China the Communistd Party of China and Marxism

 

As we know Marxism is dialectic, and that means the well known triadic movements of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis.

Thus, from a Marxist point of view, Capitalism, in its historical evolution, has had three phases or stages:
The first, mainly commercial, run from about 1300 to 1890;
The second, mainly industrial, from about 1890 to 1980. This second stage was designated "Imperialism" by Lenin

 

And the third stage I posit  –the one we are currently going through since the end of the 20th century- , has been called Globalization, and is predominantly financial although there's also a substantial development in the other two aspects of capital I mentioned before.

 

This third and final stage is denoted by the integral decline of Capitalism, in which the parasític and exploitive aspects of the system appear with more impetus, mainly in its financial aspects.

 

As for Socialist Revolution...

It also has three stages, the Socialist/Communist Revolution against the rule of capital also took place in three different modes or strategies, depending on the Cápitalist phase it opposed.

 

 In the first, the revolution was mainly expressed in the revolts of peasants (called jaqueries) or of the laborers of the European cities, all of which failed in terms of the seizure of power. It's at the end moment of this stage that the Marxist theory based on historical materialism was fully developed by  Marx and Engels. At that time, Marxism was encouraging the world working class (mostly European) to unite and take the power. The most determined attempt was the "Páris Commune" which, however brave, was defeated in a few days. But Márxism had already been created and launched.

 

The second revolutionary strategy, deployed from the theoretical base of the "founding fathers" but overcoming it dialectically (That is in German aufhebung), was "Léninism", a theory and practice for the seizure of power in a given country, something that was achieved in Russia in 1917 with the creation the USSR, then in China in 1949, with the foundation of the People's Republic and, later on, also in several other countries throughout the 20th century. Those were revolutions that in order to survive the boycott, isolation and attacks of  industrial capitalist countries had to make enormous efforts and  sacrifices, which in the case of the USSR ended up undermining the foundations of the revolutionary process, something that led to its disintegration in 1990, with the Communist Party being displaced from power in Russia and in most of the former Soviet republics.

 

In China, great sacrifices were also made and although there were moments of divergence from the real revolutionary objective, the People's Republic managed to survive them all, especially after having found a new revolutionary way to confront Capitalism in its  financial globalist form. The Chinese version of this new Marxist strategy, which corresponds to the third moment of capital, that is, to the revolutionary confrontation with financial capital, was called by Deng Xiao Pin "Socialism with Chinese peculiarities" and "Reform and Opening".

 

China has carried out policies of industrial relocation and wide trading relations driven by their national development project, keeping control of the  economy through  state conglomerates that channel the surplus into huge investments, to advance the national productive forces, whose mode of accumulation isn´t focused only on profits, but on creating quality employment, reaching higher technological levels, ensuring the provision of natural resources and conquering new markets.

 

In addition, these days China is offering the world the Belt and Road Initiative, a project meant to build a number of mari/time and railway lines to improve trading connectivity from China to the entire world.

These investments create essential infrastructure to help development  in  each of the countries that have joined it.

 

It's well known that one of the priorities of developing countries to get out of the “trap of poverty and lagging economy”  and of the “dett trap” is the development of their infrastructure, to make them competitive in the international supply of their products or to create profitable trading corridors for products from other countries.

 

In this way Marxism is expressed   at     its       fullest,    in its third moment, (The negation of the negation, in Hegel’s terms). And  all this is expressed in the extraordinary project of development of the productive forces in China, to attain a worldwide community of nations and  cooperating peoples, whose aim is to realize the Marxist ideology to its fullness.  In this context the union of the world of work, on a planetary scale, and its virtuous articulation, are today possible more than ever.

 

On the Communist Party of China that brings us here today

The Socialist Revolution that took power in 1949 and the establishment of Socialism in China and its permanence and  growth,  despite external and internal threats of all kinds took place during the imperialist stage of Capitalism.  The adoption of the new way of "Socialism with Chinese peculiarities" and "Reform and Opening" has led to their successful implementation in  this times of Globalization.  Both epics clearly has been the result of the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party . Mao Zedong consolidated the revolution confronting imperialism,  and Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping, steered the great update of Socialism and Marxism in the monumental Reform and Opening, opposing financial capital. All this has been possible only because they had the Party to lean on.

That's why the hundred years of the Chinese Communist Party we celebrate today with joy and pride have a uníque significance not only for China,  or for Marxists,  but,  as we have seen, for all humanity.

Thank you very much.