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.
AUGUST, 2023
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