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Imperialism
and
Socialism
in
the
21
st
Century
Part
One
–
The
Historical
Legacy
of
the
Great
October
Socialist
Revolution
By:
Don
Currie
Chair
Canadians
for
Peace
and
Socialism
Editor
Focus
on
Socialism
June
15,
2007
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“Marxism’s
call
to
revolutionary
actions
was
music
to
the
ears
of
a
freedom
fighter.
The
idea
that
history
progresses
through
struggle
and
change
occurs
in
revolutionary
jumps
was
similarly
appealing.
In
my
readings
of
Marxist
works,
I
found
a
great
deal
of
information
that
bore
on
the
type
of
problems
that
face
a
practical
politician.
Marxists
gave
serious
attention
to
the
national
liberation
movements
and
the
Soviet
Union
in
particular
supported
the
national
struggles
of
many
colonial
peoples.
This
was
another
reason
why
I
amended
my
view
of
Communists
and
accepted
the
ANC
position
of
welcoming
Marxists
into
its
ranks.”
Nelson
Mandela,
“Long
Walk
to
Freedom”
page
105.
Little
Brown
and
Company
The
90
th
Anniversary
of
the
Great
October
Socialist
Revolution
will
be
celebrated
around
the
world
on
November
7
th
.
2007.
Much
will
be
written
and
said
that
is
both
inspiring
and
bitter.
The
vast
imperialist
network
of
ideological
and
theoretical
disinformation
is
already
at
work
on
a
renewed
anti
‐
communist,
anti
‐
Soviet,
anti
‐
socialist
campaign.
The
international
Communist
movement
is
bracing
for
the
onslaught
and
preparing
its
counter
‐
offensive.
The
work
began
at
the
Lisbon
Conference
of
Communist
and
Workers
Parties
last
November
that
called
upon
all
Communist
Parties
to
organize
meetings
and
seminars,
to
develop
contemporary
analyses
of
the
revolutionary
significance
of
the
October
Revolution
for
the
struggle
for
socialism
in
the
21
st
Century.
The
Main
Resolution
and
the
documents
of
the
Lisbon
Conference
of
the
International
Communist
and
Workers
Parties
warn
of
the
resurgence
of
anti
‐
communism
and
the
danger
it
poses
to
democracy
and
human
progress
and
calls
for
a
sharp
struggle
against
it.
Anti
‐
communism
is
the
world
view
of
finance
capital
and
the
private
owners
of
the
means
production.
It
is
the
ideology
of
the
exploiters
of
the
labouring
masses
and
as
a
theory,
is
the
method
used
to
emasculate
the
crimes
against
humanity
and
nature,
the
predation
and
wars,
the
dehumanizing
role
and
the
reactionary
essence
of
the
practice
of
imperialism.
The
answer
to
anti
‐
communism
is
the
world
outlook
of
the
working
class,
scientific
revolutionary
socialism.
The
struggle
between
the
two
world
views
is
irreconcilable,
is
epochal
and
resolvable
only
in
the
world
wide
victory
of
socialism.
Consistent
partisanship
for
the
sum
total
of
the
historic
experience
of
the
struggle
of
the
working
class
for
socialism
is
the
minimum
required
of
each
and
every
Communist.
Communists
concede
nothing
to
the
anti
‐
communist
revision
of
working
class
history.
The
working
class
creates
its
own
history
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struggle
and
it
will
decide
what
is
relevant
and
what
is
to
be
learned
from
that
history.
Imperialist
ideologists,
theorists
and
apologists
have
nothing
to
teach
Marxism.
Wresting
the
Great
October
Socialist
Revolution
from
the
Anti
‐
Communist
Detractors
Since
the
counter
revolutionary
undermining
and
fall
of
the
Soviet
Union
and
the
European
Socialist
system
of
states
in
1989
‐
93,
anti
‐
communist
analyses
and
theories
have
dominated
public
discourse
on
those
tragic
events.
The
purpose
is
to
discredit
the
historic
achievements
of
the
Soviet
Union
from
1917
to
1990
and
the
post
war
achievements
of
the
East
European
Socialist
states
that
arose
after
the
defeat
of
Hitler
fascism
in
1945.
It
is
also
designed
to
cast
doubt
on
the
sacrifices
of
the
hundreds
of
millions
of
Communists
and
pro
‐
Soviet
forces
that
stood
in
international
solidarity
with
the
USSR
from
its
founding.
Today,
the
democratic
left
is
virtually
unanimous
in
identifying
the
reactionary
role
of
US
imperialism
spanning
the
period
of
WW1
to
the
present.
However,
there
is
no
such
unanimity
in
according
to
the
Soviet
Union
the
leading
progressive
role
during
the
same
period.
The
political
sanctuary
for
all
those
who
either
reject
or
evade
identifying
with
the
historically
progressive
role
of
the
Soviet
Union
is
the
two
superpower
theory.
The
two
superpower
theory
rejects
the
Leninist
definition
of
imperialism
as
the
final
stage
of
capitalism.
It
also
rejects
the
class
struggle,
the
law
governed
revolutionary
historical
response
of
the
international
working
class
and
its
allies
destined
to
replace
imperialism
with
a
new
stage
in
human
development,
revolutionary
socialism.
The
two
superpower
theory
defines
imperialism
as
a
policy
not
a
system.
This
centrist
theory
is
the
excuse
used
by
all
anti
‐
Sovietism
to
gloss
over
and
in
the
final
analysis
absolve
imperialism
of
its
primary
responsibility
for
fomenting
the
major
wars,
aggressions,
occupations,
regime
changes
and
counter
revolutionary
atrocities
of
the
epoch.
And
more
deplorable
than
that,
it
trivializes
the
enormous
sacrifices
of
the
Soviet
people
and
their
Government
that
for
seven
decades
provided
selfless
and
steadfast
support
to
the
anti
‐
imperialist
struggles
of
the
people
of
the
world.
Anti
‐
Sovietism
–
Prototype
for
Modern
Anti
‐
Socialism
Imperialist
hostility
to
the
Soviet
Union
is
the
prototype
for
the
hostility
that
continues
today
against
the
remaining
and
newly
emerging
socialist
states
and
with
the
same
aim,
their
undermining
and
fall
and
the
restoration
of
capitalism.
The
attack
on
the
Soviet
form
of
socialism
was
from
its
inception
and
continues
to
be,
an
attack
on
revolutionary
socialism
wherever
it
arises,
in
all
of
its
forms
and
in
all
of
its
stages
of
development.
From
that
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