Masses Worldwide Need Communist Revolution
It is 100 years since the Russian revolution, where the working class of Russia took arms against their bosses who were the Tsarist empire led by the Romanov family. This was because the workers were tired of their living conditions and the social system that existed.
The Russian revolution was led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. It resulted in the formation of the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991. The revolution was a great success, but it also yields failures which we’re still learning from.
The revolution teaches us many lessons; one of them is that we cannot get to communism by passing through a certain stage (which at the time was socialism). We must fight for communism directly.
It also teaches us that we must fight for communism internationally because we’re not living in isolation and the working class all around the world are suffering from same capitalist system.
Thirdly it teaches us that if the means of production are in the hands of the socialist state, we will not reach communism because that state also forces the masses to be subjected to a wage system. It also results in the socialist government officials being the upper class (ruling class).
With this being said, understanding the need to mobilize for communism, we see that in Zimbabwe the rulers are fighting with each other over who will exploit the workers of Zimbabwe.
A month ago the world’s longest-serving president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, axed his deputy president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, who Mugabe wanted to replace with his wife Grace. This move resulted in Mr. Mnangagwa convincing the military to mobilize the masses to join an anti-Mugabe protest, demanding the president to step down and let the former deputy president (Mr Mnangagwa) be the acting president until next year’s election.
This plan worked perfectly as the president finally resigned this week before being impeached in Parliament. This marked the end of Mugabe’s dictatorship, who was president for 37 years.
What the masses of Zimbabwe and those who have the same view that Zimbabwe will be better need to see is that government officials are just agents who implement the mandate of their masters (elites) who own them. Any such change in government officials will not benefit the working class but is just a shift of power from one master to another.
One can argue that ever since Mugabe became the president of Zimbabwe, the country has enjoyed independence from foreign leadership. But it is public knowledge that Zimbabwean diamond mines have been controlled by the Chinese, who have replaced British colonialism.
The sanctions by the UN on Zimbabwe made South Africa the leading producer of mineral resources in the Southern region of Africa. Mr. Mnangagwa promises transformation which will result in job opportunities. But in reality, more jobs mean more workers will be exploited.
This change in government is either a threat to the mine owners of South Africa or an expansion of their empire and either of them means instead of things being better they will become worse. The fall of Khadafy gives us a great lesson; things didn’t improve in Libya but instead they became worse.
This only translates to one thing: no government will ever represent the needs of the masses. Until the means of production are owned and controlled by the working class to meet their needs, only then will the working class stop suffering. Since the bosses won’t just give away power, that will be achieved through an international revolution led by the ICWP.
Sign says “Workers of the World Unite for Communist Revolution” in Xhosa
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