(On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China)
9
Lessons
For proletarian
parties until we achieve Socialism and Communism the ‘question of
power’ would be the key issue. The experience of Socialist
construction of China and the theories of Mao that directed it would
stand as invaluable knowledge for all future revolutions. Rejecting
the experience of Chinese Revolution in the phase of building
Socialism would inevitably lead to revisionist hegemony and
spontaneous growth of bourgeois economic system.
Mao developed the
theory regarding continuing revolution in the Socialist society, to
fight with modern revisionism and to avoid capitalist restoration.
This theory was applied in the GPCR. It continued for many years
until mistakes accumulated and rightists regained control. If we
highlight the positive aspects and rectify the negative aspects this
theory that Mao developed regarding Cultural Revolution would become
a great asset of knowledge depending on the fundamental principles
and methods to continue revolution.
However we are now
making New Democratic Revolution in India. But we have been
encouraging Cultural Revolution with secular, democratic and
scientific aspects. Proletarian revolutionary cadres with the
direction of Marxism-Leninism-Maoist theory would be the central part
of this great revolutionary collective process. Our Cultural
Revolution belongs to the kind of New Democracy. It is different from
the Socialist Cultural Revolution. It has been continuing from the
Naxalbari struggle. Regarding this matter our document ‘Strategy
and Tactics of Indian Revolution’ said thus –‘‘The people’s
democratic culture is an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal culture. It is
a heir to all the secular, genuine democratic, and scientific aspects
of the rich cultural heritage of the oppressed masses that are passed
on by history.
It is impossible to
arm the people ideologically, make them conscious and organise them
for the people’s war without the widest propaganda of people’s
democratic culture based on Maoism. As Mao said, “In overthrowing a
political power the first and regular task is to work in on the
ideological front and to create public opinion.” To overthrow the
exploiting classes and their state machinery, the first and foremost
task throughout the course of the new democratic revolution is to
wage ideological struggle and create public opinion in favour of
agrarian revolutionary war and the protracted people’s war.
Mao says,
revisionism is the main danger. Modern revisionism is one of the
chief enemies of MLM and the people’s democratic ideology and
revolution. The anti-imperialist anti-feudal revolutionary culture of
the people cannot be established without fighting against modern
revisionism. in this respect MLM is the strongest weapon in the fight
against modern revisionism.
Besides, in India,
feudal thinking is deep-rooted and is manifested in many ways,
particularly in casteist, biases against religious minorities,
religious narrow mindedness, communalism, untouchability, patriarchy,
and numerous other forms. The Party must educate the masses against
all such antidemocratic values and cultures and replace them with
those based on equality, self-respect, secularism, dignity of labour
and a proletarian class view-point.
For the success of
the Indian revolution the anti-imperialist and antifeudal cultural
front has to be organised and constantly strengthened. The people’s
democratic culture will be an inseparable part of the general
antiimperialist, anti-feudal revolutionary people’s democratic
front. One of the tasks of this cultural front is to educate the
workers, peasants and the toiling masses about the anti-imperialist
and anti-feudal agrarian revolutionary struggle and the protracted
people’s war.
The people’s
democratic state will take up the task of wiping out the imperialist
and feudal culture from all spheres of social science like economics,
politics, philosophy, military science, history, literature etc., and
in their place, establish the people’s democratic culture’’.
All the proletarian
parties of the world must take the following lessons to eliminate
Imperialism and achieve Socialism and Communism worldwide
1. We must organize
and strengthen proletarian dictatorship and strengthen it. We must
relentlessly continue revolution in the base and superstructure and
organize and prepare the masses ideologically and politically.
Proletarian party must definitely understand that the contradiction
between the proletariat and bourgeois class would be more intense
after the establishment of proletarian dictatorship than before it.
2. There must be
close vigilance on capitalist roaders. Diehards must be isolated. We
must destroy their every attempt to build bourgeois headquarters
inside the party. We must keep in mind that the degenerated
capitalist roaders in the party and the government would take up the
role of leadership very carefully to conduct counter revolution. This
section confuses the masses and organizes them favourable to counter
revolution.
3. Two line struggle
must be conducted inside the party without break. Cadres must be made
part of it on a broad basis. We must maintain close relations with
the masses. While conducting two line struggle we have to adopt the
‘unity-criticism (self-criticism)-unity’ method to unite with the
broad cadres and to isolate a few. 4. We must have high vigilance
while organizing the party. We must not let the bourgeois agents
settle. We must defeat their conspiracies.
5. Simultaneous with
the two line struggle on a broad basis, we must direct the masses
politically in dealing and distinguishing the two kinds of
contradictions and methods. Party must pay utmost attention to give
revolutionary direction to isolate the enemies and to identify with
the broad masses against the enemies. Party must make utmost efforts
to avoid complacency and weaknesses in dealing with contradiction in
the eadership. Bourgeois agents would utilize these to fool the
people, to divert them, to deviate the struggle in a wrong path and
to stop the process of organizing the party, government and the
revolutionary masses.
6. We must take up
many cultural revolutions. We must increase the participation of the
people in political power by developing new forms of organization. We
must pay attention to see that these forms of organization are
suitable. We must establish genuine ownership of the masses over
instruments of production.
7. We must provide
proletarian democracy through proper forums so that masses of all
sections openly express their ideas, views and criticisms.
8. All the forms of
right and ‘left’ wrong lines must be exposed, rejected and
defeated. While fighting against a wrong line we must be alert
towards another. The bourgeois agents would not only bring forth
rightist line but also the ‘leftist’ line, especially when the
revolutionary struggle takes the most severe form.
9. We must admit
mistakes before the people. We must encourage them to criticize
openly. By taking up this method repeatedly we must avoid bureaucracy
in the party and the government.
The world
proletariat, the oppressed nationalities and oppressed masses are
taking lessons from the failures in building Socialism. They would
continue revolution until the establishment of communism with doubled
confidence and dedication. The oppressed masses realizing in a fast
manner that in the ups and downs in the World Socialist Revolution
that advances through breaking the weakest links in the imperialist
chain and the New Democratic Revolution that follows the path of
Protracted People’s War, the defeats of the earlier Socialist
countries like Russia and China are only temporary. No power in the
world can stop the invincible trend that suggests the total collapse
of imperialism and the success of Socialism in near future. The
Twenty-first century is the century of revolutions. Masses would
certainly win through revolution.
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