[L-I] Great November Revolution Lives OnArticle Published in Proletarian Era, The Organ of S.U.C.I.- 1st.November issue

Great November Revolution Lives On
Article Published in Proletarian Era, The Organ of
S.U.C.I.- 1st.November issue


It was November 7, 1917 that marked a turning point in
history vindicating the truth that Marxism was no
illusion, not based on any individual perception but
the path of scientific socialism, an integral world
outlook, a comprehensive life-philo-sophy, an
all-embracing theory of knowledge which stands
experimentally verified on the foundation of modern
science, a guide to action towards emancipation from
all sorts of exploitation of man by man. Through the
accomplishment of anti-capitalist socialist revolution
in Russia and establishment of the first working class
state, Comrade Lenin, the giant Marxist authority and
architect of great November Revolution, proved that
proletarian revolution was not a utopia of communist
revolution-aries, but an inevitable outcome of the law
of class struggle working irrevocably within the
society, a reality in the historically deter-mined
course of social progress. He showed that if the
essence of the Marxian science could be assimilated
properly  so as to be able to derive the correct
Marxist outlook to apply the science in a concrete
situation, mankind could be freed from the ruthless
exploitation of imperialist-capitalist rule and the
door of all-round progress and development of the
human race could be forced open. His unrelenting
attitude on the question of principle, his intense
battle against all sorts of deviations and distortions
of the Marxist philosophy at the hands of the
revisionists and opportunists, his singleness of
purpose and his exceptional analytical and
organizational skill on the basis of correct Marxist
understanding ensured the success of epoch-making
November Revolution and ushered in a new socialist
society overthrowing the rule of capital in one sixth
part of the globe.

November Revolution marked new era
The toiling people of the world stood up and greeted
this historic event that embodied the urges and
aspirations, mirth and hope of the exploited myriads.
Proletarian revolutionaries the world over fighting
for emancipation from the grinding wheel of
imperia-list-capitalist exploitation drew their
inspiration and lessons from the long and
uncompromising battle of the Bolshevik Party, the
revolutionary party of the proletariat, under the
leadership of Lenin in a backward country like Russia.
It was established beyond doubt that scientific
socialism represented a higher stage of human
civilization, a higher social order shattering the
myth of so-called supremacy of capitalism as a world
system. Bolshevik revolution became a nightmare for
the imperialist-capitalist forces who were visibly
shaken and could sense the death-knell of their
oppressive class-rule. ‘‘The first Bolshevik
Revolution’’, said Lenin, ‘‘has wrested the first
hundred million people of this earth from the clutches
of imperialist war and the imperialist world.
Subsequently, revolutions will deliver the rest of
mankind from such wars and from such a world.’’
Alluding to the significance of Bolshevik revolution,
Stalin observed that it was “a radical change in the
history of mankind, a radical change in the historical
destiny of world capitalism, a radical change in the
liberation movement of the world proletariat.’’ In the
words of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, one of the foremost
Marxist thinkers of the era and founder General
Secretary of SUCI, ‘‘November Revolution has thrown up
before all countries a perspective of revolution and
its fundamental principles in the era. It has
demonstrated that with the end of the era of bourgeois
democratic revolution, world capitalism has become
decadent and moribund and opposed to progress,
national freedom struggle, individual liberty and
democracy and therefore it stands as the obstacle on
the path of social progress.’’
The imperialist-capitalists suffering from the
fear-complex of anti-capitalist proletarian
revolution, were not sitting idle but weaving  their
own web to crush the nascent socialist state and rein
the advance-ment of proletarian movement. Immediately
after the Bolshevik revolution, a group of imperialist
countries combinedly flexed military muscle and
pounced upon the USSR. But when they were defeated by
the heroic Soviet people under the leadership of
Bolshevik revolutionaries, Socialist Soviet was
subjected to antagonistic encirclement by the
imperialists-capitalists. They gave all support and
help to the revisionists inside the Soviet Union to
break it from within. But both Lenin and Stalin, the
great Marxist leaders as they were, fought both the
attacks with deftness. Apart from repulsing the armed
attack of the imperialist forces, Lenin ceaselessly
struggled against both right and left deviations to
safeguard Marxism from distortion and effacement. It
was Lenin who correctly interpreted Marxism in the
post-Marx era of imperialism and proletarian
revolution and thus by generalizing upon the
historical experience of the era made fundamental
contributions to enrich the treasure-house of the
Marxist philosophy. In this process Marxism developed
into Marxism-Leninism.

