Political processes, even more so, the development of revolutions, have as fundamental factors the internal matters, which are specific events and interactions generated throughout history. However the international situation is also important, especially in the colonial and semi-colonial countries such as Peru, where the decisions and interests of the imperialist metropolis have a great impact.Therefore, it is important to analyze the internal factors of the country linked with factors resulting from the global interest of imperialism, especially Yankee Imperialism, and the remnants of Revisionism. This explains the need for revolutionary processes to consider both the internal and external factors, and develop a correct political line and ideology. This will be the basis for a clear strategy and favorable tactics. We have in our country, the best example of a genuine revolution in the People's War, led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), which goes on undefeated.
The same happens with those political collectives originated or inspired by imperialism and the revisionist ideology inherited from social imperialism. For them, the external factors (the interests of imperialist powers) have more relevance than the internal factors in the country. In the case of Peru, this explains the political behavior of the so-called "legal left" as a whole, including MRTA's armed revisionism that sings the tune of imperialism, as do the political sects representing the lyrics of the U.S. and the big bourgeoisie: Cambio 90, AP, APRA, PPC, UPP, etc.
The analysis of the following points is important to understand the restoration of capitalism in China and the former USSR:
THE RESTORATION OF CAPITALISM
- Restoration and counter restoration is the contradiction that solves the transit from a social state to another, such us from capitalism to socialism. While capitalism took two centuries to struggle with the old feudal system, from the first bourgeois republic in 1609 in Britain, then in Holland to the generalized triumph of capitalism, with the heroic French Revolution in 1789 and well into the 19th Century. Socialism in 74 years has confronted an unprecedent bourgeois reactionary assault that restored the dominion of the bourgeoisie in countries until then called socialists. Furthermore, today the imperialist powers and their theoretical apologists are screaming to "finish off" China, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam and other symbols of past victorious democratic revolutions and builders of socialism.
- The capitalist restoration in no way means eternal joy for the bourgeoisie. Just as the anti-feudal bourgeois revolutions in the beginning of capitalism, the current bourgeois machinations are strident intermittent maneuvers. They are essentially feeble in representing and incarnating the historical countercurrent of the laws that rule social development.
- Since 1917, the revolutionary processes led by their respective Communist parties, led to the conquest of power and the construction of socialism in more than 31 countries in this century. During that time, many counterrevolutionary acts schemed and financed by imperialism and the defeated bourgeoisie, took place. Their goal has always been to restore the bourgeois dictatorship under social democratic or fascist politics.
However, it was revisionism that first betrayed the construction of socialism and denied the validity of Marxism. The dictatorship of the proletariat was abandoned, the leadership became bourgeois such as in China and the USSR, and several dependent countries remained semicolonial under the rule of Soviet Social-Imperialism, which was an epitome of capitalist restoration.
- The technological development and capitalist accumulation, which is blown as "proof of the goodness of capitalism and the defeat of socialism," is cheap bourgeois propaganda trying to conceal that all the riches accumulated by society are produced by the sweat and blood of those exploited, by the super exploitation of the workers, today under the labels of "modernization," "globalization," and "liberalism." Under socialism of the dictatorship of the proletariat, accumulation did not have the character of private appropriation until the revisionist deviation enabled the defeated bourgeoisie to gradually regain its economic power, and reconquer political power, as it had occurred in the USSR from 1956 to 1991.
- The "new era of peace" propagated by imperialism, and upheld by revisionists everywhere as a disguise for their treachery and capitulation, is a complete farce. Petty revisionists in Latin America, for example, make ridiculous claims that "war had become obsolete," "the United Nations is our guarantor of peace," "humanity is poised to enter an unprecedented era of peace and civilized international relations," and "socialism through ballots not bullets," and other nonsense. To begin with, history has proven over and over again, that imperialism is unable to find peaceful solutions to its contradictions. Lenin's view of imperialism as inherently aggressive, bellicose, piratical, predatory, is even more truthful today. Imperialist military presence and aggression is present almost everywhere in the world.
