Chairman Gonzalo's Marxist-Leninist-Maoist outlook.

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Chairman Gonzalo's Marxist-Leninist-Maoist outlook.


In the list a number of exchanges - some rational, and others not so much to
say the least - have taken place around the question of the ideological
position of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP).

I feel many comrades may need a synthesis of Chairman Gonzalo's outlook in
reference to the central issues of the international workers movement in
order to clarify their own understanding of the PCP's political line
directly from the words of its indisputable leader and teacher, Chairman
Gonzalo:

"But would it not be correct to consider that we are going through a general
counter-revolutionary offensuive?  Why do we say this?  Because everyone is
attacking the revolution, the democratic revolution, the socialist
revolution, attacking revolutionary violence, the people's war.  They are
attacking the communist party, socialism, the dictatorship of the
proletariat and they are attacking the goal, communism"

"They say that the facts have demonstrated that socialism is no longer
valid, that socialism does not exist, that it has failed".

"But we must remind them that in the 50s there was a socialist camp, that
the victory of the Chinese revolution meant a momentous change in the
correlation of forces in the world and that never had been in history a
social system capable of changing so deeply and so rapidly the rotten
capitalist and feudal structures than that which existed in the USSR and in
China".

"We must remind them too, that socialism in the USSR unfolded under Lenin
and under comrade Stalin until the usurpation of power by the revisionist
Khrushchev, and that the situation in China was similar, where socialism
lasted until 1976 when, after the death of Chairman Mao, DEng Xiao-ping
carried out a counter-revolutionary revisionist coup d'etat".

"And we must remind them, also, that if we are to count from 1848 when marx
and Engels (who were only but two people) wrote the immortal Manifesto of
the Communist Party, laying down the fundamentals of scientific socialism
and then, from 1917 when this socialism was first implemented, we can see
that socialism is young, it has had but a short life and today continues to
exist as an experience.  It lives on in Communists and the revolutionaries
of the world, it lives on as an ideology and as a praxis.  Also, it lives in
us, the communists and revolutionaries of Peru".

"Therefore, we are talking about a general counter-revolutionary offensive
aimed at averting the revolution as the main historical and political trend
in today's world".

"And who are those aiming their spears against the revolution?  It is the
imperialists and the revisionists working hand in hand"

............

"Another question:  Regardless of all their cannon and hellfire and the
unleashing of their heaviest economic blows, their mud-slinging and wild
attacks, as always without a valid argument, they are doomed, they are
already defeated"

"If we are conscious that in revolutions there are restorations and even
regressions, we should not be surprised at the existance of a general
counter-revolutionary offensive.  Moreover, we must correctly characterise
it in order to handle and defeat it".

"The attacks upon Marxism have always been a prelude for its further
development and advance.  Let us remember our thesis of 1979: "As far as we
know at present, fifteen thousand million years of the process of matter in
movement leads us towards the inexorable march of communism".

"This is the reality so let us grasp this law well and carry it forward.
Our aim, communism, is not an idea outside the material process.  It is a
part of it.  It originates from this process and constitutes its
perspective.  There is no other class with the historical perspective of the
proletariat."

"The bourgeoisie was once a revolutionary class but it has already become
historically obsolete and it is wildly clawing and hissing like a wounded
beast.  This rabid behaviour is the price of its destruction.  It feels
itself sinking, it knows itself to be unburied carrion, but although its
grave is already open and waiting, it resists its burial at the hands of the
proletariat".

"This last monster engendered by the bourgeoisie, imperialism, the oppressor
of the world's people, must be swept off the face of the earth together with
revisionism and world reaction".

"Our role, the role of the proletariat and the people, is to bury it.  It is
the necessary task in our historical perspective.  We must always have this
absolute conviction: We shall smash the bourgeoisie and bury imperialism! -
imperialism and all its partners and servants".


Quotes are from "On The Rectification Campaign"  Central Committee PCP, 1991.





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