The Importance of Ideological and Political struggle in building Revolutionary Movement
- Subodh Mitra
We are here to celebrate the Great October Socialist Revolution . Hundred years ago in 1917 under the leadership of Bolshevik Party led by Com rade Lenin the people seized the power overthrowing the tsarist regime . The Bolshevik Party , Com . Lenin and the entire Central Committee had to encounter the external and internal conspiracies inside and outside the party before and after the revolution . So it was a very hard and long drawn struggle . As you know that Lenin started his carrier as a professional revolutionary as a Marxist just at the age of twenty years . And he actually not died . He was a victim of bullet injury . He finally died in the year 1924 at the age of 55 years only . So his life pan was shortened . A man of 55 years old had created a new hope for the entire working class of the world . While preparing for the revolution just before the First World War Lenin had told that there can be no revolution without a revolutionary party . So in his work , he had given a very strong importance to the building of a revolutionary party . The Bolshevik party was a product of the struggle for the party . The Bolshevik party was formed in 1912 . In Russia , the struggle had to be waged against Narodism , revisionism , Trotskyism and socialist revolutionaries – all kinds of people who were actually the direct agents of imperialism .
Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 with the aim of developing the Communist Movement at the international level . In 1864 , the Communist International was formed as a platform of working class movement . But even then Marx had to fight against the enemies within . In the Communist International , there were people who took the name of Marx every day . Bukharin used to tell that Marx was more than his father to him . But the same man said he hated the Jews . Marx happened to be a Jew . So Bukharin ’ s struggle was to destroy Jews , ie ., Marx and Engels . And he conspired . He had taken money from the imperialist powers . He purchased many workers in the head quarters and finally the First International had collapsed . In 1871 , there was the Paris Commune . The workers held power for 71 days . This was the first time the workers had successfully seized the power . But because of inexperience , the absence of a Communist Party and strong revolutionary leadership it failed . After the collapse of the First International , the Second International came into being under the leadership of Engels . But this Second
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International , in the period of First World War during 1914-19 , the line of peaceful transformation of society was brought to the fore under the leadership of Karl Kautsky . He said Marxism cannot be implemented ; Marxism needs to be changed in view of the changed international situation . He said that the balance of powers had changed between the workers and imperialist powers . So there is no question of revolutionary change ; the revolution can be brought and completed by peaceful means . His was the line when the First World War had begun in 1914 . This was called Kautskyism . It influenced the German Communist party and the parties in various other countries , including Russia .
So Lenin was of the view that the revolution was not possible without waging the struggle against the revisionist ideas called Kautskyism . He had seen that Marx had said in the last para of the Communist Manifesto that the “ Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims ” and their aims can be achieved only through a forcible overthrow of the existing order . No revolutionary change is possible in the society without the destruction of the existing order . Lenin had taken the lessons from the experiences of Paris Commune , 1905 Russian revolution and the February Revolution of Russia ( 1914 ). He wrote three important works , like “ The Lessons of Revolution ”; “ Fundamental Questions of Revolution ” and “ Renegade Kautsky and Proletarian Revolution .” He had exposed Kautsky and called him a ‘ social-imperialist .’ He said , Kautsky had actually betrayed the working class , acts as a reactionary and revisionist agent of imperialism . In these three ideological works Lenin had categorically said that without armed overthrow , without a party which is steeled , strong and capable to lead the working class and also without foiling this kind of conspiracy internally the revolution cannot be achieved . He also called for an ideological struggle against various ideas alien to Marxism . So , naturally , the revolution had advanced with this kind of struggle . In 1917 Lenin was in exile . Stalin was arrested . After the 1917 February Revolution , Lenin arrived Petrograd . Stalin came to know of this . He escaped from the custody while he was being taken by the tsarist army for the purpose of forcing him to serve in the army . He walked on foot in the severe cold atmosphere and reached Moscow . He met Lenin in Petrograd . This was the time when the revolutionary
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