The disappearance of socialism in the former Soviet Union and in other East Europe countries resulted in consequences, not only political and economical, but in the consciousness of both, the extended masses and those of supported the ideology of the working class it represented a meaningful drawback that affected our parties and which propitiated, in lots of militants and supporters of our cause, a kind of skepticism regarding the possibility to substitute capitalism by socialism or even to continue struggling to have a humanity breakthrough.
It must be taken into consideration that, not all of those who throughout time supported the socialism ideals arrived to them through the same path and that they have a different consequence facing these facts. Some of them suffered such a great impact that their confidence disappeared, mainly in an irreparable way; others felt immerse within a doubt’s sea. But the conviction of some other was not affected at all, but they rather realized that the process of the revolutionary struggle is more complex and prolonged than it has been expected up to the time that more new elements appeared, same which, of course, would require a substantially greater effort, a more intense work both theoretically and practically.
Up to this point, without taken into account to the false socialists, opportunists who were becoming part of the parties, pursuing personal or group interests who were also present and in a substantial number, as it has become every time clearer. The false militants of the Socialist project failure in Europe have immediately take their masks out everywhere and have set aside socialism and fitted to the new situation, both in political and material aspects. They have tried to dilute the socialist and communist profile of parties or rather to transform them into other, of bourgeois nature, making arrangements with different elements of this social class or they have even tried to disappear them. When failing to carry out such project, they have decided to quit, and to shamelessly keep as much goods and resources as they could. These are histories that can be repeated everywhere, we would say that in all the communist and working parties around the world, almost without exception.
Consequently, a sensible reduction of the number of supporters struggling for the socialism in the world has taken place, this phenomenon has been matched by the one of the ruling forces – dominated mainly by the imperialist interests of today – and by the fact that the anticommunist propaganda is propitious, much more than it was in the past, to confuse population.
Then, it is clear that today, the struggle is to be perform in unfavorable conditions, differing from the events shown during the socialist regime emerging. This is a rule of thumb affecting both, the people who are willing to get rid from the imperialist domination in order to advance towards superior stages of social organization, such as ours, and it also affects to the countries that remain firm in their decision to build socialism. But it is also clear that the socialism cannot be reached throughout a mechanical evolution but rather as a result of the struggle of peoples, that is to say, by the transforming the action of men. And this struggle and this transforming action do not only limit to the periods of propitious conditions but it takes place at every moment. The mechanism creating the proper conditions so that tomorrow more advanced action towards the definitive victory can be taken is the current struggle.
Therefore, the absurd thesis of the end of history spread by ideologists serving to imperialism was initially accepted by those who did not have a scientific conception of society’s development, including sectors susceptible to go along with the working class has loosen importance.
As soon as the prevailing conditions have evidenced the changes occurred, they do not only did not ruin our theory but they reaffirmed its character of instrument to analyze and mainly, to transform the reality which is necessary from the essential Marxism-Leninism thesis to locate the role of the communist and workers under the current circumstances.
Communists cannot forget that 150 years ago, in the Communist Party Manifest, Marx and Engels stated that bourgeoisie – differing from the oppressing classes that have preceded them – cannot exist if it is not by the uninterrupted revolution of the production instruments; that by means of exploitation of the world market have granted a cosmopolitan character to the production and consumption and which has taken out of the industry its national basis; stating instead of the ancient isolation a universal change, a universal interdependence of nations; which has centralized the means of production and concentrated the property in the hands of only a few; that all the above stated has generated the super production crisis; that these crisis are beat by the bourgeoisie destroying part of the productive forces, by conquering new markets and exploiting in a more intense way than the ancient one; and, that all of that, results in a more extended and more violent crisis and means must be decreased in order to prevent them.
These genial comments by the Marxism founders can do nothing but serve us to evaluate the facts of the last decades. We would be making a substantial error if we tried to explain ourselves the world of our times without taking into account the essence of the outlining comprised in the first revolutionary program of the proletariat. On the contrary, if we interpret reality armed with the baggage that the Marxism classics inherited to us, we will be able not only to understand what has happened but also to find out ways allowing us to reintegrate our organizations and the international communist movement.
The stage we are living now is nothing but the repetition, in conditions every time more intense, of such contradiction being generated by the society itself, of an impetuous development of the productive forces and their contradiction with the existing production relations.
Today, just as one and a half-century ago, the productive forces were developed supported by the new discoveries achieved in all the areas of knowledge. Its particularity stems out of the fact that from that the end of the first half of the present century, the process known as the Scientific-Technical Revolution have covered in one or other degree, to all the developed countries, that is, that discoveries were applied in all of them both, in science and technique, to the productive processes. Such application has contributed, among other things, to accelerate the process of internationalization of the economic and extended relation of the international division of work.
