THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM WILL
HUNT THE BOURGEOISIE TILL DEATH
During the last two decades
and with the changes taken place since the fall of the former
These days, we even see that
the most rightwing members of parliament in European Union trying to put more
restrictions on the struggles of the working people and particularly on
communists, i.e., the most unwavering advocates of the working class.
Last May, the banning of
carrying hammer and sickle and red flags was discussed in the European Union’s
parliament, and today a draft is being introduced which under the pretext of
the necessity for “international condemnation of crimes committed by communist
dictatorial regimes”, tries to categorize communist activities as a “criminal”
act. The most reactionary members of the parliament are constantly coming up
with new plots against the working class and communists and their righteous
struggles. One day they put forth mandatory anti-communist lessons in schools,
another day they equate communism with dictatorship. In short, they are
resorting to every means to block the liberating thoughts of communism and the
struggles of the working class by actually illegalising communist activities.
Indeed, now that they see the
balance of power to their advantage, the zealous disciples of bourgeois democracy
and “unconditional” “freedom” of thought and expression have come to the point
that they are even trying to declare communist activities as “criminal” so that
by the force of “law” they can get rid of communists and have peace of mind.
These massive attacks also bluntly demonstrate the fact that the labour rights
and civil liberties formally acknowleged up until now have not been the fruit
of the bourgeoisie’s democratic tendencies or belief system (a lie which this
utterly reactionary class tries to spread around) but rather, they have been
the result of the struggles of the working class and other oppressed masses
against the bourgeoisie both nationally and worldwide. In fact, history shows
that throughout the entire supressive and bloody existance of capitalism no
labour rights or popular demands have ever been attained without struggles and
rebellions, and it is therefore clear that whenever the balance of power is to
the working people’s disadvantage, such rights will not escape intact from the
claws of the bourgeoisie.
The attempt to illegalize the
raising of the “hammer and sickle" and red flags or to “criminalize”
communist activities… unveils the visage of the horrifying world that the
bourgeoisie has to offer to the population of this planet. It also reveals that
the characteristics of the imperialist world are rivalry for bigger markets,
war, torture, death and destruction, and surely not the hammer and sickle but
rather names such as “Abu Ghuraib”, “Guantanamo” and “Bagram” prison are engraved
on its flag; a savage system that has alienated the humanity, a world
which the majority of the working and toiling masses of the globe wish to
change.
The politico-ideological
attack being waged by the imperialist bourgeoisie on communists is neither the
first nor the last assault on the working masses. However, this attack proves
how soon those who celebrated “the end of history” and who uttered “the death
of communism” were forced to admit that they are still fearful of communism.
Indeed, they know all too well that communism is the alternative of the
existing society and it is precisely of this they are frightened.
Let the bourgeoisie declare
the death of communism a hundred times a day, the fact of the matter is that
communism, as the science of the emancipation of the working class, will live
on. Communism, both as a movement that fights for the emancipation of the
working class and as a new society which will be built on the ruins of
capitalism, is undying and like phoenix it will rise again from the ashes.