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Report on the Impact of Decomposition on the Political Life of the Bourgeoisie Belgique - België PB 2600 Berchem 1-2 BC 9925 International Communist Current Spring 2020 23rd ICC Congress The responsibilities of revolutionaries in the current period The different facets of fraction-like work Resolution on the international situation Imperialist conflicts, life of the bourgeoisie, economic crisis Report on the impact of decomposition on the political life of the bourgeoisie Report on decomposition today (2017) Review Resolution on the balance of forces between the classes Report on the class struggle Formation, loss and re-conquest of proletarian class identity Report on the question of the historic course International £2.50 $3 $6Can $7Aus 20Rupees 3Euros 650Yen 50.00PHP 12Rand périodique semestriel Supplement à INTERNATIONALISME.FR Bureau de Depot: B-2600 Berchem 1-2 164 N° d’agréation P408982 International Review 164 Spring 2020 Contents 23rd ICC Congress The responsibilities of revolutionaries in the current period The different facets of fraction-like work 1 Resolution on the international situation Imperialist conflicts, life of the bourgeoisie, economic crisis 5 Report on the impact of decomposition on the political life of the bourgeoisie 12 Report on decomposition today (2017) 17 Resolution on the balance of forces between the classes 22 Report on the class struggle Formation, loss and re-conquest of proletarian class identity 27 Report on the question of the historic course 35 Contact the ICC: http://www.internationalism.org [email protected] [email protected] Responsible editor: H. Deponthiere, PB 102, 2018 Antwerp Central Station, [email protected] (rest of world) Antwerp 1 23rd ICC Congress The responsibilities of revolutionaries in the current period The different facets of fraction-like work Last spring, the ICC held its 23rd International Congress. This article proposes against the Proudhonist, Bakuninist, Blan- to give an account of its work. quist, and corporatist currents. It was the Point 4 of the “Report on the structure and functioning of the revolutionary left, which fought first of all the reformist organisation” defines the International Congress as “The highest moment in tendencies, and then the ‘social-patriots’, the unity of the organisation... It is at the International Congress that the pro- which ensured the continuity between the gramme of the ICC is defined, enriched, or rectified; that its ways of organising 2nd and 3rd International during the war, and functioning are established, made more precise or modified; that its overall then by forming the Communist Interna- orientations and analyses are adopted; that a balance sheet of its past activities tional. And it was the left, once again, and is made and perspectives for future work drawn up”.1 in particular the Italian and German lefts, which took up and developed the revo- lutionary gains of the 3rd International, trodden under foot by the social-democratic This Congress was centred round our con- ary bastion in Russia was subject to a and Stalinist counter-revolution”. tinuity with the Communist International, total blockade and military intervention whose centenary was last year. Historical by the imperialist powers; the Spartacist If its struggle is to be victorious, the continuity and transmission are a fun- Revolt in Germany had been drowned in proletariat requires a continuity in its class damental concern for the revolutionary blood and two of the key figures of the consciousness. Otherwise it is doomed to be organisation. It was with this approach new International, Rosa Luxemburg and the plaything of the schemes of its enemy. that the activities resolution adopted by Karl Liebknecht, murdered”, the resolution The left fractions have always been the most the Congress recalled that “the Communist underlines that, despite the differences with committed and determined in the defence International was founded a hundred years the period of revolutionary response to the of this continuity in class consciousness, ago in March 1919 with the intention to be First World War and the ensuing counter- in its development and enrichment. the ‘party of the revolutionary insurrection revolution, “The ICC faces increasingly Groups like the Internationalist Com- of the world proletariat’. Today, in different difficult conditions as decadent capitalism munist Tendency (ICT) make the following circumstances but in conditions still defined sinks further into another barbaric spiral of objection: fraction of what? For a long by the historic epoch of the decadence of economic crisis and imperialist conflict in time there have been no communist parties capitalism, the objective posed by the Com- its phase of decomposition. To accomplish within the proletariat. And it’s true that, munist International, the creation of the its historic tasks ICC must draw strength in the 1930s, the Communist Parties were world political party of the revolutionary and its fighting spirit from the crises it will definitively won over by the bourgeoisie. working class, remains the ultimate aim of face, as did the marxist left of 1919”. We are not fractions, but that doesn’t mean the fraction-like work of the ICC”. that we don’t have to carry out a work The resolution insists on the fact that Fraction-like work similar to that of a fraction. A work which “the Communist International was not unites into a coherent whole: To place ourselves in a line of continuity created out of the blue, its foundation was – the fight against opportunism; dependent on the preceding decades of the with the efforts of the Communist Interna- fraction work of the marxist left in the 2nd tional, the Congress saw its aim as devel- – the defence and development of the International, particularly by the Bolshevik oping and concretising our work as being critical historical continuity of the Party…”. Which means for today’s revolu- similar to that of a fraction. The notion of proletariat, forming a bridge between tionaries that “just as the Comintern could the fraction has always been crucial in the the past of the workers’ movement and not have been created without the prepara- history of the workers’ movement. Like the its future; tory work of the marxist left, so the future working class as a whole, its political or- – the response to new situations arising international will not come to be without ganisations are subjected to the pressure of in society and the proletarian class an international centralised fraction-like alien ideologies, both bourgeois and petty struggle. activity of the organisational inheritors of bourgeois. This engenders, in particular, the the Communist Left”. disease of opportunism. To fight against The Congress deepened our understand- this disease, the proletariat gives rise to left ing of fraction-like work at the level of Recalling that “the Communist Inter- fractions within its organisations: our press, our intervention, theoretical national was founded in the most difficult method, the elaboration of marxist method circumstances imaginable: it followed four “It has always been the left that has and the defence of the organization. There years of mass carnage and immiseration ensured the continuity between the prole- is a whole work involved in construct- of the world proletariat; the revolution- tariat’s three main international political ing the bridge towards the future party organisations. It was the left, through the which will have to be based on very firm marxist current, which ensured the continu- theoretical, programmatic, analytical and 1. International Review, nº 33. ity between the 1st and 2nd International, 2 International Review 164 Spring 2020 organisational foundations. This is what the this dynamic was the collapse of the bloc decomposition of the old order and even proletariat needs if it is find a path through around the former USSR. profit from it for their own interests. By the terrible convulsions of capitalism and contrast, this is impossible in capitalism The ICC had to face up to a challenge develop a revolutionary offensive aimed since “communist society, which alone for marxist theory. On the one hand, in at overthrowing this system. can follow capitalism, cannot develop at September 1989, we produced “Theses all within it; the regeneration of society In this framework of fraction-like work on the economic and political crisis in is thus completely impossible without the a “Report on Transmission” was presented the eastern countries” where, two months violent overthrow of the bourgeois class to the Congress, although due to lack of before the fall of the Berlin Wall, we an- and the eradication of capitalist relations time we weren’t able to discuss it. How- nounced the brutal downfall of the USSR of production”2 ever, given the importance of the question, itself. On the other hand, we were obliged we will take charge of discussing it in the to understand in depth the new situation, by The proletariat has to face up to the con- coming period. Transmission is vital for elaborating in 1990 the “Theses on Decom- ditions and implications imposed by this the proletariat. Much more than all the position”, the basic idea of which was this: new historic epoch, drawing all the lessons other revolutionary classes in history, it “the generalised decomposition which is that flow from it for its own struggle, in needs the lessons of the battles of its pre- infecting the system today, and which can particular the need to defend, even more ceding generations in order to assimilate only get worse... Here
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