How Communists Today Can Again Take the Road Towards a Socialist Revolution, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Building of Socialism and the Building of Communism

First of all we want to thank very sincerely comrade Michael Lucas, all the comrades of the glorious Canadian Friends of Soviet People, the International Council who have organized this Second World Congress. Please accept my sincere regret to all of you Canadian friends whose Friendship House suffered such damage that had to be repaired in time for holding this Congress after the arson fire to this historical and magnificent Friendship House. I also would like to thank you Canadian comrades for the hospitality that you are giving to all the delegates gathered here.

Over the centuries the working class yearned to build and new humanized and egalitarian society, which would raise mankind to a higher dignity of thinking and superior to all other species that inhabit this planet of ours. That society would be a Socialist society and that would be followed by a Communist society. The struggle between the working class and the exploiters was always there and violent, but the ruling class was always able to squash the unrests and rule over them as before. That is until the master thinkers of the international proletariat, Marx and Engels, through the science of historical and dialectic materialism and the analyses of the exploitation process and the capitalist accumulation of profit, elaborated and resolved the process from literary, idealistic and utopian socialism to a scientific one, by delivering into the hands of the proletariat the new weapons of struggle for the final victory – the dictatorship of the proletariat and the building of socialism.

Marx and Engels understood the experienced of the First and the Second Communist International and the debate in the working class movement of the intellectuals of the left, that if revisionism is not defeated, Socialism on earth cannot be built. They devoted their life and energies to unmask and defeat revisionism. Lenin and Stalin gathered all that information and continued this struggle and their victory meant also the victory of building of the Bolshevik Party, of the glorious October Revolution and the first experience of mankind in building socialism in the Twentieth Century.

Revisionism is generated by the idealistic bourgeois, egotistic exhibitionists and opportunism, which revels itself politically in the parliamentary struggles and reformism, which in actual situation works against the working class. It is also against the democratic centralism in the Communist parties and building a mass base. This movement supports the status quo an is totally opposes the revolutionary and strategy of Communists in the struggle to gain political power.

The revisionists have been guilty of delay and defeat of important revolutionary processes in the twentieth century – the degeneration of many communist parties born from the Third International. They performed despicable deceit and lies in many countries of the world. The history of the Communist movements will one day will try and condemn these revisionists and hurl them into sewers of history, together with their supporter, capitalism.

The Communists cannot think again of the renewal of the revolutionary struggle for Socialism without settling accounts with this political trash, the ballast and the mud of revisionism, as also the despicable reformism. When we speak of Communists, we speak only of those who are consistent with the revolutionary theory and struggle and who have shown that they fought and condemned these elements in the workers movements.

With regard to the idealistic bigots – components of revisionism, it is necessary to point out that its supporters in the former USSR and in other former socialist countries have obstructed by all means the difficult work of the Bolsheviks in the communist parties. These elements fought Stalin all the way by sabotage, degrading the building of socialism, especially collectivization. We know by practical experience that socialism is built only by realizing and following the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

Revisionism includes Maoism also, which is simply a deviation of Marxism-Leninism and therefore it is a component of revisionism of recent times. The world of Maoism does not form at all "the third and superior order of Marxism-Leninism" as some Maoist organizations assert. The ownership of property and of the means of production remains one of the main clashes of opinions between Maoists and Marxist-Leninists.

During 1960s and 1970s practically all of the revisionist parties were infiltrated by Maoist theories and eventually came back to the service of capitalism. The capitalist states support these deviation parties handsomely.

The 20th Khrushchev revisionist congress of the CPSU in 1956 ratified the alteration course from collectivization to that of privatization of the various sectors of the economy and thus back to capitalism. The historical role of the CPSU ended as soon as comrade Stalin died by criminal means of revisionism and thus we see the logical consequences of this revisionism.

At present, the slender forces of Marxism-Leninism, the only ones which do work for a socialist perspective, are practically crushed and besieged by the preponderant superiority of the revisionist and opportunistic forces.

Every year in the world there are held Communist Seminars and Meetings, but unfortunately most of them are conditioned by revisionism. Marxists-Leninists need their own International Forum also. The Belgian Workers Party organizes each year these Seminars. Unfortunately our Party was not allowed to participate, the reason stated was that the political position we wanted to present was not suitable to take part in the Conference… we wanted to present a document on the "Building of a Bolshevik Party." Our party leadership feels that from these Belgian Seminars there cannot emerge a Marxist-Leninist platform, because it is a sounding platform for many revisionist parties and groupings.

The rebuilding of the Third International should make the political work of the Third International of Lenin and Stalin include their devastating criticism and unmasking of all revisionists. Our party is available only for this political course!

Giving birth to a revised Third International would require a central office, a printed organ that would spread the message far and wide as did Lenin's Iskra.

Comrades – in front of us and of the future generations is a difficult task, hard to fulfill, to set in motion the locomotive of socialism, but not impossible.

To us all, moulded by the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, these difficulties should not frighten us and will not stop us in the battle for socialism, and this will open the door to the last stage of the emancipation of human society, that is Communism! Below is our Appeal for the unity of all Communists; Marxists-Leninists in each country and internationally.

Translation from the Italian by
NICOLA LUONGO.