Make the 21st
century a century of establishing
Communism
worldwide.
--- by Anwar Kabir,
Secretary, Central Committee,
Proletarian Party of
Purbo Bangla (PBSP/Bangladesh)
The greatest achievement of the human race in
the modern era is the invention of the doctrine of scientific communism, which
in last century, has developed into Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. In last century,
this doctrine has changed the face of the earth again and again. The great
Russian revolution, the Chinese revolution and the Proletarian Cultural revolution
(GPCR) -- these three milestones have, on the one hand raised this doctrine into
MLM, similarly on the other, they have shown the instance of completely new
society throughout a large portion of the world, the society which is hint-carrier
of an ever shining future of the human race.
But unfortunately, it has
not been possible to continue this achievement of real life. When the world has
entered in the new century, the 21st century, then the whole
world-system is under imperialism. By winning over communism for the time
being, world imperialism has become more desperate for exploitation, plunder
& oppression of the world. On the one hand, under the leadership of
imperialist chieftain US,
they have initiated a new wave of unjust war against the world people. On the
other side, bargaining and split among themselves have again increased for
sharing out of the world. Especially the imperialist gang-leader the US has started
to advance towards facism by trampling down their own bourgeoisie democratic
system. Question has arose, whether this century will be beaten in rat-trap of
facism and unjust war by bringing about repitition of last century. And will
see helplessly in one hand, hoodwinking of so-called “modern” doctrine named as
democracy, and on the other hand, ----- of the scattered & vitiated
struggle of mediaeval religious ideology. Or, the world people, especially the
world proletariat class as the most advanced revolutionary class in the history,
will come forward again for establishing a new shining world and finally will
be successful to establish that ?
In the previous century
world imperialism has gone to death door again and again. But total collapse of
this crumbling imperialism has not occurred. Rather, by defeating the world proletarian
revolution temporarily, since 80’s of last century, it is showing the audacity
of bullying that communism is dead. The revolutionary force is still weak, though the potential of a genuine revolution,
able to uproot the imperialist system is huge in the context of the struggle, uprising and
waking up of the masses, oppressed and exploited by imperialism wordwide, and
in the context of the own crises of imperialism. In this situation, what will
be the role of MLM in 21st century, the doctrine which had enabled
to prove itself as the only one omnipotent & opposite revolutionary
doctrine to imperialism in last century ? How MLM will face this situation?
This question is bound to be raised in front of MLM-ists worldwide, and it is
bound to create debate around it. Because, after the grave setback of world
communist movement during the 70’s of last century, a long period of nearly three decades has passed away. And during this time, so many
changes have occurred in the world situation. The responsibility of MLM-ists is
to carry out this debate properly, and advance the revolutionary class
struggle; and through these, develop the
ideology of MLM further and establish it as fully enable to face the challenge
of 21st century.
An overall debate of this
type always touches the base of the doctrine of our class¾MLM. To get rid of the ongoing world system
and for uprooting that, how we will uphold the ideology of communism in 21st
century, and how we will develop¾ these are bound to come in
this discussion, research and debate. This question is inevidently related to
the question of effectiveness of the doctrine of communism.
The global ‘modern’
ideology, which is upheld in opposition to the ideology of communism, is the
doctrine of “Democracy”. It is a fact that illusion about democracy is sky-high. It
happened to develop in last century in the adverse situation after the setback
of communist movement. But it is also a fact that, Marxism had unveiled this
.... scientifically in the era of its emergence & through out the last
century it was done successfully. In addition, when the revolution fails, the
monsters raise their heads; and with this, increase ....... Still we have not
passed that period. So, there is necessity to understand again the doctrine of
communism against the doctrine of ‘democracy’. And this is one of the principal
tasks among all other roles of MLM in 21st century.
Marxism has taught us since
its inception that democracy is not universal, rather that is only applicable
among a specific class in all class divided society. There can not be democracy
for any class without the dictatorship over the opposite class. Such as,
bourgeoisie democracy is not possible without the dictatorship over the
proletariat class, and democracy of proletariat class is not possible without
carrying out dictatorship over bourgeoisie class. When there will be no need of
dictatorship, the world will enter into a classless society, i.e., communism,
and then talking about democracy will also be meaningless. So, the central
question of power is the question of dictatorship; the dictatorship of which
class over which opposite class. How will we make advancement in this
fundamental basis of communist ideology¾that question is bound to
knock at the doorstep of the world of doctrinal development. When the bright
possibility of establishing the state of proletariat class in the world has
arose again, then there is no doubt that this question will become an important
subject to be discussed among proletariat class and MLM-ists. We also will
centralize our discussion in this article on this very subject.
