CLASS IN ITSELF, CLASS FOR ITSELF.
The general crisis of capitalism in all its economic, political, cultural, ecological, ideological and social aspects is accentuated and aggravated with each cyclical crisis it goes through. This is part of the epoch of imperialism and therefore must be the epoch of proletarian revolutions.
Economic crises manifest themselves as crises of overproduction of commodities, which have as their main basis the tendency of the rate of profit to decrease, which during this five-year period had some moments of recovery, partially achieved by the use of new technologies. Agenda 2030 is the best planned imperialist strategy of recent years, where the representatives of the most powerful monopolies have agreed to try to give a long life to capitalism, in which new technology – including Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence – aims to displace the human workforce and develop complex processes to solve unsolved problems and prevent the advance of the proletarian revolution.
After the crisis of 2008-2009, the world capitalist-imperialist system went into an economic recession that led to the outbreak of a new crisis between 2019-2020, which, after a small and weak growth in 2022, led to the technical recession in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom; growth in 2023 will be low and even the representatives of capital predicted a "recession" by the end of this year.
This situation shows that neoliberalism has fewer and fewer options to avoid new crises and, on the contrary, has deepened them. In this scenario, some capitalist sectors accompanied by the petty bourgeoisie are implementing the return to the welfare or Keynesian state, to the internal market or "nationalism", combining these economic policies with the same neoliberalism. In other countries, new forms of fascist or militarist governments with right-wing populist discourses are reemerging.
These elements, plus others such as unpayable national debts, the ecological destruction of the planet, the decline in industrial production, unemployment and layoffs due to new technologies, low wages, the aging of various populations of the planet, the growing and forced migration, the sick financial speculation and the decline of the dollar, are bringing the capitalist-imperialist system closer to a new and disastrous global economic crisis.
Ukraine and now Niger are part of an accumulation of military conflicts that add to those that have been dragging on in previous years, in which we see the same actors in Sudan, Libya and Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Saharawi Republic, etc., which are leading a large part of these nations to a new redivision, to their atomization or dissolution into small territories occupied by foreign forces.
The perspectives of the struggle of the working class and the working masses after 36 years of the existence of neoliberalism are showing a relevant role. In a new upsurge of the proletarian movement, it is up to the most advanced of the movement, the proletarian parties, the Marxist-Leninists, to influence, organize and lead these mobilized masses to defeat the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois vision that weighs on these actions, which also seek to trap them by reformism and opportunism, instruments of capitalism itself to undermine the historical perspective of the proletariat, the proletarian revolution and socialism.
Therefore, it is necessary to continue to show the masses, today with greater intensity, that neoliberalism is capitalism-imperialism, which has already played its historical role and must disappear and give way to a socialist society, through the proletarian revolution. All forms of struggle are valid and must be subordinated to the political struggle. We must bring the bourgeois political crisis to the revolutionary crisis in order to establish a workers', peasants' and people's government, through proletarian and popular constituents or assemblies. The building and strengthening of the parties of the working class is necessary to lead to profound and definitive victories for the proletariat over the financial oligarchy and its servants.
In Latin America, social democracy exercises power as a "progressive" alternative now in its second "wave", a social democracy on the right; even when it has an anti-neoliberal discourse, as in Mexico, they continue to implement it. All these variants impose constitutions, laws and norms that sustain capitalism and govern by affecting labor and human rights, as well as the freedom of assembly and organization of millions of workers who create social wealth.
The migratory flows in the world are expanding in the face of conditions of misery, marginalization and insecurity. The reactionary violence that the elites promote in various areas through so-called organized crime and paramilitaries is used as a mechanism of social control, as well as control of territories and natural resources. Also, through ideological control over broad social sectors, it is deepening while new mechanisms of repression are being implemented. The pandemic and war, interconnected phenomena in which a decadent social order is expressed, are useful to deepen the control and subjugation of the languages and favor the implementation of military coups that mean a greater subjugation of the peoples.
The ideological struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is part of the struggle for political power, for control of territory and material resources, just as the political struggle and military war share the same objectives. The ideological struggle is an expression of the class struggle that has so far failed to overcome the ideological hegemonic control of the capitalist-imperialist system. Much work remains to be done by the revolutionary and communist organizations to overcome this situation, to encourage the class consciousness of broad sectors of workers in the countryside and the cities, as well as other sectors of the people. In this sense we must achieve greater impact with our propaganda to put at the center of the debates our positions on national and world problems, particularly on the tasks that the new proletarian revolutions must win.
Class consciousness is the ability of the members of a class to assume their historical project in relation to the development of the productive forces and the mode of production in which they live. This is how Karl Marx defined it in 1840. The proletariat does not become a class for itself until it fully understands the importance of being the producer of all wealth that exists, and that it is its collective strength that can bring about significant change in the political and economic system that exploits and oppresses it. Only once they clearly take up this class consciousness do they struggle to liberate themselves and in turn liberate all classes oppressed by capitalism, because this represents the most advanced class project, above any other progressive position.
In Latin America this class consciousness has been restrained by repression and the most savage dictatorships, but also because in different historical moments, since the emergence of capitalism, the nationalist bourgeoisies have won for their ideological position by calling for the defense of the homeland and defense of the country. Other moments when, after the end or defeats of the dictatorships, the revisionist and social democratic positions have deceived broad sectors of the people, confusing them with their versions of bourgeois democracies and libertarian and populist ideas, artificially displacing the understanding of the fundamental contradiction between capital and labor.
This struggle is of capital importance for communists, because it forms the basis of the subjective conditions for carrying forward revolutionary movements towards the historical goals of the workers. Faced with the power of imperialism, this battle has a fundamental role, to concretize the construction of national and world anti-imperialist fronts, which incorporate all oppressed sectors with their various forms of organization against capitalism and imperialism under the same slogans and programs.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO MARXIST-LENINIST
Proletarians of all countries, unite.
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