-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.
