in Esperanto
Chapter 9: THE PROCESS OF THE UNARMED REVOLUTION
2. Set up counterpowers.
In this series, we advocate a direct communist revolution by the people without relying on the Communist Party, but this argument is based primarily on countries where the Communist Party is not the ruling party. And in the post-Soviet world, most countries do not have communist parties as the ruling party, so this argument is valid for most countries.
However, at the time of writing this article, there are still some countries ruled by a single Communist Party. However, assuming that the Communist Party-controlled system continues for the time being, what kind of "direct communist revolution by the people, not by the Communist Party," could be in these Communist Party-controlled countries?
To summarize this simply, it is a "communist revolution against the Communist Party." This provision sounds paradoxical, but in reality, despite the party name, the Communist Party of the current Communist Party-controlled countries, including China, has shelved communism and largely incorporated market economic principles, and effect, is switching to a capitalist path.
In other words, it is "capitalism led by the Communist Party." As long as it continues on this twisted path, it can be said that the established Communist Party has distanced itself from communism, and to that extent, the "communist revolution against the Communist Party" is no longer a paradox.
2.6. Voluntary dissolution of the Communist Party?
However, as long as the Communist Party remains a Communist Party, the possibility of returning to the original communist path and building a communist society led by the Communist Party has not disappeared. What we are recalling here is the process of communist revolution that Marx (and Engels) laid out in the Communist Manifesto. I will quote it below.
...If the proletariat inevitably coalesces into a class in its struggle with the bourgeoisie, becomes the ruling class through revolution, and as the ruling class powerfully abolishes the old relations of production, then these relations of production will be abolished. With abolition, the proletariat abolishes the condition of class antagonism, of the existence of classes in general, and thus of its own domination as a class.
The "own domination as a class" here is not the same as the "domination of the Communist Party," but even if we understand it in the latter way, according to Marx, the Communist Party is scheduled to be voluntarily dissolved once it succeeds in abolishing the old production relations = capitalist production relations.
However, the established Communist Party has not followed this path; instead, the Communist Party itself has adapted to the old production relations (capitalist production relations) and is now at the forefront of capitalistization. Therefore, there is no hope of voluntary dissolution of the Communist Party.
2.7. Not an anti-communist revolution
What must be noted here is that a "communist revolution against the Communist Party" is not a "revolution against the Communist Party." In the process from the so-called Eastern European revolutions to the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the 20th century, popular uprisings against the Communist Party-controlled system represented by the Soviet Union occurred successively in Eastern European and Soviet countries, albeit in varying degrees and forms, leading to the collapse of the system.
Because this revolution was based on the political repression of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the failure of the collectivist system, it took on the characteristics of a "revolution against the Communist Party" and the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union all followed the path of market economy and capitalism, which continues to this day. In the end, the Eastern European revolutions converged into reactionary revolutions that turned the wheels of history back on track, and did not become progressive revolutions aimed at creating a truly communist society.
The "communist revolution against the Communist Party" is not such a reactionary revolution, but a progressive revolution, so it does not simply attack and dismantle the established Communist Party system.
2.8. Commons' Convention as a true Soviet
The "communist revolution against the Communist Party" also uses a Commons' Convention as a base to create a counter-power situation. However, the relationship with the ruling Communist Party is not one of simple hostility, but one of coexistence or immanence. In other words, it develops in a way that is parasitic within the Communist Party. In other words, it develops in a way that is parasitic within the Communist Party.
In fact, even at the time of the Russian Revolution, the people formed soviets (councils) to oppose the established parliament of imperial Russia, but as the revolution progressed, these people's soviets were taken over by the Bolsheviks and then the Communist Party, and were replaced as the party's ratifying body. The "Soviet" in the country's name, the Soviet Union, ended up being just a facade.
In order to prevent a repeat of this bitter history, the Commons' Conventions must grow as a parasitic force without being taken over by the Communist Party. In other words, the Commons' Convention is the true Soviet.
It is not a good analogy, but the Commons' Conventions feed on the Communist Party from within, just as a real parasite sucks nutrients from its host. The ideal revolutionary process would be the complete opposite of the Russian Revolution, in which the Commons' Convention would take over the Communist Party and lead it to dissolution.
However, the Communist Party authorities, who are wary of this, may try to eliminate the Commons' Convention as if to exterminate parasites, and in that case, they will have no choice but to externalize it by forming a Commons' Convention in exile overseas.
