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Who are we
(Thesis of the Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists).
We struggle for the destruction of capitalism; we struggle for Communism -for a society without private property, classes, states, wage labour, money and commodity production; a society of cooperation, not of antagonistic competition.
Our position is:
1. The advance into Communism can only be achieved by means of Proletarian Revolution – revolution by the oppressed class of capitalist society, those deprived of political and economic power.
2. Revolution means destruction of the bourgeois state machine (bureaucracy, police, etc) by a Proletarian uprising, collective expropriation of capitalist property and total socialisation of the means of production.
3. After destruction of the bourgeois state machine, the Proletariat will not transfer its power to anyone. All power will belong to General Assemblies. An increase in free time will allow everyone to partake in the social decision process.
4. In consequence of revolution and of socialisation of the means of production, all production will be controlled by General Assemblies working towards satisfaction of all human needs.
5. The dictatorship of capital is prevalent in all nations of the world in the form of the bourgeois state, irrespective of the latter’s specific variations. Parliamentary democracy is no more than a mask of this dictatorship. Any attempts by the oppressed class of Proletarians of playing by the rules of the oppressors leads only to defeat and demoralisation. Therefore no Proletarian emancipating movement can support one bourgeois group over another, defend one form of dictatorship against another (democracy against fascism), or participate in sham bourgeois elections.
6. Historical evidence shows that national inequality and oppression is a natural consequence of the existence and functioning of bourgeois states, and that the struggle of national liberation movements for national rights to self-determination cannot abolish national inequality and oppression, but can only cause Proletarians to turn into cannon fodder in squabbles between bourgeois cliques. The sole means of abolishment of national inequality and oppression is the total destruction of all nation-states and borders and the establishment of the global power of Collective Assemblies.
7. Modern Trade Unions are no more than a bourgeois leash for the Proletariat, an instrument for subjugation of proletarian struggle to bourgeois interests. All attempts at transforming existing trade unions or at establishing new radical trade unions are doomed to failure and lead only to demoralisation and shattering of delusions. Our aim is to explain to all Proletarians – both those in trade unions and those without trade unions – that the emancipation of oppressed is in the hands of the oppressed themselves; that they cannot rely on any party and Trade Union bureaucracies, parliamentary bickering and legal fuss. The fight for emancipation is direct action (strikes, blockades, etc), and only during this fight does the oppressed class nurture solidarity and class-consciousness, acquire experience of self-organisation and self-government – all the necessary prerequisite for revolution.
8. In current conditions the only effective forms of organisation and emancipating action are the spontaneous General Assemblies of workers. Our aim is the creation of a revolutionary organisation that combines the struggle for specific demands already put forward by General Assemblies with the struggle for social revolution.
9. Since power in the USSR and in similar states was in the hands of a oppressor – the state bourgeoisie, and oppressed Proletarians remained powerless and property-less wage slaves, these societies were not socialist, but were in fact societies of state capitalism, wage labour and commodity production. All organisations striving for restoration of such societies in reality strive for an alternative system of exploitation and are the enemies of Proletarian emancipation.
10. Socialism in one country or in a group of countries is impossible, and is only possible as a global system, one consequent of a global revolution. Destruction of the global system of capitalism is possible only through joint effort of the subjugated classes of most, if not all countries.
11. Modern patriotism is a reactionary ideology of the ruling class, with the purpose of supporting the system of exploitation and wage slavery. The duty of every conscious Proletarian is to fight patriotism and chauvinism in any shape or form. The Proletariat has no fatherland. No to wars between countries! No to peace between classes!
12. The perspective aim of Revolutionary Socialists is the formation of a new International that by its action and example can initiate and unite the struggle of the global proletariat. The slogans of the new International must be:
Exploited of the world, unite!
All power to the World Commune!
January 20th, 2009 9:31 pm
Internationalists salutations from Spain. If you publish in english I can make it public here.
March 3rd, 2009 12:29 pm
My thought was that differs from the ICC position. the ICC do not see the semi-state in the transitional period as being the exclusive domain iof the proletariat, but all the non-exploiting classes. I am not too sure about the final line; Long live the world federation of proletarian republics! Is not the slogan of a world communist society more accurate? Why should the revolutionary society of the future observe national divisions?
P.S. Change the word destructed (point 3) to destroyed.
March 3rd, 2009 5:41 pm
Watch the update.
March 14th, 2009 3:06 pm
Perhaps will be interesting to read some traslated texts from “Italian” Communist Left:
http://www.quinterna.org/lingue/russkij/0_russkij.htm
Best wishes.
Al.
