On
11-14 April 2013 the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) will hold her
19th congress, as it is written here. One of the most
important issues is the unification of the whole party about the
concrete and elaborated strategy of socialist revolution and the
building of a society based on communist production-relations,
through the stage of what is called socialism (in fact the first
stage of communism), and this for a “near future”... A second
issue (and therefore a lot of congress-preparing documents are online
available in different languages) is the recognition of a serious
problem of opportunism in the circles of those organisations which
claim to be “Marxist” and “communist” and an analysis of the
ideological base of that opportunism. I think that those documents
has to be studied.
A
chapter in the main-text “ THESES OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE FOR THE 19TH CONGRESS - 11-14 APRIL 2013”
is about “What is socialism?” I am publishing this text here
below, just because of the fact that I want to compare it with what
the WPB (PVDA/PTB) is writing/saying about it. (and which I commented already - in Dutch - in articles HERE on this page)So a clear distinction can be made between applying Marxism out of a real proletarian class-position and using Marxist-sounding phraseology to “cover” a BOURGEOIS class-position.
It
is not that I totally agree with all the KKE is saying. I have my
questions, points of discussion. (I “produced” already some
critic on positions of the KKE, HERE, HERE and HERE ...) But I know
(I realise now) that my opinion is that of an individual, while that
of the KKE is a result of collective study, collective “proof of
the practice” and collective discussion, so on a higher level of
“probably correctness”.....So some of those critics I would
probably formulate them now, in a less antagonist way then I did....
Socialism
as the first, lowest phase of communism1
81.
Socialism is the first phase of the communist socio-economic
formation; it is not an independent formation. It is an immature
communism. The basic law of the communist mode of production is
valid: “planned production for the extended satisfaction of social
needs.”
The
development potential of the country will be placed at the service of
the people and their needs through the Central Planning. This is also
true of whatever has been created by human activity in science,
technology and culture. This will endure a higher standard of living
and intellectual development. Unemployment and labour insecurity will
be eradicated, free time will be increased, so that the working
people will be able to actively participate and exercise workers’
control in order to safeguard the character of working class power.
82.
Socialist construction is a single process which starts with the
conquest of power by the working class. In the beginning, the new
mode of production is formed, which basically prevails through the
complete abolition of capitalist relations, of the capital-wage
labour relation.
§
The socialisation of the means of production in industry,
energy-water supply, telecommunications, construction, repair, public
transport, wholesale and retail trade and import-export trade, the
concentrated tourist – restaurant infrastructure, the capitalist
agricultural cultivations.
§
The socialization of land and the capitalist agricultural
cultivations. State production units will be created for the
production and processing of agricultural products as raw materials
or consumer products. The Greek reality does not require the
redistribution of land. Those who do not own land will work in the
socialist agricultural and livestock units. The measure of the
socialization of land ends the possibility of land being
concentrated, the change of its use and its commodification by
individual or cooperative agricultural producers.
§
The abolition of private ownership and economic activity in
education, health-welfare, culture and sports, in the mass media.
They are completely and exclusively organized as social services.
§
The abolition of the use of alien labour, i.e. wage labour, by those
who still possess isolated means of production in sectors that have
not been compulsorily socialized, e.g. in crafts, agricultural
production, tourism-restaurants, in certain auxiliary services.
§
Means of production, raw materials and other industrial materials
and resources, and labour force will be used in production and the
organization of social and administrative services via Central
Planning.
§
Industry and the largest part of agricultural production will be
carried out with relations of social ownership, Central Planning,
workers’ control over the whole spectrum of management and
administration.
83.
Agricultural productive cooperatives will be promoted, which will
have the right to utilize the socialized land as a means of
production. The integration of small farmers will be carried out on a
voluntary basis. The incentives for cooperativization are: the
reduction of the cost of production through collective cultivation
work and collection of agricultural produce; the protection of
agricultural production from natural phenomena through the state
infrastructure and scientific and technical support; the
concentration of agricultural produce via the state retail sector;
the even distribution of labour time on a year basis though the
extension of mechanization and central coordination to deal with
unforeseen weather hazards. The reformation of the village with urban
features regarding unified education, fully equipped health centres
connected with hospitals in the nearest urban centres, cultural
infrastructure, transport etc.
