The ABC’s of Communism Bolshevism 2011

Jason W. Smith, Ph.D.

 

Chapter 29. Towards a Fifth International - 2009 was a Historical Crossroads

We have entered a new political period in the USA as a result of the historic November 4^th 2008 general election. We are in a period comparable to the beginning of 1861 and 1933. In other words, as 2009 opened, our country was again at a great historical crossroads. This is not hyperbole. Let’s use the scientific comparative method for a moment.

In 1861 Abraham Lincoln took the Presidency amidst the chaos of secession as the Slavocrats began the formal process of taking their dictatorships out of the Union. This civil war had been inevitable for a long time. Slavery in the first place in the land of the free still existed as a consequence of the united front way the colonies had had to fight the revolutionary war of 1775-1781. In other words if the Northern colonies wanted to win they had to have the Southern colonies and that meant they had had to compromise on the issue of slavery. By 1861 US Slavery was in its second,  and now industrial, phase, thanks to the invention of the cotton gin and the construction of the infrastructure of canals and interlocking rivers that brought cotton from the Southern interior to the great port of Charleston (among a few others). The compromise of 1776 had now to be resolved by war. We will discuss this in more detail in Part III of this handbook. Suffice it to say that the failure of the Federal Fugitive Slave Act (see Chapter 12) which had witnessed some 300,000 slaves escaping to Canada, Mexico and Florida, had made it clear to the Slavocrat dictators in the Southern States that they either had to give up their system or leave the Union and they had been preparing for this for some time. The election of Lincoln in 1860, simply gave them the excuse they wanted to separate. The country had to make a fundamental decision about the direction it was going to take.

In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the Presidency amidst the chaos of complete capitalist economic collapse. The collapse of the US economy was part of the global capitalist system collapse and had been inevitable, as inherent in the very nature of capitalist relations of production is the unavoidable necessity of periodic collapse. Such boom and bust collapses had been going on in the USA since 1819. We are in another one now. We will be discussing this continuous sequence of USA capitalist depressions in Part III of this book. The general crisis of capitalism brought on the 1929-1933 global capitalist collapse. The shining beacon which provided the clear as day light of proof that this need not be the case was the Soviet Union. The USSR was absolutely booming in every way as it created all of the capitalist infrastructure the Bolsheviks would need in order to be able to build Socialism as an alternative global system. Today China offers a new perspective and a distinct alternative of a mixed economy moving inexorably toward Communism.

In 1933, the ascendancy of FDR provided the opportunity to get the USA onto the right track. What did we Bolsheviks do in each of these previous cases?

In both of these cases American Communists and organized labor played an extremely important role.

In the first instance, Communists led by Joseph Wedemeyer (a personal associate of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels before fleeing Europe for the US with the failure of the 1848 Revolutions), participated in leading Northern Labor and Northern working White people in general, in the cities and on the farms, into seeing it was in their interest to defeat Slavery in the South and hold the Southern States in a Union without Slavery.

In the second instance working people, their unions and the North American Communists (CPUSA), who created many of these unions including the CIO, saw the opportunity to forge an alliance with the petty bourgeois and progressive bourgeois forces in the country and proceeded to do so. Stalin’s decision in 1936 to throw CPUSA support to FDR sealed the deal with fabulous long-term consequences: i.e., the international alliance of the English-speaking World and the USSR in the final conflict with world fascism.

 Now, in this 2009 third instance, Communists can and should play the key role in leading working people and their unions and other mass organizations in pushing our large petty bourgeois classes and the progressive capitalist class to the Left. History teaches us this. Then the day will come when by revolution (armed insurrection) we can push the entire process to full Socialism and soon thereafter into full Communism. No fundamental change in society can be achieved without armed insurrection.

You may wonder, having seen so much of it with the Beijing Olympics, what those stars on the Chinese Red Flag stand for. They stand for the united front Mao and associates created. The Big Star is the Communist Party of China. The four smaller stars stand for the four pillars of the united front: the industrial working class, the poor and middle farmers, the small bourgeoisie including the intellectuals, and finally the patriotic national capitalists. We need to build this kind of progressive united front and if its current form proves insufficient in the long run, we can reorganize the united front, when that time comes. For us as it was originally with them (against Chinese fascism) we will have to engage in armed insurrection against the fascist regime in Washington.