Spectacular success of Socialist Soviet
After the sad premature demise of Lenin, the task of
defending Marxism-Leninism against revisionist
distortions and building up Soviet Union as the
citadel of world revolution devolved on Stalin.
Stalin, based on the correct  understanding of
Marxism-Leninism, fought Trotskyites, Bukharinites and
others to hold aloft the noble banner of scientific
socialism. By generalizing upon the historical
experience of the period of general crisis of
capitalism and further disintegration of world
capitalist market,  Stalin provided the foundation  to
Leninism and engaged in strengthening the first
working class state. It was under the dynamic
leadership of Stalin, the worthy disciple of Lenin and
a giant communist leader, that the ‘‘sickest nation in
Europe’’ speedily got transformed into a most vibrant
one with startling progress in every sphere —
economic, social, political, cultural. People of that
great landmass divided over  language, nationality,
regional bias, religious faith, degree of economic and
cultural development and such other counts were united
in the gigantic Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
being imbued with the nobility of the revolutionary
ideology of Marxism-Leninism and demonstrated to the
world the immense power of scientific socialism in
accelerating social advancement. Within a very short
time of just a few years, the USSR surfaced as one of
the six most industrially advanced nations. There was
progressive decrease in food prices, compulsory health
and medicare facilities surpassed even the most
advanced imperialist countries, social security
measures were of highest order, education made
available to all, unemployment vanished from the
national scene, prostitution was unknown and no
beggars could be seen on the streets.
The period of gigantic socialist reconstruction under
Stalin’s stewardship was reckoned as the most dynamic
era of human history. It stunned even great humanists
and persons of wisdom and sagacity like Romain
Rolland, Bertrand Russel, Albert Einstein,
Rabindranath Tagore and others. More and more thinking
people got attracted towards the noble ideology of
Marxism-Leninism and were drawn nearer to socialist
Soviet. World of creative art found in socialism and
proletarian revolution a new content. An illumining
thought dawned upon the whole world, a new current
swept across the globe. The glorious victory of the
Bolshevik revolutionaries and the spectacular success
of the socialist Soviet bolstered the spirit of
protest against exploitation and injustice, provided
tremendous impetus to the national liberation
struggles in colonies and semi-colonies, inspired
proletarian revolutionary movements to crystallize in
imperialist-capitalist countries. Communist Parties
were formed in many parts of the world to lead the
revolutionary struggles of the working class. Red flag
stood as a symbol of liberation, emblem of progress,
signal of bold strides ahead and nightmare for the
oppressive, autocratic bourgeois class.