To
the extent which labour is socialized through producer cooperatives
and the use of mechanized means of production and collective
infrastructure, the pre-conditions will be created for direct
integration into social ownership and full integration into the
central plan. In this direction the contradiction between the city
and countryside, industrial and agricultural production, will be
eliminated. The improvement of their working and living conditions
will be the benefit for those who previously worked in the
cooperatives.
84.
The division of labour in the socialized means of production is based
on the central plan that organizes production and social services and
determines its proportions, with the aim of satisfying the expanded
social needs, and the distribution of products (use values). It is a
centrally planned division of social labour and directly integrates -
not via the market - individual labour, as part of the total social
labour.
Central
Planning consciously outlines the objective proportions of production
and distribution, as well as the effort to develop the productive
forces in an all-sided way.
It
prioritizes the production of means of production. The development of
productive capability as a whole and the technological equipping of
the social services depend on this. In the final analysis, the
ability of the expanded reproduction and the rise of social
prosperity are dependent on this.
The
scientific laws of Central Planning are not identified with each
specific plan, which approaches to a greater of lesser extent the
objective proportions of the expanded socialist accumulation and
social prosperity.
Central
Planning aims, in the medium and long term, to develop in a
generalized way the ability to perform specialised labour, as well as
shifts in the technical division of labour, to achieve the all-round
development of labour productivity and the reduction of labour time,
for the prospect of eliminating the differences between executive and
supervisory labour, between manual and intellectual labour.
Cooperative
production is subordinated to some extent to Central Planning, which
determines the part of the production that is allocated to the state
and sets the state prices, at which the produce is collected by the
state, as well as the prices, the produce is sold at in the
state-organized popular markets.
85.
Central Planning will be organised by sector, through a unified state
authority, with regional and industry-level branches. Planning will
be based on a totality of goals and criteria such as:
·
In Energy:
Development
of infrastructure for the reduction of the level of energy dependence
of Greece, safeguarding adequate and cheap popular consumption, the
safety of workers in the sectors and of residential areas.
Protection of public health and the environment. In this direction,
energy policies will have the following pillars: the utilisation of
all domestic energy sources e.g. lignite, hydro-electric power, wind
power, solar energy, oil, natural gas etc, the systematic research
and discovery of new sources, the pursuit of mutually beneficial
inter-state cooperation.
·
In Transport:
Priority
will be given to mass rather than private transport, to rail
transport on the mainland of the country and to ferry services with
modern vessels for coastal regions and islands. Planning will be
carried out based on the criterion of having all forms of transport
operate in an interlinked and complementary way and with the goals of
cheap and fast transport of people and goods, the saving of energy,
the balanced human intervention in the environment, the planned
development for the eradication of uneven regional development, the
full control of defence and national security of the socialist state.
This requires also the planning of the relevant infrastructure
-ports, airports, railway stations, roads and of an industry for the
production of means of transportation.
·
In manufacturing and mining industry:
Priority
will be given to the production of means of production through the
utilisation of the mining industry combined with the development of
the respective sectors of manufacturing, by means of supporting
national scientific research.
Greece
has important reserves of metallic mineral resources such as bauxite,
metallic minerals (gold, nickel, copper), mineral resources (perlite,
magnesite, marble, etc.).
The
mining of mineral resources will be combined with their industrial
processing (e.g. production of aluminium and of relevant aluminium
components), with the development of metal and petrochemical
industry, the production of machines and means of transport aiming at
the reduction of the dependence on foreign trade; similarly in
sectors of manufacturing, such as the chemical industry.
The
Central Planning will promote the proportional harmonized relation
between agricultural production and industry for significant and
necessary raw materials in the sectors of food industry, textile,
leather and clothing industry and generally in the industry of
consumer goods. Accordingly agricultural production will be based on
domestic industrial production of fertilizers, pesticides, fodder,
seeds etc. agricultural machines, irrigation infrastructure.