Actually the idea of
democracy is not of modern world, rather it has come from slave period.
Although this idea has got higher meaning and form by coming to bourgeoisie
era. Democracy was practiced in the administrative system in slave period in
ancient Rome
and Greece
too. The important institution ‘parliament’ of todays bourgeoisie democracy has
come from the practice of senate in slave society. That democracy was for slave
owners. There was far reaching to participate in it for slaves, even they were
not recognized fully as a part of human species.
Basically bourgeoisie
democracy is also the same thing. Bourgeoisie democracy is nothing but a means
to carry out power of modern exploiting class. Undoubtedly, universal suffrage
is an important constituent of bourgeoisie democracy in the present era. But in
the beginning it was not present in democracy in many places. Even half of the
population of the society, suffrage of woman also was recognized after a long
period in different times in different countries in bourgeoisie democracy.
So, which should be
established very firmly at the very beginning, is that, in present world, what
is meant by democracy is bourgeoisie democracy. And the actual meaning of this
becomes clear only when its character is realized and unveiled as bourgeoisie
dictatorship. Bourgeoisie democracy can’t exist without carrying out
dictatorship over the working class and mass-people.
Ideology of communism upholds
the politics of dictatorship of the proletariat class on contrary of this
bourgeoisie dictatorship. Specific characteristics of this dictatorship is : it
is the dictatorship of majority over minority first in history. Previously this
was opposite. And this dictatorship is only a bridge in the road to advancing
the human race into a classless society, that means abolition of all types of
class dictatorship, state system and state power. So, proletarian dictatorship
can’t be without arming with the ideology of establishing classless society
worldwide, i.e., the doctrine of communism. Likewise, doctrine of communism
can’t be established without going
through proletarian dictatorship.
It is very urgent to uphold
much more strongly our communist doctrine in 21st century. And it is
necessary to unveil the bourgeoisie doctrine of democracy more & more. But
the question is that, when dictatorship and democracy¾ these two are shown as controversial and
separate subjects, then is it not the bourgeoisie class, which get the chance
to show itself as a real democratic ? Whereas, in reality, democracy is very
much profound & broad for proletariat class and masses under proletarian
dictatorship ? Can't we fight '‘bourgeoisie democracy'’ with '‘proletarian
democracy’ ? And isn’t that more correct politically & tactically ?
Firstly, certainly we can
& must hold high that proletarian democracy is a very much broad democracy.
We must show how bourgeoisie democracy protect the interest of 10% and
basically execute their power. And socialism, on the contrary, represents
90%.
But, we can’t ultimately establish our theory
related to power, state and ‘democracy’ in the realm of doctrine, if we do not
expose scientifically the bourgeoisie explanation of democracy ¾ that democracy is universal. And we can’t
prepare the people for the capture and execution of their power by rectifying
their ..... and illusion. Limiting ourselves only in opposing their bogus
democracy by our real democracy, or tactics of defeating the enemy with their
weapons ¾ these fail to enter into
the essence of the debate in this field. That essence is that, democracy is
only one aspect of dictatorship. The dangerous political aspect of this is,
proletariat class and the people will be less conscious about the execution of
their own dictatorship over the bourgeoisie class, and as a result, that will
fail.
So, the main thing is not to
raise the slogan of democracy against dictatorship, rather, how proletarian
dictatorship can be executed more properly. Other related aspect of this is,
how democracy among the proletariat class and masses can be practised more
properly. These two are two aspects of a single system, and certainly both of
these have their own specific problems. But in class-divided society the
problem of dictatorship is the essence of power. For that very reason, we see
that, facism and bourgeoisie democracy is the same in essence, i.e, bourgeoisie
dictatorship¾although there are some
important differences between these two in the method of execution of power.
And this is more important in socialism, because, young socialism has to
survive and advance by struggling against the force of the whole imperialist
world system; and as socialism is a transitional period, numerous bourgeoisie
relations exist here in all the fields including economic-political-cultural
fields, and from these new bourgeoisie emerge in every moment. So, the question
of dictatorship in socialism is many times more important than in capitalist
society, and if it is not taken this way, setback is inevitable.
* By entering
into 21st century, it will bound to be, and in the mean time it has
already become, important in world communist movement the subject of summation
of the experiences of socialism, i.e., proletarian dictatorship in last
century. These revolutions had been defeated after advancing to some extent.
Certainly the world wide enemies of socialism were very strong; but for
evaluating this defeat correctly, serious importance in the summation of errors
and mistakes from our own side is needed. Anyway, this summation should be done
by standing on the fundamental doctrinal base, with the help of that, and
through this process again, the development of doctrine will have to be
occurred. Through combination with bourgeoisie doctrine, our ideology is not
developed, rather, damage is done, which under appropriate condition can bring
burden some setback. So, first of all, cautions is needed regarding this.
