Proletarians
of all Countries, unite!
Contribution of the
Editorial Staff of Class Position
Dear Comrades,
Dear Friends,
in the name of the
Editorial Staff of Class Position we welcome this seminary on
occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the struggles in 1968. We salute the efforts of the
maoist Communist Party of France and proletari communisti to organize
this activity and warmly extend our revolutionary greetings to the
various international delegations.
50 years ago, turmoil that
swept over Europe sparking fierce mass struggles and, later on, a
raising of the level in the application of revolutionary violence.
For it is an important discussion within the International Communist
Movement and we were particularly asked to do so, our contribution is
aimed to elaborate on the question of revolutionary violence in its
highest form, that is to say People’s War. The struggle to uphold
defend and apply marxism-leninism-maoism on this matter in the FRG
has recently advanced, as a lengthy document on this matter was
published by the Editorial Staff of Class Position to develop critics
towards hoxhaist misconceptions within the revolutionary movement. We
consider it of utmost importance to impose Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
principally Maoism, as the sole guidance and command of the
International Communist Movement on the path of the Proletarian World
Revolution. Any doubts or revisionist deviations aimed at distorting
the nature of People's War must be exposed and firmly cast aside.
The founders of our
Ideology, Marx and Engels, analysed that since the emergence of class
society violence has been “the midwife of every old society
pregnant with a new one.” and that “The working classes would
have to conquer the right to emancipate themselves on the
battlefield” And Engels further stated that “The emancipation of
the proletariat, too, will have its particular military expression,
it will give rise to a specific, new method of warfare. Cela est
clair.” the omnipotence of revolutionary violence is crystal clear
as Chairman Mao states that Political power grows out of the barrel
of a gun.
No Communist Party in an
imperialist country has ever waged People’s War. For those who are
planning to initiate People’s War in an imperialist country, we
have to first grasp, what we are actually talking about. There can be
made no advance in the application of the People’s War if there
remains uncertainty about its aspects and principles. In the end, if
you do not establish what People’s War is, how will you apply it?
Hence, to develop a cohesive comprehension of this matter, we base
ourself on the experience and developments of the Communist Party of
Peru, who contributed in systematising and clarifying the
universality of People’s War. The People’s War is the military
theory of the international proletariat; in it are summarized, for
the first time in a systematic and complete form, the theoretical and
practical experience of the struggles, military actions, and
liberation wars waged by the proletariat, and the prolonged
experience of the people’s armed struggle and especially of the
incessant wars in China. It is waged to gain victory in the
new-democratic, socialist and cultural revolution; for the conquest
of power. It is lead by the vanguard of the proletariat, the
militarized Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
principally Maoism in the respective country.
We have to concretize
that, that means developing approaches to a military line, what,
above all, has to be driven by the reconstituted Communist Party in
this country. The military line is the law that determines People's
War for the conquest and the maintenance of power. It consists of
three elements:
1. The People‘s War,
which in our specific case isn’t a unified People‘s War, because
the New Power will only be built in the cities, while at the
countryside only operational points will happen.
2. The construction of the
revolutionary armed forces, which in our specific case is a Red
Guerrilla Army, with the special feature of the incorporation of the
militias to advance to the sea of armed masses.
3. The strategy and
tactics expressed by the enemy's encircling and extermination
campaigns and our counter-operations of encirclement and
annihilation, which must be specified by the application of political
and military plans. Those have political strategy and military
strategy, they concretize in campaigns with specific content.
Many a time we heard
that People’s War would not be applicable in the imperialist
countries for one reason or another. But no evidence for this has yet
been presented. Instead, a look at the four fundamental aspects of
People’s War and their concretization for the Peruvian reality made
by the CPP shows that they are also very valid for the reality in the
imperialist countries, if one not attempts to mechanically copy them.
The Communist Party of
Peru writes:
“1) The ideology
of the proletariat, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism that must be specified in
a guiding thought—therefore we base ourselves on
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, primarily the latter;
2) The need for the
Communist Party of Peru that leads the People’s War;
3) The Pe0ple’s War is
specified as a peasant war that follows the road of surrounding the
cities from the countryside; and
4) Support Bases or the
New Power, the construction of the Support Bases, which is the
essence of the path of surrounding the cities from the countryside.”