·
In telecommunications:
Cheap,
rapid, safe and universal access to communication, information,
entertainment as well as the utilisation of technological
capabilities for the enhancement of scientific central planning and
workers’ control, for equal utilisation of the corresponding
applications of the scientific central planning and workers’
control in industry, in administration, as well as in social services
(tele-medicine, tele-teaching etc). Priority is given to the
construction and enhancement of the respective infrastructure works
for the development of the domestic industrial production of
telecommunication equipment.
·
Spatial planning- construction:
Spatial
planning on the basis of the results of research concerning the
definition of new needs, the elaboration of regulations and standards
as well as on the basis of a national plan for the management of
wastes, for the comprehensive management of the water resources for
their protection and utilisation according to the criterion of
people’s prosperity and the construction of cities that will be
people-friendly.
Even
development of construction in order to cover the needs for housing,
for public infrastructure works, for supporting agricultural
production, industry, social services. Industrial production can
cover the needs of the sector of construction in cement and building
materials.
Safe,
modern standards for people’s housing combined with the reshaping
of cities, operational infrastructure for quick safe transportation,
protection against floods, fires, earthquakes, sufficient green
spaces combined with zones for sports, culture and entertainment.
86.
Scientific research will be organised through state institutions,
universities, institutes, etc. and will serve the protection and
promotion of health, Central Planning, the administration of social
production and social services, in order to develop social
prosperity.
State
social infrastructure will be created which will provide high-quality
social services in order to meet needs which today are being tackled
by individual or family households (e.g. restaurants in workplaces,
in schools, facilities for leisure. In addition, welfare institutions
and high-level facilities will be created in order to protect, take
care of and ensure the dignity of people who cannot help themselves
due to their age (children, elderly) or due to illness (people with
special needs).
All
children will be provided with free and public pre-school education,
exclusively public, free of charge, general 12-year education through
schools with a unified structure, programme, administration and
operation, technical equipment, specialised staff educated in a
unified system. The systems of evaluation aim at the consolidation of
knowledge, at the development of a dialectic-materialist way of
thinking, self discipline and collectivity. Through a unified system
of free public higher education, scientific personnel will be formed,
capable of teaching in universities and of providing the specialised
staff in areas of research, socialised production and state services.
An
exclusively public and free health and welfare system will be
established. A particular emphasis is given to the prevention of
diseases and services which are necessary for physical and
psychological well-being, for the intellectual and cultural
development of every individual, for ensuring the environmental and
social conditions that affect public health, social activity and the
ability to work.
87.
The
role and the function of the Central Bank will change. The regulation
of the function of money as a means of commodity circulation will be
restricted to the exchange between socialist production and the
production of agricultural cooperatives, in general with the
commodity production of that portion of consumer goods that are not
produced by the socialist production units, until the final
eradication of every form of private ownership over means of
production and of the existence of commodity production. On this
basis, the respective functions of certain specialised state credit
institutions for agricultural cooperatives and certain small
commodity producers will be controlled by the Central Bank.
The
development of Central Planning and the extension of social ownership
in all areas make money gradually superfluous, both in terms of
content and form.
The
Central Bank, as a department of Central Planning, controls
international transactions (inter-state, trade, tourism) as long as
capitalist states exist on earth. These transactions are carried out
exclusively by state authorities. It will also regulate gold reserves
or reserves of other commodities which operate as world money or any
other general reserve. The Central Bank will play a role in the
exercise of general social accounting and it will be connected to the
organs and goals of Central Planning.
88.
Socialist construction is incompatible with the participation of the
country in imperialist unions, such as the EU and NATO, IMF, OECD
with the existence of USA-NATO military bases. The new power,
depending on the international and regional situation, will seek to
develop inter-state relations of mutual benefit between Greece and
other countries, especially with countries whose level of
development, problems and immediate interests may ensure such a
mutually beneficial cooperation.
