On Eradicating Petit Bourgeois Elements in Our Movement

was a polemic written by Kropotkin Communist revolutionary Rosa Nyguen in response to On the Escalation of War in the Colonies and A Refutation of Felix Costel's Manifesto. In it, Rosa critiqued the petit bourgeois thinking that permeated Costel's work, believing he failed to understand the necessity of proletarian revolution and the power of capital. Additionally, she critiqued the bourgeois political economist Clarkson for downplaying atrocities committed by the UNSC and UEG throughout the Outer Colonies. Rosa argues that it is only through proletarian revolution that lasting peace can be brought to the Outer Colonies.
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…When we turn to Felix Costel’s actual analysis and proposed solutions, we see glaring errors in his thinking that must be addressed and thoroughly debunked if our nascent movement is to truly survive amongst the stars. It is profoundly distressing that his essay has found such a hold in other groups of this struggle when it contains such basic and fundamental errors that will further constrict and damage the ability for us revolutionaries to wage our peoples’ wars throughout the galaxy, like we are now doing on Kropotkin. 
While his conclusion, that the Outer Colonies be granted independence is superficially aligned with our own goals of liberation, Coste’s, through his petit bourgeois thinking and not armed with the science of Marxism-Leninism, fails to understand that this will not prevent the UNSC or the UEG from continuing its exploitation of these worlds. Instead, what we will see is the rise of comprador regimes that align with the UNSC in everything, colonies will instead become semi-colonies extracting all they can from them. Let us not forget, these colonies, some of them close to a century in age, have not seen the industrialisation and urbanisation of even the smallest Inner Colony! We must break down the errors in Costel’s thinking.
The error in the first, was written by Comrade Lenin, over six centuries ago - 
‘Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries’Lenin, V (2010). Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism. London: Penguin.
Unlike in Lenin’s time, instead of competing Imperialist powers on Earth, we have three enormous Republics, Earth, Reach, and Mars, collaborating together to ensure capital flows through to them - though we must mention, in recent years tension between these Republics has grown including the border clash between Mars and Reach. However, I would argue that in releasing the Outer Colonies, these tensions will be resolved temporarily! Each republic will be able to carve up the spoils and plunder to their hearts’ content, unburdened now by the Inner Colonies Economic Protection Act! The Galactic Organisations will be able to carve up their operations and send them to these newly ‘free’ worlds (don’t laugh!) and take full advantage of the cheaper labour and production!Quintos, P (2017) ‘Notes on Monopoly Capital in the 21st Century’, in Tujan Jr, A.A & del Rosario-Malzono, J (ed.) Lenin's Imperialism in the 21st Century. Manilla: Institute of Political Economy, pp. 73-105.
Vast swathes of capital will be expended in exporting the industry of the mighty UEG to these ‘independent’ worlds. This is because the ‘extraction of surplus driven by capital accumulations, as reflected in the quest for low unit labour costs’ Suwandi, I (2019a). Value chains : the new economic imperialism. New York: Monthly Review Press. - the Outers, again once unfettered by the competition regulations, will be free to allow capital to run rampant, industrialising and destroying in equal measure. Thus, it is not constant war that will benefit the UEG, but peace and a free and compliant comprador state, the wealth through ‘profit via expropriation.’ Suwandi, I., Jonna, R.J. and Bellamy Foster, J. (2019b). Monthly Review | Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism. [online] Monthly Review. Available at: https://monthlyreview.org/2019/03/01/global-commodity-chains-and-the-new-imperialism/. Independence, unilateral and without class considerations, is not the path to self-sufficiency, but rather even greater dependency as these worlds will need to developed to exist outside the UEG realm; only further destruction and alienation of the worker is the outcome of this line of thinking.
When looking at Michael Clarkson, a bourgeois political economist, we can see that an acknowledgement, though Clarkson himself does not realise he has done this, and that acknowledgement is the problem of the current Revolutionary cells we have. Costel, due to his class position and fundamentally pro-UEG politics does not consider revolutionary movements to be able to achieve anything. 
The United Rebel Front has taken many worlds and has lost every single one of them - why? Because they are disconnected from the masses - they do not represent the worker, or the peasant, or the intelligentsia, they represent rebellious capital! Any Marxist-Leninist knows that the party must be an extension of the masses, we must be the vanguard that shows we are acting in the interests of our class. Zedong, M. (2020). Quotations from Mao Tse Tung — Chapter 11. [online] Marxists.org. Available at: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch11.htm.
It is only through proletarian struggle and party building that any true lasting liberation from the tyranny of capital and its regime is possible. As Karl Marx said, revolutions are the locomotives of history and we are the conductors. 
Indeed, Clarkson after writing this states that it is because the people of these worlds are just simply too loyal to the UEG! What utter nonsense! The working class, the oppressed toilers of our galaxy, are simply aware enough to understand that the URF do not offer any real alternative, they are still bourgeois in nature and bourgeois in design. The URF do not have the capability to provide real independence, quickly, if allowed to remain independent, the URF run worlds will invite UEG capital in and allow it to transform their own relations of production, selling every industry to the highest bidder! Why would any worker come out to defend this? It is only through proletarian revolution that we can truly grab peace, land, and bread in our own hands!
As Stalin wrote prophetically, revolutions happen where the chains of imperialism are at their weakest. Stalin, J. (2019). ‘Foundations of Leninism’. In: Leninism: Chapter One. London & New York: Routledge, pp.77–179. Right now, that is in the Outer Colonies - far flung and difficult to defend, the UNSC and CMA find themselves in the position of perpetual war - this will not be profitable, and those in the Inner Colonies will eventually become tired of sending their sons and daughters off to war to die for nothing. Soon, the UEG will realise the benefits of granting independence to the Outer Colonies, to allow even great surplus extraction on scales not currently conceived. 
When this happens, the Outer Colonies will no longer be that weak link in imperialism. We will have to face both the petit bourgeois nationalism of these new states and capital. We will have to face the armies of the Outer Colonies and the armies and fleets of the UNSC and CMA. 
When this happens, it must be the proletariat in the hot seat, we must win before this can happen.
Now, as always, hang the red flag high and remember that old adage: 
PROLETARIANS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
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