Applying the essence of
these four vital characteristics, for the situation in the
imperialist countries once can determine:
1. Apply Maoism! The need
for a creative application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally
Maoism, (today with the contributions of the Chairman Gonzalo,
Gonzalo Thought) on the specific conditions, developing specific
ideas for a specific country.
2. The leadership of the
Communist Party, a militarized Communist Party.
3. People‘s War is war
of the masses.
4. Establishment of the
New Power. The main aspect of the revolutionary war. We have to
destroy the enemy to create the new. Generate solutions to the
problems that change reality.
1. Hence, to
understand the universal character of People’s War, the questions
of the Ideology, the Party, the role of the masses and the New Power
must be further discussed.
The question of
ideology ranks first, because only through the consistent application
of the ideology of our class the way to victory of the proletarian
revolution is secured. Thereby, the important thing is the
application to the existing conditions of the respective country.
While for the parties in the oppressed nations the democratic
revolution is on the agenda, for us in the imperialist countries it
is the socialist revolution. But that doesn’t imply that there is
an ideology for the oppressed nations and one for the imperialist.
The proletariat is a worldwide class and therefore has only one
ideology.
By applying our ideology
to the class struggle in a specific, a guiding thought that
systematizes the laws of the class struggle of the country, is
evolved. We can see in history that even if the Communists had a
program and a general political line and excellent conditions for the
development of the revolution, they failed to live up to their
responsibility to the proletariat and peoples of the world, because
they didn’t solve the specific problems of the revolution in the
respective country by going beyond the general forms. There is a very
significant example in Germany, where the leadership of the — by
that time - second largest Communist Party in the world, with its own
clandestine and highly developed military apparatus, didn’t go
beyond the genera guidelines of the Communist International and
didn’t creatively use Marxism to solve new problems. So it failed
to initiate and maintain the revolutionary armed struggle.
2. The question of the
party is the question of the organization of our class. It unites the
best children of our class. The party must always carry the rifles,
never repent, otherwise the revolution gets lost. Every member of the
Communist Party must be a combatant and must be able to lead the
revolutionary war in practice and theory.
When talking about a
militarized Communist Party we also have to understand the meaning of
the concept of militarization. The militarization of the party
describes the amount of all adjustments and accommodations that must
be made in order to be able to lead the People's War under all
conditions. In this regard, “the concentric construction of the
three instruments of the Party and in synthesis it is summarized in
what Chairman Gonzalo teaches: “The Party is the axis of
everything, it leads the three instruments in an all-round way, its
own construction, it absolutely leads the army and the new State as a
joint dictatorship aiming toward the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Before the initiation of
the People's War, everything serves to initiate it, and when it is
initiated, everything serves to develop it. Likewise, in the
imperialist nations. The Marxist-Leninist-Maoists in the imperialist
nations do not wait for the People‘s War in the oppressed nations.
The Marxist- Leninist-Maoists develop revolutionary practice in
perspective of the People‘s War in their Country, putting
proletarian internationalism always in the first place to serve the
world revolution.
3. People‘s War is a war
of the masses and there are masses in the imperialist countries, too.
In the oppressed nations, mainly poor peasants under the leadership
of the proletariat, are the main force of the revolution. In our
situation in the imperialist countries, this is the proletariat, and
especially its deepest and widest masses, being the main force of the
revolution, on which we must rely. It’s not the question of
encircling the cities from the country here, but of urban work, while
paying attention to the difference between large, medium and small
cities.
In the People’s War the
popular masses are the decisive factor and if there are comrades
armed with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, then the
problem of weapons can be solved quite simply. “The Masses are the
Makers of History” isn’t an empty mantra, in the revolutionary
war it very clearly becomes reality. The question of whether or not
the revolutionary war can exist in the imperialist countries is a
question of the politicization, mobilization, organization and arming
of the masses. Only with the support of the masses will the army, led
by the Party, be able to wage and perpetuate the revolutionary war.