Emergence of socialist bloc
Failing to move the stone, the imperialist-capitalist
camp fell back upon the chicanery of theoretical
formulations to upstage political economy of
socialism, Keynes propounded a general theory of
employment, interest and money, arguing that disparity
in income is causing fall in effective demand and
hence advised to stuff money in the hands of the
people, cleverly advocated  in favour of labour as the
sole factor of production, surreptitiously made
efforts to discard Marxist postulates and
clandestinely provided the base of fascist economy
under the garb of radical propositions. While Keynes
was trying to save moribund capitalism already in the
grip of third general intense crisis, through economic
manipulations and jugglery of words, the ugly face of
fascism raised its head in the arena of politics and
cultural thoughts. And in no time, the world was
plunged into another global war. No doubt fascist
Germany and its allies declared war against others to
subjugate world population under its domination and
satisfy hegemonist aspirations. But the principal aim
of both the fascist axis and the so-called allied
combination of other imperialist powers was to crush
socialist Soviet state and proletarian revolutionary
movement. The allied power represented by the British,
French, US and other imperialists wanted that the
whole brunt of Nazi onslaught be borne by the USSR.
But once again their ploy was foiled. Stalin showed
remarkable revolutionary skill in handling
inner-contradiction of the imperialist bloc and made
them get embroiled in fighting each other to lose
considerably their military prowess and combating
capabilities in the process. The heroic Soviet people
and the Red Army, under the leadership of Stalin
inflicted a crushing defeat on the fascist forces in a
war unparalleled in scale, ferocity and destruction
and saved the human civilization from Nazi savagery
and total ruination. The war had cost the USSR dearly.
More than 20 million people including a large section
of the most advanced communists died. Yet the Soviet
people under the genuine revolutionary leadership were
undeterred, unflinched in resolve to establish the
invincibility of Marxism-Leninism. It was only in the
USSR that Hitler could not find a single quisling.
Once again, the world took note of the unassailability
of scientific socialism. So powerful was the impact of
this victory of the USSR over fascism that in most of
the East European countries, working class snatched
state power to establish socialist social system.
Subsequently with the accomplishment of the Chinese
revolution, one-third of the world became liberated
from the clutches of imperialism-capitalism to give
rise to a mighty socialist bloc. With the emergence of
a bi-polar world, the balance of world forces
underwent considerable change shattering the so-called
supremacy of imperialism-capitalism, who could no
longer find in themselves the sole dictator and
decider of world events. It took barely seven years
for Stalin to rebuild the war-ravaged economy and
develop the USSR, both industrially and militarily, to
such a height as equal to, if not greater than that of
mightiest imperialist powers including the US. US took
about 300 years to come to the position that was
achieved by the USSR under Stalin in such a short
span. However, none of these developments came about
by impairing the process of all-out progress in the
life and livelihood of the Soviet people and
continuous upliftment in the standard of living. At
one time during the eighteenth party congress of the
Soviet Communist Party, there was a serious thinking
to make food and transport free. The indisputable
facts of history discussed above do testify the
correct, brilliant, wise and vigilant leadership
provided by Stalin. The post-war period was indeed an
excellent revolutionary situation. The whole world was
in ferment of revolutionary movements — tides of
national liberation struggles were sweeping the
colonies and semi-colonies. For the imperia-lists the
world market was already shrunk after emergence of the
socialist bloc. Over and above, the bourgeoisie in the
former colonies appeared as new competitors in that
already squeezed a market. The various forms of
contradiction within the imperialist-capitalist camp
was tremendously intensified to hasten the process of
its further disintegration. The socialist bloc led by
the USSR was held in high esteem by the people of the
world as guarantor of peace and progress. It appeared
that world proletarian revolution was no more a
distant future. The great November Revolution thus was
a decisive factor in bringing about many changes in
various spheres and in shaping out world events. 

