There is a consolidation of communist organisations which are searching for the strategy towards organisation of the workers for their historical task: overthrow of capitalism, taking the power and the control over all what concern the production of goods and services which have to serve the real needs of mankind, So there will put an end to the highest form of commodity-production (capitalism in its final imperialist stage) and will build up COMMUNIST production-relations over the first stage of communism: socialist plan-economy. So going from production of commodities SOLD for their value (so only fulfilling needs with products developed to realise surplus-value rather then that they are developed as real solution for those needs - and so just attainable for people with enough income to BUY) So only more or less 1 billion people in the world has more or less an INCOME with which they can form together the MARKET, while 5-6 billion with ALSO those NEEDS but without enough INCOME to BUY.
The forces of the old society weapon themselves against overthrow, and are fighting for their continuation of existence, with repression and violence, but also with political and ideological weapons. The most important political and ideological weapons are: REFORMISM and REVISIONISM. IN the consolidation of communists and communist organisations, BOURGEOIS elements are ALSO trying to “organise” and to “consolidate”, The origin of those bourgeois elements is divers: some are “sent”, some are “developed” out of elements which once joint the communist movement but never changed class-position or at a certain moment choose for the bourgeoisie. IN the communist movement they have to defend REFORMISM with a phraseology which “sounds” Marxist (REVISONISM) So REFORMISM is the political line and REVISIONISM is the ideological tool to defend continuance of capitalism in “the circle of the communists”.
So one has to define very precisely the ANTAGONIST and NON-ANTAGONIST contradictions In these discussions.
I think that one of the most advanced positions - in this attempt of consolidation and promotion of the fundamental discussions - are taken by the KKE. Therefore its my opinion that each person or organisation (and certainly in the European region...) who is considering him or herself as “communist” has to join and to participate in this discussion in order to come to the best possible revolutionary strategy and the best of organisational concepts and mobilising agit-prop.
The KKE herself in active participating in this discussion, and sometimes active ORGANISING the discussion ( for example the European Communist Meeting, in Brussels 1-2 October 2012 - on this page some articles about this ECM)
In Greece the contradictions are becoming very sharp. The level of exploitation to which the Greek workers are submitted is increasing to its maximum. Hunger, misery and complete deterioration of all aspects of “social security” will put the majority of the Greed population in the situation that “they have nothing more to lose than their chains” of capitalist production-relations. Together with the continuing work of the KKE to increase the political and class-consciousness, those are the material conditions that an attempt to break those chains is not far away. But it will depend of the correctness of the revolutionary strategy how the strength of the working-class-movement will develop and make it possible to impose and to hold its power.
It is my opinion -and I will try to prove this- that when the revolutionary strategy will focus on a “overthrow of capitalism ....in Greece together with...or after a disengagement of the EU” the revolution will be weakened in advance before it can develop its full power.
It is my opinion – and I will try to prove this also, and here you can read my first attempt – that a “revolution in Greece” has to be conceived as the beginning of the revolution in whole area of the EU,.by destroying the (monopoly-) capitalist STATE-INSTRUMENT (which is still in full development to function in the imperialist/capitalist interests), and than to expropriate whole production-lines(so resources, intermediary production, end-production, ALL logistical - ports, transport,...- means...)., of the monopolies, build up the workers-power in as much of the EU-area as possible,. This has to be the task of the EUROPEAN workers-movement, which has to be built and organise the European working class in the ongoing moments of class-struggle and out of a movement in and outside the unions and will take the form – meant as illustration – of a “Council-(or “Soviet”)movement”)
The problem hereby is that in the best situation, the real communist organisations (being the “working-class-vanguard”) are mostly trapped in a form of dogmatism: “first the revolution in one NATIONAL “state” and therefore organise and mobilise the NATIONAL part of the worldwide (and surely the European) working-class by the vanguard of that NATIONAL working-class: a communist party of that NATION”. What is worse is that a lot of self-declared “communist” organisations are fallen – by the development of REVISIONISM – for REFORMISM. (for me, de Workers Party of Belgium, pvda.be – ptb.be, is the most outspoken example -still to be seen by “sister”-parties as a real communist party)So I think that the real revolutionary and vanguard working-class-oriented forces have to organise themselves in a European vanguard organisation (a European Communist Party) One of the dynamics to this will be the ideological struggle to overcome all forms of opportunism together with a antagonist struggle with revisionism and in the communist movement organised revisionist (so BOURGEOIS) forces.
I will elaborate the following points in articles and more elaborated documents (in pdf-files):
1, The KKE as the best example – in the area of the EU - of a real communist party with “revolutionary ambitions”
2, A concrete analyse of ACTUAL situation of capitalism (in its imperialist stage) is essential to come to the development of a concrete revolutionary strategy
3, There is a history of dogmatism in the communist parties of the respective COUNTRIES (or NATIONS) which has to be overcome.
4, The DKP is a good example where by influence of dogmatism, the importance of the detecting revisionism and countering it has weakened, whereby the necessity of mobilising and organising the working class for revolution is “postponed” by intermediary “conditions” to be fulfilled, so introducing the “theory of stages” (which is a reformist reasoning)
5, There are concrete example of by origin COMMUNIST organisations, which pass by the development of REVISONISM into REFORMISM: the WPB.
6, The EU is a (still developing) state-apparatus for the interests (competition-position as one example....) of the monopolies (or departments of monopolies) in Europe
7, Is the KKE today submitted to those forms of dogmatism, endangering its revolutionary character? My opinion (which can be discussed): there exist a problem of dogmatism