December 15, 2021
The Inextricable Role of Comrade Stalin for Leninism
“Comrade
Stalin developed Marxist-Leninist theory in a comprehensive and epoch-making
way and propelled the development of Marxism to a new stage.”
– Mao
Zedong, ‘The Greatest Friendship’, Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily), March 9th
1953
“…no one
can deny his enormous role and no one can take away his status as head of the
international proletariat for decades, his great defence of Leninism, it
was he who defined it and imposed it on the world.”
–
Declaration of the Peru People’s Movement on the 172nd Anniversary of the
Manifesto of the Communist Party¹
Basing
ourselves on Lenin’s thesis on the relation between
masses-classes-parties-leaders, we uphold that in every process of development,
in every revolution, a group of leaders are generated, and that this occurs due
to both historical necessity and historical coincidence. These vanguard
representatives, the political leaders of the class, are the highest
personified expressions of the revolution. They are forged in the heat of the
class struggle, in the depths of the sharpest two-line struggle. Every
revolution generates this group of leaders, and a leader of leaders, a Great
Leadership inextricably tied to a Guiding Thought, born out of the fusion of
the all-mighty universal ideology of the proletariat with the concrete
conditions of the given revolution.
The Great
Socialist October Revolution was no exception – but of exceptional importance.
In the group of leaders generated in the Russian revolution was in first line
the Great Lenin, seconded by Comrade Stalin, followed by Sverdlov and others.
The Great Leadership of Lenin was strengthened, and after his death carried on
by, Comrade Stalin. It was this Great Leadership that guaranteed the victory of
the revolution, and as it confronted uncharted conditions, gave rise to
qualitative leaps of universal validity in the realm of theory.
In the
application of Marxism to these uncharted conditions, the fusion of the
universal ideology of the proletariat with the concrete practice of the Russian
revolution generated the Thought of Lenin. This mighty Thought of monumental
historical significance, the result of the strength of the Bolshevik Party, the
firm adherence to the Great Leadership – the result of historical necessity,
constituted the basis of the second stage of the development of our ideology.
A great
qualitative leap in Marxism as a whole – in all of it’s three integral
parts (Marxist
philosophy, Marxist political economy and scientific socialism) – had occurred, and it was
Comrade Stalin who declared it: We had entered the stage of
Leninism. It was the Great Lenin who conceived of the fundamental framework,
who developed the theoretical foundation for this second stage of our ideology,
and it was Comrade Stalin who grasped this. It was Comrade Stalin who distilled
these truths, who defined them, who concretizised them, who synthesized them,
and moreover – embodied them.
Comrade
Stalin identified in particular six vital aspects in which Lenin greatly
contributed to the development of the all-mighty ideology of the proletariat:
1) the comprehension and definition of monopoly capitalism, of imperialism as
the last and highest stage of capitalism, 2) expanding and developing the
theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, 3) illuminating the path of
building socialism in the period of transition from capitalism to socialism, in
a country surrounded by capitalist states, 4) asserted the rightful and
essential hegemony of the proletariat in the socialist revolution, and as we
entered the age of imperialism also in the democratic revolution, 5)
established the national and colonial question, and finally 6) established the
theory of the party.²
Moreover,
Comrade Stalin creatively contributed to, and developed Lenin’s theories
regarding: 1) the law of uneven development of capitalism, 2) the theory that
it is possible to build socialism after achieving victory in one country, 3)
the theory of the general crisis in capitalism, 4) the theory of building
socialism and advancing on the road to communism as applied in
the Soviet Union, 5) the theory of the fundamental economic laws of monopoly
capitalism, and of socialism, 6) the theory of revolution in the
colonies and semi-colonies, 7) the theory of the construction of the party.³
As Chairman
Mao pointed out: “All of Comrade Stalin’s writing are immortal
documents of Marxism. His works, The Foundations of Leninism, The History of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Bolshevik], and his last great work,
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, constitute an encyclopedia of
Marxism-Leninism, a synthesis of the experience of the world Communist movement
of the past hundred years. His speech at the Nineteenth Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a precious last testament bequeathed to
the Communists of all the countries of the world.”⁴
As the
Communist Party of Peru points out, Marxism has never taken a single step
forward in life without struggle. This is evident in the relentless struggle to
impose and defend Leninism, which was successfully carried out through the
Leadership of Comrade Stalin. Through hard two-line struggle he successfully
fought off the opportunist, so-called “left”, and right deviations of Trotsky,
Zinoviev and Kamenev. Furthermore, as the Communist Party of Peru points
out: “… when Comrade Stalin justly and correctly stated that we had
entered the stage of Leninism as the development of Marxism, there was also
opposition by those who rend their garments in a supposed defence of Marxism.