The characteristic of the current world are not, however, those discovering that substantially influence the productive processes since they are permanent, but rather the forms of production, the commercial interchange, the communication performance and the financing forms which have become processes increasingly overcoming the national frames and which generally modify the progress of society. Not only technology has changed – it always changes – but rather the concept of production, which became a much more global process, the concept that new world order theoreticians name as the globalization concept, which will result from the mechanisms of the capitalist integration.
Globalization and integration are objective process and, therefore, unavoidable, they result from the current needs of the work economy which require, in most of its branches, a mass production, a scale production, that not only passes through the national boundaries regarding the productive process but returns are increasingly oriented to a foreign market and the mobility of capital and labor force is every time more evident.
According to the globalization supporters, work economy is every time less the sum of individual economies being the objective to become an integrated economy at international scale, where each of us depends on the other. The purpose of the above stated means that in the current world, no nation is able to survive by itself, regardless the powerful that it is, if has not an interdependent relationship with the other. Such thesis is false, since inequalities among nations that decide to integrate generate, in all cases, subordinating conditions of the less developed countries towards those that are within the imperialist stage and towards the monopolies greatly influencing the development of its economies, therefore, we can talk about an interdependence marked by inequality. In these conditions, it is evident that the international finance capital is imposing the conditions of the integrating process.
On the other hand, globalization does not only consist of the internationalization of capital but rather in a thorough process, it does not limit the agreements among the monopolies to have a higher return from the productive and commercial process, but of increasingly state involvement throughout governments from imperialist countries in charge of intimidating, threatening and attacking in order to be able to remove the barriers interposed by the week countries in order to prevent the subjection of the international finance capital. Additionally, the parasitary, speculative capital of the imperialist stage, as stated by Lenin, every time acquires more presence and a clearer evidence of the caduceus character of capitalism.
Theoreticians at the service of monopolies, derive from the thesis of globalization, the one of interdependence and from both of them, the need to foster the existence of integrating regional blocks where the big powers play the main role. They foster the free trade, the suppression of the protectionism policy of the countries under the influence of the industrialized countries and, in general, the dependence of the economies from the countries influenced by them. In our continent, after the subscription of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the emerging of Mercosur and other similar processes, currently the constitution of the biggest market of the world is being fostered by means of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that would comprise all our continent, excepting Cuba.
The integration, due to the unequal development of the countries participating in these processes, stands out inequalities and generates subordinating policies, since the financing capital makes use of the unequal interdependence to subordinate its partners which, at the end results in nothing but a new way of colonialism.
If it is truth that, such integration and release of the economic interchange encourages the capitalist market, enables the development of the productive forces and stands out the specialization and internationalization of the productive processes, declining thus the costs, increases the productivity and, therefore, the commodities mass; that the commerce among the integrated countries increases at rates over those of world trade; and originates a greater presence of foreign capital to the zone, it is also truth that all of the above stated is for the benefit of the more developed countries of which these integrating processes are initiated and cannot prevent the recessive stages, nor the cyclic crisis. Crisis which are acquiring new modes such as the one that initiated in Asia and which has currently generated as one of its sequels, a decline of the main world stock market. This financial crisis has not concluded yet and is threatening to result in a process that may result in a global finance collapse and then, in a long recessive period of the world economy.
Also, throughout the Organization for the Cooperation and Economic Development (Organizacion para la Cooperacion y el Desarrollo Economoco, OCDE), the imperialists foster an Investment Multilateral Agreement (IMA) to impose the interests of the financial capital to all the peoples of the world. Such agreement unilaterally reserves all the rights in favor of the international investors and corporations and assigns all the obligations to the national States. Then, the investors would be entitled to invest in anything they may want, within an unregulated market at the extreme degree of disappearing every restriction; and the governments would protect the investments and returns, without any limit.
All that is currently taking place does not truly represent any novelty if we talk about the essence of the capitalistic society development process in its imperialist stage, it is rather a change of forms, a conformance to its policies to make the best use of the current conditions of the impetuous development of the productive forces, but at the same time, is nothing more than the increasing worsening of all the contradictions of capitalism.
Facing this reality, our parties are every time more urged to carry out a collective analysis, both of these new situations and of the answers that working class must cope with to orient its peoples in the struggle for the revolutionary transformation to society.
Facing those who abandoned the struggle, and those who betrayed their peoples and changed to the enemies band, as well as those who wanted to transform the communist and labor parties in organizations at the service of the bourgeoisie interests, we have the huge responsibility to demonstrate both theoretically and practically that the genial thesis of Marx, Engels, Lenin and some other heads of the international working class are still in effect, because there is still a capitalist exploiting class that made the creation of a working class theory necessary to substitute the waging exploitation regime by a superior class, socialism.
FRATERNALLY, HURRAH MEXICO!