For the moment our task is less than this, but even so it is not going to be an easy task. But then neither was defeating Slavery nor reforming and repositioning unbridled US Capitalism. No one can predict exactly how the current capitalist crisis is going to play out. What we do know, as Jimmy Doolittle once said: is that “victory belongs to those who want it the most; it belongs to those who are willing to fight for it the most; it belongs to those who are willing to sacrifice everything for it.” (See the movie Pearl Harbor).

To Continue

In short, Marx and Engels did not foresee the situation where workers would seize power in the most backward capitalist countries first, and then have to build what were then the modern industrial and mechanized agricultural foundations of capitalism. Let alone have to build them from scratch, without the voluntary assistance of friendly foreign worker’s governments. What happened in practice, as I explain in the text, is that we seized power first in those countries where the capitalists were the weakest, thus most easily defeated. – And they were defeated and the Soviet Republic made permanent. Then, thanks to Leon Trotsky totally fucking-up the 1920 Polish-German-European campaign (as you will learn in Chapters 13 and 14), we failed to link up with workers in Western Europe, and finding ourselves encircled by our most deadly enemies we had to dig-in and build the industrial and agricultural foundations alone, and from scratch.

(C) Returning to the pre-1917 years, we see that Marx knew he had missed something critical when the German Social Democrats joined the British union bosses of the same “labor aristocrat” stripe, in wanting just a piece of the capitalist pie rather than full-blown socialism. (See Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program.) That recognition by Marx was what sent him back into the study of prehistory via Lewis Henry Morgan (and by extension he studied all of the contemporary anthropologists as the book The Ethnological Manuscripts of Karl Marx proves.) That is why he produced an entire massive notebook on the Fundamentals of Geology; he anticipated much would have to be recovered from the ground, and geology is one of the fundamental interdisciplinary sciences of archaeology. (Marx knew from the work of Petrie in Egypt that the early pre-writing history of that center of origin of civilization would contain the answers he sought.) He died before he could conclude his work, but even if he had not, the necessary archaeological evidence was many decades away from being excavated. He would have had to continue doing what he was doing, which was extrapolating from the ethnographic data back into the past. Or, he would have had to engage in archaeology and come up with the data we have at our disposal today.

(D) At any rate, what we know now is that there will be two or more transitional stages between capitalism and communism. This is of “world shaking” significance as John Reed might have said. Because it explains why we failed in our attempts to jump into communism and why we must accept the fact that there will be several phases or Stages between capitalism and communism. This is fundamentally why Trotsky’s theory is completely wrong. A bureaucracy in the construction of these phases is not an aberration but a necessity and a diagnostic, if you will, of these transitional stages. The task is not to eliminate this bureaucracy, in the struggle for egalitarianism, but to accept it, and to be sure that we accomplish the goals of industrial modernization and agricultural mechanization and build the bureaucracy and societal class differences out of existence as it becomes convenient. But, it is certainly not convenient in technologically backward countries to struggle prematurely for an egalitarian society.

Social Justice and Communist Egalitarianism = Two Different Things!

This is not to say that egalitarianism is not necessary when first seizing state power in such countries, as the Revolution must create a “just” social organizational base for the newly liberated country. But it is to say, when communist stage egalitarianism is made permanent too early – which is to say before achieving the necessary industrial and agricultural basis, which ideally would have been achieved under capitalism, such egalitarianism runs the risk of becoming, self-defeating.

In other words, “social justice” is one thing and we owe it to our class to see it established immediately upon seizing state power. But “Communist Stage” egalitarianism is quite another thing and cannot be artificially imposed. It can only come when the Stage itself is extant. Attempting to establish Communist Stage egalitarianism prematurely is, in the long-run self defeating. Self-defeating because in technologically unprepared countries, it runs contrary to the need for massive growth in industry and mechanized agriculture to achieve the necessary gross national product in industry and agriculture, of a nation building the capitalist technical foundations for eventual communism via the intermediary route of socialism..

