New publication: Revolution and counter-revolution in Russia

Our 5^th publication in the English series of text of the communist Left, collects a nunmber of party texts on the Russian question.

The fact that most of articles are aimed at the preposterous declarations of the now disgraced stalinist does not make these articles ” Yesterday’s News”. By analysing the capitalist nature of Russia, during the reign of alleged communism, the marxist programme is elucidated: in communist society these will be not money, or exchange, no loans or banks, instead, these will be rationally organised production by a classless human society.

Marxism takes the victories and defeats of the workers’ movement and draws conclusions from them. The victory of the bolsheviks in Russia, as marxist represe tatives of the working class, was to take the state; the defeat came when the revolutionary fire failed to spread world-wide. But whilst Lenin would openly declare that state-capitalism was being created in Russia – the most modern form that could be created these unless the revolution spread – it would take a Stalin to perceive the triumph of capitalism in Russia as the triumph of communism.

A massive counter-revolution took place after the proletarian revolts failed in Europe; a counter-revolution which wasn’t just a military affair but also took the insidious form of corrupting the Comintern, which the world vanguard of the working class regarded as its cental political organ. Instead of the communist parties becoming agencies for the International proletarian revolution, they would instead become the meek and pliabe agents of the Russian capitalist State, which now unfurled the banner of “socialism in one country”. For us the counter-revolution in Russia was in the twenties, not in the nineties.

By analysing the slow corruption of principles within the Comintern, and the growth of the mith of “Communist Russia” we are in a better position to nail down the key postulates of the marxist and proletarian programme and prevent the same mistakes occurring again.

The final article in the collection is the most recent, and takes us right up to the ridiculous and highly staged “coup” of 1991. In response to the bourgeoisie rubbing its hand with glee at the alleged death of communism which those events were supposed to signal, it’s reply is clear:
COMMUNISM IS DEAD – LONG LIVE COMMUNISM !