If so far there is no world war it is not because the nature of imperialism has changed. It is because political forces capable of counterposing and inhibiting its war lust, has arisen. In the past, its contradictions with social imperialism and its nuclear capabilities had inhibited to launch it. Today it can be opposed with World People's War, because revolution is the main political tendency in today's world. Imperialism cannot launch a war without self-destructing at the same time.
- The "universal human values" and "human rights" hypocritically propagated by imperialism, and upheld by revisionism as "new thinking," is far from contemporary reality. For them, semi colonialism, colonialism and exploitative imperialist relations no longer exist. In reality, this imperialist "new thinking" preached by the variants of revisionism such us the "new left" or "democratic socialism," is an old reactionary rag uphold by the social democrats for more than a century and was defeated by the proletarian ideology.
- Revisionism has abandoned the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the name of "bourgeois democracy." This essential concept of Marxism has been forbidden a while ago from the programs of the fossilized revisionist groups in the world. In the United States, for example, the CPUSA and Workers World brag about being pioneers in eliminating it from their programs. Marx is clear in his "Critique of the Gotha Program" about the need of the dictatorship of the proletariat: "Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. A political transition also corresponds to the period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat." Marx also came to the conclusion that the state machine could not simply be taken over but had to be smashed, and that the proletariat had to establish a new state to suppress the resistance of the oppressors, to remove the teeth from these bloodsucker vampires and prevent capitalist restoration. Lenin saw the creation of the New Power: The Soviets, first in 1905, and then again in 1917. Chairman Mao developed Marxism to the highest level when he waged the Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution, under proletarian dictatorship, precisely to prevent and defeat the capitalist restoration in China. In Peru, in the late 1980's, Chairman Gonzalo saw the formation of spontaneous People's Committees organized by the masses, as the seeds of the New Power, under the leadership of the Party of the proletariat. He masterfully established the relationships between the Party, the New State, and the democratically elected representatives of the masses.
- Revisionism upholds "pluralism,"and "class conciliation" to oppose the dictatorship of the proletariat. Anyone familiar with the victory of the Soviet power, after years of intervention of fourteen foreign armies and the devastating but necessary "internal war," understand that such a victory was made possible only with the support of the masses. Every political party in Russia ganged up against the Bolsheviks, and allied themselves with imperialism, Tsarist Generals, the Mensheviks, Social Democrats, and Cadets. They carried out sabotage, slander, assassinations and armed attacks against the revolutionaries. Isn't that also happening today in Peru where all the reactionaries, including the revisionists are acting against the PCP? Who else can defend the workers and peasants if they don't organize themselves led by the party of the proletariat (PCP) and the People's Army? Every other "leftist party" has shown their true colors as enemies of the people, enemies of democracy. However, revisionism fails because revolution is the main political tendency in today's world, the supreme interest, the supreme democracy, and it is criminal to sacrifice the people's interest to bourgeois democratic interests of a purely formal character, in which reaction and revisionism participate to exploit and oppress the people.
- Revisionism betrays the national liberation movements around the world. We can see with our eyes the tragedy of Central America. Revisionism denies the existence of semicolonial ism, and semifeudalism. It deprecates the anti-imperialist struggle. It denies the class domination of the state. It opposes proletarian internationalism and defames the People's War as "terrorist."