We are where we are, therefore, and the road forward is now clear. Control the bureaucracy, and/or the capitalists, while we have state power and all will be well. At least as long as we can keep the Workers Party pure of heart. Eventually, we will have the technological wherewithal to build communism but not before. So, this is going to be a several century long process of transition and we are less than one hundred years into it right now.

Raul Castro is exactly correct, therefore, as the Chinese have been before him, and proves that he is of equal stature to his brother and up to the greatest challenge we have faced since World War II. Likewise Hugo Chavez is quite correct in his priorities. He is struggling to achieve as much social justice as possible within Venezuela, while building toward socialism at home, and embracing every other progressive class and country in South and Latin America against their number one enemy US imperialism.

What Next

What we are witnessing at the moment is the dress rehearsal for the end collapse which is coming soon. Let me advise those of you who are aware of my old principal website (http://groups.msn.com/JasonSmithcom) and who would have been able to go to that site for news on blow by blow developments in the existing crisis, the new source of ongoing commentary will be the Daily Worker at the CPUSA (Foundation) website.

Now that MSN has closed its “groups” sites I decided there was no purpose in continuing this site in new form, other than the new site for the new Party. So, now you can go to our website for a continuing commentary on developments. The letters and articles I have already published about the current crisis over the past five years will be made available in the Recent Archives of the CPUSA(f) website. When you read these you will see not only was it possible to predict exactly what is now occurring and in which this dress rehearsal collapse was obviously imminent (obvious to a competent Marxist economic theoretician that is) but that exactly the correct prediction was made and continuously so over the past five years.

What about the next crisis they confront? Will we be as impotent then as we are now? If so the mass rebellion coming out of the inevitable coming final collapse may take on a fascist turn rather than a communist one, and then we will have one final hell of mess world war! The sad part of this is that it is unnecessary. We have the science of society and culture and its evolution as our virtual sole property. Let’s use it. The bell is tolling in the US. The handwriting is on the wall.

The current rate of change in sociocultural evolution is actually a continuation of the generally rapid change in our respective class struggle positions which we witnessed in the 20^th century. The difference perhaps is that the overall strength of progressive and revolutionary forces is far greater than at any previous time, excepting the period after World War II through the stalemate of the mid-1950’s. In part this is a product of our own hard work. In another part it is a product of the series of self-imposed catastrophes which have weakened North American imperialism draconically, in every sense, financial and military.

Finally, once again, I want to bring to your attention the true Achilles Heel of the Gringo Regime and the billionaire-trillionaire families that own it: namely, its desperate financial and monetary situation. At the moment Washington depends upon an inflow of two to three and soon four billion dollars a day from the following sources to offset the flow of cash out of the country to their cheap labor production centers and for critical inputs. These are:

 1. European Central Bank purchase of US paper (e.g. T Bills)

 2. Foreign comprador money sent for safe-keeping and/or investment in more US paper.

 3. Payments from foreign governments to support U.S. military forces stationed in these countries.

 4. Debt service payments on the great debt the US has intentionally heaped on 3^rd world countries.

 5. Sales of high-tech armaments

 6. US Corporations repatriating profits

 7. New York (and satellite London) financing of everything but especially strategic inputs such as petroleum.

Nationalization

The next critical battle we confront as a people will be to see that the underway Bush gang program of socializing risk and privatizing profit is grabbed hold of and gutted. – And, that of Mr.Obama too, if he insists on reprivatizing these public properties. It’s interesting once again that people who call themselves “communists” failed to demand on our part the immediate nationalization of the banks and other commanding heights of capitalism in the form of money market funds, insurance companies and every other form of capitalist financing, not to mention failing to demand on our behalf the immediate nationalization of the oil and gas monopolies. Properly undertaken both banking and oil can provide the US people with far more income annually than the federal income tax as currently constructed.

In fact, it was as I say George Bush and his financial gang who immediately moved to nationalize banking and finance. But, their plan is to use your money to save themselves; then once we have stabilized the economy they plan on getting their government in Washington to give them back these banks, money market financing and insurance companies. We have to be sure that they do not get these properties back but that these salvaged properties remain public.

