Τhe
work “Achievements and successes of the working class in
socialism”, published by “Synchroni Epochi”, was presented by
the KKE's Central Committee, on July 12th
in Egaleo, Athens.
“Our
future isn't capitalism. It is the new world, socialism”! This
slogan was shouted by hundreds of members and friends of the KKE and
KNE at “Alexis Minotis” municipal theatre of Egaleo, where the
publication was presented. Working people from various sectors, who
live the intensive capitalist exploitation, listened with interest
the significant information that the new publication contains and
which proves the superiority of the socialist system. The
publication- a result of a collective effort by the Central
Committee's department for Labor and Trade Union work- consists part
of the KKE's greater multiform activity for the 100th
anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution .
Major
speakers at the event were Yannis Protoulis, member of the Political
Bureau of the CC of the KKE, Stefanos Loukas and Vivi Dagka, members
of the CC of the Party. The cultural programme of the event included
recitation of Bertolt Brecht's poems, from Greek poet Kostas
Varnalis' work “What I saw in Soviets' Russia”, revolutionary
soviet songs and the hymn of Comintern.
KKE politburo member Yannis Protoulis refered to the reasons which led to
the counterrevolution:
(abstracts from his speech)
"This
is a publication that takes its place next to the Declaration of the
CC, next to the many publications of the Party that have been issued
and those that will follow in the battle for knowledge, so that the
truth will shine against slander, mud and distortion and, at the same
time, for the invigoration of the fruitful debate for today's way out
from the system of capitalist exploitation, of crises and imperialist
wars.
We
are addressing a special call. A call to give a great battle to
conquer and spread the knowledge, the truth for socialism that
mankind met. A fight which is inextricably connected with the
pioneering struggle which is developed by the members, friends and
collaborators of the KKE on all the acute problems faced by the
working class, the youth."
"The socialist construction in the 20th century, which began with the Red October, proved that the labor movement can create revolutions and prevail, can win in only one country or a group of countries. It proved that this is not a utopia, it was constructed for decades.
An important aspect is that the workers' achievements in socialist states, for many decades, had been a point of reference and contributed to the conquest of achievements by the labor-popular movement of capitalist societies".
"The KKE was and remains unwavering in defending the USSR socialist course's offer, in general the socialist construction during the 20th century, in the struggle for social progress, for the abolition of exploitation of man by man.
We highlight the contradictions, the mistakes and the deviations under the pressur of the international correlation of forces, without leading ourselves to nihilism.
Since the early 1990s, we have characterized the 1989-1991 devenopments as a victory of the counterrevolution, as an overthrow. We reject the term "collapse", because it downgrades the counter-revolutionary activity, the social base in which it can be developed and dominate, due to weaknesses and deviations of the subjective factor during the socialist construction, as it happened.
Life showed that the problems which were presented had not been properly interpreted and hadn't been dealt on the basis of strengthening and expanding the communist relations, the central planning, the socialization, the workers-social control.
Thus, insteading of seeking a solution onwards, to the expansion and strengthening of the communist relations of production and distribution, it was sought backwards, in the widening of the market, in "socialism with market", that is the utilization of tools and production relations of capitalism."
Protoulis also referenced to the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 as a "turning point" where various opportunist perceptions were adopted, as well as to the "Kosygin reforms" and the consequent weaking of the central planning.
Among other things, Yannis Protoulis mentioned:
"The bourgeois propaganda of the "sovietologists" continues today, turning white into black. It projects the concepts of "democracy" and "freedom" through the bourgeois criteria, not the ones of the workers of course, but for the capitalists. Freedom to exploit, to have people in their work, to be the bosses, to live and enrich from the hard labor of the others and, as a democracy they mean the one which stops at the gates of their enterprises.
The real content of freedom and democracy in capitalism is the economic coercion of wage slavery and the dictatorship of the capital in society in general and especially within capitalist enterprises.
The greatest achievement which made possible the realization of all the rest after the October Revolution was the revolutionary workers' power, the dictatorship of the proletariat as a state which expressed the interersts of social majority of the exploited ones and not the social minority of the exploiters. It emerged as a superior form of democracy."
