Anti-Revisionism V. Revisionist Marxism

First I will reply to the attacks on Maoist China 1. The Great Leap forward was indeed a leading factor in the Chinese Great Famine of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s[1]. However you must understand that this doubled China’s agricultural output and ended the famines which took the lives of well over 50 million in the century preceding the revolution[2]. The costs were extreme but China has been without a single famine under Mao nor the later revisionist leaders. 2. Maoism and today. It is true that China has made little progress towards a stateless and classless society since Mao’s death. However the policies that have regressed China are not those of Anti-Revisionist leaders but “Socialism With Chinese Characteristics” as affirmed by Deng Xiaoping. The “Communist Party” today does not represent the practice nor theory of Mao, Stalin, Lenin or Marx. The current state of affairs in China does not represent the revolutionary socialism of the Anti-Revisionist tendency.[3] The Historical Devolpment Of Marxist-Leninism: Paris Commune In 1870 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels witnessed the fruitless attempt that was the Paris Commune.That year socialists and radical democrats seized Paris by force and attempted to establish a revolutionary government. The Commune passed wide sweeping and radical reforms that set about to construct a new nation. The nobles fled to Versalis and after a few months they gathered an army and crushed the Commune. Many anarchist and anti-Authoritarian socialists(Luxemburg included) look to the Paris Commune as their inspiration. However Engels in 1872 provides us with criticism to those positions which will go on to be a core tenet of Marxist-Leninism: A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? World Revolution In the early 1900’s socialist movements around the world continued to grow. At the end of WW1 Lenin and his bolshevik comrades successfully overthrew the Tsar and established the first socialist state. Building on Engel and Marx’s theory and observations, Lenin established the “dictatorship of the proletariat” with single party democracy to carry out the revolution[3]. Left communists in Western Europe yielded no such success. I ask that Con name one successful Luxemburgian or even Left Communist revolution. The Marxist-Leninist Structure for revolution and the state has been applied to successfully create 22+[4] socialist states. Luxemburgism has yieled none. From these facts we can conclude the superiority of the Marxist-Leninist theory over it’s competitors. Revisionism The process of liberalizing and market reforms is known as revisionism for it is a deviation from the revolutionary thought. The Soviet Union engaged in revisionism throughout the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s via a series of these reforms which ultimately led to the collapse of first her European allies then the Soviet Union herself. In China, as I mentioned earlier, Deng Xiaoping’s reforms brought China to the state of corruption and massive inequality which was unknown in the Mao years[3]. Anti-revisionists posit that conformity to the Marxist-Leninist theory without revisions leads to success as the past has shown us. Marxist-Leninist nations in the end faltered but they have achieved more development of socialism then Council-Communism and other revisionist strains. To conclude, the communist must adopt the Marxist-Leninist theory as a mechanism for change over all alternatives. References 1.1959:Socialism,China Shakes The World Again,Prometheus Books. 2.http://www.mitosyfraudes.org... 3. Revolution, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, No.323 4.http://en.wikipedia.org...;