Alliances

This fight will lead to the fight for nationalization of our large-scale national industries and resources so the North American people can use their own money for themselves. Along the way there is no reason why North American small business cannot be secured in their existing form and helped to grow.

Furthermore, religious organizations such as the LDS Church can rest assured we will support you in whatever decisions you make to safeguard your own situation and in fact to improve it over the coming decades. Our opposition to religion is of the highest theoretical order and in no way aimed at denying you what we consider to be your right to pursue your religious objectives in everyday life, including the politics and economics of those objectives. If we are right time will prove that. If you are right time will prove that too. Either way we want your support and will guarantee your rights! Washington will continue to do what they have always done to you and that is to pay lip service to your rights and practical opposition to your existence!

Three Principal Tasks Now

(1) Leadership

It wouldn’t hurt for all Left parties to start asking the question as to whether their leaders represent change we can believe in or just the same old stale and factually challenged politics. Politics completely wrong theoretically and thus practically. Of the ten Left parties in Los Angeles 7 are Trotskyist in origin and thus as explained herein beyond the theoretical pale (why join a Party off on the wrong theoretical foot with its first step); the Madame Maoists around the RCP are ultra-leftists so far incapable of understanding 20^th century socialist stage evolution as described in this Handbook and are accordingly equally unacceptable theoretically at the outset. PLP is close but not close enough as you will learn herein to the correct position. Of course there is the old Soviet sponsored modern revisionist CPUSA now a rump Party compared to its old self for fairly obvious reasons – namely, if you want to be an Obama democrat why load yourself down with the name “communist.” Well if you are getting a salary and pension from CPUSA that is one reason. The first two of these tendencies (Trotskyism and Madame Maoism) could get educated and get with it but whether they will is anyone’s guess. If we can help these parties in the educational process we certainly should. As for members of the revisionist party they could do the same thing but again whether they will is anyone’s guess. After all they have had five decades to kick out the revisionist usurpers and they have not. Instead real communists left for other parties. We are all from the original same camp and could all be together once again.

(2) Rectification via Education

Left over from five decades of revisionist control of the CPUSA is an incredible ignorance of basic science among the few sincere persons therein still considering themselves communists. No “Party” of the working class can be any good if it doesn’t consistently weed out the non-Marxist non-Leninist opportunists. No one needs rectification more than the barely still alive rump CPUSA (currently headed up by a non-Marxist anti-Leninist, not to mention being an actual special agent of the FBI) and if you wish to save yourselves you should begin these efforts soon with intense educational efforts as the center of a massive internal rectification campaign.

(3) Build a Permanent Party Led Union in Critical Industrial Arena

I wrote the Chapter on Socialism (Chapter 13) to show you what to do next. In other words do what Leninists did in the Russian Empire. The first tasks need not be completed in total before we get on with task number three (3) which is to build a permanent communist led union in a critical industrial arena. You have to find an equivalent arena of industrial battle in the US to what Koba (Party name then for Joseph Stalin) and Krassin found in the oilfields of Batum and Baku on the Black and Caspian Seas. Here Koba and Krassin fought an armed strike and won with a permanent union in the Russian oilfields and provided a model for all the rest of the industrial centers in the Czarist empire. These other cities erupted in a nationwide general strike in 1903 and in 1904 the Czar tried to distract the nation with war against Japan. When his entire fleet was sunk at sea the nation revolted in the Revolution of 1905. All this was due to the action of a small group of dedicated revolutionaries led by Vladimir Illych Lenin from London and Leonid Krassin and Koba in Baku and Batum who started the fight. They completed it in the Russian oilfields and then spread the fight to every city in Russia in the form of a general strike. A very small group of men and women dedicated to the task of organizing proletarian revolution with the objective of seizing state power.

There are equivalent industrial centers in the USA on the docks and in the few remaining auto and steel industrial centers, and many other possibilities from trucking to lumbering to mining and oil and gas to mention only a few of the more obvious pillars of the commanding heights of industry. Here, in one (or more) of these industrial foci is where you must build a permanent base with communists openly in union leadership. Here we demonstrate what we are and what we intend to do openly and honestly and prepare to lead industrial labor in an armed struggle against the fascist regime in Washington.

