communists must oppose it with world People’s War. This demands us to lead
People’s War to face the imperialist wars of aggression against the oppressed
nations in Asia, Africa, Latin America and even in Europe itself. Even without
the imperialist aggression we must lead People’s War to make revolution in all
kind of countries, comprising countries and continents until advancing toward
the world People’s War, with which we will sweep away imperialism and the
reaction from the face of Earth. Thus, it corresponds to us making the world
revolution through People’s War, and the base for it is constituted by the
oppressed nations.
Therefore, the fundamental aspect of maoism is Power.
People’s War and Power for the class are an essential part of maoism, and an
inseparable aspect of it, namely the political and military conception of the
proletariat: Power conquered and defended by the armed force led by the
Communist Party. The Party expresses the political, military and construction
strategy of the proletariat according to the three kinds of revolution.
People’s War is the superior form of struggle, through
which the fundamental problems of revolution are solved, all that is good comes
for the people comes from it; it is the military strategy that correspond to
the political strategy (conquest of power) to transform society in favor of the
Class and the people; it is the principal form of struggle and the People’s
Army is the principal form of organization, an army of a new type that combats,
mobilizes, politicizes, organizes and arms the masses, and produces. People’s
War is a war of masses led by the Communist Party to conquer the New Power,
which is materialized in the people’s committees and base areas for the
conquest of Power in the whole country.
In order to carry out People’s War it is necessary to
have four fundamental problems in mind: 1) ideology of the proletariat,
marxism-leninism-maoism, applied to the concrete practice and the
particularities of revolution on each country, both oppressed countries or
imperialist countries; 2) the necessity of the Communist Party that leads the
People’s War; 3) specification of the political strategy for the democratic or
socialist revolution and the path of it; 4) base areas. The New Power, or
Front-New State that is formed in the base areas are the core of the People’s
War.
In order to establish the base areas, Chairman Mao
established three fundamental requirements: 1) to have armed forces, 2) to
defeat the enemy, 3) to mobilize the masses. That is to say, to develop the
Guerrilla warfare, which means to annihilate the living forces of the enemy and
thus creating a void of power in order to establish, construct and defend the
new Power, to destroy the old social relations of production and build new
ones. From that the contradiction New Power/New State Vs Old State is developed,
through various reestablishment and counter-reestablishment moments, according
to the fluidity of war.
Imperialism is the superior and last stage of
capitalism, it is monopolistic, parasitic and decomposing and agonizing. It is
in a general and last crisis and due to this situation it is harassed by its
inevitable cyclical crisis that are increasingly worsened and deeper. Because
of that it has to always attempt to recover from worse conditions, only to be
swept away by the world revolution.
Imperialism is the tendency toward reaction and war in
all the line. Imperialism and world reaction will collapse in the midst of a
complex of wars of all kinds, they will be swept away from the face of Earth
with People’s War, and Socialism will emerge. Chairman Mao established that “Yankee imperialism is a colossus with clay
feet” and that ““imperialism
is a paper tiger, which must be strategically despised and taken into account
tactically”
The process of World Proletarian Revolution in which
we develop is within the frame of the “50
to 100 years” in which imperialism and world reaction would be
swept away from the face of Earth, as foreseen by Chairman Mao. Thus,
revolution has become the historically and politically principal tendency in
the current world.
All the fundamental contradictions of this epoch are
aggravated, the principal one being the contradiction between oppressed nations
and imperialism. The objective conditions were never so ripe for revolution.
The development of the subjective conditions advances, smashing the declining
general counteroffensive and smashing pessimism and capitulationism spread by
revisionism. The conditions are each day more favorable for revolution.
More People’s Wars are required in order to develop
the world proletarian revolution. It is necessary to constitute or reconstitute
communist parties – according to each case – on each country in order to
develop new People’s Wars, By applying the teachings of Lenin “go further into the deepest masses”, “educate them in the practice of revolutionary
violence” and “sweep
away the colossal heap of garbage relentlessly fighting opportunism and revisionism.”
II. FOUNDATIONFOR ESTABLISHING THE
GENERAL POLITICAL LINE FOR THE ICM
By applying marxism-leninism-maoism to the concrete
practice of revolution on each country and the World Revolution, we point out
the following foundations for the establishment and development of the General
Political Line for the International communist Movement:
1. NEW ERA
With the emergence of imperialism, the world was
divided between a handful of oppressing nations on the one hand, and a big
number of oppressed nations on the other, which ripened the conditions for the
World Revolution.
The triumph of the Great Socialist Revolution of
October 1917 led by the great Lenin and the Bolshevik Party marked an
extraordinary feat in Universal History – the end of the world bourgeois
revolution and the opening of the New Era, the Era of the World Proletarian Revolution
and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There were many revolutions before the
great October Revolution, each one of them provided new impulse for society.
However, these revolutions only replaced an exploitation system with another.
The Great October Socialist Revolution (GOSR) was the
first revolution that was conceived and carried out to establish a society free
from exploitation and oppression – a classless society. The October Socialist
Revolution represented a radical turning point in the history of humanity. It
opened a New Era in the shining and long path that leads to socialism and
communism.
The GOSR potentiated revolutionary violence as an
indispensable weapon to transform the whole world. Lenin said: “In the October Revolution … revolutionary violence
was a brilliant success.” He assumed the Marxist principle of
revolutionary violence as a universal law. We reaffirm ourselves in the
established by Chairman Mao that “Power
grows from the barrel of a gun” and that “we are in favor of the theory of the omnipotence
of revolutionary war.”
In order to appraise the world in this New Era we see
that four fundamental contradictions that are expressed: 1) the contradiction
between capitalism and socialism – the contradiction between the two radically
different systems will take this whole period and it will be one of the last to
be resolved, it will last even after the seizure of Power; 2) the contradiction
between bourgeoisie and proletariat – it is the contradiction between two
opposed classes and will also remain after the seizure of Power, it manifests
itself in various ideological, political and economic forms until its solution
when we enter communism; 3) the interimperialist contradictions – these are the
contradictions between the imperialists for world hegemony, it takes place
between the superpowers, between the superpowers and the imperialist powers and
between the imperialist powers, this contradiction will be resolved in the
period of 50 to 100 years; 4) the contradiction between oppressed nations and
imperialism – it is the struggle for the liberation of the oppressed nations to
destroy imperialism and the reaction, its solution is also included within the
50 to 100 years, it is the historically principal contradiction during this
whole period of time; however, any of the four fundamental contradictions can
become the principal according to specific circumstances of class struggle,
temporarily, or in certain countries, but the historically principal
contradiction will again express itself as such until its final resolution.