21st
century will become a most important period in the history of human race.
Imperialism is proceeding through varieties of crises from the beginning,
although it lasted through out the past century. It is digging its own grave by
its own activities, although it got temporary victory against communism. Its
‘war against terrorism’ has made people worldwide hostile to it from the very
beginning of this century. Besides, globalization and travelling towards facism
-- these programs and policies against the people of the world have unveiled
its character day by day. Imperialism may launch even a new inter-imperialist
world war just for its own law. But that will be more dangerous for them than
the result of last century. Consciousness, anti-unjust war attitude,
acceleration & broad flow of information and technology ¾all these will make their destruction very
speedy.
In this
situation, though the revolutionary politics and the spread of the doctrine of
communism are still weak in the world arena, but the People’s Wars of
Nepal-India-Philipine-Peru, the prospect of people’s war in
Turkey-Iran-Afganistan-Bangladesh-Bhutan, and the development of Maoist
movement within the USA
are adding new dimensions in the current world situation. In this way,
emergence of a new revolutionary wave is being evident ¾ in the mean time its peak is coming into
visible in the South Asian region, especially in Nepal.
Under this condition, a lot of
outstanding(?) incidents will occur in the world situation of 21st
century with very speedy motion. That has been already proved widely within
first 5 years of this century. Its speed will increase more. The present
development of human race in the realm of thought and technology can not carry
on such an ugly and dirty system for long. So many people’s wars will be built
up throughout the world during the first half of 21st century.
Despite setback and fall in some cases, many people’s wars will win, and will build socialism. Despite
some setback and restoration of capitalism, many numbers of socialism will
advance by taking the vision of communism worldwide. The fate of 21st
century will be establishment of communism worldwide. At least proletariat
class should advance with this perspective. So, the slogan of communism should
be raised much more strongly and in global mode in this century than the last
one & half century. And for that the MLM should be taken as the basis, and
it should be defended very firmly.
* It has been
mentioned earlier that it is certainly necessary to sum up the past experiences
of proletarian dictatorship, when in a country of this world i.e., in Nepal,
proletariat class has reached near to give shape of the dream of capturing
state power again. Not only that, the possibility of revolution throughout a
very big area, inhabited by over half a billion people covering many states of
huge India, including neighbouring Bhutan and Bangladesh is growing speedily.
Hence, the question of dictatorship of the proletariat should be taken in hand
very firmly.
Although huge
and great achievements were made in building socialism in Russia under
Stalin, fundamental ideological and political mistakes had also occurred there.
Later on, Mao corrected these errors. He launched GPCR in China, and
newer & higher experiences were achieved in conducting proletarian
dictatorship. These enriched our theory in a wide scale and raised it to MLM.
After long 3
decades, world proletariat class should not confine themselves in the above
mentioned past experiences in a probable new socialism, rather that should be
crossed(?). Especially, it is necessary to review the experiences of defeat in China by giving
attention seriously. How this dictatorship can be exercised more properly¾that should be taken as a fundamental
problem. Serious parties and prominent leaderships of the international
proletariat are already paying attention torwards this problem and this needs
to be developed more.
State will die
away in socialism¾the meaning of this is not
that state will have to be died away through the weakening of socialist state
and dictatorship. Its result will be opposite. Bourgeoisie class (bourgeoisie
within the party, inside the country and of international arena) will be able
to uproot the weak proletarian dictatorship easily; and they will establish not
weak but very strong bourgeoisie dictatorship. In the context of present world
situation, proletarian dictatorship and state is bound to stay in strategic
defensive stage for a long period¾if we want to divide the
process of world revolution into three stages, as the three stages of people’s
war mentioned by Mao. When the future socialist bloc and socialist system
against the world imperialist system will advance along the stage of strategic
offensive, crossing the stage of equilibrium and will advance by taking in hand
the immediate program of worldwide communism with certainity, only then the
question of dieying away of dictatorship and states through out the world will
come ahead. The meaning of dieying away of state is entering into classless
society i.e., communism, in which all the mankind will enter, otherwise none
will. That will be a separate stage of world revolution. We cannot settle the
entire things about that just now.
For that reason,
restoration of capitalism in socialist societies, can be prevented only by
strengthening socialism i.e., proletarian dictatorship and proletarian state.
And in this way, it is possible to advance the mission of world wide communism
by protecting and developing socialism against world imperialism.