(1) Select appropriate leaders, (2) launch an internal rectification and educational campaign and (3) join us in building a permanent union base in a critical area of US industrial production, and in (4) reporting on the International Brigade now forming in Brazil to support the National Liberation armies in Peru and Colombia (now that the gringo imperialists have inserted their special forces these working class vanguard fighters see it as their responsibility to match this escalation and overpower it). These are the primary tasks for all you considering yourselves communists, now on the horizon.

Foundation

In conclusion to this Preface, I want to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the fictional works of our nation’s most prolific book writer, Isaac Asimov. In the Foundation series of novels he authored (especially the first three books, Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation); Asimov’s central point was that science could decipher the laws of sociocultural evolution so that the collapse of the Galactic Empire could be predicted by his hero Hari Seldon. In Asimov’s story, Seldon took it upon himself, using his science and mathematics of social evolution, to develop a plan (the Foundation in the novels; which by analogy could be the Communist Party in contemporary real world terms) to bring the next step in sociocultural evolution to fruition, relatively quickly. Thus, in the Foundation series Seldon was short-circuiting, in 1000 years, a process that would take 20,000 years otherwise, given the scientifically predicted collapse of the Galactic Empire.

I wrote these Foundation comments before the announcement by the Royal Swedish Nobel Committee it had selected Paul Krugman, a Princeton University Economics Professor, and occasional op-ed writer for the New York Times, as this year’s Nobel Prize winner for Economics. Then that evening I heard Professor Krugman’s interview with Jim Lehrer (MacNeil Lehrer News Hour PBS). Asked why he went into economics to begin with, Krugman said he was inspired to look at social evolution scientifically by Isaac Asimov and these first three Foundation novels. Interesting is it not that a theoretician for imperialism (Krugman) and a Marxist theoretician (me) should have been inspired to do what we have done by the same author and series of novels.

Our Communist real world contemporary and urgent task is to avert total human catastrophe, now in process, as the human created degradation of our planet is in full swing, and to create on this planet instead, a world where people make themselves consciously, rather than waiting, unconsciously, for the future to be constructed as a product of otherwise operating laws. We communists have this task, and obligation, since only we have the science of society, culture and their history, as our virtual sole property.

This can be a critically important hypothetical historical lesson in analog. We can bring humanity to a rapid resolution of the problems we now confront. We know we don’t have to wait for history to do it on its own. This is why our science is so important to the very survival of humanity and to achieving our next great step forward. We can do it. Or, more accurately, I should say, you can do this. For Young Communists, this is your task, because as Thomas Jefferson was fond of saying, “the Earth belongs to the living.”

History Is Moving Fast!

Foundation Now

I have resolved the problem of Stalinist Socialism as is proven in this book and accordingly we now have to sort out and educate all those who have been lost for many years.   

Modern Revisionists

We will begin with the Soviet (and East Europe) New Class bosses favorite overseas suckers - the North American modern revisionists. The Khrushchev gang appropriated the name “communist” due to historical happenstance and so did their foreign puppets. In our country some of the left-overs still operate with the name Communist. They will continue to do so as long as they have their hands on the financial resources to get their incomes. In actuality this bunch fit in the middle of the capitalist Obama Democratic Party. Without the skeleton rump organization they command they would not have the pensions and salaries they are collecting and could not keep duping their contributors into supplying the funds to keep their individual lives going on the party teat.

I want to wish those remaining in the old CPUSA the best of luck in sorting out your situation. I decided I couldn’t get into this group after re-reading Sam Webb’s Reflections on Socialism. Perhaps a better name would have been “Reflections on Revisionism.” However, that may be, Webb’s constant belittling of the role of Marx, Engels and Lenin to that of being just more social commentators of their time is like reducing the role of Darwin to being one more 19^th century naturalist. To a Marxist this is insulting. To me reading this pamphlet was physically painful.

