The Capitalist Corruptions and the Appeal of the Bourgeois Power!The Capitalist Corruptions and the Appeal of the Bourgeois Power!By DOMINICO SAVIO
They are opportunists, career and presumptuous, they feel superior to others, perhaps with an academic title in their pockets, and they try to appear more intelligent than the other members of the Party, in order to persuade for their proposals and to have consent on them and to use the tools of power to impose their choice and retain the acquired privileges. Those mediocre ones are the most unscrupulous in the exercise of power and trying to compete with their competitors. True leaders are those who do not take into their head and they consider themselves entirely equal to all members – of course – their behaviour derivates mainly from having acquired a high level of training of the communist and revolutionary class conscience, and identifying with the social life and with the existential problems of the exploited, discriminated, persecuted and hungry workers by the ruling class.
A real leader of the working class lives and dies without privileges or assets and gives all for the common cause of communism such as did Comrade Joseph Stalin!
In our long commitment as revolutionary communists and educators of Marxism-Leninism, we have heard many comrades and workers exclaim: "But why do the leader of groups not listen and try to impose on us their beliefs and their political choices, almost always contrary to our interests and of class and the socialist perspective?"
Naturally the reference is to Parties and trade unions who presume to say that they defend the social interests of the working and communist movement. In reality they are the leaders of false revisionist, opportunist communist Parties and of the trade unions, who turned themselves into instruments of defence of the interests of the capitalist class. The tragedy of the bourgeois transformation of some entire leaders of Parties and trade unions of the so-called historical Left, is as old as the history of the workers and communist movement and promoting interclass unionism, and union politics of compromise and cooperation with the enemy class – of economism and of conciliation with the employers' interests and not those of the working class. On the political level, this tragedy is called revisionism of the class and revolutionary nature of Marxism-Leninism. This is just social democracy, opportunism and bourgeois reformism. The fight against the bourgeois degeneration of entire leadership of the workers and communist movement – is the degeneration which feeds on the assimilation of bourgeois and religious culture and for various social reasons gains again the ascendancy over the formation of class. If this last has taken place in the depths of own conscience and in total belief – it is a matter of fundamental importance for the victory of Socialism on Earth.
Against the positions of utopian Socialism, of idealism versus dialectical and historical materialism – of social democracy and of reformism against the class struggle and against the proletarian revolution. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin have devoted their intellectual energies and life, because on the defeat of such wrong and opportunistic positions depends the success of the socialist revolutions and the communist future. The defeat of Socialism achieved in the twentieth century is also the topic that we are discussing. Over the past two centuries we have known Organizations and Parties born of class and revolutionary and finished as revisionist, opportunist, social-democratic and even blatantly capitalist. The First International was followed by bourgeois and social-democratic Second, and the Parties born from the Third Communist International have become all bourgeois, social-democratic or capitalist like the current Partito Democratico Italiano. The central matter is the antirevolutionary and anticommunist transformation of the leaders of these groups and such Parties. There are two pollutant and deviant factors: the corrupting work of the capitalist system and the inability of the workers and intellectual base to stop and to delegitimate the leaders of these groups, who join the way the transformation of the Party into the bourgeois and capitalist orbit.
The most fertile ground of capitalist corruption of some of the communist and trade-union managing groups, is that they are not enough steeled by pure class and revolutionary nature of the Marxism-Leninism, but are represented from the institutions of the bourgeois State, which distribute tasks and privileges, appealing and corruptible, and these leaders almost always end up corrupt, no conscience and no communist principles.
The electoral participation, for having the communists elected members elected into the bourgeois institutions is a principle rejection of the participation of a truly Communist Party, which is granitically Marxist-Leninist. The corrupting seduction of the bourgeois power with the privileges of life that distributes – as charges of power, wages gold, endless social benefits and institutional performances – is strong and flourishes easily over the ambitions and over the exhibitionism of so many false revolutionaries. Many have been and remain diverted, corrupted and corruptible leaders of the working and communist movement. The ruling class uses all possible means to weaken and neutralize the advance of the working class towards the perspective of the Socialism. It is a continuing war between bourgeoisie and proletariat, between exploited and exploiters, and between poor and rich.
In the history of the working Italian communist movement that happened and is happening, but the same thing has happened in other European countries and on other continents, is enough to refer to the continuous transformations suffered from vertex by CGIL and by PCI, they become tools of survival of the capitalist system, where the managing groups have imposed authoritatively changes from high above, making, often with harsh and strong resistance, to accept by members in the congresses or in the organizational conferences. We refer to the PCI and CGIL because the two organizations of the working, Italian communist movement have been always managed from the very first by so-called "communist comrades" and the second by as many so-called "socialist or communist comrades of the left".