But proletarian
state and dictatorship is not only opposite to bourgeoisie in its class
interest, but this should be basically different from bourgeoisie state in case
of form and method also. So, making strong the proletarian dictatorship and
state do not mean making strong bureaucracy and standing army isolated from the
masses in a straitlineway. In Stalinist Russia this type of deviation did
weaken the proletarian dictatorship, rather making it strong, because, they
were the bourgeoisie relations which became strong by it. So, how to make
strong the proletarian dictatorship by keeping harmony with its proletarian
character and communist mission, that is a big subject of research, discussion
and debate. During GPCR the Chinese proletariat class, under the leadership of
Mao, had built up many “socialist new things” in this field. All these things
should be developed. And step by step all these should be theorized also. Only
in this way, our doctrine can be developed more.
So, the
proletariat class and MLM-ists should take in hand the responsibility with
courage to develop the theory of proletarian dictatorship to face the challenge
of 21st century.
* Some more
questions and debates of fundamental importance are already posed in front of
MLM-ists. The target of this article is not to discuss in details on all of
those subjects. But those subjects can be presented in short.
The discussion
about dynamics of imperialism is specially important in this sphere. We are
engaged in proletarian revolution within imperialist world system. So, success
of this revolution is dependant on unveiling & realizing the laws of
imperialism. Great Lenin had established Marxist theory about imperialism
hundred years ago. But huge experiences has been achieved during the last 100
years about the laws and dynamics of imperialism --- Correct summation of these
is necessary. Mao indeed had made some important evaluations in this field. But
there is necessity to understand more clearly the laws of imperialism. A series
of serious political line¾problems like crisis of
imperialism, revolutionary situation especially in imperialist countries,
principal contradiction in world arena, socio-economic change in 3rd
world countries, strategy of revolution, building of revolutionary Soviet in
adjacent countries, development of tactical line in utilizing contradictions
among the enemies etc are related to this problem. The problem of correct handling of the
contradiction between the two¾i.e., the revolution in one
country and proletarian internationalism in imperialist world system is also
related to this. There are different opinions in international communist
movement on these subjects. For the solution of those differences in opinion,
MLM should have to be developed. And for this, the debate among the MLM-ists
should have to be developed.
This internal
struggle among Maoists should have to be conducted healthily. Because unhealthy
debate and struggle ultimately help no other than the enemy. Just now, we
cannot say whether our MLM-ist ideology must be raised to its fourth stage of
development, or not, to face the challenge of 21st century. But in
the mean time some fundamental questions and debates have already arisen.
Genuine MLM-ists must face these in the developing world situation by
developing their doctrine, not only by supporting their past experiences and
dogmatist utterance of theories. But in this case, one should establish very
firmly some initial things. Such as, the internationalist character of the
ideology of establishing of communism worldwide by uprooting world imperialist
system. From this arises the fact that this ideology can be developed only
globally.
One cannot oppose theoretically the matter of development of
MLM to its 4th, 5th ...... & in this way to newer
& higher stages. But the important thing is that in the era of much
developed ‘globalized’ world, this development can occur through joint efforts
of Maoist revolutionaries from different corners of the world. In this case the
different revolutions of the world is capable of make contributions in
different fields. Maoists throughout the world can develop the doctrine in
higher stage by incorporating and synthesizing these contributions. This is now
important, because, there is an unity-centre of world Maoists, i.e. RIM, which
is taking advance the task of forming a new type of international. So, in future,
what will be the name of our ideology (how we will call it), that question may
arise also as a real question. However, that is the problem of future, not so
near. But at present the necessity is to identify the political and ideological
line-questions of research, discussion & debate, and develop our political
& ideological line by basing on revolutionary struggles and developing
healthy debate. We hope that, international proletariat class will be able to
develop ownself along this path under the leadership of its valuable global
organization ‘RIM’. Only in this way, it will be possible to make MLM effective
and fruitful in 21st century, which will be a period of turbulent
and most radical change in the history of human race and the whole human race
will enter into a new world. When the human race will enter proudly in the era
of a qualitatively newer struggle in a classless-exploitationless communist
world, and a real civilization and modern life will be initiated.
¾ September,
’05.
Dear
Comrades,
Lal
Salam.
This
is our article for the journal.
We
are not sure whether it will meet the necesity of the plan regarding the
journal. We do not know the total plan . Time was very sort. At the same time
the translation is not good. But we have no other alternative. So, we are
requesting you to check the translation. Even you can re-write some sentences,
& correct the gramatic mistakes, not changing the essence of the subject.
We are sending a Bangla version of this article to SAOP. If possible, you can
re-translate it by the help of saop. Please let us know what is being done
regarding the article.
With
Communist greetings,
International
Bureau,
Central
Committee,
PBSP.
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