During the last few decades many incidents gravely influencing the world situation have taken place. Only after an objective analysis of how and to what extent and in what specific spheres these incidents have brought about those changes we can correctly play our conscious role in the process of development going on in our country as well as on the world arena.
The first to be mentioned among these happenings is that of attaining independence by the erstwhile colonies. The countries which were under the rule of the imperialists as their colonies have all attained independence one after another, through their respective national independence struggles. In most of those countries the communist parties failed to take up the thread of leadership of the national independence struggles by joining and championing the cause of those struggles which were basically anti-imperialist and anti-feudal in character. The guide-line to be followed by the communist parties in respect of the national independence struggles was chalked out by the international communist leadership.
This development has its many-sided effect on the world situation. In all countries of the world today-not only the old capitalist imperialist countries but also the newly independent erstwhile colonies –there are national bourgeois states. As a result, so far as state-power is concerned, all countries are on the thresh-hold of anti-capitalist Socialist Revolution.
This is no ‘blanket prescription’ as may seem to some. One must understand that in every revolution there is a ‘taking place of the revolution’ and a ‘victory of revolution’. While these anti-capitalist Socialist Revolutions in the matter of their class character will not have difference among them, they will have to pass through varying distances, in terms of length of period and complexities of the task to be accomplished before each of them will be able to attain the goal of ‘victory of socialist revolution’. This is bound to be exactly in proportion to the varying degrees and extent of completion of bourgeois democratic revolution in different countries.
Thus, in determining the stage of revolution in the erstwhile colonial and backward countries, particularly Asia and Latin America, the highly complex question of evaluating as to what extent the bourgeois democratic revolution has been completed in which country, the question which would invariably appear as the most difficult one to be solved, is now no more there.
Now it is indisputably true for each country that whatever be in the incompleteness of the bourgeois democratic revolution in a given country in matters of changes to be brought about in the socio-economic cultural spheres of the society there, so far as the question of state-power is concerned., all countries do have a national bourgeois ( or National bourgeois dominated) state and the working class and other exploited people there, will have to capture state-power only by the overthrowing the national bourgeoisie ( along with its allies) from power. And the revolution whose task is to over-throw the national bourgeois class from power is what we call anti-capitalist revolution.
Thus, contradiction between the imperialist powers and the subjugated people of colonies, one of the four major contradictions shown by Lenin, as playing grave role in shaping of world situation is no more there today.
Soviet Union, the worker’s state founded through the victorious first socialist revolution in Russia under Lenin’s leadership is no more. After the demise of Stalin, the worthy continuer of Lenin, various groups of modern revisionists, successively usurping the leadership of the Soviet Communist party as well as that of the state, systematically took various steps seemingly for reforming and correcting the shortcomings and loop-holes in the system there, actually polluted and degenerated the system with various non-working class steps and approaches. Eventually combining with different reactionary forces within and outside the country they ultimately succeeded in working out their counter revolutionary scheme and demolished the socialist structure there. Not only the socialist structure there stands demolished but Soviet Union as a country lost its entity too and disintegrated into a host of bourgeois states as a result of the counter-revolutionary sweep.
Apart from Soviet Union, the modern revisionists could engineer counter revolution and thereby demolish the socialist structure in no more or less the same pattern in all the other erstwhile socialist countries of East Europe namely: Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia, East Germany and Albania.
In the four remaining former socialist countries namely, China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba-modern revisionists of various hues are in the leadership in party and state and are advancing on way of restoring capitalism under the banner of so-called economic reforms while flying the red-flag. While claiming themselves to be communists they have all abandoned the path of proletarian internationalism. It is quite evident from their behaviour that they do not feel the proletarian internationalist obligation of standing unitedly against the aggressive intrigues and activities being perpertrated by the imperialists-capitalists today all over the world against peace, national independence and democracy.
The cumulative result of all these is tat one of the important developments of the post second world war situation what came to be known as the powerful world socialist camp, contending the imperialist-capitalist world on all fronts, has ceased to exist.
Thus another major contradiction from among the four enunciated by Lenin as having grave role in the shaping of world situation-the contradiction-imperialist world and the socialist world is no more there.
The fifth major contradiction
As the erstwhile colonies gradually becoming independent a new contradiction playing major role in shaping of world situation had emerged. This was the typical double-edged contradiction of the resurgent national bourgeoisie of these newly independent countries, on one hand with the imperialist-capitalist camp headed by Anglo-American imperialists and on the other with the socialist camp headed by erstwhile Soviet Union. The eminent Marxist thinker of this era, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh showing different aspect of this contradiction and considering its to gravely influence the making of world situation suggested to consider the adding of it with Lenin’s four major contradictions influencing present day world situation. This thought of his was perfectly objective and correct. But now that, as a result of the strong sweep of counter-revolution engineered by the modern revisionists in collaboration with the imperialist the world socialist camp does no more exist, this fifth contradiction viewed by Shibdas Ghosh too has lost its entity.
The non aligned movement (NAM) of the developing countries was the concrete political expression of this fifth contradiction. The policy adopted by the countries organised in NAM not to align themselves with either of the camps did work objectively in strengthening the cause of world peace and against the imperialist’s war effort for long during the post-second world war period. In the present situation when world socialist camp is no more this movement, its name and declared objective have also become irrelevant. Of course, there is a move within it to continue its existence as a grouping of the developing countries in their conflicts with the traditional imperialists, by newly redefining its aim and role in accordance with the present changed world context.
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