The
socialist state will seek cooperation with states and peoples who
objectively have a direct interest in resisting the economic,
political and military centres of imperialism, first and foremost
with the peoples who are constructing socialism in their countries.
It will seek to utilize every available “rupture” which might
occur in the imperialist “front” due to inter-imperialist
contradictions, in order to defend and strengthen the revolution and
socialism. A socialist Greece, loyal to the principles of proletarian
internationalism, will be, to the extent of its capabilities, a
bulwark for the world anti-imperialist, revolutionary and communist
movement.
The
satisfaction of the social needs
89.
Social needs are determined according to the level of development of
the productive forces which has been achieved in the given historical
period.
Basic
social needs (education-health- welfare) are provided to all for free
according to the needs while another part of them is covered by a
relatively small part of the money-income acquired through labour
(housing, energy, water, heating, transport, nutrition).
A
characteristic of the first phase of communist relations, i.e. of the
socialist relations, is the distribution of one part of the products
“according to labour”. The distribution of a part of socialist
production “according to labour”, which resembles commodity
exchange only in terms of its form, is a result of capitalist
inheritance. The new mode of production has not managed to discard it
yet, because it has not developed all of the necessary human
productive power and all the means of production to the necessary
dimensions, through the widest use of new technology. Labour
productivity does not yet allow a decisively large reduction of
labour time, the abolition of heavy and one-sided labour, so that the
social need for compulsory labour can be eradicated.
The
planned distribution of labour force and of the means of production
entails the planned distribution of the social product. This is a
fundamental difference compared to the distribution of the social
product through the market, based on the laws and categories of
commodity exchange.
90.
Labour time in socialism is not the “socially necessary labour
time” that constitutes the measure of value for the exchange of
commodities in commodity production. It is the measure of the
individual contribution to social labour for the production of the
total product. It operates as a measure for the distribution of these
products of individual consumption which are still distributed
“according to labour”.
Access
to that part of the social product that is distributed “according
to labour” is determined by the individual labour contribution of
each person in the totality of social labour, without distinguishing
between complex and simple labour, manual or otherwise. The measure
of individual contribution is the labour time which is determined by
the plan based on the total needs of social production, the material
conditions of the production process in which “individual” labour
is included. The special needs of social production for the
concentration of the labour force in certain areas, branches, etc.,
as well as other special social needs, such as maternity, individuals
with special needs, etc. are taken into account in the determination
of the labour time.
The
personal stance of each individual vis-a-vis the organization and the
realisation of the productive process plays a decisive role in the
productivity of labour, in the evolution of labour time, in material
saving, in the application of more productive technologies, the more
rational organisation of labour, the exercise of workers’ control
in administration-management.
91.
Incentives will be formed for the development of a vanguard communist
attitude vis-a-vis the organization and execution of labour in the
production unit or social service, as a result of the combination of
various specific types of labour. The incentives will aim at the
reduction of purely unskilled and manual labour, at the reduction of
labour time, in parallel with access to educational programmes,
leisure and cultural services, participation in workers’ control.
We reject the monetary form of incentives.
The
planned development of the productive forces in the communist mode of
production should increasingly free up more time from work, which
should then be used to raise the educational-cultural level of
working people; to allow for workers’ participation in the
realisation of their duties regarding workers’ power and
administration of production, etc. The all-round development of man
as the productive force in the building of the new type of society,
of the communist relations and the communist attitude towards
directly social labour, is a two-way relationship. Depending on the
historical phase, either the one or the other side will take
precedence.
The
struggle of the new against the old. The necessity of the conscious
and planned eradication of the elements of immaturity
92.
The overcoming of the elements of immaturity that characterize the
lower phase of communism, that is socialism, is a precondition in
order for the laws of communism to fully prevail.
In
socialism the vestiges of the previous modes of production have not
yet been eradicated and the material conditions of the socialist mode
of production have not matured so as to fully take on its communist
character, so that the principle “from each according to his
ability to each according to his need” enters completely into
force.
Initially
there remain forms of individual and group ownership that constitute
the basis for the existence of commodity-money relations.