The great betrayal
But then happened the biggest setback. After the
demise of Stalin, the leadership of the Soviet
Communist Party and the State was usurped by the
Khruschovite revisionists to augur the chapter of
great betrayal to the cause of proletarian revolution.
With consternation, one saw that the leadership of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which carried the
legacy of stalwarts like Lenin and Stalin, led the
first socialist revolution, consolidated and developed
socialist economy on a firm basis, saved human
civilization from fascist slavery and kindled the fire
of revolution in the hearts of the myriads, was
discarding the revolutionary line of Marxism-Leninism
and moving in the opposite direction. The path along
which the modern revisionists like Khrushchov and his
associates began to tread ultimately led to the
destruction of the USSR and dismantling of the mighty
socialist bloc with counter-revolution taking place in
former socialist states of East Europe much to the
delight of the forces of reaction. A pale of gloom
descended over the world.
It is not that revisionism was born out of nothing.
There were ingredients for modern revisionism to grow
and all great Marxist authorities and leaders were
aware of that. Time and again, they sounded note of
caution to forestall any such catastrophe. Both Lenin
and Stalin repeatedly asserted that a change in the
character of the state from capitalist to socialist
does not entail abolition of class struggle in the
mental sphere, vanquishing of capitalist thoughts in
the domain of ethics, culture and all forms of desire
and contemplations. So they emphasized upon conducting
necessary ideological struggle and upgrade cultural
standard to free the mental world from all such
hangovers of bourgeois thinking. Lenin warned that
class struggle would intensify much more after  the
socialist revolution as then the battle would be in
the realm of mind, in forces of habit, conduct and
behaviour. So he remarked that it is more difficult to
sustain socialism than achieving it. Stalin too
noticed the falling ideological standard of the party
and the masses. In his report to the seventeenth
congress of the Soviet Communist Party, he did mention
this in no uncertain a term and gave a call for
launching a serious ideological struggle to eliminate
survivals of capitalism in the realm of thought. At
the nineteenth congress of the party, the last one in
Stalin’s lifetime, the report placed under his
guidance expressed serious concern at the lowering of
the level of political consciousness in the party
ranks, a certain neglect of ideological work and
called for waging a determined struggle against the
vestiges of bourgeois ideology and private property
mentality which were still in vogue. During the Second
World War period, the whole party and the state
concentrated all their attention and energy on saving
the socialist system from fascist aggression. Almost
ten million ideologically imbibed party leaders and
cadres laid down their lives. These did hamper the
process of continuous elevation of ideological
standard and grasping more and more communist moral
values to raise cultural standard allowing serious
shortcomings and mistakes to creep into the Soviet
Communist Party and international communist movement.
True, that the falling ideological standard did not
escape Stalin’s notice and during his time,
revisionist tendencies could not surface so vividly
due to his essentially correct politics, his towering
revolutionary personality and stature and enormous
prestige among the Soviet people. But once he passed
away, there was a big void which made it possible for
modern revisionists under Khrushchov to usurp power.