One wonders: "But that's how it is possible if each member is free to consider and vote?". It has happened, and unfortunately still happens in the trade union and political organizations of the working class, for various reasons: (1) In the relations among communists, often there is a bond of total trust between militants and leaders, so it is hard to imagine that they can be ideologically or politically betrayed by the leader. (2) In a Party, where there is no democratic centralism, there is created a hierarchy of power - Hierarchy constructed on purpose with the system of the cooption, the appointment of Party officials by the same managing groups without either instructing Comrades for good choices, and finding out whatever is their domestic political position. These are usually salaried officials for life, which is not a healthy expression of confidence in this or that leader, and even in members of his family, giving rise to the evil practice of nepotism. The officials are sent to represent the Party in basic organization and congress assemblies and have great power to influence the composition of the basic leading members of the cells and of the chambers and in the selection of delegates to the superior meetings or delegates who then will re-elect the same managing groups and will uphold the political line as they wish and impose. The same thing happens in the trade union. - that determines the political line and the organization machinery of the Party.(3) The present class and revolutionary awareness must be a considerable part of the basics of party life. We are talking about the working basis, that for millennia has been conditioned and paralyzed in its struggle for emancipation from economic, political and religious ruling power and that just from the Party of the Revolution and of Socialism, They should have been emancipated and made protagonist, but instead had to suffer even the conditions and betrayals of some leadership groups - ideologically and politically diverted of its political organization and the union .
Some leaders become untouchable and immovable caste and decide the fate of a trade union and political organization. These leaders are for only their ambition, exhibitionism and careerism, undergo a very deep political transformation, thus becoming revisionists, transformists, opportunists, careerists and even presumptuous, and in this way creating around them a halo of a caste just as do the capitalists They become presumptuous, feel superior, never ever have to study. By exhibiting themselves, they try to look intelligent and convincing to get the necessary consent in order to keep their leadership position. In this ignoble activity of careerism and selfish claim, there are ones who are more talented and less able, but are those last ones that just for their limits act with more unbiased consent within the organization.
The bourgeois power in order to hinder the growth of a strong communist Party for a socialist revolution, know that and utilize two alternative strategies: persecution, through various forms of physical and social repression, and the seduction of the managing groups through corruption and by the privileges. They use the first when the second does not give the expected results. Obviously we are talking about executives who take bribes from an ambitious institutional office, a lavish salary, the possibility of using the communication tools made available by the ruling power, by the practice of the power in itself, by social welfare and many other privileges of life. Surely, these are managers already conditioned from the dominant culture and now bare of any communist conviction and totally enslaved to the interests of the class enemy.
The real leaders of the working and communist movement are totally free from each form of conditioning of the bourgeois and religious culture and have tempered their ideal and political conscience in the principles and strategy of Marxism-Leninism, which mark their relationships with the working class to simplicity, modesty, loyalty and to honesty, fighting any privileges, the deceptions and the betrayals, living the same hardships of the proletariat in the society of exploitation and capitalistic repression. They are exalted only in the fierce fight to destroy capitalism and to build Socialism. A shining and moving example of such a figure of manager and leader of the proletarian masses towards the achievement of Socialism comes, among others, by the great leader and teacher Joseph Stalin, who lived his extraordinary experience of revolutionary with simplicity, fairness, modesty and total surrender of life to the cause of the conquest of the communist era on our planet. In our various trips in the ex glorious Soviet Union we had have the honor to listen to some old Soviet comrades that have told us about the personal, family, humble and simple life of the comrade Stalin, who kept his salary in the desk drawer and that he never missed its modest contribution to the delegations of comrades who came to see him and talk of its political and social initiatives of Party. Also, we had the pleasure of visiting his very simple and small apartment in the Kremlin, in addition to that one of Lenin, made up of three rooms, a small personal library, a corridor and a very modest and thin kitchen with the small table to eat at the center. But the most moving is to remember his usual gray coat hung at the entrance!
The problem of the ideological and political incorruptibility of the managing groups of a class and revolutionary Party, of the socialist revolution and of the building of the Socialism at all levels of its organization, remains in all its strategic importance. It is a vital problem for the existence and the victory of the Party of the proletariat, problem that exists today as was existed at the time of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, which can, and must be overcome through a careful and constant supervision by basic militants of the organization. This supervision may be exercised only by an ideologically, politically and strategically emancipated basis, even in terms of practice, in short that has fully acquired the nature purely of class and revolutionary Marxism-Leninism and that is tempered to resist any temptation of corruption and bourgeois deviance.
Party leaders should not be judged by prosopopeia, by title, by captivating language, by position of leader already acquired or, still worse, by its proposals of mediation and surrender to the class enemy, but by their behavior and living standard, by their modesty and simplicity of relationship with comrades, their attitude towards the political enemy and, mainly, by their loyalty, living daily in the political activity of the principles of Marxism-Leninism. When the militants of the Party of the socialist revolution will have acquired such capacity for evaluation and political choice, then the bourgeois and diverted leaders will not find space in the Party of the proletariat. The same thing goes for the trade-union class. But to assimilate this capacity, the militant comrades must continually learn from the texts of Marxism-Leninism.
Currently, we leaders and militants of basics of the Italian Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, must be careful to preserve our still small but already glorious Party from any risk of deviation from the master road of the proletarian revolution and of the Socialism - following the way forward as shown us by thought and the work of our great masters of the international proletariat Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by total teaching of Marxism-Leninism. Our strength and our success are present in our ability to defend the Party from any counter-revolutionary infiltration: the revolutionary vigilance must be exercised constantly by all militants, by managers to simple members, which must be proud to develop such task!
Forio (Naples), 4. August 2008. General Secretary of P.C.I.M-L.
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