Slackness in Ideological Struggle:
More than one and a half century has been elapsed since the bringing out of Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in 1848, innumerable ups and downs, turns and twists have taken place in terms of revolutions and counter revolutions the worldwide, so to say, from the establishment of epoch-making first socialist state in the USSR to New Democratic Revolution in China as well as the collapse of Revisionist Camp of former Soviet Union and East European countries along with occurrence of counter revolution and the restoration of capitalist roaders in china.
In Russia, commencing from Khrushchev and coming down to Gorbachev, the Soviet revisionism came to resort to its liquidation by abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the guiding principle of the party. In China, the Deng Clique introduced the bizarre theory of “one country two systems” and “whether the cat is black or white, it must catch the rat”.
Just after passing away of comrade Joseph Stalin in the USSR and Comrade Mao Zedong in China, the succeeding leadership deviated from Marxist-Leninist ideological path abandoning fundamentals of revolutionary communist movement such as upholding of dictatorship of proletariat, continuation of class struggle and use of force for seizure of power.
An overall theoretical and ideological struggle was carried out by Communist Party of China under the leadership of Comrade Mao Zedong against Soviet revisionism known as “Great Debate”. By then, the world communist movement saw its division into two camps leaning towards CPC and CPSU respectively.
There has been slackness in terms of ideological struggle against all forms of revision and deviation on the part of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries. Now, it is our urgent and topmost duty to uphold ideological and theoretical struggle to combat against all forms of revisionists and deviationists trends and elements.
Leadership Crisis:
Comrade Stalin and Comrade Mao played great role and provided leadership to move forward the world communist movement. But, Nikita Khrushchev, the proponent of revisionism usurped party leadership of CPSU right after demise of Stalin. Likewise, Huwa Guwa Feng, the middle roader, was elevated to the leadership of CPC by Mao himself proved so feeble and was easily superseded by Deng clique.
Comrades like, Chang Ching and Chan Chun Chuwao, the front runners during “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” were denied access from assuming leadership both in party and the state. Furthermore, they were arrested and imprisoned for life and passed away inside the bars.
Currently there is a dearth of established world leadership in the scene of International Communist Movement after the death of comrade Mao Zedong.
History and experiences have taught us lessons that genuine leadership and correct principle are important and prerequisites for accomplishing and continuation of revolution. But, leadership is all important before and after seizure of state power by the communists, because, such a leadership could come out successful to resolve the mistakes and weaknesses pertaining to theory and principle.
Personality Cult:
The culture of “personality cult” is prevalent within communist movement and communist parties as well and as a result of this culture the principle of collective leadership, one of the fundamentals of Leninist organizational principles is disregarded and overlooked to greater extent and caused harms to the movement.
Right and Left Deviations:
Communist movement has been suffering both from right and left deviations since the time of Marx and Engels. The Critique of Gotha Program by Marx/Engels is self- evident in this context. Communist parties, who adhered to correct Marxist-Leninist principles and played revolutionary role have deviated from right path time and again.
The Right deviation has been the serious threat for revolutionary communist movement. The main causes are due to its rejection and non-adherence to guiding principle (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism), dictatorship of proletariat, class struggle and two line struggle within party, use of force and armed struggle in the name of “creative application” of Marxism-Leninism.
The Left deviation can be deemed as ultra “left” one and its passion for a “prompt revolution”. And the main errors on its part are its blind replication and mechanical imitation of other “friendly” and “fraternal” parties.
Sectarianism:
Sectarian trend has been one of the problems within communist movement and parties that has led to unnecessary splits and divisions without any serious ideological differences. The result has been disintegration of Marxist-Leninist-Maoists parties and revolutionary forces and making their strength weaker and feeble.
Lack of Organizational Network:
After dissolution of Third International, there has always been absence of an international organizational network to bring Marxist-Leninist-Maoists revolutionary parties and organizations together the world over. Even comrade Mao could not move forward to form an international platform during his lifetime.
As there is a lack of such a common platform and dearth of forging solidarity among fraternal and friendly parties as well as exchanging ideas and experiences among them. That is why it is most urgent and need of hour to build an organizational network for the same.
Likewise, there is weakness in building cooperation in launching joint struggle and agitation based upon common programs and slogans in favor of the oppressed peoples and nations the world over.
The founding of RIM (Revolutionary Internationalist Movement) was an effort as an international forum. But, because of its erroneous policies and tendencies it could not come out successful to keep itself intact and is now almost non-existent.
Conclusion:
Communist movement has come across a long history of more than one and half centuries, and, we have seen, experienced and gone through many epoch making phenomena over this period of time. On the backdrop of all these phenomena, we should and must look at the things that where and how the successes have achieved and mistakes and weakness have committed as the movement went on.
At this juncture, even though, Communist Movement has been a global phenomenon and Communist Parties are in existence in several countries around the world (it is a known fact that more than one communist parties are in existence and functioning within a country too) and running their activities, however, they have not been capable of leading any victorious revolution.
We have to be effortful to maintain friendly and fraternal relationship among Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary parties and thereby move ahead to forge a principled unity for world revolution. We have labored to some extent to make this goal a success. Now, our utmost duty is to move forward by strengthening relationship both in theoretical and organizational fields to combat all sorts of no-revolutionary ideas and thoughts.
At the same time, we must be vigilant in terms of day-to-day world affairs and express our views upon such issues. Likewise, we must initiate theoretical discussions to make both retrospection and introspection of the failures and successes in the history of the communist movement to pave a righteous way in the time to come so that a favorable condition could be burgeon to constitute a common international platform and organization.
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