Communism/Socialism; Fact, Myth

MARXISM IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED WITH THE "COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH TODAY.

A COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST DOCTORATE CAN NOT; COULD NOT EVER; KILL ANYONE.

THERE IS NO HEAD OF STATE TO SO ORDER.

Marxism/Leninism is, according to the United States-of North Central-North America, the political ideology adopted by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The term Mao Zedong Thought (or Maoism) increasingly according to the same United States-of North Central-North America; came to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well. Again, according to the United States of North central- North America, the Socialist Republic (RSFSR), became the first country in history committed to the establishment of communism.

In reality, NOT EVEN ONE of these statements is true. Lenin stood for STATE CAPITALISM and argued that socialist democracy is in no way in-CONSISTENT WITH THE RULE AND DICTATORSHIP OF ONE PERSON.

MARX AND HIS CO-WORKER, ENGELS, CONSISTENTLY ARGUED THAT SOCIALISM (OR COMMUNISM, they used the terms interchangeably) COULD ONLY EVOLVE OUT OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES CREATED BY A FULLY DEVELOPED CAPITALISM.

In other words, production would have to be EXPANDED WITHIN CAPITALISM to a point where the potential existed to allow for "EACH [TO TAKE] ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS". In turn, THIS OBJECTIVE CONDITION WOULD HAVE CREATED THE BASIS FOR A SOCIALIST-CONSCIOUS MAJORITY WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SKILLS VOLUNTARILY IN THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIETY'S NEEDS.

In the very first sentence of his monumental work, Capital, Marx wrote that "the wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails presents itself as a vast accumulation of commodities". He then went on to define the nature of a commodity in economic terms as an item of real or imagined wealth produced for sale on the market with a view to profit.

Marx claimed the wages system was THE QUINTESSENTIAL INSTRUMENT OF CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION OF THE WORKING CLASS. HE URGED WORKERS TO REMOVE FROM THEIR BANNERS THE CONSERVATIVE SLOGAN OF "A FAIR DAY'S PAY FOR A FAIR DAY'S WORK" AND TO INSCRIBE INSTEAD "ABOLITION OF THE WAGES SYSTEM!" Throughout his writings, he repeats in different form the admonition that "WAGE LABOUR AND CAPITAL ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN".

MARX CONSIDERED THAT NATIONALISATION COULD BE A MEANS OF ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM BUT DID NOT SUPPORT NATIONALISATION AS SUCH. ON THE CONTRARY, HE ARGUED THAT THE MORE THE STATE BECAME INVOLVED IN TAKING OVER AREAS OF PRODUCTION, THE MORE IT BECAME THE NATIONAL CAPITALIST.

Marx saw the state as the "executive committee" of a ruling class. In a socialist society, he affirmed, the state, as the government of people, would give way to a simple, democratic "administration of things".

MARX'S VISION OF A SOCIALIST SOCIETY CAN BE FAIRLY SUMMED UP AS A WORLD-WIDE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION BASED ON THE COMMON OWNERSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE MEANS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING WEALTH BY, AND IN THE INTERESTS OF, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

IN OTHER WORDS, A UNIVERSAL CLASSLESS, WAGELESS AND MONEYLESS SOCIETY WHEREIN HUMAN BEINGS WOULD VOLUNTARILY CONTRIBUTE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR MENTAL AND/OR PHYSICAL ABILITIES TO THE PRODUCTION AND distribution of the needs of their society and in which everyone would have free and equal access to their needs.

Myth=Lenin's Distortions

Post-Czarist Russia was a backward poorly developed and largely feudal country where the industrial proletariat was a relatively small minority. To suggest that Russia could undergo a socialist revolution (as Lenin did in 1917) is a complete denial of the Marxist view of history.

Following the news of the Bolshevik coup, the Socialist Standard (official organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain) wrote: "Is this huge mass of people, numbering about 160 million and spread over eight and a half million of square miles, ready for Socialism? Are the hunters of the north, the struggling peasant proprietors of the south, the agricultural wage slaves of the Central Provinces and the wage slaves of the towns convinced of the necessity for, and equipped with the knowledge requisite for the establishment of the social ownership of the means of life? Unless a mental revolution such as the world has never seen before has taken place or an economic change immensely more rapidly than history has ever recorded, the answer is 'NO!'"(August 1918).

Lenin persistently rejected the view that the working class was capable of achieving socialism without leaders. He argued that trade union consciousness represented the peak of working class consciousness. Socialism, he affirmed, would be achieved by a band of revolutionaries at the head of a discontented but non-socialist-conscious working class. The Bolshevik "revolution" was a classic example of Leninist thinking; in fact it was a coup d'état carried out by professional revolutionaries and based on the populist slogan, "Peace, Land and Bread". Through Lenin, SOCIALISM WAS NOT ON OFFER, NOR COULD IT HAVE BEEN.

It is true that Lenin and his Bolsheviks wrongly thought their Russian coup would spark off similar revolts in Western Europe and, especially, in Germany. Not only was this a monumental political error, but it was based on Lenin's erroneous perception of socialism and his belief that his distorted conceptions could be imposed on the working class of Western Europe which was, generally, better politically organised and more sophisticated than the people of Russia.

Probably for practical purposes – since no other course was open to them – Lenin and his Bolsheviks could not accept the Marxian view that commodity production was an identifying feature of capitalism. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power, the production of wealth in the form of commodities was the only option open to THE MISNAMED COMMUNIST PARTY.~~~Al(Alex-Alexander)D Girvan