THE STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE PEOPLES AND
THE INTER-IMPERIALIST DISPUTES
If we analyze the economic, political and social reality at present attached to the orientations of Marxism-Leninism we must emphasize the fact that we are in the epoch of imperialism, a situation that determines the development and characteristics of central aspects in the economic and political life of the different countries. All this is connected to the dynamics oriented and fed from the structures of financial capital. This means that the aspects on which society rests itself, including the production of material goods, is subjected to the development imposed by the aforementioned financial capital. The emergence of monopolies, their decisive influence on the economic and political activity of countries is a characteristic part of the imperialist epoch.
The big banks and industrial corporations merge, thus forming financial capital with which they acquire an enormous power that decides on essential aspects of the life of millions of people, such as food, health care, education, in addition to developing various mechanisms including war to seize the territories and resources of the peoples.
In this sense the works of Marxism-Leninism have correctly and clearly exposed three characteristic aspects of the imperialist epoch, its fundamental contradictions, namely: The contradiction between capital and labor, the contradiction between imperialist associations and imperialist governments, and the contradiction between the imperialists and the peoples.
In highlighting the first contradiction between capital and labor, we must emphasize the actions of the workers in order to advance in their struggle to confront the measures and mechanisms that the imperialists are adopting to impose their objectives in the framework of the division of the world.
At present the different contentions for the resources and territories desired by the different imperialist blocs are characterized by a series of actions carried out by them with the aim of displacing their competitors, and being able to take the control of resources to be used in their favor.
In this context the imperialists are carrying out actions to readjust themselves, execute tactical steps in the economic, political and social fields, thus defining their allies, and in turn agreements are being expressed in the formation of organizations with common objectives, in the short, medium and long term, such as the Davos Forum, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, the BRICS, each of them obeying the tactics of one or another group that is an expression of finance capital.
This is how the imperialist blocs manifest themselves, they develop their actions within the framework of the redivision of the world, thus seeking to consolidate their position. In their struggle for a new division of the world, the dominant imperialist powers and the big monopolies establish relations that lead to the formation of blocs that develop tactics and behaviors that generally express a directionality in the search for common objectives, without this preventing them from being able to achieve common objectives. Contradictions are experienced within it, the causes of which are found in the economic and political situation of a particular moment.
As we have said, the world is currently experiencing a process of imperialist rearrangement, in which elements such as the United States and the EU and its armed wing NATO are carrying out their activity to try to consolidate their dominance in Europe, while trying to maintain or expand their dominance in areas such as Africa, Latin America and Asia. At the same time, China and Russia are developing mechanisms to carry out this contention by creating places in which they can strengthen their alliances. In this sense BRICS stands out, with which they have direct entry into Latin America, whose territories are already seeing the actions of expansion of the capital of China and Russia. They have advanced with firm steps in the continent, reaching important advances and influence in the economic, political, and military field; this represents an open challenge to the US-EU bloc. The US bourgeoisie in particular still regards Latin America as its "backyard".
It is necessary to emphasize that the development of the imperialist blocs is not exempt from contradictions within them, as has been seen in the contradictions of the USA with some EU countries, or among members of the EU itself. Likewise, in the China-Russia bloc, they maintain relations within the framework of the search for common objectives with actions guided by agreements in which various mechanisms and tactics of domination over the peoples are deployed, which in the end seek to guarantee the redivision of the world.
The rearrangement of the imperialist blocs is creating scenarios that the workers must understand very well to be able to confront them successfully.
In the deployment of their actions, the imperialist blocs are developing different tactics with the aim of strengthening their routes of domination over the resources and peoples. But the latter will exert a fierce resistance in various forms of struggle, a difficulty that the imperialists try to overcome with the application of sophisticated, violent and non-violent methods. They resort to strengthening mercenaries who, together with the conventional repressive agencies, will develop shock actions against the proletariat and the peoples.
Particularly in Latin America, capitalism is experiencing a period of transition from the domination of one imperialist bloc to another, a situation that is developing within the framework of the imperialist rearrangement in our region. To concretize this transition, the capitalists are relying on different forms of government, sometimes petty bourgeois and social democratic, at other times openly bourgeois and reactionary governments, both exponents of the bourgeoisie associated with big capital.
On our continent, some bourgeois democratic governments, despite their reformist character, develop contradictions, particularly against Yankee imperialism, which is creating conditions for the advance of the revolutionary popular movement in terms of the anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples.
This advance will not be created automatically; for this it is necessary that the revolutionaries in general and the Marxist-Leninists in particular can correctly orient the broad masses. This in turn means precisely determining that imperialism is the main enemy of the peoples and that, according to the particular circumstances of some countries, such as ours, this antagonism reflects in its characteristics the main contradictions in the imperialist epoch.
What task is imposed on the workers and peoples today and the revolutionary organizations today.
