Liebe Genossinnen und Genossen,
Zunächst einmal möchte ich mich im Namen der marxistisch-leninistischen Zeitschrift „offen-siv“ sowie des „Vorläufigen Organisationskomitees“ der „Kommunistischen Initiative in Deutschland“ (KI), die ich hier beide vertreten darf, für Eure Einladung zu dieser wichtigen theoretisch-ideologischen Konferenz bedanken. Sie trägt den Titel „20 Jahre danach – der Kampf für die Zukunft hält an“ (Twenty Years After – The Fight For The Future Continues).
Was ist der Schlüssel für den Kampf um die Zukunft? Wo liegt er?

1) Gültigkeit des Marxismus-Leninismus bewiesen
Die vergangenen 20 Jahre haben die Gültigkeit des Marxismus-Leninismus in all seinen Aspekten bewiesen. Dies betrifft insbesondere die tatsächlichen Hintergründe der Konterrevolution in den sozialistischen Ländern Ost-Europas, aber auch die Entwicklung der so genannten Neuen Weltordnung, die nichts anderes als ordinärer Imperialismus ist. Die Konterrevolution konnte sich entwickeln und sich zeitweilig durchsetzen, weil ihr der Revisionismus seit dem XX. Parteitag der KPdSU in der kommunistischen Weltbewegung den Weg geebnet hatte.

Dear comrades.

On behalf of Danish Communist Party I am conveying a warm thank you! to the Prague section of the Communist Party of Bohemia-Moravia for inviting us to this event, and discussion.
In a couple of days the rulers of Europe and all the corporate owned mass media will go completely overboard  celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the “Berlin Wall”.
We see it as the temporary set back of Socialism in Europe.
However, these historic events certainly had great impact on the power relations between Capital and the European working class, and – since they were followed by the implosion of the Soviet Union – they had great impact in every corner of the world.
In Europe it fuelled neoliberalism – understood as a set of economic policies and as an ideology – that already was working in the USA, and heavily brought on Great Britain by the Thatcher-regime.
The results were privatisations, deregulations, and budget cuts deteriorating public welfare, free educational systems, health care, you name it – and in the former socialist countries, wild capitalism.
The ideology of neo liberalism is embedded in the old Danish proverb: “I am the smith of my own prosperity”, and in slogans like the old “the money are best kept in the citizens pockets”, and new ones like: “you must be responsibly for your own learning – for your health” – and so on.
I am sure, every country has its own versions of this propaganda.

The international communist movement suffered a severe split in the 1960's as a result of Khrushchevite revisionism – a split that has severely weakened it.  To repair this split, we must examine its causes.

What were the issues which caused the split?

The main issues that caused the split and which must be resolved if the world communist movement is going to be able to reunite as a genuinely proletarian revolutionary force are:
Revision of Marxist economics
The reintroduction by the Khrushchevite revisionist clique and its successors of bourgeois economic norms into the socialist economy of the Soviet Union, so-called 'market socialism', paved the way for the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union, as Cde Stalin had warned in his Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1952). The whole point of proletarian revolution is to free humanity of the havoc wreaked on the wellbeing of its overwhelming majority by the operation of the laws of the market, in particular the law of value.  Expanding the scope of the law of value in a socialist society, and thus necessarily undermining the role of central planning, cannot possibly be a method of advancing socialism, unlike what the revisionists claimed. The departure from the basics of Marxism on this point was one step that helped to fracture the international communist movement, as well as to weaken the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union and east European People’s Democracies.
‘Peaceful transition to socialism’

Dear comrades,
On behalf of the CC of KKE Ι would like to thank you for your invitation.
The 18th Congress of KKE, fulfilling the task set forward by the 17th Congress four years ago, dwelled deeper into the causes of the victory of the counterrevolution and of capitalist restoration. This is imperative for the revival of the faith to socialism.
For more than a century now, bourgeois polemics against the communist movement, concentrate their fire on the revolutionary core of the workers’ movement, the Communist Party. This is also the aim of the  anti-communist wave nowadays on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall. They struggle against the necessity of revolution and its political offspring, the dictatorship of the proletariat that is the revolutionary working class power. In particular, they fight against the outcome of the first victorious revolution, of the October Revolution in Russia.
For more than a century now, every current negating, retreating or resigning from the necessity of revolutionary struggle is being promoted as “democratic socialism”, in opposition to the so-called “totalitarian”, “dictatorial”, “putchist” communism. Our party rejects also the notion of  the “Socialism of the 21st Century”, that means a negation of the concrete socialist experience of the past century.
Today, international opportunism has regrouped itself through the “Party of the European Left”, which has stepped up the tone of the “democratic socialism” rhetoric, under the conditions of a synchronous manifestation of the capitalist economic crisis. Their attitude is instructive: In some instances they negate the entire 70-year history of the USSR, in others they specifically aim at the period during which its socialist foundation was erected as well as at I.V. Stalin personally. Whatever the case, they always support those political practices that constituted deviations from the socialist course.

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