- In The United States there are groups that propagate the slander of imperialism against Marxism. The first group is made up of counterrevolutionary Troskite sects (e.g., Socialist Workers Party) that yesterday played a key role in the propaganda war among the masses to discredit the socialist construction in the USSR until the death of Comrade Stalin. Today they play the putative role of "spokespersons" of the Yankee State Department to slander the People's War in Peru. The second group is made up of Yankee revisionists who like wolves in sheep's clothing pretend to uphold Marxism in words, but practice class conciliation and treason in deeds. They pretend to support revolutionary movements in the Third World not based on proletarian internationalism, but on their bourgeois interests. They are so sectareous that even compete among themselves about who has the "solidarity rights" on this or that struggle in any part of the world (while it sells), but do nothing to develop revolution in the Unites States. Those are groups utterly divorced from revolutionary struggle in their own country who repeat the slanders of the imperialist media to cast doubts about the PCP and its leadership. Such us the role of the RCP-USA and the counterintelligence sect MIM. Other groups organize reformist activities as are the so-called "fight back rallies" as electoral platforms for liberal and Democratic politicians and relief valves for the toiling masses. One of these groups is the Workers World (WW), whose ideological base is a blend of Trotskyism and revisionism. As President Gonzalo correctly teaches, they are the "colossal mountain of garbage" that we must swept out with an iron broom in order to advance the proletarian revolution in the belly of the beast.
WW claims to have the correct interpretation on Perestroika, China and even Linpiao. On Perestroika, WW states: "What's happening in the USSR, devastating as it may be to the workers and peasants, is still largely in the framework of the superstructure and is not sufficient to alter the class structure." Furthermore, "in order to restore capitalism it is necessary and indispensable to abolish the public ownership of the means of production." So, for Yankee revisionism there was not a capitalist restoration initiated by Khrushchev and concluded by Gorbachev. However, this is contradicted when they claim later, "the Khrushchev regime was generally recognized in the working class circles as a bourgeois form of the communist state." Putting aside the erroneous conception that there was "communism" in the former USSR or in any part of the world, it is correct to say that the Khrushchev's regime was bourgeois. But how is it possible that the class structure of the state did not change if the bourgeoisie was already in power? For WW, "public ownership" is synonymous to "socialism" regardless of what class has the state power. This denies the basic principle of Marxism that the central question is political power. In addition, to sustain the "inevitability of the maintenance of the socialist system" in the face of a counterrevolution in power, is to ignore that economic development is played out in history through political power. Socialism could not be developed nor maintained with the bourgeoisie in power. Inevitably, revisionism changed the political and economic foundations of the USSR that made the capitalist restoration possible.
The situation facing the former USSR and China today does not deny the revolutionary process, but it is a clear example of the struggle between restoration and counter restoration. Capitalist restoration was possible because of the ideas revisionism practiced in those countries: Socialism in words, imperialism in deeds, false Marxism, real fascism, and other bourgeois concepts reintroduced more openly since 1989. They are concepts based on an individualist conception and metaphysics that were defeated by the proletarian revolution in the past. These betrayed dictatorships of the proletariat, however, did not hold and develop until the goal of communism. This happened not because their juridical-political and social structures, production relations, new education and culture did not function, but because revisionism usurped the leadership of those states by abandoning, twisting, betraying Marxism, Socialism, and the revolution itself, and adopting a vilified version of the bourgeois ideology.
THE FALSE REFUTATION OF MARXISM From the view point of the philosophical conception and based on the objective reality, while the dictatorship of the proletariat prevailed in the USSR and China, the concrete programs to solve the people's problems and needs, were fully achieved. During that period, Marxism in fact refuted, defeated, and swept away the retrograde bourgeois conceptions in all its variants.
Bourgeois cannibalism defeated revisionism and its political dictatorships in the vitreous mass of countries called "Eastern Europe" under Soviet imperialist rule, after revisionism became completely repudiated by the masses. That's what imperialism calls "the victory of democracy." By then, revisionism had long reneged from the teachings of Lenin -the supreme democrat of the 20th century, that socialism cannot be built for people from top down, but must be built by the masses themselves led by the dictatorship of the proletariat. The capitalist alternative in Eastern Europe is there for all to see: unemployment, hunger, skyrocketing prices of the basic necessities, national chauvinism of murderous proportions, exploitation -and even the zombies from Eastern European monarchies are rising from their graves.
