WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! PROGRAMMATIC PROCLAMATION OF THE SOVIET REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISTS (BOLSHEVIKS) (This programmatic proclamation has been distributed in the Soviet Union by the Soviet Bolshevik Communists) ISBN: 978-1-4357-7753-8 RED STAR PRESS LONDON 1975 THE NOVEMBER 8TH PUBLISHING HOUSE TORONTO 2022 CONTENTS I. THE OPPORTUNIST CHIEFS OF THE CP OF THE SOVIET UNION UNDER THE MASK OF MARXISM ...... 1 II. STALIN AND PROLETARIAN DEMOCRACY ....................................... 14 III. RULE OF BUREAUCRACY .................. 46 IV. OPPORTUNISTS IN THE WORLD ARENA ................................................... 56 V. COMMUNISTS, FORWARD! ................ 82 I. THE OPPORTUNIST CHIEFS OF THE CP OF THE SOVIET UNION UNDER THE MASK OF MARXISM The decisive moment is approaching today in the development of the communist movement. In the conditions when every communist party must adopt for itself a historic decision and em- bark on the road to revolutionary Marxism or to opportunism, it is necessary for the communists of the whole world to listen also to the voice of their Soviet comrades. Now it is pretended that the latter’s opinion is being expressed in those decisions and declara- tions that are issued by the present-day leadership of the CPSU. But whoever is somewhat familiar- ized with the internal life of our country, whoever has come more or less in contact with the masses of our people and with the Party rank-and-file, cannot help knowing that all these decisions and declarations not only do not reflect the real con- victions and aims of the overwhelming majority of the Soviet people, of the overwhelming major- ity of the members of the CPSU, but they are in flagrant contradiction with them. The Chinese and Albanian communists have 1 shown strict adherence to principles and revolu- tionary self-denial in exposing modern opportun- ism. The documents of the Communist Party of China and of the Party of Labour of Albania have fully exposed the road of treachery towards the interests of socialist revolution followed by the leadership of the CPSU after Stalin’s death. Thus, we shall often merely repeat and substantiate the theses of the Chinese and Albanian comrades. But in these cases, too, we shall speak as a rule on our own behalf so that everybody should know that this is the way the Soviet communist thinks, this is the way millions of Soviet communists think. However, we consider the discovery of the causes that brought about antagonism between the leadership of the CPSU, on the one hand, and the bulk of the Soviet communists, of the Soviet people, on the other, as our most important duty. The opportunist leaders of the CPSU must be un- masked from their rear, in terms of their social position inside the USSR, there where they can- not conceal their rotten content by any masks, there where they have indeed usurped power and have opposed themselves to the people. It is exceptionally difficult to understand this very complicated situation from outside. It is, 2 however, absolutely indispensable to understand this situation from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. Here we come across a phenomenon constituting in itself the «internal» danger and, for that matter, more serious to the communist movement, such a phenomenon that will threaten us during the whole period of transition from capitalism to communism. The comprehen- sion of the situation of the opportunists inside the USSR will help the world communist and work- ers’ parties more correctly to appraise also their actions in the international arena, their hypocrisy with regard to the revolutionary and liberation movements and the distortion by them of the idea of the struggle for peace. We believe it is not necessary to prove that the gist of the contradictions in the present-day com- munist movement is concentrated on the ques- tion of the «personality cult». Each of the diver- gent sides considers this question as a touchstone of the loyalty to Marxism-Leninism. And this is but natural because the point is for the first ex- perimentation of the dictatorship of the proletar- iat. It is evident that the communist movement cannot surge forward if this question is not clari- fied. 3 There was a moment (immediately after the 20th Congress of the CPSU) when the critics of the «personality cult» deceived many communists through the sensational character and the appear- ance of veracity of the exposures made by them. But even then the opportunists were unable to win over the most determined proletarian mili- tants, the most tried and tested ones. And then such comrades — and first and foremost the com- munists of China and Albania — realized the base and slanderous character of the campaign un- leashed by the leadership of the CPSU. Subse- quent years showed what huge damage was caused to the communist movement by the ac- tions of the opportunists who were quite unable to find a positive solution to the burning prob- lems facing the communist movement. The events of recent days clearly show the demagogic essence of the opportunist outcries about the «personality cult», their counter-revolutionary and anti-Marxist character. As a matter of fact, the opportunists started with the criticism of the «personality cult» of Sta- lin and ended with the criticism of the «personal- ity cult» of Khrushchev. And the matter here con- sists not only in the fact that Khrushchev, whom 4