Great Leader Chairman Mao pointed out: “To guide a great revolutionary movement, a political party must have revolutionary theory, historical knowledge, and a deep understanding of the actual movement; without these, victory is impossible.”
The Proletarian Liberation Forum is a “lecture hall” directly led by the Proletarian Liberation Struggle Association. As members of the forum, we have the obligation to earnestly study Marxist revolutionary theory, consciously transform our worldview, and in this process, use the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods to carry out political propaganda and agitation among the proletarian masses. The history of the international communist movement is a very good learning resource.
The history of the international communist movement is the history of the proletariat of various countries, under the leadership of proletarian revolutionary parties armed with Marxism-Leninism, uniting oppressed nations and oppressed peoples to overthrow the reactionary rule of the bourgeoisie and all exploitative classes, establishing and consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, defeating capitalism with socialism, and ultimately realizing communism worldwide.
Studying this history helps us clarify the theory of the proletarian dictatorship, enhance our ability to distinguish true Marxism from false, further oppose and resist all old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits of the exploiting classes, as well as the erosion and poisoning of bourgeois legal rights, thereby establishing a proletarian worldview.
After reading, I have a question: after Notrong was arrested in 1851 and the documents were leaked, many members of the alliance and branch leaders were arrested, and the London district of the alliance lost contact with continental European countries. Why couldn’t the branches of the alliance in various regions be rebuilt at that time?
Mainly because this condition was not met at the time. The proletarian movement on the European continent had not yet developed on a large scale, and there was no foundation for establishing such an international workers’ party. Later, the First International was able to be established also because the workers’ movements in various countries were rising and had reached a high stage, and they gathered in London to protest the Polish people’s suffering under the annexation by Tsarist Russia. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the First International was founded. Ultimately, revolution cannot be exported or imported; if there is no revolutionary demand in each country—especially the revolutionary demand of the proletariat (whether for democratic revolution or socialist revolution)—then the Communist Party cannot be established locally (for example, Africa has always lacked a communist movement because capitalism there has not yet developed to the point where the proletariat can emerge as an independent class on the political stage and demand the establishment of its own party). Therefore, Marx and Engels could only wait for a new revolutionary高潮 to arrive and during this period, they focused on various revolutionary preparations, such as strengthening theoretical research, establishing contact with a few active elements, and so on.
In fact, thinking this way is also a form of historical idealism, which believes that revolutions are artificially created by a few people through certain organizational work. However, revolutions cannot be “manufactured”; fundamentally, they arise from class contradictions. Revolution is the highest form of struggle by the oppressed classes. Only when the oppressed classes, especially the broad masses of people, have revolutionary needs and are willing to put these needs into practice will revolutions occur, and corresponding revolutionary parties will emerge. It is impossible for a few people to create a revolution, even revolutionary mentors like Marx and Engels believed this. Therefore, Marx, after the 1848 revolution, was hopeful in saying that new revolutions and crises are inevitable, but he never thought of “manufacturing” any revolution himself. He always placed his hope in the masses.
The history of the Guangxi International Communist Movement in September 1976 was found to have been changed again in November 1976. Astonishingly, the content countering the rightist reversal of the wind was deleted from 7 pages to two pages, with the second page numbered “252-257” and there are obvious torn marks in the book. There is also a note that reads “Due to the development of the situation, we have made some adjustments in some places, but some have not been fully addressed. The statements on Deng Xiaoping and certain issues should be based on the recent directives of the Central Committee—November 1976.” What is going on? Wasn’t the criticism of Deng Xiaoping only ended in December?"}#}**}
Criticism of Deng officially ended when Deng Xiaoping made his comeback, but before that, there was almost no criticism of Deng. The saying that began in 1977 that criticized Deng meant criticizing, but first focused on criticizing the “Gang of Four,” and then essentially ended the slogan of criticizing Deng.
