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02.12.2008




International Declaration of Marxist Leninist Forces on the
financial Crisis



Dear
Comrades,
>From India
we received a proposal for a joint declaration “Not Imperialism,
Socialism is the only path forward”, signed by CPI (ML) PCC, CPI
(ML), MLPD and NCP/Mashal. This declaration takes a Marxist Leninist
position on the global financial crisis and thus gives an urgently
needed revolutionary orientation for the oppressed masses. 
It ends
with
the demand: 
“We
therefore call upon all Marxist-Leninist Revolutionaries to come
together in this period of crisis and organize themselves and the
people at large into a world-wide upsurge against the imperialist
system and for people's democracy and socialism.”
We
took over the task to internationally distribute this declaration
with the request to join the declaration and to make proposals and
reply lately until December 13th.
With
revolutionary greetings
Roland
Meister







Not Imperialism, Socialism is the only path forward



The
uncontrolled rule of the world capital-market that is being run as a
casino by the financial czars, and where the parasitic, speculative
character of capital is dominating more and more, has been shaken by
an international financial crisis to an unprecedented extent and
depth. There is great anxiety and the confidence of the masses in the
viability of the capitalist economy has severely been shaken. We call
to mind that during the last three decades world capitalism has been
hit by various forms of economic and financial crises 30 times. About
once per decade, worldwide overproduction crises occurred. Such
economic crises are inseparably linked up with the capitalist system.
Now, even the IMF has announced that the present financial crisis is
more serious than even that of 1930. Accordingly the impending world
economic crisis will be deeper and more extensive than the previous
ones of 1991 and 2001. In order to save the imperialist system from
the financial crisis starting from the US, the Bush administration
has pumped $700 billion into the financial markets. These are state
subsidies to bail out the financial sharks of the crisis for which
they themselves are to be blamed. In financial circles it is being
estimated that the capitalist states will spend a total of the
inconceivable sum of more than $ 10 trillion in order to check the
uncontrolled destruction of capital and to settle the losses of
finance capital on the back of the broad masses. All this can
temporarily decelerate the worst excesses of the international
financial crisis, but it can neither solve it nor cancel it. The
measures for checking the crisis will rather even intensify or
provoke the future development of crises. There is a growing trend
that invests hope and political energy in seeking Keynesian solutions
that would be efficacious in transcending the crisis. Given the
weakening of the national state structures due to globalization, such
solutions will be discovered to be illusory.



These
huge sums of money being paid out by various governments, to keep the
fat imperialists afloat, are being squeezed out of the people by
means of taxes, abolishment of social rights, higher inflation and
intensified exploitation, which may cause a considerable aggravation
of class contradictions. Even today hundreds of thousands of people
are losing their jobs due to the interruption of payment
transactions. The imperialist crisis management holds the entire
society liable for the incapability of those in power to lead society
for the benefit and in the interests of the broad masses. It is a
cover for the increased looting of the vast masses and the transfer
of this wealth to the hands of a few in the ruling classes. It also
shows that the Governments in such imperialist and neo-colonial
countries are not working in the interests of the masses but merely
to safeguard the imperialist system of exploitation. 




This
financial crisis reveals the insatiable greed of the ruling finance
capital for maximum profits and the corruption of the imperialist
economy, which is a parasite on the toiling masses of humanity. The
same imperialist system, in which it is possible that a few finance
oligarchs are gambling away the fruits of social wealth at the
roulette table of speculation, is not by chance also responsible for
the US wars of occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and other
onslaughts against the world people. The imperialist world system is
against the interests of the majority of mankind and has to be called
into question fundamentally and to be overcome.



The
upcoming world economic crisis will combine with deep political
crises - the already chronic latent political crises will break out
deeper and more often. It will intensify the class struggle between
the monopolies and the working class, and between the imperialist
system and the nations and people of the world to the utmost and
constitute the basis for revolutionizing the working class and the
broad masses. The ruling classes are well aware that the tendency
towards a revolutionary world crisis is inherent in the imperialist
world system. For this reason they prepare themselves to maintain
their power with every means available to them under the hypocritical
banner of the fight against terrorism.



 As
long as the fundamental contradiction in the imperialist system,
between the ever-increasing socialization and internationalization of
production and the private appropriation of the produce by the ever
narrowing internationally operating finance oligarchs exists, there
is no escape from world-wide havoc. That is why Marx and Engels, and
later, Lenin, have taught that without overcoming the imperialist
system, without its replacement by a socialist social order, the
proneness to crisis of society cannot be resolved. 




We
therefore call upon all Marxist-Leninist Revolutionaries to come
together in this period of crisis and organize themselves and to
organize the masses for the struggle against the imperialist system
and for people's democracy and socialism.



Down
with the imperialist system!
March
forward along the path of the Worldwide Democratic & Socialist
Revolution!



23.11.08
Joint
draft proposed by
CPI/ML
MLPD
PCC
CPI/ML
NCP/Mashal








 



      
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