We publish this translation to Swedish of the statement by the ICL on Lenin.
Proletarians in all countries, unite!
Comrade Lenin, the leading light of the international proletariat and a great teacher of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, highlights the way for the unit for the international communist movement
” It is we who form the great proletarian strategist, comrade Lenin's army. Nothing is higher than the honor of belonging to this army. ” (Stalin)
As the story shows, on January 21, 1924, Comrade Lenin became the great leader of the working class and the oppressed peoples in the world, the other great milestone for Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, immortal and left behind a great legacy of incomprehensible value. Comrade Lenin's teachings, which transformed the "world of the future", whose basics were laid by Marx and Engels, from an abstract opportunity for a concrete reality, is still fully relevant after a century of major upheavals in the world. In order to position yourself correctly in the class struggle, one must accept this "timeliness" and orient yourself after it. At the same time, this "timeliness" is a cure for reformist, revisionist and parliamentary cretinism, which means capitulation and compromise with ruling ideologies of all kinds. It is the guarantee of faith and determination that a communist world can be created.
Lenin as a teacher in communism who broke IS and paved the way to international reaction and revisionism
Properly identifying the contradictions in the history of the class struggle, understanding the moments of historical crimes and being ready in these times was the most prominent element of comrade Lenin's entire struggle until his immortality. After Marx and Engel's death, the leadership of the international proletariat was taken over for a long time by the second international opportunism, and in the word of comrade Stalin: "A period when others I the parties of the nternational were not able to Take over the theoretical struggle to free the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world from the influence of these opportunistic and class compromising social democrats. In addition to the theoretical struggle for the liberation of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples in the world, with the founding of Communist I He developed the International a form of organization and struggle adapted to the dynamics of the class struggle during the new period of capitalism. "
Comrade Lenin turned the Communist Party and the Communist International into an instrument for war against the bourgeoisie by liberating the Communist Party and the Communist International's movement from the buoys of legal forms of fighting: “Instead of revolutionary politics - dehydrated toblorerism and snus -widely politicizing, parliamentary diplomacy and parliamentary combinations. For the sake of, of course, 'revolutionary' decisions were made and adopted 'revolutionary' slogan ... ' But as it "stores in the drawers", freed from legal forms of struggle. “However, a new stage of imperialist war and the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat was approaching. The old fighting methods proved to be manifestly insufficient and powerless towards the omnipotance of financial capital. It was necessary to revise the entire international work, all of its working method, to expel the tobogganing, narrow -mindedness, politicization, the overflow, social chauvinism and social pacifism. It was necessary to try the entire international Arsenal, to throw out all rusty and murky and forge new weapons. Without such preparatory work, it would be worthless to go out in the field against capitalism. Without this, the proletariat risked suddenly to face new revolutionary affects without being sufficiently equipped or even completely uneven. The honor of this general examination and general cleansing of the second international Augiasstall fell on the lot of Leninism. " (Stalin, the basics of Leninism)
Comrade Lenin, with his genius, took the core of the contradiction and realized that the fight against the bourgeoisie cannot be sufficiently effective and successful without shaking off the burdens that weigh on the back of the international proletariat, without fighting revisionism and opportunism, without showing the masses the true nature of these Opinions in theory and practice, without isolating them as far as possible. By establishing the dialectical and necessary link between the "internal struggle" and the "outer struggle", he fought the double struggle.
Comrade Lenin gave us communists the extremely important lesson that the fight against revisionism and opportunism cannot be separated from the fight against imperialism and all forms of governing reactions. On the contrary, the fight against imperialism must be cleared from revisionism and opportunism.
Keep high Lenin's teachings within the intersecting contradiction of the imperialist system
The imperialist system, which comrade Lenin analyzed in detail in the early 1900s, has survived during the past period, but its contradictions are tightened and it is in a spiral of insoluble antagonistic contradictions. Although the resolution of the Soviet Union and the integration process in the capitalist system that China went through prevented the contradictions from exploding for a while, the law on the unequal development of capitalism continued and the interimperistic rivalry developed at the stage of "resolution". with regional war. This shows which crisis system is in and that the previous "solutions" no longer work. The imperialists, who for a long time maintained their crisis by moving the system's burdens to the semi -colonies and deepening the looting of the semi -colonies, has also ended up in a dead end.
One of the explosive points in the inherent problems of the imperialist system, which has been developed in accordance with Lenin's definition of imperialism is that the interim materialist struggle, which has been shown in various forms in recent years, is currently being fought in regional war. When Lenin listed the contradictions of imperialism, he mentioned the interimmeristic contradiction as one of the three most important contradictions.
We can see that the development is in line with comrade Lenin's observations on the nature and contradictions of imperialism: “The second contradiction is the contradiction between the various financial groups and imperialist powers in their struggle for raw material sources, about foreign areas. Imperialism involves capital exports to the raw material sources, a furious struggle for the monopoly possession of these sources, struggle for the already divided world's new division, a struggle as new financial groups and powers in search of a 'place in the sun' with special rage against the old groups and powers, which Stubbornly clinging to the prey. This furious struggle between the different capitalist groups is remarkable to such an extent that one of its inevitable elements is imperialist war, war for the conquest of foreign areas. This circumstance is, in turn, remarkable that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to a weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the speed of the proletarian revolution, to the practical necessity of this Revolution. " (Stalin, Leninism's basics).