We, the marxist-leninist-maoist, have to carry out
three kinds of revolution in order to, in perspective, achieve our final goal,
communism: 1) democratic revolution – the bourgeois revolution of a new type,
led by the proletariat in the backward countries, it establishes the joint
dictatorship of the proletariat, the peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie, and
(under certain conditions) the middle bourgeoisie, all under the hegemony of
the proletariat through its Communist Party; 2) socialist revolution – in the
imperialist countries, which establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat;
3) the cultural revolutions – they are carried out in order to continue
revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, to submit and eliminate
the whole generation of capitalism and to struggle against the attempts of
capitalism restoration, they serve to strengthen the dictatorship of the
proletariat and to march toward communism.
Chairman Mao taught us that “the replacement of the old for the new is a
universal, eternal and inescapable law”. It is a law of history which,
in the struggle for establishing the new social system, the classes cannot
impose themselves in one single attempt, in one single blow, and it cannot be
different with the proletariat. The capitalist restorations in the USSR (1956)
ad in China (1976) are part of the contradiction between socialism and
capitalism – the historical struggle for the replacement of the old by the new.
Lenin warned that the exploiting classes would never
resign after being defeated and expropriated. Their hatred and efforts to
restore capitalism would be hundredfold by their defeat. This is why they must
be firmly submitted to the dictatorship of the proletariat in order to generate
the conditions for the extinction of classes. Lenin declared: “liquidating capitalism and its traces and
introducing the principles of the communist order constitutes the content of
the new epoch in the history of the entire world that has now commenced..”
This way, Lenin pointed out that this task would take
a long time and that in order to completely liquidate the classes it is not
only necessary to eliminate the exploiting classes but also to make disappear
the differences between city and countryside, workers and peasants, manual and
intellectual labor and others.
This contradiction will only be solved through a long
and complex process of restoration and counter-restoration, until the
dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism are consolidated in the whole world
– paving the way for the disappearance of all social classes, with which the
state is also extinguished, and humanity enters the always shining golden
communism. Chairman Mao taught that: “socialism
will eventually replace the capitalist system; This is an objective law,
independent of the will of man. As much as the reactionaries try to stop the
wheel of history, sooner or later the revolution will take place and, without a
doubt, will triumph.”
2. THE PROCESS
OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION
There are two forces that operate in the revolutionary
movement in the whole world: the international communist movement and the
national liberation movement, the first one is guidance and the second is the
base.
The movement of national liberation of the force that
operates within the nations oppressed by imperialism and the reaction. In the
decade of 1910, Lenin paid maximum attention to the struggle in India, China,
Persia, putting forward that the socialist revolution would not be uniquely and
exclusively the proletariat against their bourgeoisie but of all colonies
against their oppressors. He said that there is a fusion of forces: the
international proletarian movement that act in the whole world, and the
national liberation movement of the oppressed nations, and, given that the
masses in the oppressed nations are the majority of the global population, it
will be a decisive weight in the world revolution. He gets to the conclusion
that revolution shifts toward the oppressed nations, but do not deny revolution
in the imperialist countries, furthermore he shows that a socialist state –
just as USSR was – could develop in the midst of imperialist siege. This is how
the law of uneven development of revolution in the world operates.
Further developing Marx, Lenin lay the basis of the
strategy of world revolution to undermine imperialism, unite the struggle of
national liberation with the struggles of the international proletarian
movement and develop revolution. Although “Proletarians
of all countries, unite!” is the lemma for the communists, he
puts forward that the lemma that should guide the struggle of the two forces
should be “Proletarians of all
countries and peoples of the world, unite!”. The latter unites unifies
the proletarian movement for the construction of socialism in the imperialist
countries with the struggles of national liberation in the colonial and
semi-colonial countries, a lemma that was accepted by the Communist
International.
Chairman Mao, developed the strategy and tactics of
the world revolution, he specified this lemma according to the tasks at the
time: “Marxist-leninists of all
countries, unite! Revolutionary peoples of the whole world, unite; overthrow imperialism,
contemporary revisionism and all reactionaries of the different countries!” Thus
he fuses the national liberation movement with the international communist
movement and these two forces impulse the development of world history.
The international proletarian movement is the theory
and practice of the international proletariat. The proletariat struggles in
three spheres – ideological, political and economic – and since it appears [for
the first time] in history as the last class, it does so struggling. The
following feats stands out: 1848, when the Communist Manifesto written by Marx
and Engels establishes the foundation and the program of the proletariat; 1871,
Paris Commune, where for the first time the proletariat seizes power; 1905,
general rehearsal of revolution; 1917, the triumph of the October Revolution in
Russia, the class establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat and opens a
new era; 1949, the triumph of the Chinese revolution, the joint dictatorship of
the revolutionary classes led by the proletariat and the uninterrupted step
into socialist revolution is resolved, it changes the correlation of forces in
the world; and the decade of 1960 with the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution, led by Chairman Mao Tsetung, revolution continues under the
dictatorship of the proletariat in a sharp struggle between restoration and
counter-restoration.
We must develop
the struggle for demands serving the seizure of Power. The
proletariat generates the trade union and the strike within its struggle for
demands, which are not only instruments for the struggle for demands, but they “forge the class for the great battles to come”.
The strike is the principal instrument of the struggle for demands and the
general strike is a complement to insurrection.
The proletariat generates political apparatus: the
Communist Party which is totally opposed and distinct to the other parties, it
has the goal of seizing political power, thus defined Marx. Lenin established
the character of the Party of a new type when combating the hindering influence
of the old revisionism, which generated bourgeois worker parties based on the
labor aristocracy, union bureaucracy, parliamentary cretinism and that are
adjusted to the old order.
Chairman Mao Tsetung developed the construction of the
Party around the gun and put forward the interrelated construction of the three
instruments: communist party, army of a new type and revolutionary United
Front, among which the center is the Communist Party.
The proletariat generates ideology:
marxism-leninism-maoism, principally maoism, for the world proletarian
revolution.
Marxism was principally founded by Marx. Marx and
Engels gather the best that was produced by humanity: German classical
philosophy, English political economy and French socialism, to found the
ideology of the proletariat. Marxism has never given a step in life without
struggling against erroneous positions. Thus, it has to confront Proudhon and
anarchism, the rightist deviations and supposedly creative developments of
Dühring, the opportunist positions that emerge within the German
social-democrat party.
Our immortal founders Marx and Engels have shown,
through scientific analysis, the collapse of capitalism and its inevitable
change into communism – where no more exploitation of man by man will exist.
They established the mission of the proletariat of all countries: raise in
revolutionary struggle against capitalism and gather all workers and exploited
in this struggle.
