FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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SOUTH AFRICA—“How should Communism work? It was tried in Russia. It didn’t work.” That’s the most common question people ask me when I raise the question of communism.
I talk to about communism to neighbors, friends, people I know from work and others that wanted to talk to me regarding other stuff. We end up talking about communism because everything now is capitalism and communism.
People are starting to see that we are in a crisis.  The system is brutally attacking the working class. And they don’t know that there is a solution.  I explain that communism is the only solution for the working class.
The majority know something about the Russian revolution. But they don’t know that communism has never been put into practice. So I always go back to dialectics and tell them, “Look, Russia achieved a revolution. They did put down the government.  But the reason their revolution went back to capitalism or didn’t succeed is because when the government was put down, they didn’t implement communism. They implemented socialism.”
And they said, “We have to go to socialism because communism is too advanced—you can’t just go to communism. We start with socialism. After socialism we’re going to achieve communism.” 
Most of the comrades have a problem explaining this. So at a recent meeting I said, “Look, we have to use dialectics because so many ask this question. We should all know how to answer it.  Communism was never implemented in Russia. So there is no such thing as it was tried and failed. It’s never been implemented.”
A friend who works at a car-rental agency said that communism has been tried and failed. I answered, “No, communism has never been tried. After a revolution, the first thing you have to do is remove money. If you don’t get rid of money, it’s not communism. It’s socialism, which will not lead to communism but to the opposite of communism, which is capitalism. So communism was never practiced in Russia after the revolution was won. The money is the root of all this evil. We must remove it.”
I went to school with this friend.  He got high marks. He understands capitalism, history and religion, but he didn’t understand communism.
After I explained it to him he said, “Hey, for me to meet you was something magical because now this information you’ve given me fills in the empty pieces in my puzzle. Now I understand about communism and capitalism.”  He took a copy of the Red Flag.  I am going to print out the dialectics articles for him.
I am planning to open a class with four or five people.  One is an old ANC comrade but I think that deep inside his heart he’s a communist, as we all are. All human people are communists; they are just caught up in the brutal capitalist system.
He told me, “The only thing that will free people from capitalism is to open their own community organization, not follow all these pro-capitalist organizations which are corrupt. We need our own community organization as workers—employed and unemployed.”
I replied, “Look, there’s no need for that. Even if it went all over South Africa, it wouldn’t be powerful enough because the system is global, so we would be fighting a global system with a domestic organization.” I told him that, fortunately, an organization already exists that is exactly like the one he wants, that directly fights against capitalism and for communism.  And it’s international. That organization is the ICWP, the International Communist Workers’ Party.

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