1 May 2018
“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[i]. 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 2018
Signatures
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
Collective
of Iranian Maoist
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 next days.
[i] The Union Obrera Comunista (mlm) of
Colombia recognizes the existence of capitalist
oppressed countries where Socialist
Revolution assumes the task of destroying
the imperialist semi-colonial yoke.
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