The old revisionism would develop after the death of
Engels – with Bernstein and Kautsky – and Lenin will combat and defeat them. In
brief, Marxism will establish Marxist philosophy, or dialectical materialism,
and scientific socialism.
Lenin develops marxism and raises it to a second
stage, marxism-leninism. He made this in a fierce struggle against old
revisionism – which denied marxist philosophy by saying one should base oneself
in neo-kantism, which is idealism and not dialectical materialism. In political
economy, they denied growing pauperization, thus they affirmed imperialism,
capitalism, met the demands of the proletariat; they denied plus-value and
imperialism. In Scientific socialism they pointed out against class struggle,
against revolutionary violence and spread pacifism and parliamentary cretinism.
Lenin taught that revolutionary politics of the
proletariat was made through its vanguard party. Without its General Staff, the
Communist Party, the proletariat cannot fulfill its principal role in the
transformation of the world. Thanks to the existence of a Revolutionary Party
of a New Type, created and led by Lenin, the Russian proletariat could take
advantage of the revolutionary situation and answer the imperialist war with
revolutionary civil war. Chairman Mao said: “with
the birth of revolutionary parties of this kind, the
physiognomy of world revolution has changed”.
Revisionism is to revise the marxist principles by
invoking new circumstances. Lenin said that revisionism is the contingent of
the bourgeoisie in the ranks of the proletariat and that for struggling against
imperialism it is necessary to struggle against revisionism because they are
two faces of the same coin. Lenin highlights that revisionism tries to divide
the trade union movement and the political movement of the proletariat and
generates the split of socialism. Furthermore, within this unerring and
implacable struggle against revisionism, Lenin puts forward to convert the
imperialist war into revolutionary war in the conjecture of World War One, thus
unmasking the old revisionists as social-patriots and social-chauvinists; he
puts forward that in times of revolution it is necessary to make new
organizations because reaction attacks the legal organizations and we must
assemble clandestine apparatuses, inclusively for mass work. Then, he furnishes
the October Revolution with a Communist Party and through insurrection.
Comrade Stalin would continue the work of Lenin and in
the process of the construction of socialism in the USSR, he will struggle
against opportunism and the treason of Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukarin.
Stalin developed this struggle for 13 years and it is false that he solved
things administratively.
During the World War, the USSR under the leadership of
comrade Stalin had to apply scorched land to defend its territory, the defense
of the socialist motherland costed 25 million lives. In the midst of a complex
and difficult situation, under the leadership of comrade Stalin, the
dictatorship of the proletariat and the triumph of socialism was consolidated.
The five years plans that were applied for twenty five years led to the biggest
transformation in the relations of production and to the most powerful
development of the productive forces in history until now.
We assume the position of Chairman Mao on the role of
comrade Stalin that he was a great marxist. Furthermore, bearing in mind he was
the one who brilliantly defined leninism. We, the communists, today have the
task to make an adequate analysis of World War Two, the assessment of the
Communist International and particularly to study well its 7th Congress,
within this the role of comrade Stalin, the action of revisionism in France,
Italy, etc.
Chairman Mao Tsetung, while developing
marxism-leninism-maoism, raises marxism to its highest summit turning the
theory of the proletariat into marxism-leninism-maoism. He fulfilled this task
in the midst of a tenacious and persistent struggle, smashing right opportunist
lines within the Communist Party of China – here we highlight smashing the
revisionist lines of Liu Shao-chi and Teng Siao-ping; and at the international
level he led the struggle and defeated contemporary revisionism of Khrushchev.
The furnished the democratic revolution in China, the uninterrupted shift to
socialist revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR).
The GCPR is the most transcendental aspect of
marxism-leninism, in historical perspective, that was done by Chairman Mao; it
is the solution of the big pending problem of the continuation of revolution
under the dictatorship of the proletariat; “it
represents a new stage, even deeper and wider, in the
development of the socialist revolution”.
Let us highlight two questions: 1) the GPCR imply a
feat in the development of the dictatorship of the proletariat toward rooting
the proletariat into Power, which was concreted with the Revolutionary
Committees; and 2) the restoration of capitalism in China, after the
counterrevolutionary coup in 1976, it is not a negation of the GPCR but simply
part of the contend between restoration-counterrestoration and, on the contrary
to being a negation, it shows us the transcendental historical importance the
GPCR has in the inexorable march of humanity toward communism.
In these conditions, the most earthshaking political
process was produces and the biggest mass mobilization ever seen on Earth,
which Chairman Mao defines the goals of it as follows: “The present Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
is completely necessary and very timely to consolidate the dictatorship of the
proletariat, to prevent the restoration of capitalism and to build
socialism”.
Chairman Mao affirmed that not having a correct
ideological-political point of view corresponds to not having soul, and that
the GPCR is a great revolution that has the goal of changing the soul of
people, in other words the world view, ideology, raising the proletariat and
the broad masses for the struggle for Power, the defense of the dictatorship of
the proletariat, world revolution and communism.
Thus, we communists have three great swords: our
founder Marx, the great Lenin and Chairman Mao Tsetung, our great task is to
uphold, defend and apply marxism-leninism-maoism, principally maoism, placing
it at the command and guide of the world revolution.
By applying the law of contradiction to the process of
the world revolution, the process of sweeping away imperialism and the reaction
from the face of Earth, there are three moments – because contradiction reigns
over everything and every contradiction has two struggling aspects, in this
case, revolution and counterrevolution. Those moments are: 1st Strategic
defensive; 2nd Strategic
Stalemate; and 3rd Strategic
offensive of the world revolution. The strategic defensive of the world
revolution, which is opposed to the offensive of counterrevolution, pulls out
since 1871 with Paris Commune and ends in World War Two; the strategic
stalemate takes place with the triumph of the Chinese revolution until the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the development of the powerful
movement of national liberation; afterwards, revolution enters strategic
offensive of the world revolution that moment would be around the decade of
1980 in which we see the war Iran-Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the initiation
of People’s War in Peru and it is countering the counterrevolutionary offensive
of general character, the epoch within the “next 50 to 100 years”; from there
on the contradiction between capitalism and socialism – whose solution will
bring us to communism – will develop.
Chairman Mao taught us that the path is tortuous, but
the perspectives are brilliant. Chairman Mao established that imperialism “Make
trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again . . . till their doom; that is
the logic of the imperialists”, as the logic of the people is to “Fight, fail,
fight again, fail again, fight again . . . till their victory; that is the
logic of the people”. Revolution will triumph in the whole world and communism
will shine over the Earth sooner than later, depending on the action of the communists.