It would have been worse if it were not so obvious that Webb is an incompetent theoretical featherweight. It’s obvious Webb has no accurate comprehension of Marxist economics by the way he missed the current capitalist crisis and belittled the idea of preparing for an armed seizure of power when the next capitalist collapse occurs. It is obvious Webb is anti-Leninist in that he does not want a vanguard role for a communist party. As I say this was very painful for me to read and absorb in its full significance. “Reflections on Socialism” could never have been published by anyone under the rubric of communist until recent years. Whatever may be really going on in the rump CPUSA is beyond me and not worth bothering to correct. As for the remaining members, most are too old to care anymore, and any new recruits fooled by the revisionist’s retention of the name “communist” will catch on soon enough.

With regard to the others they fall into two categories: (1) Trotskyists and (2) other Ultra-leftists. The many Trotskyist originating parties must get over their problems. Beginning with the mass of Trotskyists (SWP, News and Letters, Spartacists, Worker’s World, PSL, etc.) what they have to do is to get rid of their old and incorrect understanding of Trotsky in favor of the historically accurate version as in this book. Also, and most importantly, get over the incorrect Trotskyist theory by recognizing the source of your error as explained above and below in this Handbook. Having done this by admitting your failure to resolve the matter theoretically for many decades, and openly declaring you now see it has been resolved, you will be prepared to move on; hopefully although not necessarily, by assimilating voluntarily with us.

Madame Mao ultra-leftists

As for the RCP and perhaps PLP (if it still exists somewhere) much the same is true. Emotional commitment to the end-game of Communism and the wish for “Communism Now” led wishful and passionate thinkers into a morass of ideological confusion in the transition in China after Chairman Mao’s death. I have resolved the theoretical problems for you but I can’t force you to get educated any more than a horse led to water can be forced to drink. So let me urge you to read the proofs herein and in so doing you will get educated and then you can get with it! Especially Bob Avakian whose Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) could become critically important overnight if Avakian is a big enough man to admit he failed to resolve the source of the problem of ultra-leftism in general and Trotskyism in particular but that now that the matter has been resolved (as herein) he accepts it and is prepared to move on accordingly.

As for the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) it got lost after Mao’s death. However, some of them got at least part of it right when they took the position that we have about twenty years upon seizing power to get on with it before the revisionists take over and initiate a process of capitalist restoration. Actually what they are saying in light of what I have proven herein is simply that we are witnessing an entirely new stage in sociocultural evolution and if that Stage doesn’t move on (evolve quickly) to fully developed socialism and enter communism within about twenty years, then it may be too late to avoid a now necessary subsequent two stages of socialist transition before moving on to communism. Accordingly, as with Avakian, all they have to do is to admit they failed to make the resolution needed, but now that it has been made (as herein) they accept it and are prepared to move on.

What We Can Expect in terms of Communism Now

An immediate (or relatively fast) move into the Communist Stage will only be possible in those countries industrially prepared such as the USA. We have never seen a fully developed capitalist country move into a Socialist Stage let alone a Communist one so we are charting new territory here. In other words, it is only in totally unprepared countries that we have so far successfully seized power and that has given us the course we have followed so far and about which much of this book is concerned. That is, the course of building the industrial and agricultural foundations for capitalism and socialism sequentially and then hopefully getting on with the task of building communism. No one has succeeded in getting that far – to building communism - so far, in these backward countries.

Only a New Correctly Oriented Party Can do the Job Now

There is a clear, present, and desperate need for a real Communist Party in this country and accordingly, having spoken with a number of you about this for several years, we agree that the time is at hand to kick off our Foundation and now! I have to do what my age, health, and background, allow and qualify me to do and that is to teach Marxism, Leninism, and its various constituent social and historical sciences, i.e., historical materialism.

But you have to step up to the plate now. Those of you reading this book – perhaps someone I have never heard of let alone met – must take over our new Party and lead it into the coming decades of the 21^st century. – And you have to do this soon. I am getting beyond the point of being able to provide the energetic leadership our new Party needs and needs everywhere and at every level. I am willing to give what I have which is to say the last few years of my life but you have to take the reins, the sooner the better. To quote Obewan Kenobe “I’m getting to old for this sort of thing.”