Comrade Shibdas Ghosh’s exposition of revisionism
In this connection, we would like to point out the
revolutionary political wisdom of Comrade Shibdas
Ghosh in alerting the international communist movement
about the mechanical thought process as against
dialectical thought process influencing the
leadership. Way back in 1948, when Yugoslavian leader
Marshal Tito was expelled from the Cominform, Comrade
Ghosh, while supporting the decision of expulsion,
could not appreciate the method in which the episode
was handled. He apprehended that if the approach and
attitude of the international communist leadership
continue to be fraught with such shortcomings, it
might, in place of overcoming the problem, push the
situation into a deeper crisis. So he forewarned that
‘‘if sufficient vigil is not constantly exercised...
if this problem of non-Marxist mechanical outlook
prevailing at present in the matter of ideological
questions is not resolved in time ...that might ...
injure the interest of the world socialist camp.’’ He
was first to draw the attention of the world that the
political line proposed by Khrushchov in the twentieth
congress of the CPSU would ‘‘open the floodgate of
revisionism’’. Later, criticizing the policy of
Khrushchovite revisionists  of denigrating  Stalin in
the name of fighting out the cult of personality,
Comrade Ghosh said, ‘‘it may have the effect of
de-Stalinization which in its wake will challenge the
very understanding of Marxism-Leninism, obtaining at
present which is , so to say, Stalin’s contribution
... Stalin’s understanding of Leninism is the correct
understanding of Marxism-Leninism. This understanding
has brought the communist movement to its present
stature. ... To black out Stalin ..would objectively
uncrown Lenin himself.” Comrade Ghosh elaborately
explained the sense of authority in Marxism-Leninism
as distinct from authoritarianism, the concept of
proletarian democracy as against bourgeois
ultra-democracy and conclusively proved that measures
adopted by Khrushchov with regard to Stalin was
tantamount to de-Stalinization which ‘‘is fraught with
the danger of sinking into revisionism.’’ He could
correctly detect that since it was difficult for
Khrushchov and his associates to come open with the
revisionist formulations at that time, they directed
their attack against Stalin to create confusion,
slowly disorient the people from the correct
revolutionary line and then vigorously pursue
reformist-revisionnist policies to turn the table. 
Focussing on the origin of revisionism in a socialist
country, Comrade Ghosh observed that ‘‘the old form of
class struggle is no more there today. The class
struggle has assumed a new form, and has become subtle
more and more. But so far as the concept of struggle
is concerned, the old idea ... and thinking of the old
society have not been thoroughly wiped out from the
minds of the leaders, cadres and the people, on the
one hand; rather the bourgeois ideas, in the new
condition, are infiltrating in newer forms and in
subtler ways while, on the other, with the growing
economic and political stability of the socialist
system, the sense of individual liberty is gradually
tending to assume the character of a sense of
privilege. As a result, conducting class struggle has
become all the more difficult today. The revolution,
accomplishment of which once seemed very difficult,
has assumed a still more difficult character in the
present context.’’
Dwelling on the evil effects of individualism even in
a socialist society, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh said, “the
very trend aimed at reducing sense of individual
freedom and liberty, emancipation of the individual
and individuality to individual privileges and vulgar
individualism, with the attainment of more and more
stability in economic and political spheres in the
socialist society ... I have already termed as
socialist individualism.”
‘‘Russian experience’’, further observed Comrade
Ghosh, ‘‘has clearly shown that if alongwith the
tremendous growth and development of the economy,
military science and technology of a socialist
country, the ideological-cultural-ethical standard of
the society as a whole — starting from the
philosophical understand-ing and cultural-ethical
standard of the collective to the minutest detail of
the individual behaviour, habit and practices — cannot
be elevated to keep pace with the need for all-round
development of socialist economy, then the gap that
will be created is bound to lead to a lowering of
standard in the ideological sphere. And if the level
of  consciousness and the cultural standard remain
low, then it may give birth to revisionism-reformism
at any moment, in a critical hour, under favourable
conditions and may lead to counter-revolutionary
upsurge, peaceful or violent, and thus endanger
socialism by bringing about counter-revolutionary
changes in the socio-political set up. If backwardness
continues to persist in the fields of epistemology and
culture, then the entire party and the working class
may, being misled, tread the revisionist-reformist
path and bring about restoration of capitalism while
waving the banner of Marxism-Leninism and chanting
socialist slogans.’’ 
This brilliant analysis and forewarning of Comrade
Ghosh in the process of concretizing Marxism-Leninism
on Indian soil and shaping out the course of Indian
revolution as a part of world proletarian revolution
and based on the symptoms, tendencies and available
facts, proved to be so correct in the events and
incidents that followed subsequently. It once again
reiterated the truth that the unfortunate collapse of
the socialist camp was not renunciation but
reconfirmation of the correctness of Marxian science.
Comrade Ghosh gave from a correct Marxist outlook a
genesis of each and every phenomenon of deviation from
Marxism-Leninism and thus provided the correct Marxist
guideline on all questions of life that cropped up in
the international communist movement in the post-Lenin
period — on fascism, revisionism, problems of
socialism, latest bourgeois ideological trends and
conspiracies, growing problem of individualism,
concept of proletarian culture and struggle for
identification with social purpose and so forth.

The new standard of a communist character
Particularly dealing with the question of attaining
communist character in this era of vulgar
individualism, he pointed out that "Uptill now, ...
only they were considered to be the real communists
who were able to surrender unconditionally and happily
the individual interest to social interest, place the
cause of revolution and party above all and
subordinate individual interest to the cause of
revolution and party... this has been regarded as the
highest communist standard.  But this cannot be
considered as the adequate standard ... in the context
of newer complexities of present-day life... the
concept of freedom and individualism is being reduced
to individual privileges on a wide scale...  In the
socialist society of today ... old bourgeois concept
of individual freedom and mental makeup ... stands in
the way of conducting a new struggle for the
individual's freedom and emancipation...obstructing
the individual necessity and individual interest from
merging and becoming identified with the social
necessity and social interest... So it is obvious that
the individual's struggle for emancipation has reached
a new and complex height and has assumed a new
character in the socialist  society where to resolve
this problem, a more intense and arduous struggle is
to be conducted for complete identification of the
self interest with the interest of society through
unflagging dedication and constant vigil." 

