This document discusses the differences between Marxism and revisionism. It states that throughout history, class struggle and force have driven changes to social orders. The state exists to maintain the existing socio-economic structure and suppress the oppressed masses. Contrary to descriptions of democracy as classless, bourgeois democracy is actually a dictatorship of the bourgeois class over common people. The working class's main task is to smash the bourgeois state machinery and establish public ownership and eliminate exploitation through a dictatorship of the proletariat. Revisionists distort Marxist principles by rejecting class struggle and advocating for class collaboration and peaceful transition instead of revolution.
This document discusses the differences between Marxism and revisionism. It states that throughout history, class struggle and force have driven changes to social orders. The state exists to maintain the existing socio-economic structure and suppress the oppressed masses. Contrary to descriptions of democracy as classless, bourgeois democracy is actually a dictatorship of the bourgeois class over common people. The working class's main task is to smash the bourgeois state machinery and establish public ownership and eliminate exploitation through a dictatorship of the proletariat. Revisionists distort Marxist principles by rejecting class struggle and advocating for class collaboration and peaceful transition instead of revolution.
This document discusses the differences between Marxism and revisionism. It states that throughout history, class struggle and force have driven changes to social orders. The state exists to maintain the existing socio-economic structure and suppress the oppressed masses. Contrary to descriptions of democracy as classless, bourgeois democracy is actually a dictatorship of the bourgeois class over common people. The working class's main task is to smash the bourgeois state machinery and establish public ownership and eliminate exploitation through a dictatorship of the proletariat. Revisionists distort Marxist principles by rejecting class struggle and advocating for class collaboration and peaceful transition instead of revolution.
This document discusses the differences between Marxism and revisionism. It states that throughout history, class struggle and force have driven changes to social orders. The state exists to maintain the existing socio-economic structure and suppress the oppressed masses. Contrary to descriptions of democracy as classless, bourgeois democracy is actually a dictatorship of the bourgeois class over common people. The working class's main task is to smash the bourgeois state machinery and establish public ownership and eliminate exploitation through a dictatorship of the proletariat. Revisionists distort Marxist principles by rejecting class struggle and advocating for class collaboration and peaceful transition instead of revolution.
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About Revisionism
Revisionism and Marxism : The Fundamental Difference
Workers! Learn how to differentiate between real and fake communists! Whenever In the birth of a new social order happens in history, force plays the role of a midwife who helps in carrying out the delivery. Be it nature or society, it is necessary to apply force in order to change a the prevailing condition. From the time of primitive communism to the current society, history has remained that of class-struggles and revolutions. Class struggle has so far been the basic main driving force of historical development. In the struggle clash between two contradictory opposing classes, class collaboration can either represent the temporary helplessness of the defeated class or an apparent/illusory reality during the days of defeat; but it certainly does not represent the natural stategeneral nature of the classes or the general truth of any class society. The basic economic principle laws of any class-society does not allow this.
State is the central and supreme political organization of the class
which holds dominance over the economy. The purpose of state is to maintain the existing socio-economic structure and to crush the resistance of other classes. In a society based on private ownership of the means of production, the statehood always remains a tool for dictatorship held by the exploitative ruling-class, and it works acts as a special force for the suppression of the oppressed exploited common masses, whatever be the form of government. Contrary to reality, Democracy is not a classless or egalitarian system as is often mentioned in the bourgeois books often describeabout bourgeois democracy as a classless and egalitarian system, when in reality, it isIn its essence bourgeois democracy is only a dictatorship over the common masses by the bourgeois class. It gives the toiling masses and the intellectuals only as little much freedom as to letis required for them to sustain themselves by selling their physical and mental labour power in the market. In the capitalist society, whatever freedom and rights that people hold enjoy beyond this have been achieved through their long struggles and sacrifices. The rest is a hoax in the name of freedom. The section of intelligentsia which serves the bourgeois class by taking up the responsibility of managing the state and the structure of production enjoys a higher level of comfort and freedom. These educated people belonging to the higher strata actually ends up being an organ part of this the ruling bodyelite. The instruments of coercion, like the army and police, act as the central aid constituents of the state in any capitalist democracy, be it India or America. The bourgeois intelligentsia forms the rules and regulations to run the system and the bureaucracy implements them. The only role of government is merely that of a managing committee for the capitalists. The Parliament is a mere centre of shallow debatesa talking shop, where the state performs a stage-play of working for the people and by the peoplejust a show off. All the while, tThe real decisions are in fact taken in the boardrooms of the capitalists; the governments and bureaucracy implement them. The capitalist parliamentary elections that are conducted under the might of capital and political power might, is only a competition to decide which bourgeois party will get the next opportunity to be the managing committee of the bourgeois class. In the context of the state, the main task of the working class is to smash the bourgeois state machinery (that is, state power) and to build a new political machinery which would maintain establish the public ownership of means of production and take a step towards wiping out class-exploitation. A socialist democracy is not free from class either. It is the dictatorship of the proletariat. It also acts as a tool of force, but differs from the state machineries previously held by the exploiting classes in the sense that it works in favour of the entire toiling common masses and people and uses force against the minority of exploiting classes. In the long period of socialist transition, when all forms of classes and class exploitations are abolishedwither away, the proletarian state will itself will start getting abolishedwither away.
Broadly and briefly speaking, this is the fundamental principle of
Marxism-Leninism regarding state and revolution. The fake communists keep distorting this principle in various ways, which is why they are called revisionists. As per Lenin, revisionism is a capitalistic essence hiding withinin a Marxist shell. Sometimes openly and sometimes weaving a deceitful web of words, revisionists, in one form or the other, reject the basic historic law of class struggle and advocate for class-collaboration. They reject the historical teaching of the role of force and destruction of the state, and advocate for a peaceful transition instead of revolution or. They they use the term 'revolution' synonymously with peaceful transition. The Rrevisionists deny the fact that never in history have the oppressive explotative ruling classes voluntarily sacrificed gave up their power and dug their own graves, nor have they ever undergone a change of heart.