On the other hand, Marxism remains undefeated and victorious in the struggle of the Communists of the world, principally in the raging and victorious People's War in Peru guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, which is a superior answer to the reactionary world offensive. It is the great responsibility of the communists of the world, especially the Communist Party of Peru, to conquer power for the proletariat and the people.
When Gorbachev became the leader of Soviet Social Imperialism he spoke about the real ills ofthe country, but in deeds he stabbed the people in the back and genuinely served the interests of imperialism. For example, he stated that the reactionary monstrosities of "glasnost" and perestroika, had the goal of "incorporating the masses" into the process of socialist construction, from which they had been excluded after Stalin's death. He said that reviving Lenin's ideas on the role of the Soviets was the solution. Under this disguise, he sharpened his dictatorship through an all-powerful presidency that is still in place today under the imperialist dog Yeltsin. In reality, the real intention of "glasnost" was to unleash the forces of counterrevolution against the Soviet masses. THIRD WORLD REVISIONISTS
When Gorbachev was dismantling what little socialism remained in the former USSR, the Peruvian revisionists were showing their passionate support to Perestroika. Thus, the Jacobin Javier Diez Canseco, who claims to be "Leninist" and "Mariateguist," and who recently was taken by surprise at the Japanese Embassy while having drinks with diplomats and high-ranking military officers, said: "The extraordinary achievement of Perestroika is the link between socialism and democracy." The perennial father of Peruvian revisionism, Jorge del Prado, told his disciples of the "Unidad" group: "Perestroika, is the greatest historical pull of Leninism, which maintains the purity of proletarian ideology, while correcting the errors of Khrushchev and Brezhnev," whom they praised when they were in power. Rolando Bre¤a Pantoja of the group Patria Roja, Senator in the kangaroo Congress of Fujimori, emphasized: "The Perestroika process has the virtue of making many people and parties look again at Moscow," and "Socialism certainly produced a Stalin or a Ceaucescu, but it also produced a Lenin and a Gorbachev." That was the script of the ideological basis of revisionism, and with minor modifications, it is still today. With these ideas they compete in bourgeois electoral processes, and rightfully deserve the rejection of the people in each of them. All the revisionist groups combined (United Left, PUM, Patria Roja, Unidad) obtained less than 0.05% of those registered to vote in the presidential elections of 1995.
Just after Perestroika was publicized, President Gonzalo defined it as the "guarantee of capitalism and bourgeois democracy." Today, not even the bourgeois democracy survives.
The PCP said, economically, Perestroika represented the liquidation of the planned economy by the State, yielding to "free competition," and "supply and demand" of the market, determined not by social needs, but by the consumers' buying power. Thus, the corporate structure in the ex-USSR is centered in private enterprise. The owners determine the type of production and merchandise sent to the markets, including costs and profits chosen by themselves or foreign investors.
Politically and ideologically, Perestroika has formally "canceled" the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the Communist Party, and called for the development of the productive forces, rather than the deepening of the class struggle.
In Marxist terms, the myth of "unity" displaced the law of contradiction. In addition, the revolutionary history was cynically denied. It began by repeating classic imperialist slander such as "serious deviations of Lenin," and let us not say more about the "thousands of murders perpetrated by Stalin."
Similarly, this has happened in China following the death of President Mao, and the coup d'etat led by the renegade Deng and his accomplices who are now in power.
In order to debunk those who try to link socialism and bourgeois democracy, the PCP stated that "socialism is not, in and by itself, a democracy for all". Socialism is the democracy of the people, fundamentally of workers and peasants. It is the democratic option of the people in transit to Communism, at which point we can talk about democracy for all. Meanwhile, in a class society only democracy for a "given class" is possible.
In sum, the essence of the ideological make up of modern revisionism must be crushed along with the moribund bourgeois ideas of imperialism. Imperialism and revisionism are two sides of the same coin
. Peru People's Movement (MPP).