Dismantling of Socialist Block
Thus Comrade Ghosh visualized and analyzed the
problems of the socialist state, pinpointed  at the
origin, growth and perilous consequence of modern
revisionism and showed the way to fight them out to
advance proletarian revolutionary movement in the
desired course.  But all his brilliant analyses and
suggested remedies could not be reached out to the
leaders and cadres of international communist
movement.  On the other hand, the leadership of the
Soviet Communist Party was in the captivity of
revisionists which further prohibited correct
Marxist-Leninist thoughts from percolation. As a
result, the Krhshchovite revisionists went ahead with
their process of degeneration.  Ultimately through the
so-called slogans of perestroika and glassnost, mighty
soviet socialist state was dismantled, disintegrated
into pieces and subjugated back to capitalism.  By
that time, counter-revolution had already occurred in
the former socialist countries of East Europe. Thus
the socialist bloc, once fortress of world peace and
revolution, of hope and aspiration of the downtrodden
people, collapsed.  
This obviously encouraged the imperialist capitalist
camp to take anti-communist propaganda to a pitch and
raised questions about the practicability and
sustainability of the socialist system. The
bourgeoisie seized this opportunity to declare defeat
of Marxism-Leninism calling it outdated and outmoded.
As an alternative they surreptitiously brought back
their old doctrine of market based economy in the name
of globalization and counterpoised it against
socialist economy. The bourgeois economists,
sociologists, ideologues, columnists all joined the
chorus of maligning socialism and projecting
motivatedly, assiduously and concertedly globalizaton
as a heaven coming upon earth, a new stage in history
opening the door of ultimate well-being of the people.
 The complete disarray  after the fall of the USSR and
prevailing of all-around confusion and frustration
provided handle to the imperialist-capitalist power in
creating a halo about market economy of globalization
which people found within no time to be an euphemism
for neo-imperialism, on a more organized basis, in a
more sophisticated and intensive manner and on a much
wider scale, operating through multinationals and
transnational companies with the help of high
technology and sophisticated finance capital.  After
collapse of socialist bloc, the imperialists with US
imperialism as the helm declared that this was a new
order of unipolar world and as the socialist camp no
longer existed, there would be no more war, all-out
peace will prevail. 

The disastrous consequence
What would those who rejoiced at the collapse of
socialism in the Soviet Union and other countries say
today? Has peace dawned on earth? Have the ever
mounting military expenditure, arms race, installation
of overseas military base, surveillance and espionage
through modern satellite network stopped? Are they not
witnessing indiscriminate killing of innocent
civilians including women, children and patients in
the name of so-called liberation? If cold war is no
longer there, socialism, as the imperialists want all
to believe, is dead and Marxism proved to be invalid,
then why all these barbarous attacks on the
sovereignty of other states, such flagrant violations
of democratic norms by US imperialism and its
associates who are perpetrating overlordism and
brigandage with impunity ? Is it not a fact that so
long as the Soviet Union heading the socialist world
followed the correct policies of Lenin and Stalin, it
worked as a bulwark guaranteeing peace, safety and
security of even the weaker nations ? Now with
restoration of capitalism in Russia is not that
country, once contemplating to make food free, find
acute unemployment destitution, poverty, hunger,
prostitution and all other vices reappearing with much
gusto? Is not this spectacle the same in other
erstwhile East European socialist countries?