On
the basis of its economic immaturity, there still continue to exist
social inequalities, social stratification, significant differences
or even contradictions, such as those between city and country,
between intellectual and manual workers, between specialized and
unskilled workers. All of these inequalities must be completely
eradicated, gradually and in a planned way.
During
the construction of socialism, the working class acquires
progressively, not in a uniform fashion, the ability to have an
overview of the different parts of the productive process, of
supervisory work, a substantive role in the organization of labour.
As a result of the difficulties in this process, it is still possible
that workers with a managerial role in production, workers engaged in
intellectual labour and possessing a high scientific specialization,
would tend to isolate the individual interest and the group interest
from the social interest, or would tend to lay claim to a larger
share of the total social product, since the “communist attitude”
towards labour has not yet prevailed.
93.
The social revolution is not restricted only to the conquest of
power and the formation of the economic base for the socialist
development, but is extended during the entire course of socialism;
it includes the development of socialism for the attainment of the
higher communist phase.
Subsequently,
the new relations will be extended and deepened, communist relations
and the new type of man will develop to a higher level that
guarantees their irreversible supremacy, provided that capitalist
relations have been abolished on a global scale or at least in the
developed and influential countries of the imperialist system.
The
socialist course contains the possibility of a reversal and a retreat
backwards to capitalism, as the experience from the
counterrevolutionary overthrow in the USSR and the other socialist
countries showed. Retreat is in any case a temporary phenomenon in
history. The transition from an inferior mode of production to a
higher one is not a straightforward ascending process. This is also
shown by the very history of the prevalence of capitalism.
The
leap that takes place during the period of socialist construction,
i.e. during the revolutionary period of the transition from
capitalism to developed communism, is qualitatively superior to any
previous one, since communist relations, which are not of an
exploitative nature, are not shaped within the framework of
capitalism. A struggle of the “seeds” of the new system against
the “vestiges” of the old one takes place in all spheres of
social life. It is a struggle for the radical change of all economic
relations and, therefore, of all social relations, into communist
relations.
94.
During this long-term transition from the capitalist society to the
developed communist one, the policies of the revolutionary working
class power, with the Communist Party as the leading force, give
priority to the formation, extension and deepening of the new social
relations, to their complete and irreversible prevalence, not in a
voluntarist manner, but based on the laws of the communist mode of
production.
There
will be an ongoing battle for the eradication of every form of group
and individual ownership over the means and results of production and
of the petit-bourgeois consciousness that has deep historical roots.
It is a struggle for the formation of a communist consciousness and
attitude towards the direct socialised labour.
The
socialist accumulation which will be achieved, will lead to a new
level of social prosperity. This new level makes the gradual
extension of new relations in that area of productive forces possible
which previously were not mature enough to be included in the
directly social production. There is a constant expansion of the
material prerequisites for the abolition of any differentiation in
the distribution of the social product among the workers, in the
directly social production; for the continuous reduction of the
necessary labour time; for the constant educational-cultural
development and the technological-scientific specialisation of man;
for the eradication of reactionary and anachronistic views, customs
and attitudes regarding a series of social issues such as the women’s
question.
In
accordance with the universal social law of the correspondence of the
relations of production with the level of development of the
productive forces, each historically new level of development of
productive forces that is initially achieved by socialist
construction, demands a further “revolutionization” of relations
of production and of all economic relations, in the direction of
their complete transformation into communist relations, by means of
revolutionary policies.
The
development of the communist mode of production in its first phase,
socialism, is a process through which the distribution of the social
product in monetary form will be eradicated. Communist production –
even in its immature stage – is directly social production.
Fundamental
principles of the formation of the socialist power
95.
The socialist power is the revolutionary power of the working class,
the dictatorship of the proletariat. The revolutionary working class
power requires a high level of organisation with all means available.
It requires workers’ control in the exercise of the administration
of the industrial units in the sectors of strategic importance. In
that way the working class power carries out its creative,
social-economic and cultural work under all conditions -war
communism, a relatively more peaceful period of socialist
construction- it makes possible the supremacy of the workers’ and
people’s majority against the organised domestic and foreign
resistance of capital, its counterrevolutionary activity after the
loss of its power.