Russia and China, the former socialist countries that have given the imperialist system a respite with their new markets, have become the main actors in the interim materialist rivalry, in violation of hegemonic power the United States. This means that the scope and nature of the contradictions has increased as new and powerful players are gaining increasing commitment to the fight for redistribution of territories. The great confrontation with Russian imperialism's invasion of Ukraine took place against this background. It is predictable that this tendency will be further deepened and spread further. As long as there is no direct confrontation between the imperialists, the areas where the split wars are carried out half colonies and colonies. The half -colonies and the oppressed peoples in the world will continue to pay the price for these wars until the imperialists declare direct war against each other.
With this the division of the world into a handful of imperialist nations and a majority of oppressed countries - Masterly analyzed by Lenin - deepens even more. The third contradictions are tightened with the imperialist looting, and the semi -colonial and semi -feodal increase in powerful national liberation war and folk war that shakes the imperialist system.
Parallel to the process where imperialism goes under contradictions, the interimplyistic and the contradiction imperialist countries and oppressed people and nations; All parts of the governing system, especially the imperialist states, become more centralized, militaristic and warlike than before, which paves the way for all fascist emotions to bring society into a corresponding ideological format. This is met either by so -called right -wing extremists or under the veil of social democratic or liberal parties. Communists and the oppressed peoples in the world, in front of the reality of a system that every day becomes more reactionary and aggressive, needs a Leninist party to lead the proletariat's struggle for political power, as comrade Lenin outlined, to organize a strong opposition to this reaction. Only such a party, today a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, can lead an irreconcilable fight against the bourgeoisie.
Lenin's great heritage, the party's Leninist design: The Fight Stab of the Proletariat
A revolution is not a dinner party or like writing an essay or painting a painting or embroidery. It cannot be particularly refined, particularly quiet and mild, especially moderate, friendly, polite, mastered or magnificent. A revolution is a rebellion, a act of violence, where one class crashes another. (Mao Zedong).
It is crucial how the communists define the existing contradictions and how they position themselves before the development. During the hundreds that have passed since comrade Lenin's death, the imperialists have transformed their governing structures into even larger war machines. Their armies, police officers, intelligence services etc. are equipped with capacity that is incomparable to the past. On the other hand, a considerable part of those who call themselves "communists" or "revolutionaries" ignore this reality (although it seems theoretically accepted) and is far from positioning itself accordingly. But by following an ideological and practical reconciliation line that locks the working class and the oppressed masses in the governing system, they dampen the anger of the masses and act as a breakwater. While the imperialists and the governance's governing structures are equating themselves with increasingly violent appliances and institutions, it is necessary as supporters of comrade Lenin, to keep a strong ideological struggle against the fact that those who define themselves as "revolutionaries" and "communists" go further further And further away from reality that the revolution and the revolutionary struggle will be based on weapons and violence. Taking Comrade Lenin's relentless fight against the second international opportunism as a guide against these views is one of the important tasks to make comrade Lenin justice during the centenary of his immortality.
Comrade Lenin defined the new type of Communist Party as the "proletariat's war organization". This definition was necessary because of the imperialist system and the mutual position of the classes. Both the process that led to the October Revolution and the Civil War that broke out with the October Revolution were the concrete reasons why Comrade Lenin called the Communist Party "The War Organization of the Proletariat". It is a necessity that the Communist Party, which will lead the liberation of the proletariat and the oppressed masses, has this property, while the counter -revolution armed from top to toe with the device's apparatus and means and commits all these terrible massacres against the working class and the oppressed peoples. A revolutionary war needs a fighting party to bring it. Only fools and indefinite auditors who rely on the bourgeoisie can see it differently.
Some people ridicule us as advocates of "the general of war". Yes, we advocate the omniption of the revolutionary war; It's good, not bad, it's Marxist. Russia's Communist Party's rifle created socialism. We will create a democratic republic. The experience of the class struggle during the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only with the power of the rifle that the working class and the working masses can defeat the bourgeoisie and the landlords, both of which are armed. In this sense, we can say that only with rifles can the whole world be transformed. (Mao Zedong).
At its founding conference, IKF defined the constituency and reconstitution of the communist parties as an important task in the struggle for the proletarian world revolution. The understanding of the Communist Party developed by Comrade Mao Zedong is in line with the understanding of the Communist Party that Comrade Lenin outlined and also enriched by Stalin, and is the realization of the Leninist understanding of the party in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism's ideology. During the period of imperialism and proletarian revolutions in which we are located, the Communist Party that is capable of opposing the growing imperialist reaction and leading the proletariat and the oppressed peoples in the world must have the quality of being the "proletariat's war organization".
An essential heritage from Lenin is the question of political power as the fundamental issue for each revolution. Lenin showed how "The proletarian revolution is impossible without the violent destruction of the bourgeois state machinery and without being replaced with a new" and how ”ut an Power is everything in illusion ” . Under Lenin's personal leadership of the world's first socialist state, the dictatorship of the proletariat was established, which specified the proletarian path to power and to maintain it.
After Lenin's death, it was his sequel Stalin who brilliantly defined Leninism, developed it and made it the foundation for the entire international communist movement. Based on the great Lenin's shoulders, chairman Mao was able to bring the proletarian world revolution to higher heights and develop the ideology of the proletariat. Leninism that is today Marxism-Leninism-Maoism must be embraced, defended and applied today.
As IKF, we will continue to perform the tasks that the great Lenin brought up and benefit from the legacy that Comrade Lenin has left to us.
Comrade Lenin, the great teachers of international proletariat and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism lead and guide our struggle for the proletarian world revolution today as he did yesterday!
LEVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
Leve prolet Is INTERNATIONALISM!
International Communist Federation
January 2024