Revisionism — the stumble block before proletarian
revolution
It is understandable that those in the pay-roll of
imperialism-capitalism would try their best to
obfuscate this reality and divert people’s attention
from the root cause of all problems. They would surely
make every effort to shield the fact that capitalism
can no longer mitigate the hardship of the people and
is rather the main stumbling block before progress of
civilization and hence needs to be crushed to pave the
way for unhindered development of mankind, to free the
world from all sorts of exploitations. But the most
treacherous is the role of the modern revisionists who
under the garb of Marxism-Leninism are acting
perfidiously as agents of the bourgeoisie in setting
dangerous obstacles to proletarian revolutionary
struggles. These covert apologists of
imperialists-capitalists are preaching to eschew the
path of class struggle and instead embrace
class-collaborationist theory and are holding up the
prospect of the millennium through reforming the
capitalist system under the pretext of ‘appreciating
reality’ and becoming ‘practical in approach’. They
are all of the same mould as of Khrushchov, Gorbachev
and Deng Xiaoping, debilitating the proletarian
movement from within. Like other countries, such
social democratic forces are operating in our country
as well in full swing. Just have a look at the
politics and the conduct of the so-called left parties
like the CPI(M) and CPI and living embodiments of
social democracy, of vulgarization of Marxism-Leninism
will be visible with all glitter. Saddled to
governmental power in two states, the CPI(M) and its
allies have not only given up whatever little
participation they used to have in democratic movement
earlier, but are in the role of curbing mass movement
by either crushing through police-military or
canvassing in favour of restricting protest movements
or emasculating the working class struggle from within
by way of espousing class collaborationist thinking.
The CPI(M) is hoodwinking the people by saying that
capitalists from the country and abroad would select
the state of West Bengal under rule of the CPI(M)-led
government as destination of employment generating
capital investment if there is no militant trade union
movement and industrial peace, as the capitalists
intend to have, is ensured. Shamelessly, the CPI(M) is
hawking decadent and vile bourgeois thoughts, surfeit
of counterfeit arguments to curry favour with the
ruling class for pelf and power and serve its class
interest of keeping proletarian revolutionary thoughts
at bay. How prudent was Comrade Stalin when he,
disgusted at the treachery of the social democrats,
observed that ‘‘it is impossible to put an end to
capitalism without putting an end to social
democratism.’’

Build up mass movement conducive to poletarian
revolutionary struggle
But there is sparkle in pervading darkness. With the
passage of time, savage oppression and repression by
the capitalist imperialist class is aggravating the
hardship of the common people who once again find no
other alternative but to organize themselves on the
platform of democratic mass movements to resist the
attacks on life and livelihood. The people of
erstwhile Soviet Union and the socialist East European
states are realizing what they have lost, what
advantage they have allowed to fritter away by
yielding to the revisionist-reformists and by not
being able to protect the socialist system.
Notwithstanding the drum beats of capitalist class it
is now clear to the world people that dismantling of
the socialist camp did not mean end of communism or
make scientific socialism defunct. In fact, it was the
inevitable result of deserting correct
Marxist-Leninist base political line. All Marxist
stalwarts apprehended such a setback if the
proletariat would fail to conduct the class struggle
in such a way as to take it to its logical
culmination.
So we see today that there are massive protest
demonstrations around the world against capitalist
exploitation and oppression. Historic protest
movements against the naked aggression of Bush-Blair
duo on Iraq swept the globe including the US and UK.
Even the people of Russia and other East European
countries are rising against their present rulers. But
what is required is to give an organized shape to all
such protests and revolts in the form of a conscious,
sustained mass movement under genuine revolutionary
leadership so that these movements surge forth as
conducive to the anti-capitalist proletarian
revolution.
To restore, resurrect and resuscitate the kernel of
Great November Revolution, the direction of the main
blow has to be against modern revisionism. The
revisionists who masquerade themselves as Marxists to
misguide the toiling masses and the struggling spirit
of the people must be isolated and completely defeated
to remove the roadblock. Genuine communist parties
must be developed to arm the class-conscious
proletariat with their own instrument for struggle.
The working class who is the determinant of the course
of civilization today must also relentlessly conduct
ideological political struggles on the basis of
correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism with the aim
of overthrowing the rule of capital, the root cause of
all evils and establish scientific socialism to
ultimately march to classless communist society. It
must be the harbinger of the revolutionary thoughts
and teachings of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao-Comrade
Shibdas Ghosh. History reposes that task on the
revolutionary working class.


THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED IN PROLETAIAN ERA, THE
CENTRAL ORGAN OF SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE O F INDIA
(S.U.C.I.) ON THE OCCASION OF GREAT NOVEMBER
REVOLUTION
THE CHIEF EDITOR OF PROLETARIAN ERA IS COMRADE NIHAR
MUKHERJI, THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF S.U.C.I.


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