The text below is a translated version of the first chapter of the Declaration of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece for the Party's 100th anniversary. The Declaration was published and circulated with the weekend edition of "Rizospastis" on 13-14th January 2018.
This
year the KKE completes a century of struggles and sacrifices,
remaining the only actually new Party of the Greek society, because
it is the only one that struggles for the abolition of the
exploitation of man by man. It was founded in a period when the flame
of the October Socialist Revolution in 1917 gave a boost to the
revolutionary labor movement internationally as well as in Greece.
With
the foundation of the KKE, the working class acquired for the first
time her own party in our country. From the first day of its
foundation, the KKE firmly struggles for the only progressive future
for humanity, so that the working class and the popular strata will
be saved from the torments of exploitation, oppression, poverty,
unemployment, state violence and repression, wars.
It
fights for the abolition of any mode of exploitation and repression,
for a new organisation of society, with social ownership in the means
of production, in the land, through the scientific central planning
of economy, with the active participation of the workers in the
organisation and direction of social production.
It
fights for socialism-communism, the only society which can ensure job
for everyone, according to each one's specialization, with actual
free time and enjoying high quality, free of charge social services
of Health and Education, Sports, cultural activity, housing, vacation
and high living standards in general, responsible participation to
the organs of management and control in the whole climax of the
workers' state.
The
KKE hold high the flag of socialism-communism, even when the
counterrevolutionary overthrow in the Soviet Union and the other
countries of socialist construction was at her peak. The KKE had
collectively conquered the needed class criterion and finally clashed
with anticommunism, the domestic and internationalism opportunism
which was projecting “perestroika”, the vehicle of
counterrevolution, as progress and socialist renewal.
The
KKE came into collision with the bourgeois and opportunist apologists
of the capitalist system who were supporting that the “end of
history”, the end of class struggle, had come. It highlighted that
nobody can stop the course of revolutionary class struggle in
historical evolution towards socialism-communism.
It
highlighted that socialism, the immature level of communism remains
necessary, realistic, hopeful. It illuminated that socialism's
necessity doesn't depend on each time's correlation of class struggle
in a country or internationally, a factor which is undoubtedly
crucial about when a socialist revolution can be erupted, under what
conditions it can win in a country or group of countries.
KKE
projected that the working class, which creates the social product,
is the only social force that can organise economy and society,
having as a motive the satisfaction of the more and more increasing
social needs. It is the class which can correctly estimate and ensure
the interests of the popular strata of the city and rural areas.
The
KKE, strongly believing in the right and the capability of the
working class to know and change the world, fights from the very
first time of its foundation so that it (working class) will be
prepared through the daily class struggles as a leading force of
socialist construction. It asserts and fights for the development of
the scientific knowledge of the workers, for their physical and
intellectual abilities, for their cultural development and
cultivation of their esthetic criterion. It underlines and
contributes so that the working class can utilize and use the book,
new technologies, the internet.
The
KKE highlighted and highlights the decay of capitalism, the relative
stagnation and crisis in relation to the progress that can be made if
capitalist ownership and the motive of profit are abolished.
Above
all, with its positions and activity, the KKE illuminated that the
only way that leads to social liberation is the way of socialist
revolution, of the planned and organised revolt and attack of the
working class and her social allies for the overthrow of the
capitalist class' power.
The
KKE is fighting on a daily basis for the development of the objective
factor (labor movement, alliance with popular strata of the middle
class), so that it will be ready, in circumstances of capitalist
power's shaking, to correspond to its duty as a driving force of the
victorious socialist revolution. It gives the fight daily in order
to justify its pioneering role as a visionary, but also as an
organiser of the struggle for the ultimate revolutionary overthrow of
capitalist barbarity, for the construction of socialism-communism.
Translation: IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM ©
* The Declaration of the Central Committee for the 100 years of the KKE will be presented during a political and cultural event at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, on Monday 23 January 2018, at 7.00 pm.