This
requires preparation and the ability to mobilise as quickly as
possible the socialised means of production, the entire labour force
through Central Planning so as to rapidly restore the losses that
will occur in the period of nationwide crisis that will have
preceded, the losses caused by the resistance of capitalists but also
of the upper intermediate strata, by the external economic blockade,
the imperialist interventions and wars etc.
96.
The fundamental principles of the revolutionary working class power
arise from the objective position of the working class in the
socialised production process as well as by the fact that the working
class as a whole has not achieved a unified consciousness of its
social role. The fundamental principles of the new power are in total
opposition to the old, bourgeois power. This arises from the fact
that the socialised labour renders the private ownership over the
means of production obsolete.
The
extent and the forms that the revolutionary working class power uses
for the repression of the counterrevolutionary activity depend on the
stance of the political and social organisations towards the two
conflicting forces, the working class and the capitalist class.
The
organisation of the new power is a matter for the working class as a
whole. The participation of other social forces
97.
The socialist state as an organ of class struggle, which continues
with other forms and under new conditions, does not have merely a
defensive-repressive organisational function. It also has a creative,
economic, cultural, educational function under the leadership of its
ideological –political vanguard, namely its party. It expresses a
higher form of democracy whose chief characteristic is the active
participation of the working class and generally of the people. The
people are educated on the basis of moral incentives that arise from
the higher mode of production and democracy, during the formation of
the socialist society, during the resolution of the old
contradictions and social inequalities, during the control of the
management of the productive units, of the social and administrative
services of all the organs of power from the bottom up. The exercise
of workers’ and social control will be institutionalised and
safeguarded in practice, as will the unhindered criticism of
decisions and practices which obstruct socialist construction, the
unhindered denunciation of subjective arbitrariness and bureaucratic
behaviour of officials, and other negative phenomena and deviations
from socialist-communist principles.
The
foundation of workers’ power is the productive unit, the social
services, the administrative unit, the producer cooperatives where
the working people exercise their rights: to elect and recall the
representatives of the unit; to be elected in the lowest level of the
working class power, in the Workers’ Council or the Cooperative
Council; to elect and recall the representatives to the immediately
higher organ of power.
The
direct and indirect working class democracy, the principle of
control, of accountability and the right of recall, which is extended
to the members of the management, is based on the Assembly of the
working people.
The
Assembly in the production units, the social services, the
administrative units, the producer cooperatives is the Body that
safeguards the substantial participation of all workers, men and
women, irrespective of their educational level and specialisation,
irrespective of their linguistic, cultural religious heritage.
The
voting right is safeguarded through the obligation of every man and
woman, who are capable of working, to work while the working class
state guarantees the corresponding job through Central Planning. The
exclusion from the election right takes place on the basis of the
criminal-disciplinary system.
The
working class power will seek to integrate the women who are able to
work and are below retirement age (18-55 years) into the direct
social labour. This integration can take place gradually depending on
the range of the problems that the working class power inherits and
resolves.
The
adults who do not work i.e. students will participate through the
respective educational unit that is comprised of university
professors and other workers.
The
pensioners form a special social group, as they are characterised by
class differentiation. For that reason pensioners will participate in
the procedures of their last workplace.
The
retired cooperative farmers will participate through their
cooperative organisation. The self-employed will participate with
their representatives.
The
disabled, depending on their degree of disability, will either be
incorporated into pensioners or will work under more favourable
conditions, or into special educational-productive units.
The
so called “minorities”, the sections of the working class who
speak a different language, the immigrants inherited by capitalism,
the political refugees will be treated according to these very
principles. The socialist power ensures the preservation of the
language and cultural traditions, their acquaintance with their
historical roots by means of a special programme integrated in the
cultural and educational system, without separate settlements,
providing for their participation in the highest bodies.