The redivision of the world by the imperialist powers will have its counterpart in the formation of mechanisms of resistance and struggle by the peoples in general and the proletariat in particular. These actions, which are part of the perspectives of revolutionary organization and the struggle against imperialism, require and demand overcoming the dispersion and weakness of the revolutionary movement, raising the levels of political qualification and ideological struggle against those positions that draw the attention of the proletariat and the peoples away from the main enemy, as well as against opportunist and revisionist positions that contribute to the dispersion of the revolutionary forces. The ideological struggle is exacerbated in these scenarios, which require that the political and ideological strength of revolutionary organizations and parties, in particular the Marxist-Leninists, to make the best efforts to assertively guide the struggle of the workers and peoples by exposing the opportunists of the left and right, preventing the danger of fascism or fascistization that in the current scenarios has regained strength and ascendancy in the popular sectors.
In this sense, strengthening revolutionary organizational references involves overcoming the practices that keep us away from the attention of the broad masses as an important option. To overcome part of these weaknesses, it is necessary to strengthen spaces of unity for political action on the part of the revolutionary forces, taking into account the demands of the political moment imposed by the national and international reality. To advance in political action, initiatives such as the popular front are required, which is a task of the first order at the present time. In this sense, it is urgent to develop a policy of alliances and agreements within the democratic and revolutionary forces with practical sense and revolutionary impetus in order to advance today and to be able to build concrete paths for small, medium and great victories of the revolutionary popular forces.
The above are part of the tasks of Marxist-Leninists today; this should contribute in its various forms and development to the strengthening of the tactical elements in the struggle for national liberation and socialism for which it is imperative to achieve an effective expansion and understanding of our proposals for national liberation by the workers, peasants, communities, youth, women, managing to attract them and incorporate them into the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggle.
It is a complex scenario; it requires attention to the development of the very accelerated dynamic and that is expressed in economic, political and social field, characterized by the actions of the imperialist rearrangement. In particular on our continent the contention is characterized by a rise of the China-Russia bloc, expressing itself in greater economic and military agreements. It is in this region that the US-EU bloc tries to stop this advance while experiencing greater difficulties when some of its "unconditional" allies in the region are being displaced.
The peoples in general and the proletariat in particular have their choice of liberation only by strengthening their capacity for struggle. Inter-imperialist disputes are creating scenarios that point to the expansion of wars; our continent is not exempt from this. Since we have numerous strategic minerals, large deposits of oil, water, great biodiversity desired by the imperialist blocs, our continent will experience the effects of the inter-imperialist contention more and more.
This situation can be seen in some electoral scenarios where the candidates rush to declare the conditions they offer as government proposals to one or another bloc.
Particularities of the inter-imperialist contention in our country.
The imperialist aggression against our country continues to develop through carrying out actions in the economic and political fields. The consequences of these actions have terrible effects within the popular sectors in general and in the proletariat. In particular, the US-EU bloc has carried out a series of actions, including economic sanctions, which have been one of the main causes of the abrupt economic downturn, the pauperization of the living conditions of the exploited and oppressed majorities.
Certainly, we must emphasize the fact that the different actions of imperialist aggression have concentrated on affecting the popular sectors and especially the workers in multiple ways. Based on the control they exercise over the means of production, imperialism has applied mechanisms to extract the greatest quantity of surplus value. The attack on the workers has also been expressed in the revival of speculation, as one of the tactics of the bourgeoisie to crush wages and thus fulfill its objectives of destroying the living conditions of the workers.
It is also worth mentioning that part of the economic policies taken on by the government have worked as a catalyst for the pauperization of the workers' living conditions, by showing their ineffectiveness in stopping the effects of the harmful consequences of imperialist aggression actions, or by establishing mechanisms that are addressed more to the interests of the big bourgeoisie to the detriment of the popular strata and the proletariat.
Faced with the aforementioned situation, part of the popular sectors and the proletariat have raised and supported proposals within the framework of worker, peasant and communal control of production, while they have deployed their actions in defense of the same. In response to the lessons bequeathed by the struggle of the proletariat, the experience of the popular front has been promoted, under the premise of adding and coordinating the capacities and forces of the popular and revolutionary movement to confront imperialism and its agents. This initiative of anti-imperialist struggle has been connected with actions of organic construction, developed by workers, peasants and communal organizations in various parts of the national territory, thus highlighting their class character and their clarity about the need for revolutionary unity. Although they are experiences that still require greater strength and consolidation, they are in frank struggle against all the obstacles and attacks of economic and political sectors of the small and big bourgeoisie, the workers, these experiences are part of an objective that expresses ways and forms to resist and fight against the imperialist offensive, avoiding falling for the sweetened lies that the class enemy is trying to sell.
Our task as Marxist-Leninists is to join, direct and strengthen the experiences of our people in the anti-imperialist struggle, contributing with honesty and discipline to their political and ideological qualification towards the struggle for national liberation and socialism. [Note that some of the articles have been edited slightly, for typos, etc.]
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