About Communist Identity (2)

Here, the first analyses I made in English (in 2008)

“Revisionism, the bourgeoisie inside the communist movement.”

"After socialism is been destroyed in the Sovietunion and the explosion of the country of Lenin, all communists has to understand that revisionism is the most dangerous ideological enemy of marxism-leninism. Its beyond any doubt that revisionism represents the bourgeoisie inside the communist movement[1]"

One has to be carefully by concluding that the line of one or another communist party in the world is revisionist or even concluding that the line of one or another communist party is contaminated with a lot of opportunist conceptions. However, it is my opinion that I can prove that there is a development of revisionism in , what is called, “the international communist movement”. That development of revisionism is based on, and is using, certain existing opportunist conceptions ( in different communist parties). In some parties the revisionist line has become the main line IN those parties.

At this moment this is the case of the once revolutionary Workers Party of Belgium.(WPB, Partij Van De Arbeid van België, PVDA/PTB) This was possible because the leading cadres succeeded (through different mechanisms, I will discus in later articles) by putting IN the mind of the majority of the members, a conception of "marxism" or "scientific socialism" wich was in fact metaphysics and idealism (instead of dialectical materialism) formulated in "marxist-sounding fraseology". That kind of leading cadres, perhaps ONCE entered the party on revolutionary conceptions, on a certain moment chosed for a bourgeois classpoint of view. Those cadres could mask their conceptions with Marxist phraseology easily, because they had often an encyclopedic knowledge of publications, articles and books of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong......and they were often responsible for the marxist formation of the majority of the party-militants.....

While I made allready a lot of analising in dutch on my weblog, I like to begin now in English to make an analysis of the text that is been put on the website of the Workers Party of Belgium, http://www.wpb.be/, on thursday, 17 November 2005, 12h40, "Contribution to the International Symposium held in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, 13 - 15 October - Friedrich Engels and scientific socialism in contemporary China". The introduction of the “Marxist” analysis of Peter Franssen:

"It is 110 years since Friedrich Engels, the man who along with his companion Karl Marx laid the foundations of scientific socialism, passed away. To commemorate his death, an international symposium was held in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The organisers were the University of Wuhan, the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the CC of the Communist Party of China and the Academy of Social Sciences of China. 32 Chinese speakers made contributions, as well as 13 foreigners. At the request of the organisers, Peter Franssen, journalist with the Belgian weekly Solidaire and researcher at the Institute for Marxist Studies, wrote a contribution, which you can read in full below....."

An example of conscious REVISIONISM (because the use of a encyclopedic knowledge of the most works of Marx, Engels and Lenin to find the suited QUOTES to “prove” the ADVANCED IDEA of our revisionist) is where Peter Franssen[2] is quoting Lenin:

Hence the New Economic Policy with among others this directive of Lenin: “ We shall lease the enterprises that are not absolutely essential for us to lessees, including private capitalists and foreign concessionaires.[3] ” Lenin added that this period could last a long time: “But it will take a whole historical epoch to get the entire population into the work of the co-operatives through NEP. At best we can achieve this in one or two decades.[4] ”

Well, you can read here, the full text of Peter Franssen and here my argumentation why his text proves that Peter Franssen (also national cadre of the WPB/PVDA/PTB)is a revisionist and NOT a Marxist.

About revisionism being anti-Marxism

When you look close to the conceptions, the way of analyzing, the conclusions that are been made, it becomes very clear that revisionism which developed for example in the Communist Party of China (CPC) (...or which could “freely” develop after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976), is identical to the revisionism that developed in the CPUSSR under Chruchof, Bresnjev and Gorbatsjov.

You can for example apply the critic (of course in an adapted way, not in an ANALOGUE way) that the CPC wrote in 1964 on the rising revisionism in the CP-USSR (“The pseudo-communism of Chroustsjov an the historic lessons for the world”) on the revisionism that has seen the light after the death of Mao in the CCP and that is been made concrete in her economic policy after 1978.... And “Perestroika” and “Glasnost” of Gorbatsjov is similar (even in the meaning of the words!) to the “Reform” and “Opening” of Deng Xiaoping.

I am fighting those who defend the “authentically Marxist character” of the economical policy actual in China and who are claiming that “socialism has been strengthened” in China since 1978. Particularly when they are cadre in a, or representing a communist organisation.

They are, I think, from the same calibre as Kautsky opposed by Lenin and named by him as «renegade».

I will prove all this, being in fact the main goal of my analysis of the actual revisionism.

I want to prove now (being the next step in my analysis from the ACTUAL revisionism in the international communist movement) that the line of the CPC since 1978 is the OPPOSITE of the line of that same CPC before the death of Mao Zedong.

All what the CPC was fighting against (with indeed a big contribution of Mao Zedong but ALSO what concerned the conceptions of Deng Xiaoping which he defended AT THAT TIME) is after 1978 becoming a part of the political line of the CPC!

Summarizing (and that is indeed simplifying) I think that you can say that de line of the CPC since 1978 is going back to the revisionist line that Liu Chaochi (in the years ‘50s) defended, in OPPOSITION with the line of Mao Zedong. One can see the official line of the CPC as the result of the struggle between two lines (the revolutionary line and the bourgeois/revisionist line), and therefore reflects a temporary outcome of that struggle.

To prove revisionism with the teacher of the negative example

In fact there is a strong development of revisionism in what is called, the International Communist Movement. I think that it is important to uncover the general and common way of working, way of using Marxist phraseology to mask idealism and metaphysics and the way to use existing and non refuted forms of opportunism in the different communist organizations.

It is of course difficult to judge if a certain communist party is developing revisionism, when you are not a member of that party and when that party is operating in a ante-revolutionary situation whereby intern contradictions are not discussed openly.

I want to make my analysis of the development of revisionism based on the concrete example of the Workers Party ofBelgium (PVDA- PTB, pvda.be) in such a way that communists not member of the WPB, but member of communist parties of other regions in the world can make their own opinion about my analysis.(Here the link to this document)

History of revisionism in communist parties

Analysis to prove the following statement: Many “new” Communist Parties, founded once, in a reaction of “revisionism in the old Communist Parties” are now developing ....revisionism themselves. (Read this -downloadable - document here)

REMARK: In the last document you will notice my statement about "...severe opportunism in de KKE"... It was my opinion in 2010, and I am explaining this here under the title: About the KKE (communist party of Greece)

[1] "About certain aspects of the struggle against revisionism", Ludo Martens in Marxistische Studies no 29, march 1996, (see www.marx.be), a discussion report on the International Seminar in Janashakti, India organised by the PCI(ML)

[2] Peter Franssen, cadre of the WPB, defends the revisionist line of the CCP since 1978 (read the whole text here), in previous articles (beginning here) I (once member of the WPB, expelled in 2005) analyse his text as an negative example of the actual revisionism in the International Communist Movement.

[3] Lenin, New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise, Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, p.28

[4] Lenin, On Co-operation, Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, p.470.