3. INTERNATIONAL
SITUATION
Starting from the thesis of Lenin, it is estimated
that the economic relations of imperialism constitute the basis of the
currently existing international situation. Throughout the whole 20th Century,
this new phase of capitalism, its superior and last stage, was completely
defined. And that the division of the world into oppressed and oppressor
countries is a distinctive feature of imperialism. Thus, to understand the
current situation we cannot start from the fundamental contradiction of
capitalism because we are in its superior and last phase, imperialism.
There are three fundamental contradictions in the
today’s world:
First
contradiction: between oppressed nations, on the one
hand, and imperialist superpowers and powers on the other. This is the principal contradiction in the
current moment and, at the same time, the principal contradiction of the epoch.
The world is divided, in one part there is a big number of oppressed nations,
which are colonial or semi-colonial countries, the latter have only formal
sovereignty or independence, they are economically, politically and culturally
subjugated to imperialism; in the other part, there is a handful of imperialist
powers, superpowers or powers, in both cases they are oppressing nations. In
the part of the imperialist powers, Yankee imperialism is the sole hegemonic
superpower. Russia is still an atomic superpower and there is a handful of
second-tier imperialist powers.
Yankee imperialism is the largest exporter of capital
in the world, which is expressed in enormous unbalance in its economy. In order
to keep its hegemony, imperialism is forced to carry out many wars at the same
time, despite having military presence in all continents. This leads to
enormous economic costs for maintaining its huge military machinery and
espionage, the costs of the credits from the past wars and the current wars,
support for the war veterans; not to mention the high social cost that is
caused in their own land, despise for the life and dignity of the masses from
the oppressed nations (Third World), the genocide they apply to subjugate them
which nourishes class hatred from all the peoples of the world.
The Third World hosts the largest and poorest
population, they are subject to imperialist oppression, they live in conditions
that do not fit the level of development achieved by humanity, they suffer the
demise of their living conditions, of the natural environment and they are
stricken by the systematic wars of plunder of imperialism and their local
lackeys.
A bureaucratic capitalism develops on a semifeudal and
semicolonial basis in those countries. It generates the corresponding political
and ideological genres and systematically prevents national development,
exploits the proletariat, the peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie and restricts
the medium bourgeoisie.
Not acknowledging the semifeudal character of the
oppressed countries and, thus, the necessity for an agrarian war to solve it,
ends up denying the necessity of the democratic revolution in those countries,
the necessity to develop the People’s War as a unitary war, in which the
countryside is principal and the city is a necessary complementary, to end with
imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and semifeudality.
World crisis will go on unloading on the oppressed
countries and as long as they hold this condition they will still be the loot
for the imperialist repartition. The policy of imperialism is further reaction
and violence against the oppressed nations for a further national subjugation
of wars of plunder and prey. The plan of the imperialists is the partition of
the countries in the new repartition, based on the relations of military force
and the advance of the occupation of strategic positions. What they seek is not
peace but to subjugate the peoples through capitulation with “peace
agreements”, which they only formalize what they achieved in the battlefield.
The countries of the Third World from Asia, Africa and
Latin America, as pointed out by Chairman Mao, are the zones of revolutionary
storms and the base for the world proletarian revolution. It is necessary to
highlight that the Third World extends even to Europe itself.
We reaffirm that the true national self-determination
can only be achieved through revolution of a new democracy or socialist
revolution, according to each case, through the development of People’s War, to
which it is necessary to constitute or reconstitute communist parties of a new
type, marxist-leninist-maoist parties capable of leading revolution to its end.
Chairman Mao has masterly synthesized all the struggles in the oppressed
nations at the following great guideline: “The
countries want their sovereignty, the nations want their liberation and the
peoples want revolution!”
Second contradiction:
between proletariat and bourgeoisie in the imperialist countries.
The economic crisis in 2008 that began as a finance
crisis in the USA was unloaded over the masses in the imperialist countries
themselves and in the oppressed nations. Thus it has stricken the proletariat
of the imperialist countries, which instigated sharp struggles for the defense
of the achievements they conquered throughout the 20th Century.
The consequences of this crisis were not overcame, this is why the recovering
of employment is at the expense of worse quality, lower wages and larger
working day. The recovering is at the expense of increasing the
over-exploitation of the class.
The contradiction proletariat-bourgeoisie is also
worsened as a result of the migratory waves of thousands of war refugees and
general poor people who – fleeing from the imperialist war and the ferocious
exploitation and oppression en the semi-colonies – are thickening the ranks of
the proletariat in the imperialist countries. These migratory waves are a
consequence of the system itself and the “humanitarian tragedy” to which they
are leading benefits the monopolies in the imperialist countries by reducing
the production cost due to reducing the salaries with this working force that
has costed nothing to them.
At the same time, the imperialists themselves
cynically broadcast at their media the danger of “terrorism” of those
immigrants and promote chauvinist hysteria, nourish racism and nationalism.
Imperialism applies its chauvinist reactionary policy of dividing the class
between native workers and immigrant workers to prevent the united class
conscious action of the proletariat. To prevent it from organizing itself as a
single class with the same interests with a single ideology, a single politics
and a single party – the Communist Party.
The contradiction in the imperialist countries is also
between revolution and counterrevolution, it is not a question of changing of
this or that political regime – in other words, the form of government of the
bourgeois dictatorship – but to put an end on the dictatorship of the
bourgeoisie over the proletariat and the people through socialist revolution
which is carried out through People’s War.
The contradiction bourgeoisie-proletariat and all the
other contradictions within the imperialist nations are sharpening. Also,
because all the kinds of infamies that are carried out by the imperialist
states against the oppressed nations, particularly by USA imperialism,
increasingly backlash within the imperialist countries themselves – this is a
feature of the current phase of its decomposition. The imperialist war has
necessarily to return home.
Furthermore, in their own land, the systematic and
continuous murder of the members of the poorest masses by the repressive forces
of Yankee state are part of the war against the US proletariat and people,
particularly against the black and immigrant from the Third World and their
descendants. Facing oppression, the tendency is that the masses upraise in
rebellion and turn the guns they were given for the massive genocide in the
oppressed nations against their own oppressors. The expressions that confirm
such tendency have already taken place.
Summing up, the principal is that the movement against
the imperialist war will grow, together with the rebellion against the
exploitation and oppression of the Class and the increasing poverty of the
masses. This s taking place in all imperialist countries.
Third
contradiction: interimperialist. Just as Lenin taught
us, imperialism is not one, there are different imperialist countries. In other
words, there are imperialist powers and superpowers which divides the world
among them according to their relations of economic, political and military
strength; relations of strength that changes all the time and develop through
collusion and contend.