There were also those who said that Leninism was only applicable to the
backward countries. But, in the midst of struggle, practice has consecrated
Leninism as a great development of Marxism, and thus the proletarian ideology
shone victoriously in the face of the world as Marxism-Leninism.”⁵
In
synthesis, the Russian revolution generated the Great Leadership of Lenin, and
the fusion of the all-powerful, since true, ideology of the
proletariat with the concrete practice of the Russian revolution generated the
Thought of Lenin. As Marxism in this process confronted hitherto uncharted
conditions, this fusion gave rise to great qualitative leaps. It was
Comrade Stalin who conceived that this leap had occurred
in Lenin’s theoretical contributions to Marxism, and that this elevated
it to a higher stage. It was Comrade Stalin that concretizised and
synthesized Leninism. It was through the Leadership of Comrade Stalin that this
new stage of Marxism was defended and imposed on the
world, at a juncture in the historical world situation of the age
of imperialism and proletarian revolution. Therefore, we reaffirm and
proclaim: Without Comrade Stalin there would be no Leninism. Comrade Stalin
assumed and fulfilled the historical role of synthesizing the second stage of
our ideology, of historical necessity and coincidence, but of his
merit nonetheless. Therefore, we say that Comrade Stalin cannot be
separated from Leninism, for they are inseparably and inextricably
interlinked. Hence, the defence of the
Leadership Comrade Stalin is inextricably tied to
the historical struggle for Leninism.
Already we
can see the parallels to the contemporary context. As the Communist
Party of Peru proclaimed: “Today, Maoism faces a similar
situation, and just as the new and Marxism have always made their way through
struggle, so too Maoism will prevail and become recognised.”⁶ Furthermore, we
reaffirm that it was Chairman Gonzalo who conceived that
– in the fusion of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of the
Chinese revolution, and the generation of the Great Leadership of
Chairman Mao and Mao Zedong Thought – there had taken
place significant qualitative leaps within all three integral parts of
Marxism, and that this constituted a new stage. It was Chairman Gonzalo who assumed and fulfilled the historical task of
synthesizing Maoism as the new, third and superior stage of the
all-mighty ideology of the proletariat – Marxism in the period of the
strategic offensive of the world revolution, the period of the 50-100
years where imperialism and reaction will be swept away from the
face of the earth, the epoch in which our final goal of abolishing class
society once and for all will be consummated. Therefore, it is obvious that the struggle for Maoism is
inextricably linked to the campaign for Chairman Gonzalo. Without Comrade
Stalin, there would be no Leninism. Without Chairman Gonzalo, there would be no
Maoism.
Comrade Stalin is immortal in
the hearts of the international proletariat, the peoples of the world and
each and every communist. Comrade Stalin conquered everlasting laurels of victories:
being a leader of the Great Socialist October Revolution, defining, upholding,
defending and applying Leninism, the construction of socialism in Soviet Union,
being the acknowledged leader of the international proletariat and the
International Communist Movement for decades, creating, constructing and
leading the antifascist world front, being the leader of the great partiotic
war and defeating fascism, just to mention the most significant. We once again
raise the battle-cry:
LONG LIVE COMRADE
STALIN, NIGHTMARE OF THE FASCISTS, BOURGEOIS AND ALL THE FALSE
COMMUNISTS!
¡LARGA VIDA AL CAMARADA STALIN, LA PESADILLA DE LOS FASCISTAS, BURGUESES Y TODOS LOS FALSOS COMUNISTAS!
References
1. DECLARACIÓN
DEL MOVIMIENTO POPULAR PERÚ POR EL 172º ANIVERSARIO DEL MANIFIESTO DEL PARTIDO
COMUNISTA, our translation.
2. As
referenced in Regarding the thought of Lenin, published in the
second issue of the magazine El Maoísta, dated October 2018.
3. As
referenced in The Greatest Friendship by Mao Zedong, published
in Renmin Ribao, March 9th 1953.
4. Ibid.
5. On
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, 1988
6. Ibid.