Initially we in the Communist Party USA (Foundation) have three objectives: (1) educating revolutionary cadre of whatever Party in the sciences of historical materialism and (2) implementing our own political program with a vertebral chord of revolutionary cells and clubs. For course work and other opportunities look for Communist Party USA (Foundation) on the internet Our structure can be seen in the table of organization. (3) Build toward assimilation of all of the sincere Marxist and Leninist organizations into one unified Party. Make no mistake about the defining and diagnostic criteria to join, which is sincerity.

The Test for Membership in the new and real Communist Party

That sincerity is ultimately put to the test by determining if there is a willingness to see the essential underlying fact of two or more sociocultural evolutionary stages existing in the (Second) Transitional Period in human history. That is the period we are currently in with its already defined Stages of Stalinist Socialism and Advanced Socialism (and perhaps another one or two on the way). All of the theoretical schisms of the past 150 years can be made to go away with this correct understanding of the stages of sociocultural evolution and the dialectics of cause and process within.

Learning Little by Little

Along the way, your learning to think scientifically (beginning with dialectical materialist epistemology), will allow you to understand the previous unanswered great question in world anthropology which is now resolved herein. Namely, how the general contradiction of the primitive communist epoch (99+% of human history) transformed into the general contradiction of the Servitude Epoch (Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism. This is the central topic of the first ten or so chapters of this book.

Let’s Not Get Off on the Wrong Foot from the Start

The brief explanation of the history of the internationals in this blurb at Venezuelanalysis toward the end of 2009 is completely misleading, wrong and unacceptable.

The First International did not collapse. It was threatened by anarchist takeover in Europe so General Secretary Karl Marx sent it to Philadelphia. There the 19 sections of US communists dissolved it at Marx’s bidding. In its stead they created the Workingmen’s Party of the United States and other Marxists in Europe created their own social democratic parties. I discuss this in detail in my new book in Part III on the history of the Labor Movement in the USA.

The Second International was taken over from the beginning by revisionists. They did what we have come to expect from revisionism (both this original archetype kind which is still with us and in power in many capitalist countries, and modern revisionism of the USSR-East Europe type, which is now gone thank goodness, except for the leftover puppet parties – e.g., the USA FBI front Party under the FBI agent Sam Webb) and supported the capitalists in their imperialist world war in 1914.

The Third International created by Lenin set things straight. It is a lie to say that the Comintern was perverted by Stalin and/or Stalinism. If we are going to start a new international it cannot be just an excuse to bring Trotskyist mythology back to the fore. In this new book ABC’s OF COMMUNISM, BOLSHEVISM 2011, you can read the truth about the history of the 3^rd International in 150 pages (chapters 13 through 16 pp 140-275). (http://www.abcsofcommunism.info).

The Fourth International of the Trotskyists never got off the ground. That is true. They have never been able to secure state power anywhere. Originally because, at least in my opinion, the only programmatic difference between Stalin and Trotsky was on the question of pace of the five year plans. The only other real difference being the personality struggle between the bourgoisiefied wannabe aristocrat Trotsky and the long term Old Bolshevik Stalin. Trotsky was an enemy of Bolshevism most of his life and with us only a short time. (The total time being the ten years from 1917 to 1927).

Stalin gave Lenin the first permanent labor union in the Czarist Empire in the oilfields of Baku and Batum and robbed banks and stage coaches and ships to get Lenin money. It was Stalin and associated Old Bolsheviks (never including Trotsky) who triggered the national general strike that led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and the Russian Revolution of 1905. Again all of this is discussed in the above referenced sections available (gratis) at http://www.abcsofcommunism.info.

A fifth international is exactly what is needed but not one based on silly Trotskyist lies, distortions and mythology. If those assembled should decide to create the 5^th International they should consider setting up a Historical Commission to study and resolve differences of opinion on all these matters. Any attempt to foist Trotskyist mythology on the international working class movement’s most important central body will doom such a body to defeat right from the start. We need to get off on the right foot.

To Recap

These are the two central most important theoretical breakthroughs since Lenin reinvigorated Marxism in 1903. With them we can rearm the working class world-wide. The concomitant is that it is now your responsibility to internalize these new facts along with everything else in this book and take this ideological rearmament to its logical practical application, which is the global conclusion of the period of class and state society. Hopefully within this century.