WHAT LENINISM MEANS TO US.
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We are approaching
nearly hundred years of the Great Russian October Revolution. It is a revolution
unequalled by any other event in the history. Its impact on the
humanity and its social thinking has not
diminished despite the collapse of the Soviet Union. The importance
of the Russian Revolution is that
it is the greatest revolution of the working people, which lasted
more than seven
decades and which
carried out basic transformations towards socialism. It began in an
era of national liberation movements in the colonies and
semi-colonies and gave impetus to them. The communists all over the
world need to study the experiences of the Russian Revolution to draw
necessary conclusions to advance the communist movement.
Comrade Lenin was
the leader of the Bolshevik party, the working class, organizer of
the October socialist
revolution, builder of the first socialist state in the world and of
the new socialist society. In the teachings of
comrade Lenin the toiling people all over the world have a powerful
weapon in their struggle for freedom, independence, liberation and
social revolution and in their struggle to build a new classless
society.
In his book “What
the ‘Friends of the People’ are and How They Fight the
Social-Democrats” , Lenin thoroughly
exposed the true character of Narodniks, showing that they were
‘false friends of people’. He showed
that it was Marxists who were the real friends of people. For the
first time Lenin advanced the idea of a revolutionary alliance of the
workers and peasants as the principal means of overthrowing Tsardom,
the landlords and the bourgeoisie and outlined the main tasks of the
Russian Marxists.
In “What is to be
Done?” Lenin outlined a concrete organizational plan for the
structure of a Marxist party of the
working class. He completely demolished the theory of “economism”,
exposed the ideology of
opportunism and the practice of lagging behind the events. He
stressed the importance of theory, of political consciousness and of
party as the guiding force of the working class movement.
In his famous work,
“One Step Forward, Two Steps back”, Lenin “for the first time
in the history of Marxism
elaborated the doctrine of party as the leading organization of the
proletariat, as the principal weapon of
the proletariat, without which the struggle for the dictatorship of
the proletariat can not be won”
(Stalin). Lenin successfully upheld the party principle against the
circle principle and laid the organizational foundations of the
Bolshevik party. He made clear the importance of organization and
discipline.
The fundamental
tactical principle of his historic book, “Two Tactics of Social
Democracy in the Democratic
Revolution” is the idea of the hegemony of the proletariat in the
bourgeois democratic revolution. The
proletariat being in alliance with the peasantry would grow into the
hegemony of the proletariat in the socialist revolution. This book
already contains the fundamental elements of Leninist theory that it
is possible for socialism to be victorious in one country, taken
singly. Its invaluable significance is that it enriched Marxism with
a new theory of revolution.
In his work,
“Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” , Lenin makes a
Marxist analysis of imperialism, showing
that it is the highest and last stage of capitalism, that it is
decaying and moribund capitalism, and at the same time, the eve of
socialist revolution. “This was a new and complete theory of
socialist revolution, a theory of affirming the possibility of
victory of socialism in separate countries, and indicating the
conditions of this victory and its prospects” (Stalin).
Lenin’s April
Thesis laid down for the Bolshevik party a brilliant plan of struggle
for the transition from the
bourgeois-democratic revolution to the socialist revolution.
In his book “State
and Revolution”, Lenin expounds and develops the Marxist theory on
the state, the
proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Being
himself on the study of the experiences of
the two revolutions in Russia, Lenin set forth the theory of Republic
of Soviets as the political form
of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
In his work, “The
Immediate Tasks of the Socialist Government”, Lenin dealt with the
main problems of socialist construction, establishment of new,
socialist relations of production and other problems including the
proletarian democracy.
These works of Lenin
show the main stages in the historic development of Bolshevism and Russian revolution,
show Marxism-Leninism in action. That is exactly what the teaching of
Lenin means to us –
guide to action without which the struggle for the emancipation of
toiling masses and the struggle for the
new classless society cannot be won.
In these troubled
times, when imperialism is unleashing attacks on Marxism-Leninism,
when the revisionism is
distorting its fundamental principles and distorting the achieving of
the first socialist state under the
leadership of Lenin and Stalin, it is imperative on the part of the
communist revolutionaries to study in depth the experiences of
October Socialist Revolution and keep high aloft the banner of
Marxism-Leninism and Mao’s thought.
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