Special
committees for the needs of women, the young people, the people with
special needs may arise from the organizations that took part in the
revolution. These committees will be incorporated into the structure
of the working class power.
The
appointment of economic managers and managers of production –at
least in units of a considerable size- will be related to the
division of the specialized labour force which will be dealt with by
Central Planning. The managers will be appointed as salaried
employees without any special economic privileges. The organs of
power will have the obligation to create the preconditions so that
the unit can cover the needs for its administration on its own.
The
management of the productive unit or the social service or the
administrative unit will be comprised of many persons. The Workers’
Council will not be merely represented in the management but the
management will participate in the Workers’ Council.
All
the respective Bodies and Organs can pose the issue of controlling
and recalling the management.
The
socialist power inherits from capitalism a large number of salaried
employees that come from the administrative services of capitalism
(state employees, employees from the administrative mechanism of the
businesses). The working class power seeks their political and
cultural adaptation and their incorporation into the socialist
productive units and the social services.
The
working class character of the state power will be reflected in the
composition of the people’s organs.
The
socialist state will express the alliance of the working class with
the self-employed, whose economic activity will continue to exist for
a transitional period. It determines the conditions (obligations and
rights) for sections the scattered self-employed and the cooperative
farmers which constitute a transitional form and prepares them for
their integration into direct social production.
In
any case cooperatives are a transitional form of ownership. Therefore
the Council of the Cooperative which is elected by its members is a
self-administration organ with a transitional form.
Certain
guidelines for the formation of the organs of power
98.
The basis of the workers’ participation is the Assembly of the
socialist productive unit, of the social or administrative service
through which the lowest organ of power is elected, i.e. the Workers’
Council. The structure of the organs of power includes:
The
Workers’ Council, the Regional Council and the Highest Organ of
Working Class Power.
The
Highest Organ of the Working Class Power is responsible for Central
Planning, for the creative work in economy and in all social
relations, for the protection of the socialist construction, the
interstate relations. It has full authority, legislative, executive,
judicial which are organized respectively in supervisory structures.
All
three levels of the organs of power, according to hierarchy, are
responsible for the organization of the protection of the revolution,
for the people’s judiciary, the control mechanism.
The
organs for defence and the protection of the revolution are based on
workers’ and people’s participation as well as on permanent and
specialized personnel.
All
organs are characterized by the principle of democratic centralism
which ensures the unified character of Central Planning and the
specialization of its implementation.
A
state organ which has particular importance is the Highest
Administration of Central Planning that embraces committees for
special issues e.g. women’s equality and women’s rights,
committees that operate within the framework of the Highest Organ of
Working Class Power.
The
possibility of being recalled, the regulation of working-time in the
workplace for the specific period of election according to the
obligations in the organs, the exclusion of participation in more
than two organs, and the exclusion of any economic privilege applies
for all those who participate in the state organs of all levels.
A
revolutionary constitution and revolutionary legislation will be
formed, which will be in accordance with the new social
relations-social ownership, Central Planning, workers’ control- and
which will defend revolutionary legality. Labour Law, Family Law and
all the legal consolidation of the new social relations will be
shaped accordingly. The new judiciary will be uner the direct
responsonsibility of the organs of power. The judiciary will be made
up of elected and recallable lay judges, as well as of permanent
staff, answerable to the institutions of working class state power.
New
institutions will be created in place of the bourgeois army and
repressive organs-which will be completely dissolved-based on the
revolutionary struggle for the defeat of the resistance of the
exploiters and for the defence of the Revolution. Their cadre will be
shaped on the basis of their stance vis-Ã -vis the Revolution.
Gradually,
via new military schools, a new corps will be created, chosen mainly
from the youth with a working class background. It will be educated
according to the principles of the new state-power. The positive
experience of socialist construction, where the duties for the
defence of the revolutionary achievements were carried out not only
by the specialized permanent bodies, but also via the responsibility
of the people through workers’ committees on a shift basis etc,
will be utilised.
