THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM INTO COMMUNIST SOCIALISM

In the terminology of Marx and Engels, the words communism and socialism are synonymous. They are alternately applied without any distinction between them. The same was true for the practice of all Marxian groups and sects until 1917. The political parties of Marxism which considered the Communist Manifesto as the unalterable gospel of their doctrine called themselves socialist parties. The most influential and most numerous of these parties, the German party, adopted the name Social Democratic Party. In Italy, in France and in all other countries in which Marxian parties already played a role in political life before 1917, the term socialist likewise superseded the term communist. No Marxian ever ventured, before 1917, to distinguish between communism and socialism.

In 1875, in his Criticism of the Gotha Programme of the German Social Democratic Party, Marx distinguished between a lower (earlier) and a higher (later) phase of the future communist society. But he did not reserve the name of communism to the higher phase and did not call the lower phase socialism as differentiated from communism.

Marx did NOT believe in the Political Party System Machine; so of course, he could not be a Bolshevik and also of course, unlike Lenin he was not a Fascist.

In order to understand the mentality of Lenin’s FASCIST Bolshevists, we must again refer to the dogmas of Karl Marx. Marx was fully convinced that capitalism is a stage of economic history which is not limited to a few advanced countries only. Capitalism has the tendency to convert all parts of the world into capitalist countries. The bourgeoisie forces all nations to become capitalist nations. When the final hour of capitalism sounds, the whole world will be uniformly in the stage of mature capitalism, ripe for the transition to socialism. Socialism will emerge at the same time in all parts of the world.

Marx erred on this point. Today even the Marxian’s cannot and do not deny that there still prevail enormous differences in the development of capitalism in various countries. They realise that there are many countries which, from the point of view of the Marxian interpretation of history, must be described as precapitalistic. In these countries, the bourgeoisie (Capitalist Fascist Elite) has not yet attained a Total Global IMPERIAL Dictatorship position and has not yet set the historical stage of capitalism which is the necessary prerequisite of the appearance of socialism. These countries, therefore, must first accomplish their “bourgeois revolution” and must go through all phases of capitalism before there can be any question of transforming them into socialist countries. But, there remains hope; perhaps one day the working PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY OF OURS will at least be able to truly say THEY at least OWN THE GROUND IN WHICH THEY ARE BURIED.              Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan.