On the necessity of the ''INITIATIVE of Communist and Workers’ Parties''
Το κείμενο αυτό γράφτηκε με
αφορμή την συνεδρίαση της 9μελούς Γραμματείας της ‘Πρωτοβουλίας Κομμουνιστικών και Εργατικών
Κομμάτων για τη μελέτη και επεξεργασία των ευρωπαϊκών ζητημάτων και το
συντονισμό της δράσης τους’,
που πραγματοποιήθηκε τη Δευτέρα. Αναφέρεται στην αναγκαιότητα και τη σημασία αυτής
της ΠΡΩΤΟΒΟΥΛΙΑΣ. Επιλέξαμε να δημοσιεύσουμε αυτό το κείμενο στα αγγλικά επειδή
είναι διεθνές θέμα και αφορά την κοινή στρατηγική των Κομμουνιστικών και
Εργατικών Κομμάτων.
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On the occasion of the meeting of the 9 member
Secretariat of the ‘INITIATIVE of Communist and Workers’ Parties’ on January
27, we are writing on the necessary existence of Communist Parties and of the
INITIATIVE in the context of the European Union. Let us begin this elaboration
with the elementary Marxian thesis that there is one fundamental division
within society. One can either be with the working class, or with the Capital.
And there is only one position in relation to this non-negotiable either/or
which entails struggle towards an indivisible, classless society. It is the
communist position that answers the aforementioned dilemma without hesitation:
with the working class. The necessary road to an indivisible society, without
division into classes, without division into exploiters and exploited, goes
through the leadership of the working class and the organisation around its
vanguard party, through the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist
construction. The role of the communist party differs in each concrete
socio-historical period, but is always necessary and leads the way for the
movement.
The party is one, but it is also multiple. The
communist parties form concrete universalities functioning under the principle
of proletarian internationalism. The party leads the struggle of the conscious
working class but it also turns to the other communist parties and creates
lines of communication and coordination of activity. This practice is an
authentic communist practice which acquires special importance in the context
of the imperialist construction of the European Union. To show to the working
peoples of Europe the way out of the European Union through working class government;
this is the crucial role played by the ‘INITIATIVE of Communist and Workers’
Parties’. The ‘INITIATIVE’ coordinates the action of the communists parties
which regard the EU as the capital’s choice, which ‘promotes measures in favour
of the monopolies, the concentration and centralization of capital; it is
strengthening its characteristics as an imperialist economic, political and
military bloc opposed to the interests of the working class, the popular
strata; it intensifies armaments, authoritarianism, state repression, limiting
sovereign rights’[1].
The action of the parties-members of the INITIATIVE
is united in the vision of a society without exploitation of man from man,
without poverty, without social injustice, without imperialistic wars. The 29
communist and worker’s parties of Europe struggle towards this strategic goal,
towards a different Europe, not only in form but in substance as well. They
struggle for the dissolution of the imperialist construction that is the
European Union; for the overthrow of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and
the establishment of working class governments in the European states; for the
socialist construction; for an indivisible society, a communist society.
But why is the INITIATIVE of Communist Parties a
necessity in our current predicament? One can begin his answer to that question
by looking at the reactionary nature of the European Union under capitalism.
But this is not a new observation. As
Lenin wrote ‘On the Slogan for a United States of Europe’[2]
almost a century ago:
From the standpoint of the
economic conditions of imperialism—i.e., the export of capital arid the
division of the world by the “advanced” and “civilised” colonial powers—a
United States of Europe, under capitalism, is either impossible or reactionary.
[...]
A United States of
Europe under capitalism is tantamount to an agreement on the partition of
colonies. Under capitalism, however, no other basis and no other principle of
division are possible except force. [...] A United States of Europe is possible
as an agreement between the European capitalists ... but to what end?
Only for the purpose of jointly suppressing socialism in Europe.
The current socio-economic conditions are barely
different than the period when Lenin wrote these words. One cannot overlook the
fact that the European Union is an inter-state, imperialist union of the
monopolies. In the words of the Greek comrade Giorgos Marinos, ‘the EU has a
specific economic base; it is supported by the cooperation and merging of the
strength of the major business monopoly groups. Despite the contradictions that
manifest themselves in its ranks their basic criterion is their own interests,
and the control of the markets, and, consequently, they are against the peoples
and their rights’[3].
As a result, the reactionary nature of the EU is manifested in a
relentless manner during the current capitalist crisis. The devastating effects
of the capitalist crisis are felt all over the globe and -especially in the
context of the imperialist EU- the communist movement is obliged to acquire a
unified revolutionary strategy so as to overthrow the outdated capitalist system, which is
becoming continually more reactionary and dangerous. This obligation is
intrinsically linked to the struggle against opportunism and Eurocommunism.
As is well known, the false ideology of
Eurocommunism, along with the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union and the
other socialist countries, has inflicted great harm on the communist movement in
the last decades. In their programmatic declarations Eurocommunist and other
opportunist currents refer to socialism in a perverted manner, since their
political line negates the revolutionary path. The term socialism appears
deprived of its essence: without the working class power, the dictatorship of
the proletariat, without the socialization of the means of production and
central planning.
It is in this manner that the so called European
Left Party ‘which is forming networks all over the world with the funds of the
EU, is causing great damage to the communist movement; it is a vehicle that
promotes the strategy of the EU in the labour movement, it is inextricably
linked with social democracy and it must be dealt with in a strict
ideological-political way. Its core consists of forces which celebrated the
overthrow of socialism, forces which in the framework of anticommunism identify
themselves with various bourgeois and other reactionary forces in the name of
‘anti-Stalinism’’[4].
Its reactionary character is evident by its
ideological position towards the current capitalist crisis. Eurocommunist
parties approach the capitalist crisis as a ‘crisis of neo-liberalism’, a
‘financial crisis’. ‘These approaches are limited to incriminating a form of
capitalism’s management, exonerating the social-democratic, neo-Keynesian
management, the capitalist system itself’[5]. These are opportunist
positions that disorient the labour and people’s movement.
On the contrary it is the
historical task of the Communist Party in this predicament to struggle towards
the regroupment of the labour movement. The working class and its vanguard party have to
be in the front of the formation of the People’s Alliance. The People’s Alliance
expresses the interests of the working class, the semi-proletarians, the self
employed and the poor farmers, the young people and the women of the poor
popular strata in the struggle against the monopolies and capitalist ownership,
against the assimilation of the country into the imperialist unions. The
People’s Alliance is a social alliance and struggles in terms of the movement,
following a line of rupture and overthrow. It adopts the socialization of the concentrated means of production, the
central planning, and the workers’-social control. The formation of the
People’s Alliance under the leadership of the working class is a necessity because the struggle for the disengagement
from the EU is linked with the struggle against the power of the monopolies and
the struggle of the working class and its allies, for working class- people’s
power.
For all the above reasons, the existence of the Communist
Party, the existence of a Party which applies in its praxis the principles of
Marxism-Leninism is necessitated. It is necessitated primarily by the main
contradiction on which the capitalist society is based. The existence of the
Party is necessitated by the class struggle, by the historical task of the
proletariat that depends on the concrete socio-historical condition. What is
more, this necessity is universal, since the class struggle has its own laws
which are founded on the -fundamental and universal- contradiction between
capital and labour. For this reason the Communist Party in each country has the
obligation to study the specific situation, the development of capitalism, the
course of the sectors and the branches of economy, the changes in the
superstructure, the class and social structure in order to chart a
revolutionary strategy.
And the ‘INITIATIVE of Communist and Workers’
Parties’ is necessary in order to enhance the struggle against the imperialist
EU and, simultaneously, through the struggle of workers, to promote the single
alternative solution, of a Europe of peace, progress, and socialism. Europe’s
working classes and the other exploited strata of European countries, need a
powerful Communist Party; they need a Party founded on and guiding its actions
according to the principles of Marxism-Leninism; a Party to be on the vanguard
of the organisation of the struggle of the working class, to provide guidance
and inspiration with the vision for the new socialist society. A Party that
treats socialism not as a goal for the distant future, but as an issue of the
daily activity as its timeliness is highlighted by the torments of the peoples.
We will conclude this article with Lenin’s words from the aforementioned
intervention regarding the United States of Europe:
The abolition of
classes is impossible without a dictatorship of the oppressed class, of the
proletariat. A free union of nations in socialism is impossible without a more or
less prolonged and stubborn struggle of the socialist republics against the
backward states.
The European peoples will
only be liberated from the bonds of capitalist exploitation and the imperialist
unions when the working classes together with their allies carry out the
socialist revolution and move forwards to construct socialism-communism.
[1] Founding Declaration of the ‘INITIATIVE of Communist
and Workers’ Parties to study and elaborate European issues and to coordinate
their activity’
[2] Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 21, pp 339-343, Progress
Publishers
[3] Speech of Giorgos Marinos Member of the PB of the CC
of the KKE at the 15th International Meeting of Communist and Workers
[4] ibid
[5] ibid
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