The United States currently bears the condition of
sole hegemonic superpower. After the disintegration of the social-imperialist
USSR in 1991, the economic weight of imperialist Russia was reduced and so did
their military power, but it still maintains its character of atomic
superpower. In turn, the other imperialist powers, like Germany, England,
France, Japan, China, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, Canada,
Italy, Spain, etc., altogether are also a handful of oppressing countries.
Since the decade of 1990, they are contending for a new repartition of the
oppressed countries that were subjected to social-imperialist USSR. Since then,
all the events of some relevance, be them bellicose or non-bellicose, in
Eastern Europe, in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, the so-called
Amplified Middle East (the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Northern
Africa, etc.) are included in this contend for the new repartition of those
countries.
The current world situation is marked by the plan of
Yankee imperialism to develop its war of aggression through blood and fire.
Their main strategic objective is to snatch the condition of atomic superpower
from Russia, hold down social-imperialist China and push it to opening its
economy bit by bit. Alliances with other imperialist powers are used for that
purpose, according to convenience, as with Germany, France, England, etc., to
subvert order in the zones of influence that has a high strategic value for
Russia and imposes economic sanctions as a threat to all imperialist powers. In
its turn, Russia makes efforts to maintain its zones of influence, especially
in Ukraine, Syria and Iran.
As for the imperialists, be them alone or in
coalitions, they are against an oppressed country or many of those countries
from the Third World, at this moment not only the principal contradiction
expresses itself, but also the third contradiction is expressed – among the
imperialists themselves. Yankee imperialism uses “divide and rule” against
other imperialist powers. The imperialists violates as they wish their own
treaties, their own international rules – the principle of non-aggression –
because the law is for the other to follow. This is why peace and harmony
between imperialists are old stories told again, as those of “superimperialism”
and “ultraimperialism”, which spread reactionary concepts such as
“neoimperialism”, “neocolonialism”, “neoliberalism”, “globalization”,
“geopolitics”, etc., those are pseudo-theories that mainly points against
democratic revolution and the struggles for national liberation and are used by
both imperialists themselves and by revisionists.
The imperialist dispute in absolute and collusion is
relative. This determines the circumstantial and temporary character of the
imperialist alliances; this is why one cannot speak about “imperialist blocks”,
this is revisionism. Thus the European Union is not a block, or an “European
imperialism”, but an alliance of countries of Europe, under hegemony of
Germany, in contend and collusion with France that tries to increase its power,
to stop Yankee imperialism.
The imperialist powers of the second tier struggle to
convert themselves into new superpowers and start contending for world hegemony
to occupy the place that is today displayed by Yankee imperialism and to impose
through a new world war a new repartition of the world that is already divided
into a new world order.
Regarding the
contradiction between socialism and capitalism, which corresponds to
the whole era of the world proletarian revolution, in the current situation, is
expressed and develops in the ideological and historical terrain.
From the terrain of the reaction, this contradiction
manifests itself as the general counterrevolutionary offensive, which is
weakening and is currently pointed against the national liberation wars through
the so-called “war against terrorism”. We oppose it with the
marxist-leninist-maoist revolutionary counteroffensive, which develops with
People’s War. In the terrain of revolution, the contradiction between socialism
and capitalism expresses itself in that socialism lives as an idea in the
struggles of the proletariat and the peoples of the world, in the ongoing
combats and People’s Wars in India, Peru, Turkey and the Philippines, and the
restless propaganda and increasing two lines struggle among the
marxist-leninist-maoist parties and organizations for unifying the ICM under
the guidance of maoism and the application of People’s War.
In 1962, Chairman Mao indicated: “The next 50 to 100 years or so, as of today, will
be a great epoch of radical change of the social system in the world,
anepoch that will shake the earth, anepoch with which no other
previous historical epoch can be compared. Living in such an epoch,
we must be ready to fight a great struggle whose forms will have many different
characteristics from the past.”
All of that, on the one hand, impulses the greater
reactionarization of the bourgeois state (big landowners-bureaucratic state
serving imperialism in the oppressed countries) to counter the revolutionary
situation in uneven development in the whole world. Its expression is the
advance toward the absolute centralization of power in the Executive power – be
it as presidential absolutism or as fascism – according to the particularities
of the different countries. The centralization of power to face revolution and
for the imperialist war of aggression.
The objective situation at world level develops,
fundamentally, as a worsening of the general crisis of imperialism – which even
the reaction itself needs to acknowledge. It is the deepening of its collapse.
The huge richness that is socially produced incessantly grows as the private
appropriation of such richness is done by a handful of imperialists and the big
bourgeois and landowners of the Third World. The result of all this are sharper
crisis and shorter cycles within the general and last crisis of imperialism,
which pushes all the imperialist states to wage wars of prey for a new
repartition.
Just as Chairman Mao has pointed out in 1958, “imperialism is still alive and Yankee imperialism,
as the sole hegemonic superpower and counterrevolutionary world gendarme, is
the principal enemy of the peoples of the world; it still does as it
pleases in Africa, Asia and Latin America; it still occupies colonies by
force, establishes its military bases in all parts of the world and imposes a
war of plunder; it continues to oppress the people’s masses in its own
country”. All that is even more acute now 60 years later. But the same
situation is also becoming further unbearable and it is inevitable that sooner
or later more than 90% of the world population would rise against imperialism
and the reactionaries. All that in fierce struggle and in uneven development,
it is already going on as a New Great Wave of the World Proletarian Revolution.
Since the beginning of this epoch, the crisis of
imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism sharpens in the whole world. Whenever
its decomposition deepens, all the contradictions sharpen; which develops
further the revolutionary situation in uneven development in the whole world.
The situation is expressed by the great activity of the masses, its
explosiveness makes all reactionaries and their revisionist lackeys tremble. It
is expressed everywhere at great explosions never seen before. The objective
situation meets at fast pace with the subjective factor, principally the
process of the Communist Parties, as marxist-leninist-maoist, principally
maoist parties of a new type to initiate new People’s Wars. Thus a new moment
opens, a period of revolutions as part of this new great wave of the world
proletarian revolution, within the period of the “50 to 100 years” in which
includes the strategic offensive of the world revolution. This situation
determines the tasks, the strategy and the tactics of the Communist Parties in
the whole world.
4. INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNIST MOVEMENT
We reaffirm ourselves in the full validity of the
Manifesto of the Communist Party from 1848 (including all its preface and notes
written by Marx and Engels, especially the preface of 1872), which is the start
of the birth and cornerstone of the International Communist Movement. It
established the fundamental principles and the Program of the proletarian
revolutionaries. Given that our great founders, Marx and Engels, made that
great calling and lemma “Proletarians
of all countries, unite!”, that lemma for combat inspires the
struggles of the proletariat in the whole world and guides through the path of
emancipation. The flames of revolution that were started by Marx and Engels
have set the world on fire, permanently changing the course of world history.