There is enough evidence and experience of the international
proletariat and peoples of the world, proving that it’s possible to
conduct revolutionary war in the imperialist and urban areas, that
it’s possible to carry out armed actions in cities for a long time.
The rich and numerous
experiences of the partisans during the Second World War especially
in France and Italy, with the struggles developed for example by the
Groups of Patriot Action under the leadership of the Communist Party
of Italy, show how armed actions in cities can be developed for a
long time.
So the question is, how do
the masses win, how do the masses organize? This leads us to the
problem of the "three with". This means that the communists
must live, work and fight with the deepest and broadest masses. Every
communist must have the opportunity at their home area to connect
with the masses, to participate in their struggles and to provide to
their struggles with orientation, to show direction. Everywhere they
have to promote the initiative of the masses. To realize the "three
with" means to actually apply the principle of dedicating the
whole life of the Revolution. Who really implements the "three
with", knows that the deepest and widest masses are much more
the single mothers on the outskirts than the young men with pit bull
in the neighborhood. \/Vho really implements the "three with"
knows that building a proletarian feminist mass organization is much
more important than a rap video with masculine poses. Who really
implements the "three with", builds no youth gang, but the
party, the army and the front. For the masses, the communists must be
normal. It must be normal for the masses to see the red flag wave
and the hammer and sickle glint.
“Each class has
always brought forth its own form of waging war, and its own
strategy. And always, the superior strategy has defeated the inferior
strategy, and the new class always has the superior strategy and
that's what people's war is. There is evidence to prove this. There
are military analysts who put it like this: communists, when they
have applied their principles, have never lost a war; they have only
lost wars when they have not applied their principles.”
4. Areas of the New Power
or base areas aren’t synonymous with a "liberated area"
in the sense that the reaction is no longer able to enter these
areas. It’s the question of the fluidity of the People‘s War,
it’s not about conquering and holding territories, but about
establishing forms of the New Power, so to regulate the lives of the
people.
During the People's War,
the revolutionary forces destroy the living power of the enemy
following the basic principal to preserve one‘s own forces and
destroy the enemy forces. Where the enemy was decisively defeated,
the New Power is built with the revolutionary army as its backbone to
destroy the old power.
You can’t destroy the
enemy without building your own strength out of inferiority and
building the New Power. In the contradiction of construction (with
its core, the new power) and destruction (of the old state) the
construction is the main issue! The construction of the New Power is
therefore the heart of the People‘s War. If one handles this
contradiction correctly, then the People‘s War is invincible,
because the objective conditions are on the side of the people.
In the imperialist
countries it can be assumed that, above all, this work must
concentrate on the proletarian neighbourhoods of the cities. If in
such a neighborhood the work has developed so far that one begins to
regulate the life in the quarter and to make the life of the masses
as good as possible, that does not mean that the old state was
smashed. Here it is necessary to mobilize the masses and to create a
movement. Otherwise there is the danger of becoming a complement to
the old state and developing social work.
We hope the this brief
summation of the article in Class Position issue 15"‘ is
helpful to develop the debate on this issue and hope the comrades
study the document in question. Also, we welcome every criticism on
it.
There is one important
limitation in our article. We do not expand more specifically upon
our investigation and analysis of the armed struggle in Germany and
the armed struggles in Europe.
And this, of cause, is a
strong limitation for the article. We will let all the comrades know
through the proper channels what we have advanced in this regard.
We also take this
opportunity to invite all comrade to participate in the great
international celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of
Karl Marx witch will take place in Bremen on the upcoming weekend. It
will be a celebration with delegations from many countries in Europe
and the world, revolutionary music and cultural contributions. Thank
you comrades for the opportunity to participate in this celebration.
We conclude by saying:
Unite under Maoism!
Death to revisionisml
Alé nuveaux
partisan! / Forward the New Partisans!
Editorial Staff of Class
Position
June 2018
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