April 19th, 2009 3:07 am
Communist greetings from the United States. Your article on Kherson was fantastic on several levels. Not only did it explain some of the contradictions of the Kherson factory occupation, it also was a powerful denunciation of reforism.
It is good indeed to see that 70 years of state-capitalist barbarism masquerading as socialism hasn’t entirely derailed the Russian working class’s fight for communism.
January 2nd, 2010 9:41 am
Wobbly greetings from Perth, Australia!
As you say, “We struggle for the destruction of capitalism; we struggle for Communism -for a society without private property, classes, states, wage labour, money and commodity production; a society of cooperation, not of antagonistic competition.” Just to let you know, I do too. I also prefer to focus on deepening and developing class consciousness instead of tolerating class collaboration and xenophobia which I think this critical observation of yours implies, ” bourgeois right of nation upon self-determination”
April 28th, 2010 2:43 am
dont you see? its a great lie
if something happens, it happens for somebody
greate to see a camrad (никому не верь,никому не ври – и ты будешь свободен)
July 20th, 2010 5:34 am
Red Greethings from Anarres Group (Brazil)!
Long live the all-world communist regroupment!
Long live world-wide social revolution !
Against all States, for a world without classes, labour and exploitation!
August 31st, 2010 8:15 pm
Greetings from Pakistan !
Wish I could read more of your articles without resorting to Google Translate.
All the more incentive to start learning Russian !
January 17th, 2011 4:00 pm
Do u have any success in your learnings?)
January 17th, 2011 5:28 am
Hello comrades,
It’s good to see that counter-revolution in both its Stalinist and free market forms hasn’t kept you from seeing through the B.S. and fighting for what’s right!
Here are some links to critical analysis of some small efforts to encourage a new culture of working class resistance to capitalism here in the contemporary US:
Max in San Francisco USA
Since the early 1990′s, actions in the San Francisco Bay Area around mass transit, described here,
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love2.html
the initial impetus behind this,
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_social_strikeout.html
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_farestrike.html
efforts to disseminate this among US military personnel,
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love3.html
and the anti-gentrification Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/myep_criticism.html
have been part of an ongoing effort to establish a new kind of anti-state/anti-market, autonomous class struggle praxis among mainstream working people in the contemporary United States.
1. These efforts take place on the everyday life terrain of the wage-earning class, where we confront what market relations do to our lives, and where the market system’s antagonism to human needs gives rise to the possibility of an organized, conscious, mass collective response. These efforts have not been directed towards the left-liberal protest ghetto, or toward academic, anarchist or self-styled Marxist subcultures.
2. Mass collective class struggle includes the fight against the boss in the workplace, but is not limited to the workplace.
3. The methods used to help create a new politics of working class resistance to capital and it’s political apparatus have to be qualitatively different from the politics of the left. In all its statist, populist and directly democratic flavors the left is simply the left-wing of capital.
4. Authentic enemies of capitalism in the 21st century cannot use strategies, tactics or communication methods used by pro-wage labor leftists in the 20th century.
5. The armed forces are themselves vulnerable to social forces at work in the larger society that spawns them. Revolt in civilian society bleeds through the apparent hermetic separation of the military from mainstream civilian life into the ranks of enlisted people. The relationship between officers and enlisted people mirrors the relationship between bosses and employees, and similar dynamics of class conflict emerge in the military and civilian versions of the workplace.
6. With the virtual disappearance of the conventional left, and the accelerating decline of the United States as a world power, the way is now open for the creation of a new type of autonomous working class oppositional praxis. We can borrow from the best insights of authentic revolutionary working class tendencies in the past. We can use these insights as a point of departure, but not as an end-point. Anarcho-syndicalism and council communism were both useful in their day. That day has passed. Everything has to be recreated fom scratch.
The efforts around mass transit described in the articles above have a much greater future mass subversive potential than the Mission District anti-gentrification efforts of the late 1990′s. They have the potential to directly involve a larger number of working people over an entire urban area. Under the right circumstances actions like these can also have a “bleed-through” effect that may help spread resistance in other areas of contemporary life.
What’s being examined here is mostly a method of communication. These methods can be a template for similar anti-state/anti-capitalist proletarian actions elsewhere, including but not limited to fights around housing, social space and against austerity measures targeting employees and passengers of mass transit systems.
January 17th, 2011 3:58 pm
Thanks for your comment, Max. We will study your materials and will try to answer!
May 20th, 2012 11:33 pm
You can certainly see your expertise in the paintings you write. The world hopes for even more passionate writers like you who aren’t afraid to mention how they believe. At all times follow your heart.