May Day 2012 - To overcome the
crisis of capitalism,
proletarian revolution is the only solution!
“The conditions of bourgeois society are
too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie
get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of
productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the
more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way
for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means
whereby crises are prevented.
The weapons with which the bourgeoisie
felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.
But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the
weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men
who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians.”
Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1847
165 years after its writing, this quote remains relevant. It allows us to understand the situation in which the proletariat and the broad popular
masses in all countries find themselves, regardless of who leads the government:
they live under a concealed dictatorship, be it a bourgeois democratic or a brutal one.
The imperialist bourgeoisie is looking
for the maximum
rate of profit; it is using the crisis as a pretext to achieve
this objective by restructuring the system of production. Within this,
the ruling classes in the oppressed countries try to maintain and possibly
increase their share in the surplus. Such restructuring is affecting all countries; for
the working class and the masses, it means the delocalization of large industries:
plant closings, wage cuts, unemployment, debt, impoverishment, etc. But in the places where the new plants are to be opened, restructuring
means land grabs, expropriation of local farmers, frenzied exploitation,
poverty wages, destruction of the environment, etc.
The ruling classes use the state
apparatus to suppress the
proletariat’s struggles and prevent them and the masses from
revolting and organizing for
the revolution.
Everywhere, the State is more and more becoming
a police state
that brings the population under
surveillance, and repression.
Whether it is the “left” or right, no segment of the bourgeoisie has the capacity to solve the
crisis. The persistence of the crisis prepares the ground for fascism; fascism is
advancing in disguise. It is building step by step
through populist demagogy, relying on
the economic crisis. In due time, it
will show its true colors by
aggressively defending the
interests of finance capital. Meanwhile,
competition between the different
monopolist blocks raises the question of redivision of markets and therefore suggests new wars are on the horizon.
The class nature of the state is the central issue. The form it takes is only circumstantial. The primary purpose of the state is to serve
the interests of the ruling class, that is to say, those
of the imperialist bourgeoisie and/or of the comprador-bureaucrat
bourgeoisie and landlords in the oppressed nations —which is a
tiny minority compared to the
vast majority of men, women and
children who are facing exploitation worldwide.
Given the crisis, this is becoming
clearer to the masses. The central task of any revolution is to radically destroy the state apparatus and,
thereafter, to build on its ruins a new and radically different
state, with the objective of
building socialism as a means of transition to communism.
In other words, revolution is the only answer to the crisis!
Today, the proletariat and the masses
are struggling and rebelling in many
countries. These rebellions are expressed in different
and varying ways: through general strikes, by fighting against high prices, against layoffs,
for the right to work, against
the crushing of militant trade unions, for the right to
land, to protect the environment, through
occupation of housing and empty
land, youth rebellions
against police violence and a life without work, struggles of women, etc.
In the Arab countries, after the
uprisings that lacked a revolutionary leadership,
the ruling classes and imperialism are regaining
control of the situation in the
name of “democracy;” they are
enforcing the same rule of exploitation against the
people by opposing the
continuation of the revolutionary process. The protest movement’s focus is being diverted by imperialist
interventions, by reactionary forces, by secular or religious reformists crushed bloodily.
In the Arab oppressed countries, as well as in all the colonial and
semi-colonial countries, it has become more and more important to develop the
New Democratic Revolution, as part of the socialist revolution.
In the imperialist countries, the “Occupy”
movement is reflecting the massive
discontent of the people, but it does
not sufficiently challenge the system in its entirety.
These proletarian struggles and rebellions
are not revolutionary in and of themselves but they are a first step in the realization by the masses of the
necessity of revolution. However it is important to
unmask the path and illusions of a peaceful change, alternation, deceitful
elections.
Today’s communists (the Maoists) must participate in and gradually take the lead
of those struggles. They must build the revolutionary
force of the proletariat at the
ideological, political and organizational levels,
and especially the three essential tools of revolution: a Maoist Communist Party, a
revolutionary United Front, and an Armed Force,
according to the particular situation.
We must struggle against reformists, revisionists
and opportunists who lead the protest struggles with a conciliatory spirit in the existing trade
unions and mass organizations; they
only offer “solutions” within the
current capitalist and imperialist system, spreading the illusion among the masses that the electoral and peaceful path
may be a solution for the proletariat and the masses to overcome the crisis. They are an obstacle to
the expansion of class struggle and the organization of the working class and the masses for revolution.
Meanwhile, the reactionaries are using differences of origin, religion and racism to divide the proletariat,
the working class and the popular
masses, as a trick to preserve their power.
Everywhere we must popularize and support the people’s wars
currently being waged as spearhead
of the fight against the crisis of imperialism.
Led by the CPI (Maoist), the People’s
War in India is successfully
resisting attacks from the enemy
and is managing to expand and
grow. The People’s War is also unfolding
in the Philippines under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which upholds Maoism.
In Peru, it is
continuing despite the action from a liquidationist
current. In Turkey, the
revolutionary struggle led by the
Maoists is advancing in accordance with the people’s war strategy. In other countries,
new initiatives and advances are in
preparation.
We must fight in a situation of uneven development to end the capitalist system over the whole world and
build a new world free from exploitation, from peoples’ oppression and
deadly wars, for a socialist and
communist world.
We must work to rebuild the international organization of communists,
based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism;
we must apply MLM to the concrete
reality of today, to jointly
develop the struggle for revolution
and establishing a Communist International of a new type.
Long Live Internationalist May Day!
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!
Communist (Maoist) Party of
Afghanistan; Communist Party of India (M-L) [Naxalbari]; Maoist Communist Party
– France; Maoist Communist Party – Italy; Maoist Communist Party of Manipur;
Maoist Communist Party – Turkey/North-Kurdistan; Revolutionary Communist Party
– Canada; Founding Committee for the (Maoist) Communist Party, Austria; Maoist
Communist Movement, Tunisia; Maoist Communist Organization, Tunisia;
Marxist-Leninist-Maoists of Morocco; Organization of Workers of Afghanistan
(M-L-M); People Struggle Committee Manolo Bello, Galicia; Revolutionary Praxis,
UK
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