“Proletarians
of all countries, Unite!” Karl Marx
On
1st May 2018 - on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx,
and on the 170th anniversary of the first issue of Il Manifesto of
the Communist Party, written by Marx and Engels - is the great
opportunity to affirm their relevance and power, as living weapons of
the communists and the proletarians of yesterday, today and forever.
“The
history of every society that has existed so far is a history of
class struggle.”
“The
whole society splits into two great enemy camps, into two great
classes directly opposed: bourgeoisie and proletariat”.
“The
political power of the modern state is just a committee that
administers the common affairs of the entire bourgeois class.”
This
system produces continuous crises - the Manifesto writes - these are
crises of overproduction that are the manifestation of the fact that
“bourgeois relations have become too narrow to contain the wealth
that they themselves produce”.
How
does the bourgeoisie manage to overcome the crises? “On the one
hand through the forced destruction of a great quantity of productive
forces, for another with the conquest of new markets and more intense
exploitation of those already existing”.
But
this only prepares new and formidable crises.
But
the bourgeoisie has not only created the weapons that produce death
but also men who can use these weapons to put an end to their system.
“These
men - the Manifesto writes - are the modern workers, the
proletarians, who live until they find work and find work as long as
their work increases capital”.
“Of
all the classes that today are opposed to the bourgeoisie, only the
proletariat constitutes a truly revolutionary class; the other
classes are corrupted and perish and when they want to go back to the
previous privileges they are conservative and reactionary; when they
fall into the mass of the proletariat they are part of the
proletarian class struggle”.
“Only
one way can the proletarians seize the social productive forces,
which is to abolish the whole system of existing appropriation”.
“History,
therefore, becomes the history of the class struggle and this class
struggle is the more or less hidden 'civil war' that troubles current
society until the moment it explodes in an open revolution and the
proletariat establishes its domination with the violent overthrow of
the bourgeoisie”.
The
aim of the communists is clear and precise: the formation of the
proletariat in class, the overthrow of the bourgeois domination, the
conquest of political power by the proletariat.
The
task of the Communists is traced in an eternal and indispensable form
by the Manifesto, they “struggle to achieve the immediate aims and
interests of the working class, but in the present movement they
represent at the same time the future of the movement itself. They
work to awaken in the workers the conscience, as clear as possible,
of the hostile antagonism existing between the bourgeoisie and the
proletariat, so that the workers can convert into direct weapons
against the bourgeoisie the social and political conditions”.
“The
communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against
the existing social and political conditions and in all these
movements stress the question of the ownership of capital as a
fundamental problem”.
“The
Communists - today more than ever teach us Marx and Engels - disdain
to hide their opinions and their intentions and openly declare that
their objectives can be achieved through the violent overthrow of the
whole social order existing ... because the proletarians they have
nothing to lose but their chains and have a world to win”.
Capitalism,
analyzed by Marx, who has become imperialism in Lenin's development,
continues to go through a profound economic crisis and unload it on
the proletarians and peoples of the world.
They
speak of "recovery" but the only thing that resumes is the
race for profits, wealth and armaments.
For
the proletarians and the popular masses we have unemployment,
precariousness, exploitation and slavery, poverty, robbery of raw
materials and energy resources, devastation of the environment and
territories.
Against
this situation, proletarians and popular masses rebel in imperialist
countries as in the countries oppressed by imperialism.
To
the rebellions of the proletarians and the oppressed peoples, the
imperialist bourgeoisie and the ruling classes enslaved to them in
the countries oppressed by imperialism, oppose repression and
massacres. States go through always more reaction and fascism.
Proletarians
and peoples resist and develop their struggles and popular wars to
affirm the revolution as the main trend.
The
imperialist bourgeoisies and the reactionary states enslaved to them
intensify the inter-imperialist quarrels, unleash commercial and
through a third party wars, revive the tendency towards a new world
war of division.
To
the imperialist war one can only oppose the transformation of the
imperialist war into a revolutionary civil war and the development on
an international scale of popular wars.
Against
the way of the revolution is opposed within the workers' and popular
movement, the path of reformism, the path pursued by revisionists and
social democrats, to reconcile with governments and imperialist
states and to favor the realization of their plans.
In
front of the crisis of reformism, social democracy and revisionism,
new populist electoral forces that use reactionary demagogy to divide
the masses and take them to the chariot of the ruling classes are
advanced in the interest of the bourgeoisie and the imperialist
states. Populism fuels fascism and neo-Nazism.
Communists
and avant-garde proletarians work to turn the rebellion of the masses
into a victorious revolution, of New Democracy in the countries
oppressed by imperialism marching towards socialism, and in
proletarian and socialist revolutions in imperialist countries
marching towards communism. The communists, based on the ideas of
Marx, Lenin and Mao applied to the concrete reality of each country,
build and develop new genuine revolutionary communist parties, united
fronts directed by the proletariat of all the exploited and oppressed
masses, combat forces and revolutionary and popular armies.
Only
where the masses have these instruments, their heroic and generous
struggles can win.
On
a world scale, the popular wars led by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
parties are the decisive and essential strategic indication.
The
people's war in India, directly affecting one of the main bastions of
imperialism and reaction in the world, is a powerful reference point,
along with popular wars in the Philippines, Peru, Turkey. Today they
concretely show the way to overthrow the system of exploitation and
oppression of imperialism and of all reactionary reactionary forces,
for the construction of a new power and a new society.
The
mlm communists must unite and strengthen their unity, freeing the
ranks of the international communist movement from revisionist and
capitulationist tendencies, without at the same time falling into the
sterility of petty bourgeois revolutionism, of dogmatism.
The
construction of the communist parties is only possible in the fire of
the class struggle in close connection with the masses, as a function
of the authentic revolutionary struggle for power.
In
thr 200th
anniversary of the birth of K.MARX declare with force
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
is the Marxism of our age! The
essential basis for the unity of communists all over the world.
“Proletarians
of all countries, Unite!” the great slogan indicated by Marx, it is
the red flag of proletarian internationalism, it is the weapon for
the construction of a new Communist International.
The
future of communism is in our hands.
1 May 2018signatures – en english -
Committee for Building the Maoist Communist Party, Galicia, Spanish State
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
Communist Nucleus Nepal
Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist)
Democracy and Class Struggle, British State
Maoist Communist Party – Italy
Maoist Communist Party Manipur
Maoist Revolutionary League – Sri Lanka
Organisation de Travail Communiste – Tunisie
Parti des khadéhines – Tunisie
Revolutionary Communist Party - Canada
Union Obrera Comunista (MLM) – Colombia
Workers Voice – Malaysia
Communist Party of India (Maoist)*
*we cannot if the text arrives in India and when we know the reply
in all other years indian comrades sign the Joint Declaration
**the text has sent very late and it is possible that others signatures arrive after May Day
*** some organisations have made comments – these comments are published and sent in the
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