Role of the socialist state distorted

~ In point 11 of its June 14docu-
ment the central committee of
the Communist Party of China
directs its fire, and its vitupera-
tion, against what it describes as
**the prophets who pin all their
hopes to ‘peaceful transition’.”’

The somewhat labored argu-
ment in their text shows that its
authors experienced difficulty in
developing their attack without
contradicting Marxism - Lenin-
ism openly. They declare that the
target of their attack is guilty of
proceeding from historical ideal-
ism, that he repudiates the Marx-
ist-Leninist teachings on the
class struggle, arrives at a sub-
jective and groundless con-
clusion, and repudiates Marxism.
The authors omitted no accusa-
tions that could be levelled
against the advocacy of struggle
to achieve a peaceful transition
from capitalism to socialism.

But in the course of their
*‘argument’’? the authors are
forced to admit that: ‘*In specific
historical conditions, Marx and
Lenin did raise the possibility
that revolution may develop
peacefully.’’ The only assertion
that they are able to counterpose
to that is the following amazing

proclamation: *‘As a matter of ©

fact, there is no historical pre-
cedent for peaceful transition
from capitalism to socialism.’’

The authors have overlooked
the important fact that NEITHER

WAS THERE ANY HISTORICAL
PRECEDENT when Marx and
Lenin in their days called the
attention of all responsible revo-
lutionaries to this possibility.
They didn’t use our scientific,
world-historical viewpoint as a
dogma, to support assertions that
**it can’t be done,’’ they used it
as a guide to ‘*storming the
heavens’’, to make NEW PRECE-
DENTS by achieving that which
the dogmatists of their days pro-
claimed to be ‘‘impossible.”’

aes ee |

As though they were conscious
of the fact that their vitupera-
tion tends to place them in an
untenable position, the authors
of the document seek refuge, at
the end of their Point 11, in the
following pontification:

**The proletarian party must
prepare itself for two eventuali-
ties while preparing for a
peaceful development of the re-
volution, it must also fully pre-
pare for a non-peaceful develop-
ment,”’

The authors failtoinformtheir
readers that, with these words
they are, in effect, quoting N.S.
Khrushchev, who is the author of
that formulation; he said it pre-
cisely, in more complete form
and content, at the 20th and 22nd
congresses of the CPSU and on
many other occasions. It is the
conception expressed inthe Mos-

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cow Declaration and in the 81-
Party Statement and in innumer-
able documents of our world
movement. That, precisely, is the
thought that he expresses always;
not the travesty implied in the
Chinese document.

The sentence in which the
authors of the June 14 document
tell their readers what should be
the attitude of Communist par-
ties to the possibility of peaceful
development of the revolution is,

established in the Soviet Union
18 years from now. Introducing
the new program at the 22nd
Congress, N.S. Khrushchev ex-
plained that, within the Soviet
Union, the dictatorship of the
proletariat has fulfilled its histo-
rical mission of defeating all at-
tempts to.restore capitalism and
of overcoming all bourgeois re-
sistance within the country.

The industrial workers con-

tinue to be the leading force be-

TIM BUCK writes on ‘The Errors
of the Central Committee

of the Communist Party of China’
(THIRD OF A SERIES)

in fact, a paraphrase ofthe words

of the very comrade whom they

slander for propagating them.
* * *

The examples that we have
dealt with so far show clearly
that the C.C. of the Chinese party
is in error—both in estimation

of the general line of the inter-

national Communist movement
and in method of propagating its
point of viéw. It is necessary to
deal with one more question,
however, because if the Chinese
leaders were correct on it, even
on it alone, our Canadian party’s
program would be in error and
the Chinese leaders would have
at least an appearance of justifi-
cation for their claim that they
are fighting for the purity of
Marxism-Leninism. This is the
question of the state in the tran-
sition from socialism tothe high-
er phase, i.e. full-communism.

It is well known that today
there is no capitalist class inthe
Soviet Union and conditions in
which there could have been any
hope of restoring capitalism by
internal action were eliminated
long ago.

The new program of the CPSU
envisages continued and acceler-

. ating advance so that the econo-

mic basis of communism will be

cause of their organization and
their role but, from the point of
the planned .development of the
material. basis of communism,
the dictatorship ofthe proletariat
ceases to be necessary,

With the complete abolition of
the capitalist class and the pos-

sibility for capitalist exploit-
ation, the population of theSoviet

Union becomes a population of
working people, Soviet workers,
peasants and intellectuals, and
the state becomes the state ofall
the people. The CPSU becomes
the party of all the people.

The authors of the document
issued by the Chinese party on
June 14 attacked this point of
view violently. They accuse the
CPSU of disarming the proleta-
riat organizationally and ideolo-
gically, then ask their readers
‘tis it not tantamount to helping
to restore capitalism?’ This foul
“insinuation is directed against

the world’s first socialist state.

Against the thesis that the

Soviet state is now the state of

all the Soviet people, they coun-

terpose the words of Marx that

‘The question then arises: what

transformation will the state

undergo in communist society?

In other words, what social func-

tions will remain in existence

then that are analogous to pre-
sent functions of the state? This
question can only be answered
scientifically, and one does not
get a flea-hop nearer tothe prob-
lem by a thousandfold combi-
nation of the word people with
the word state.”’

The authors of the document
know that Marx wrote that in
castigation of the theory that
capitalism will evolve into so-
cialism without the necessity to
replace capitalist state power by
working class state power, i.e.
the dictatorship of the proleta-
riat, to carry through the con-
struction of socialism, Marx was
not analyzing there the social
functions that must still be per-
formed by the state AFTER capi-
talist economy has been abolish-
ed and replaced by socialist eco-
nomy; when there is no longer

any capitalist class.
Khrushchev, in contrast to the

static posture adopted by the Chi-
nese leaders, was surveying the

path forward after completion of

the tasks of the proletarian dic-
tatorship. Marxism - Leninism
does not dictate in advance the
exact forms by which the State
will. change to serve the advance
from socialism to communism,
they will be determined by the
functions that it must continue

to perform. As Lenin pointed out, —

in direct reference to the question
of the development of the state

after the socialist revolution:

*‘On the basis of what data,
then, can the question of the
future development of future
communism to be dealt with?..
On the basis of the fact that IT
HAS ITS ORIGIN in capitalism,
that it develops historically from
capitalism, that it is the result

of the action of a social force to ©

which capitalism gave birth.’’
(Lenin’s emphasis—T.B.)

Lenin, like Marx, was
thoroughly consistent in his prac-
tice of materialist dialectics. He
never conjured up _ utopias;
neither did he ever assume that
a scientifically and incontrover-
tibly correct thesis sets a limit

See SOCIALIST, pg. 7

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