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9 - The importance of Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Successes – Lessons CC, CPI (Maoist) February 26th, 2017

(On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China)

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Lessons

For proletarian parties until we achieve Socialism and Communism the ‘question of power’ would be the key issue. The experience of Socialist construction of China and the theories of Mao that directed it would stand as invaluable knowledge for all future revolutions. Rejecting the experience of Chinese Revolution in the phase of building Socialism would inevitably lead to revisionist hegemony and spontaneous growth of bourgeois economic system.
Mao developed the theory regarding continuing revolution in the Socialist society, to fight with modern revisionism and to avoid capitalist restoration. This theory was applied in the GPCR. It continued for many years until mistakes accumulated and rightists regained control. If we highlight the positive aspects and rectify the negative aspects this theory that Mao developed regarding Cultural Revolution would become a great asset of knowledge depending on the fundamental principles and methods to continue revolution.
However we are now making New Democratic Revolution in India. But we have been encouraging Cultural Revolution with secular, democratic and scientific aspects. Proletarian revolutionary cadres with the direction of Marxism-Leninism-Maoist theory would be the central part of this great revolutionary collective process. Our Cultural Revolution belongs to the kind of New Democracy. It is different from the Socialist Cultural Revolution. It has been continuing from the Naxalbari struggle. Regarding this matter our document ‘Strategy and Tactics of Indian Revolution’ said thus –‘‘The people’s democratic culture is an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal culture. It is a heir to all the secular, genuine democratic, and scientific aspects of the rich cultural heritage of the oppressed masses that are passed on by history.
It is impossible to arm the people ideologically, make them conscious and organise them for the people’s war without the widest propaganda of people’s democratic culture based on Maoism. As Mao said, “In overthrowing a political power the first and regular task is to work in on the ideological front and to create public opinion.” To overthrow the exploiting classes and their state machinery, the first and foremost task throughout the course of the new democratic revolution is to wage ideological struggle and create public opinion in favour of agrarian revolutionary war and the protracted people’s war.
Mao says, revisionism is the main danger. Modern revisionism is one of the chief enemies of MLM and the people’s democratic ideology and revolution. The anti-imperialist anti-feudal revolutionary culture of the people cannot be established without fighting against modern revisionism. in this respect MLM is the strongest weapon in the fight against modern revisionism.
Besides, in India, feudal thinking is deep-rooted and is manifested in many ways, particularly in casteist, biases against religious minorities, religious narrow mindedness, communalism, untouchability, patriarchy, and numerous other forms. The Party must educate the masses against all such antidemocratic values and cultures and replace them with those based on equality, self-respect, secularism, dignity of labour and a proletarian class view-point.
For the success of the Indian revolution the anti-imperialist and antifeudal cultural front has to be organised and constantly strengthened. The people’s democratic culture will be an inseparable part of the general antiimperialist, anti-feudal revolutionary people’s democratic front. One of the tasks of this cultural front is to educate the workers, peasants and the toiling masses about the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal agrarian revolutionary struggle and the protracted people’s war.
The people’s democratic state will take up the task of wiping out the imperialist and feudal culture from all spheres of social science like economics, politics, philosophy, military science, history, literature etc., and in their place, establish the people’s democratic culture’’.
All the proletarian parties of the world must take the following lessons to eliminate Imperialism and achieve Socialism and Communism worldwide

1. We must organize and strengthen proletarian dictatorship and strengthen it. We must relentlessly continue revolution in the base and superstructure and organize and prepare the masses ideologically and politically. Proletarian party must definitely understand that the contradiction between the proletariat and bourgeois class would be more intense after the establishment of proletarian dictatorship than before it.

2. There must be close vigilance on capitalist roaders. Diehards must be isolated. We must destroy their every attempt to build bourgeois headquarters inside the party. We must keep in mind that the degenerated capitalist roaders in the party and the government would take up the role of leadership very carefully to conduct counter revolution. This section confuses the masses and organizes them favourable to counter revolution.

3. Two line struggle must be conducted inside the party without break. Cadres must be made part of it on a broad basis. We must maintain close relations with the masses. While conducting two line struggle we have to adopt the ‘unity-criticism (self-criticism)-unity’ method to unite with the broad cadres and to isolate a few. 4. We must have high vigilance while organizing the party. We must not let the bourgeois agents settle. We must defeat their conspiracies.

5. Simultaneous with the two line struggle on a broad basis, we must direct the masses politically in dealing and distinguishing the two kinds of contradictions and methods. Party must pay utmost attention to give revolutionary direction to isolate the enemies and to identify with the broad masses against the enemies. Party must make utmost efforts to avoid complacency and weaknesses in dealing with contradiction in the eadership. Bourgeois agents would utilize these to fool the people, to divert them, to deviate the struggle in a wrong path and to stop the process of organizing the party, government and the revolutionary masses.

6. We must take up many cultural revolutions. We must increase the participation of the people in political power by developing new forms of organization. We must pay attention to see that these forms of organization are suitable. We must establish genuine ownership of the masses over instruments of production.

7. We must provide proletarian democracy through proper forums so that masses of all sections openly express their ideas, views and criticisms.

8. All the forms of right and ‘left’ wrong lines must be exposed, rejected and defeated. While fighting against a wrong line we must be alert towards another. The bourgeois agents would not only bring forth rightist line but also the ‘leftist’ line, especially when the revolutionary struggle takes the most severe form.

9. We must admit mistakes before the people. We must encourage them to criticize openly. By taking up this method repeatedly we must avoid bureaucracy in the party and the government.

The world proletariat, the oppressed nationalities and oppressed masses are taking lessons from the failures in building Socialism. They would continue revolution until the establishment of communism with doubled confidence and dedication. The oppressed masses realizing in a fast manner that in the ups and downs in the World Socialist Revolution that advances through breaking the weakest links in the imperialist chain and the New Democratic Revolution that follows the path of Protracted People’s War, the defeats of the earlier Socialist countries like Russia and China are only temporary. No power in the world can stop the invincible trend that suggests the total collapse of imperialism and the success of Socialism in near future. The Twenty-first century is the century of revolutions. Masses would certainly win through revolution.

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