The anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly front and the problem of power
Among the ranks of the Front will be disparate forces from the point of view of their social position and ideological and political stance. They will reflect different trends with respect to the prospects and purpose of the anti-imperialist anti-monopoly struggle.
The development of socio-political confrontations and class conflicts will put the problem of power on the agenda. KKE directs its action in such a way that the anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly struggle will develop and the anti-capitalist awareness of the working class and the popular strata will deepen. KKE is trying steadfastly to persuade people that it is not enough for the bourgeois parties and their allies to withdraw from the helm of state. The bourgeois state and its machinery must be overthrown. A new popular power must be created which is none other than socialist power.
Under conditions where the class struggle and the popular movement are on the rise, when the revolutionary process has begun, there may be a government, as the instrument of the people’s power, which will have the approval and consent of the struggling people, without general elections or parliamentary procedures. This government will be identical with, or merely formally separate from, the power of the working class and its allies.
Under conditions of class conflict and the great decline in the influence of the bourgeois parties and their allies, a government may emerge of anti-imperialist anti-monopoly forces based in parliament even without the conditions having been met for the revolutionary transition.
The planning of government measures aiming to relieve the people, against transnational capital, dependence and Greece’s participation in imperialist associations, may rally the people and persuade them of the need for a more general breach with the past.
KKE would seek for such a government, through its action and more general popular intervention, to contribute to beginning the revolutionary process. The period that will show whether or not the government will go forward will not be a long one. Experience has shown that it will be short. If developments do not take a positive course, then the government will be overthrown by the reaction of the ruling class and imperialist intervention. But its overthrow would not necessarily mean a total reversal. It may be a factor helping the people understand more profoundly the need for the radical overthrow of the capitalist system.
In every case, the decisive factor will be the unity of the working class, and the winning of its leading role and that of its Party, KKE, in the Front.
Under the leadership of KKE, the most militant and experienced section of the working class, the Front will acquire the ability to alternate all forms of struggle promptly, in order to combat reaction and counter-offensive by the country’s ruling class. At these key moments of conflict, when the breach with the capitalist system comes up for discussion, realignments and rearrangements of the political forces will take place. The working class will seek to preserve the alliance and its links with as many of the anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly forces as possible.
For KKE to accomplish the tasks of the struggle to muster the necessary forces for socialism, the party itself must be supported resolutely and from all sides.
It must develop indissoluble links with the working class and the youth. It must build strong organisations in every place of work, learning and residence, in every place where young people and scientists gather, every place in the countryside. It must strengthen its ideological and political unity constantly, it must upgrade its vanguard role. The necessary conditions for the Party to fulfil these goals are the strengthening of its revolutionary features as a new type of party, its continuous assimilation of the theory of Marxism-Leninism, expanding collectivity in working out KKE’s policy and applying it in action, renewing its ranks and promoting thousands of new cadres, women and men workers and other people who work with their hands or their mind.
The development of socio-political confrontations and class conflicts will put the problem of power on the agenda. KKE directs its action in such a way that the anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly struggle will develop and the anti-capitalist awareness of the working class and the popular strata will deepen. KKE is trying steadfastly to persuade people that it is not enough for the bourgeois parties and their allies to withdraw from the helm of state. The bourgeois state and its machinery must be overthrown. A new popular power must be created which is none other than socialist power.
Under conditions where the class struggle and the popular movement are on the rise, when the revolutionary process has begun, there may be a government, as the instrument of the people’s power, which will have the approval and consent of the struggling people, without general elections or parliamentary procedures. This government will be identical with, or merely formally separate from, the power of the working class and its allies.
Under conditions of class conflict and the great decline in the influence of the bourgeois parties and their allies, a government may emerge of anti-imperialist anti-monopoly forces based in parliament even without the conditions having been met for the revolutionary transition.
The planning of government measures aiming to relieve the people, against transnational capital, dependence and Greece’s participation in imperialist associations, may rally the people and persuade them of the need for a more general breach with the past.
KKE would seek for such a government, through its action and more general popular intervention, to contribute to beginning the revolutionary process. The period that will show whether or not the government will go forward will not be a long one. Experience has shown that it will be short. If developments do not take a positive course, then the government will be overthrown by the reaction of the ruling class and imperialist intervention. But its overthrow would not necessarily mean a total reversal. It may be a factor helping the people understand more profoundly the need for the radical overthrow of the capitalist system.
In every case, the decisive factor will be the unity of the working class, and the winning of its leading role and that of its Party, KKE, in the Front.
Under the leadership of KKE, the most militant and experienced section of the working class, the Front will acquire the ability to alternate all forms of struggle promptly, in order to combat reaction and counter-offensive by the country’s ruling class. At these key moments of conflict, when the breach with the capitalist system comes up for discussion, realignments and rearrangements of the political forces will take place. The working class will seek to preserve the alliance and its links with as many of the anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly forces as possible.
For KKE to accomplish the tasks of the struggle to muster the necessary forces for socialism, the party itself must be supported resolutely and from all sides.
It must develop indissoluble links with the working class and the youth. It must build strong organisations in every place of work, learning and residence, in every place where young people and scientists gather, every place in the countryside. It must strengthen its ideological and political unity constantly, it must upgrade its vanguard role. The necessary conditions for the Party to fulfil these goals are the strengthening of its revolutionary features as a new type of party, its continuous assimilation of the theory of Marxism-Leninism, expanding collectivity in working out KKE’s policy and applying it in action, renewing its ranks and promoting thousands of new cadres, women and men workers and other people who work with their hands or their mind.
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