The
working class power will utilise all new technical means, the new
organisational forms based on technology in order to acquire an
effective defence against international imperialism, in organisation
and control as well as in order to restrict administrative acts to
the necessary ones, to reduce the number of the working people in
administrative-non productive labour to the minimum necessary degree.
The
relationship of the KKE with the working class power
99.
The KKE, as the ideological-political organised vanguard of the
working class, will constitute the leading force of the revolutionary
working class power, the dictatorship of the proletariat. It will
vindicate its revolutionary leading role as long as it expresses the
general interests of the working class and the scientific laws of the
socialist-communist construction in practice. The working class even
when revolutionary will not have achieved a unified communist
consciousness, a communist stance towards the direct social labour,
social ownership, it will not have overcome the differentiation among
its sections as they develop in capitalism. The members and the cadre
of the KKE and its Youth will participate in all forms of society’s
organisation and will exercise their role as ideological-political
leaders, with self-sacrifice, selflessness and without any economic
privilege or any other privileges.
The
members of the Youth of the KKE, of KNE, will act accordingly among
the students and the school students under the political guidance of
the organs and the forces of the party e.g. in education, in the
workers’ army, in the groups for the protection of the revolution
etc.
The
role of the members and the cadre of the KKE is constantly being
judged –confirmed or negated- in practice. This requires them to
achieve a higher level of theoretical, scientific, technical
knowledge so as to contribute to the ideological and political
maturation of the working class for its new role as the leading power
of the socialist –communist construction.
The
KKE is the political force that introduces in all organs of the
working class power the ability to carry out scientific predictions,
to organize the activity in a planned way, to elaborate political
plans for the formation of the socialist economic basis , of the new
socialist relations of production and distribution, of all the new
socialist-communist relations that characterize all the levels of the
society’s organisation, education, culture, the relations between
the two genders, the eradication of the long-term influence of the
metaphysical dogmas etc.
The
party through its members in each field –and KNE correspondingly in
education- expresses its opinion on all issues (e.g. candidacies in
organs, for the planning, the report of work etc).
100.
The recognition and the realization of the leading role of
the party, the acquisition of the corresponding social consciousness
not only by the working class masses but generally by the majority of
the people is the result of its revolutionary ideological political
and organizational formation which is constantly judged in life. The
dialectical relation between the revolutionary theory and the
revolutionary practice is constantly being judged. This relationship
entails:
§
A party that will be essentially committed to the revolutionary
communist ideology, on Marxism-Leninism from which it will acquire
the ability to interpret the new phenomena and guide the class
struggle according to the need to develop and consolidate the new
mode of production; to consolidate socialism as the lowest phase of
communism, as the decisive victory of the social ownership against
every form of private ownership and the final victory of communism.
§
A party with working class composition throughout its structure,
members and cadres. Particularly in conditions of relative
stabilization of the revolutionary power, the expansion of the forces
of the party and its rejuvenation should not reverse the majority of
the workers from the productive sections of industry.
§
The working class composition of the party is combined with the
collective responsibility so that all members of the party have a
high level of Marxist education, the ability to protect the party and
especially its highest organs from the penetration of bourgeois
ideological constructs, revisionist tendencies and opportunist
choices.
§
A party that will be capable of producing-educating communist
scientists, hence a party that will be at the frontline for the
development of science, for the acquisition of new knowledge as well
as for the extensive utilization of its results in favour of the
irreversible victory of communism. Leading organs capable of ensuring
the unity of the class and scientific character which is a
precondition in order for the party perform its revolutionary
vanguard role.
§
A party that will be capable of expanding and renewing its
revolutionary bonds with the working class, the creator of the social
wealth, in new conditions, in the new turns of the class struggle, in
every shift–negative or positive- of the correlation of forces in
the country and internationally with an unwavering orientation
regarding the basic social contradiction, that between capital and
labour. With the vanguard stance of its members and cadres it will
contribute practically to the development of a communist stance in
labour.
1http://inter.kke.gr/News/news2013/2013-03-05-thesis,
THESES OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE FOR
THE 19TH CONGRESS - 11-14 APRIL 2013, Socialism as the first, lowest
phase of communism
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