Marx said: “The
experience of the past teaches us, that forgetting the fraternal ties
that must exist between the workers of the different countries and that should
encourage them to support each other in all their struggles for emancipation,
is punished by common defeat of its isolated efforts.”
Lenin established that true proletarian
internationalism requires: “first, the
subordination of the interests of the proletarian struggle in a country to the
interests of this struggle on world scale; second, that the nation that is
reaching the triumph over the bourgeoisie is capable and willing to make the
greatest national sacrifices for the overthrow of international capital.” Chairman
Mao raised internationalism in its deepest sense when affirming: “it is the spirit of communism”.
Thus, the History of the International Communist
Movement is a glorious process of struggle, through which the communists of the
world have struggled and struggle to unify themselves serving the achievement
of the unalterable goal: the communist society.
Three internationals were built in this heroic
struggle:
The First International, or International Worker’s
Association (IWA), was founded by Marx and Engles in 1864 in a fierce struggle
against the anarchist, the Blanquists and other positions to establish that the
ideology of the proletariat was only one – marxism – it is solid and and scientifically
welded with the international nature of the proletariat and its revolutionary
party, laid the ideological basis of the proletarian revolution. The moment the
International was infiltrated and surrounded of opportunists who attempted to
usurp it, Marx put forward that it would be better to end with the IWA that to
see it murdered by unity without principles.
The Second International, based on marxism, was
founded by Engels in 1889 and served the multiplication of worker’s socialist
organizations and parties, especially in Europe and North America. After the
death of Engles, Bernstein’s and Kautsky’s revisionism assaulted the leadership
of the Second International and it degenerated into opportunism, it was finally
bankrupt during the First World War, when their leaders opposed themselves to
struggle against the imperialist war under the pretext of Defensism (defense of the motherland).
They refused to turn it into revolution, they supported the imperialist war and
the bourgeoisie of their countries, they voted for the credits of war at the
parliament, turned into social-traitors, social-chauvinists.
The founding of the Third International, in March
1919, was the result of a long struggle by the left of the ICM that was
developed under the Great Leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party. A
struggle against all revisionism and opportunism of the member parties of the
Second International – who were adapted to the old order. Lenin conceived and
funded the Third International as a war machine to carry out the World
Proletarian Revolution and the construction of the dictatorship of the
proletariat. The founding of the Third International constitutes a great leap
in the history of the International Communist Movement.
The Third International – Communist International (CI)
or Comintern – existed for 24 years, seven world congresses were held during
that time until its dissolution in 1943. It had to develop in a complex context
represented by the loss of its founder and principal leader – the Great Lenin –
in 1924, the great challenges of te construction of socialism in the USSR, the
rise of fascism to Power in many countries of the world – especially in Europe
– and the beginning of the Second World War.
Its existence was strongly influenced by the intense
and hard two line struggle that was developed within the Bolshevik Party which
lasted 13 years, in which the left, under the leadership of comrade Stalin, had
to tenaciously struggle to unmask and smash trotskyism, bukarinism, and the
right opportunist clique of Kamenev-Zinoviev, among other gangs and black
lines, against the efforts to undermine the dictatorship of the proletariat in
the USSR, their attempts to usurp the leadership of the CI and controlling
apparatuses to impose their policies n many sections – nefarious actions that
caused grave harm.
Because of that, the CI suffered right and “left”
deviations – particularly within the period between the 5th and the 7th Congresses
– and it has issued some erroneous advises and directives that caused some harm
to revolutionary parties and processes. However, the principal was that comrade
Stalin led – developing the two line struggle – the left within the Communist
International preventing the revisionist usurpation and smashed the trotskyist
and zinovievist influence at its leadership. Under the correct and justified
leadership of comrade Stalin, it kept its red color, marxism-leninism prevailed
and revisionism could not raise its head.
The 7th Congress
in 1935 was of particular transcendence due to the circumstances of the moment
and the challenges it faced. This important Congress had to answer to new and
far-reaching problems in the midst of a difficult and complex situation.
The 7th Congress
established the tactic of World Antifascist Front and People’s Front to defend
the dictatorship of the proletariat and develop the proletarian revolution
while combating the counterrevolutionary offensive of fascism. With that, for
the first time in the history of the ICM the international proletariat and the
people’s masses of the whole world could e united under the same flag, the same
policy, the same plan and under the same leadership, with a single combating
army, providing shape for Lenin’s task of working as a true war machine for the
World Revolution.
Under his leadership, hundreds of millions of masses
have risen as a great torrent of steel against fascism, for revolution and in
defense of the USSR. The Chinese revolution stands out, which changed the
correlation of forces in the struggle against imperialism and the reaction
worldwide, favoring socialism and the proletariat and oppressed peoples.
Under the leadership of the Third International, in
dozens of countries, not only in Europe but also in Asia, the communists
carried out heroic armed struggles as guerrilla warfare, like in the Spanish
Civil War. In those countries in which revolution could not triumph, the cause
for that was principally because there were no sufficiently mature and prepared
communist parties, based on marxism-leninism. Despite that, as history shows,
its struggle contributed to the defeat of fascism, and the communists have
shown to the whole world the communist high valor and heroism, not allowing the
morale of the class to be broken.
By applying the resolutions of the 7th Congress,
the CPCh, led by Chairman Mao, knew how to carry out the Front policy specified
to the necessities of Revolution in China, applying independence and
self-decision, defeating Japanese fascism and continuing with the liberation
war until seizing power in the whole country, defeating the local ruling
classes and their imperialist masters and completing the revolution of a New
Democracy, uninterruptedly going into socialist revolution. The creative
application of marxism-leninism and the line established by the 7th Congress
to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution led to the development of a
more comprehensive and complete understanding of united front and fully
developing the military theory of the proletariat: People’s War.
The problems and deviations that took place in many
countries were principally the application, the main responsibility falls to
the communist parties, who are the responsible ones for the application of the
International line to their respective countries. Departing from what was put
forward by Chairman Mao, in order to establish a justified assessment of this
experience, it is necessary to draw a clear demarcation line between those who
were still within marxism from those who fell into revisionism, still in the
former group we need to differentiate the mistakes of principles from the
mistakes made within the practical work. Furthermore, Chairman Mao develops the
five laws of the united front and regarding the three fundamental instruments
of revolution and their interrelation.
