-November 7, 1917 according to our calendar, October 25 in the Julian calendar then in force in Russia-
With the triumph of the October Revolution, 1917, led by Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, an extraordinary milestone in world history is marked, the end of the bourgeois revolution and the beginning of the world proletarian revolution. This new era marked by the empowerment of violence expresses the expiration of the bourgeoisie to lead the revolution and the maturity of the proletariat to take, direct and maintain the Power of the dictatorship of the proletariat; within which the revolutions of oppressed nations are also framed.
Lenin develops Marxism and elevates it to a second stage, Marxism-Leninism. He did this in a hard fight against the old revisionism. Revisionism is revising Marxist principles by invoking new circumstances. Lenin said that revisionism is the advance of the bourgeoisie in the ranks of the proletariat and that to fight against imperialism we must fight against revisionism because they are two sides of the same coin. Lenin highlights that revisionism aims to divide the trade union and political movement of the proletariat and that it generates the split of socialism.
In this certain and implacable fight against revisionism, Lenin also proposes, at the juncture of the First World War, to convert the imperialist war into a revolutionary war, unmasking the old revisionists as social-patriots; He tells us that in times of revolution we must create new organizations, since the reaction hits legal organizations and we must set up clandestine apparatuses even for mass work. Then, he captured the October Revolution with the Communist Party and through insurrection.
From 1914 to 1918 the world was shaken by World War I, the "imperialist war of plunder" that, with the treacherous support of old revisionism, launched the working class and the people of some powers against others for the benefit of a division of the world by the imperialist powers and their monopolistic bourgeoisies. But as Lenin foresaw, the war incubated the revolution and in 1917 the Bolshevik Party through armed insurrection overthrew the power of the tsarists of old Russia; Thus, with the October Revolution, a new stage opened for humanity, that of the construction of socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat led by the Communist Party, the New Era.
The experience of the Russian Soviets was the continuation and development of the experience of the Paris Commune. The principles of the Commune, expounded more than once by C. Marx and F. Engels and enriched by Lenin with the new experience of the revolution in Russia, for the first time became a reality in one sixth of the globe. Marx pointed out with absolute justice: The principles of the Commune are eternal and cannot be destroyed.
The imperialist wolves, trying to suffocate the new State of the Soviets, colluded with the counterrevolutionary forces of Russia at that time and carried out an armed intervention. However, the heroic Russian working class and the people of the different nationalities of the Soviet Union expelled these foreign bandits, liquidated the counterrevolutionary uprisings in the country and thereby consolidated the first great socialist Republic in the world.
Fulfilling the scientific predictions of Marx and Engels, the October Road established general norms for the emancipation of the working class: the need for a Communist Party to lead the revolution, the need for revolutionary violence to overthrow the old established order and the need to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat to build socialism and march towards the future classless society. What Marx and Engels taught, Marxism in a word, was endorsed as an incontrovertible reality.
The October Revolution had repercussions throughout the world. Europe was shaken to its foundations and the proletariat set out to conquer power; The struggles of Germany, Italy and Hungary are examples, but although the masses were ripe for the revolution, the communist parties essential for its leadership were lacking and fascism was generated.
The repercussion was not only European, the October Revolution promoted the anti-imperialist colonial movement; The East went into convulsion, constituting the Chinese Revolution "the most extensive and profound sign of Asia's awakening." Our own America developed anti-imperialist struggle and the working class, reaching maturity, generated its own communist parties and acquired political weight.
Stalin will continue the work of Lenin and in the process of building socialism in the USSR he will fight against the deviations of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev that conclude in 1937; It took a 13-year struggle and it is false that he resolved things administratively. We assume Chairman Mao's position on Comrade Stalin's role that 70% is positive. After his death, Khrushchev's revisionist coup took place and the restoration of capitalism in the USSR.
What is the issue here? The continuation of "the antagonistic struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, between the socialist and capitalist paths, and between socialism and capitalism." Lenin, what had he said? That once the dictatorship of the proletariat was established, the bloody and bloodless class struggle continued. Chairman Mao, taking into account what he said about classes, is going to present to us the fundamental law of socialism, the foundation of the general political line, which is why they call it the fundamental political line.
Chairman Mao Tsetung: "He points out that the law of unity and the struggle of opposites, which is a universal law of nature and human society, also governs socialist society. In socialist society, after the crowning of the socialist transformation of ownership over the means of production, class contradictions continue to exist and the class struggle has not been extinguished. Throughout the entire stage of socialism, the struggle between the socialist and capitalist paths develops. In order to To ensure the construction of socialism and prevent the restoration of capitalism, it is necessary to carry out the socialist revolution to the end on the fronts. political, economic, ideological and cultural. The definitive victory of Socialism will not be achieved in one or two generations; the solution This problem requires five or ten generations, and even
an even longer time.
What is the problem? The problem is that there is antagonistic class struggle, it is not defined who will defeat whom; Historically, yes, we know that the proletariat will win, but politically, concretely, practically it is an arduous contest, a fierce socialism-capitalism contest. Chairman Mao, taking into account the experience of the USSR and the interrupted development of the democratic revolution to the socialist revolution, the development of the class struggle in socialism, which begins to refer more and more to the temporal length of the class struggle and socialism. The President is going to be more and more clear when he asks us this, that the process is going to be long; That is why at the end of his life, he is going to tell us to prepare for five hundred or a thousand years to reach communism. This means that after imperialism and reaction have been swept from the face of the earth and they are not yet swept away, all the real construction will begin in a fierce socialism-capitalism contest, for how long?, and then communism will only come.
The revolution in Russia and China have shown us how the revolution occurs within a process of restoration and counter-restoration (a contradiction with two aspects). No class takes power all at once but restoration occurs; Therefore, it must work hard to counter-restore, until finally the class is established in Power. On this path the proletariat has already crossed the greatest distance.
The experiences of restoration in the USSR and China leave us great lessons, both positive and negative; They do not deny the common goal of all humanity, they only show the long and complex process of the march to communism.
What we have to see is how the Power of dictatorship of the proletariat is established and advances and there are undeniable advances: 1871, Commune, ephemeral, but Commune, new Power, dictatorship of the Proletariat for the first time materialized on Earth; 1905, the Soviets; 1917, 1949, 1966.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China represents a milestone in the development of the dictatorship of the proletariat towards the consolidation of the proletariat in Power. What has been its realization?: Revolutionary Committees, a development of how to further develop and advance the dictatorship of the proletariat. These are steps in the development of the Power of the proletariat towards the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be said to be definitive, its establishment for a long historical stretch until the definitive leap to communism is made, there it will become extinct as it has been masterfully established by Engels, that term is extraordinary, it is extinct! This word is irreplaceable, no other can be used.
Draw lessons and see the course of how the class advances to its establishment, how the dictatorship of the proletariat advances to its establishment, how the vanguard of the proletariat advances in leading the revolution throughout the world: restoration-counter-restoration law and the steps taken, the advancement of the class.
Against all expression of: historical pessimism! There is the firmness of the class, there is the incontrovertible historical course towards communism, who is going to stop it? nobody!.
BLOG NOTE: This celebratory note has been prepared by the MPP, based on party documentation. We comply with publishing it.