In some countries like Italy and France, due to the
right opportunist positions at the leadership of the communist parties, after
carrying out armed struggle of heroic resistance against Nazi-fascism, these
parties moved away from the orientations of the CI and the fundamental
principles of marxism-leninism, their leadership capitulated before their
bourgeoisie while centering in the defense of the demo-liberal regime and
betrayed revolution, degenerating into a most extreme and rotten revisionism.
At a world level, under the leadership of comrade
Stalin, the Antifascist Front was brilliantly applied, the center was the
defense of the dictatorship of the proletariat represented by the USSR. Through
that, the dictatorship of the proletariat faced fascism and World Revolution
advanced. The victory of the antifascist war was a victory of socialism, a
victory of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world
over imperialism and world reaction, a victory of marxism-leninism over revisionism.
Whith the victory of the antifascist war, the
imperialist camp was weakened and the proletarian revolution grew stronger.
Thanks to the glorious role of the red army and the wars of resistance,
revolution has expanded through Eastern Europe and Central Europe reaching part
of Germany, thus increasing the socialist camp. Remarkably, with the victory of
the Chinese revolution in 1949, the correlation of forces between revolution
and counterrevolution at the international arena changed in favor of world
Revolution, which advanced into the stage of strategic stalemate, a powerful
socialist camp and a powerful movement of national liberation in the colonies
and semi-colonies emerged.
This is why we consider that the 7th Congress
was an important marxist-leninist congress that armed the proletariat with a
justified and correct political line to fight fascism and advance with the
World Proletarian Revolution.
Although the Communist International and comrade
Stalin made some mistakes on the course, the problems of grave deviations and
betrayals were caused by revisionism in the leadership of those parties and
that cannot be credited to comrade Stalin, the CPSU or the Communist
International.
When gleaning the history of the ICM and the
Proletarian Revolution, we see that comrade Stalin knew how to firmly and
ingeniously apply, in the midst of a complex and difficult situation, the
definition of Lenin of true proletarian internationalism and to subject the
particular and national interests to the interests of the international
proletariat as a whole, putting the defense of the World Proletarian Revolution
and the cause of communism in first place.
In 1943, the CI self-dissolved and the ICM entered a
period of relative dispersion, which was principally generated by the splittist
and treacherous action of contemporary revisionism. Modern or contemporary
revisionism was a counter-current represented by Browder, Tito, Togliatti,
Thorez and principal Khrushchev and the infamous 20th Congress
of the CPSU where the his clique usurped the leadership of the CPSU,
degenerating it into a revisionist party and destroying the dictatorship of the
proletariat, undermining the basic principles of the unity of the International
Communist Movement.
The task of the communists to unify at world level,
after the Second World War and the death of comrade Stalin, is done in a fierce
struggle against contemporary revisionism, in which Chairman Mao rises as a
growing Great Leadership of the World Revolution.
In 1957 and 1960, two international conferences of
communist parties and worker’s parties take place in Moscow. The declarations
of these conferences correspond to the development of the two line struggle in
the ICM at that moment, considering the big weight that the CPSU had, and reflected
the correct handling of the struggle done by the left led by Chairman Mao and
the CPCh, applying the principle of acting with reason, advantage and not
exceeding.
The 22nd Congress
of the CPSU was held in 1961, it was systematized the positions of modern
revisionism in it. Chairman Mao, leading the Communist Party of China, defined
the essence of new revisionism, which he systematize in the “three peacefuls” and the “two wholes”. Khrushchev distorted
Lenin’s thesis of peaceful coexistence which differentiates the relations
between states from those within the states, to put forward a “peaceful coexistence” as a
general line for the International Communist Movement. For Khrushchev, the
problem was to avoid war because, according to him, the atomic weapons did not
distinguish exploited from exploiters, which was why men had to join each other
in order to prevent disappearance of humanity. The “peaceful transition” put
forward that revolution did not need revolutionary violence, but one could
replace a social system with another through the “peaceful
way”, through elections, through parliamentarism. As for the “peaceful emulation”they defended
that in order to destroy the imperialist system, the socialist system should
make an emulation to show the imperialists that the socialist system was
superior and thus the imperialist would change into socialism. The revisionist
thesis of the “state of the whole
people” was meant to deny the class character of the state
and was concretely against the dictatorship of the proletariat. The “party of the whole people” in
another machination that denied the class character of the Party as a Party of
the proletariat. Thus, Khrushchev advocated that the 22nd Congress
of the CPSU was the new program of the communists and substituted the Communist
Manifesto with the bourgeois lemma of “liberty”, “equality” and “fraternity”. The Manifesto is the
program of the communists and its denial has sparked and sharpened the struggle
between marxism and revisionism.
On June 14, 1963, the “Proposition
on the General Line of the International Communist Movement”, also
known as the “Chinese Letter”,
followed by “The 9 Comments”,
in which Chairman Mao and the CPCh brilliantly unmasked and smashed
contemporary revisionism in all its facets.
Only with the deep demarcation produced by the Great Polemic, led by Chairman Mao and
the Communist Party of China, the International Communist Movement was able to
raise the process of reunification around the Great Leadership of Chairman Mao
and his contributions to the World Proletarian Revolution.
Chairman Mao developed this struggle simultaneously to
the struggle against the right opportunist line within the CPCh which had
usurped important apparatuses of the Party and the state.
Chairman Mao and the CPCh considered that, in such
circumstances, it was not adequate to conform a new Communist International
because the ideological and political basis, which should be
marxism-leninism-mao tsetung thought then, was not defined. Particularly the
Worker’s Party of Albania, led by Enver Hoxha, did not accept mao tsetung
thought and wanted an international solely based on marxism-leninism, without
considering the new development that it had, because essentially Hoxha was
opposed to mao tsetung thought.
With the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in
Chine, the influence of Chairman Mao increasingly develops throughout the
world. The CPCh centers in very urgent problems such as recovering power in the
People’s Republic of China from the revisionist usurpation of Liu Siao-chi and
Teng Siao-ping, and on how to continue revolution under the dictatorship of the
proletariat. On that way, within the national and international class struggle
against revisionism, Chairman Mao is converted into the great master of the
proletariat and into Great Leader of the World Revolution and his thought turns
into the third stage of marxism, even though the struggle for its definition
and acknowledgment would only be given later. The UMIC is a step of great importance
in that same path.
Chairman Mao dies on September 1976 and the Chinese
revisionists made a counterrevolutionary coup attacking Chairman Mao and his
thought. Thus, the unity of the marxists entered in grave and complex problems.
With the death of Chairman Mao and the revisionist usurpation in China by Teng
and his accomplices, we communists became dispersed in the world, without a
center nor a base for the World Revolution; counterrevolution has shown its
claws to deny Chairman Mao and the validity of Marxism-leninism-mao tsetung
thought and unleashed the triple revisionist attack of Teng Siao-ping (Chinese
revisionism), Hoxha (Albanian revisionism) and Brezhnev (Russian revisionism).
The counterrevolutionary coup in China 1976 opened a
new period of deep dispersion in the ICM, on which a general
counterrevolutionary offensive was unleashed by Yankee imperialism that
centrally and mainly centered its attack to snatch the soul of revolution – its
ideology, marxism-leninism-maoism, principally maoism.
On the Fall of 1980, thirteen communist parties and
organizations signed a declaration “To the
marxist-leninists, the workers and the oppressed of all countries” which
called the communists to unite around marxism-leninism and uphold Chairman Mao,
but not considering it a new stage, thus not having universal validity, a work
that was mainly conducted by the Revolutionary Communist Party of USA.
In 1984, its 2nd Conference
was held, it decided on founding the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
(RIM). In its founding declaration, it was affirmed that it was guided by
marxism-leninism-mao tsetung thought.
The RIM meant a step forward in the path of
reunification, this is why it is necessary to make a correct and justified
evaluation of this experience. For that, it is necessary to analyze the process
of the two line struggle within the RIM and the role that each party played.
Like all revolutionary body, the left, center and right were defined within the
development of the two line struggle in its core.
In the decade of 1980, the Communist Party of Peru
(PCP), under the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, upheld, defended and
applied maoism as the third, new and superior stage of marxism in the
International Communist Movement. The principal contribution of Chairman
Gonzalo to the International Communist Movement was having defined maoism in a
complete and scientific way by upholding, defending and applying it with the
initiation and development of the People’s War in Peru which was initiated in
May 17, 1980. This event was of fundamental importance for the World
Proletarian Revolution and the International communist Movement because it has
proven the validity of maoism and the People’s War. After its heroic fall on
September 11, 2021, murdered after resisting for 29 years in absolute isolation
regime in the dungeons of imperialism and the reaction, his name was
permanently inscribed at the gallery of the great titans of the international
proletariat.
Through the action of the PCP within the RIM, it went
as far as acknowledging maoism as a new stage of marxism in 1993.
The RIM lasted a little more than 20 years from its
foundation in 1984 until it went into liquidation in 2006 by the treason of
Prachanda to the People’s War in Nepal and the pretension of the RCPUSA of
making this body be subjected to the revisionist “new synthesis” of Avakian.
Its formal dissolution was made in 2012. its existence reflected the two line
struggle in the International Communist Movement. The RIM served the world
proletarian revolution and the task of struggling for the reunification of the
communists when the left, in hard struggle, was able to maintain the struggle
for imposing maoism as the sole command and guide of the world revolution at
its core.
However, with the arrest of Chairman Gonzalo in 1992
and soon after the blows suffered by the People’s War in Peru – which have
hindered the action of the left within the ICM – the RCPUSA converging with the
right opportunist line, revisionist and capitulationist (ROL), took advantage
of the complex situation to attack the left and advance on his petty hegemonism
– first spreading the revisionist, opposed to marxism-leninism-maoism,
so-called “new synthesis” in a hidden form, then openly.
The RIM was entering into greater lack of cohesion. This
was aggravated when the RCPUSA with Avakian at its head, in partnership with
Prachanda, in collusion and contend, after publishing the Declaration: For a Century of People’s Wars from
RIM (2000), they started to deny it and both of them fell into
path of revisionism increasing their attacks against maoism, in the following
years, the contend for the hegemony between both revisionist currents and
figures, not only in the RIM but at the level of the whole ICM, also the
ideological, political and organizational dis-cohesion of the RIM was
sharpening. Finally, the revisionist hegemonist positions were imposed in the
Committee if the RIM. As a consequence, the RIM ceased to play a positive role
and degenerated, entering bankruptcy and liquidation.
Today, when a New Great Wave of the World Proletarian
Revolution is produced in the world with the ongoing People’s Wars in India,
Peru, Turkey and the Philippines, and its preparation in many other countries,
with the heroic struggles of national resistance and people’s resistance around
the whole world emerge, when the general crisis of imperialism and its drowning
are hugely intensified., it is necessary and urgent to raise the two line
struggle at the core of the ICM to a superior level in order to establish and develop
its necessary, justified and correct General Political Line and to strengthen
this New Great Wave through the spark of revolution with People’s War in many
countries and further advances wherever they are already being waged, as well
as in the antiimperialist revolutionary movement under the hegemony of the
proletariat.
This is why it is necessary to deepen the ideological
and political struggle on the basis of the justified and correct assessment of
the historical experience of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of
the proletariat in general. An assessment that particularly synthesizes the
experience of the application of the third stage of marxism, which is maoism.
The struggle to impose marxism-leninism-maoism,
principally maoism as the command and guide of the world revolution is long,
complex and difficult. Marxism has never advanced without a hard struggle, but
in the end maoism is guiding the New Great Wave of the World Proletarian
Revolution that has already started and needs to be impulsed in order to sweep
away imperialism and the reaction from the face of earth through People’s war,
in order to carry out democratic revolutions, socialist revolutions and
proletarian cultural revolutions – according to each case – and transit toward
the shining and golden communism.
It is particularly necessary to keep deepening the
struggle against the new revisionism, in its different expressions, because
although they were unmasked and smashed in the ICM, they still have influence
through the right and “left” opportunist positions, centrist positions,
liquidationist positions, etc. and they harm the unity of the ICM as a whole
because they are the main danger to the ICM.
5. WE ASSUME THE FOLLOWING BASIC PRINCIPLES
* The Contradiction – sole fundamental law of the
incessant transformation of eternal matter;
* The masses make history and rebellion is justified;
* Class struggle, dictatorship of the proletariat and
proletarian internationalism;
* Integration of the universal truth of
marxism-leninism-maoism with the concrete practice of revolution on each
country;
* The necessity of the marxist-leninist-maoist
Communist Party that firmly apply independence, self-decision and
self-reliance;
* Inseparably and implacably combat imperialism,
revisionism and the reaction;
* Conquest and defend power with People’s War;
* Two line struggle as an impulsing force for party
development;
* Constant ideological transformation and always
putting politics at the command;
* Serve the people and the world proletarian
revolution;
* Absolute selflessness and justified and correct
style of work;
* Going against the tide.
The 1st Unified Maoist International
Conference is a base and inexorably marches toward the reunification of the
communists in the ICM – a war machine – a machine of combat that raises the
unfading flags of marxism-leninism-maoism and the invincible People’s War!!
Coordinating Committee for the Unified Maoist International Conference (CUMIC)