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This is the basis of thecontradictory character of what we describe as a bureaucratically deformed workers state.
That the workers state held out as a bastion of world revolution for five years in isolation was a major historical accomplishment;
What is necessary is a political revolution to establish workers democracy and, in so doing, strengthen the workers state.
The grim poverty of the world's first workers state began with the economic and social backwardness inherited from the old tsarist empire.
The period we live in now,one conditioned by the destruction of the world's first workers state, is deeply reactionary.
The counterrevolution that destroyed the degenerated Soviet workers state and unleashed an orgy of nationalist bloodletting throughout much of its former territory.
The Robertsonites havemerely asserted their position that the ex-USSR remains a workers state without seriously attempting to argue for it.
We stand for unconditional military defense against imperialist attack and counterrevolution of the Chinese deformed workers state.”.
Contrary to the falsehood spread by various self-styled leftists that the USSR was an"imperialist" power,the Soviet Union was a workers state that issued out of the first victorious socialist revolution in history.
And we call for an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian workers state, through joint struggle of Hebrew-speaking and Arab workers against their bourgeois rulers, as part of a socialist federation of the Near East.
” The period we live in now,one conditioned by the destruction of the worldÂ's first workers state, is deeply reactionary.
Against such a force a workers state can be brought into existence only by a proletariat fully conscious of its tasks, organized to carry them out, and determined to defend its conquests against the counterrevolutionary violence of the ruling class.
It is impossible to free oneself from thosecontradictions with the help of terminological sleight of hand"Workers State"-"Not Workers State.
The Maoist ideology of the Chinese bureaucratically deformed workers state reflected the provincial, anti-internationalist consciousness characteristic of the mass of the peasantry, which was perfectly consonant with the conservative outlook of the Stalin bureaucracy in the Kremlin.
Lenin stressed that the proletariat would win the support of the vast majority of working people through smashing the bourgeois state andreplacing it with a workers state that expropriates capitalist property.
We stand in the tradition of the brave Trotskyists in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw,who declared,“We defend the workers state, notwithstanding the Stalinist regime, like we defend every workers organization from blows of the class enemy, notwithstanding the reformist regime ruling it….
This state cannot be pressured into serving the interests of the working class and oppressed,but must be swept away through a socialist revolution that establishes a workers state where those who labor rule.
The crucial qualitative distinction between a workers state and a deformed workers state- demarcated in blood in the need for political revolution to open the road to socialist development and the extension of the revolution abroad had been lost.
This is an outrageous falsification of Trotsky'stheory-recasting the permanent revolution in“democratic” capitalist guise, applying it to a workers state, then turning it into a call for“democratic” counterrevolution!
Having made commoncause with"democratic" imperialism against the Soviet degenerated workers state and the bureaucratically deformed workers states of East Europe, these organizations are now even more shameless in their embrace of bourgeois democracy, by and large dispensing with even lip service to the aim of proletarian revolution.
Stalinist Accommodation to Imperialism While impressive and necessary, China's military andeconomic advances cannot ultimately guarantee the survival of the workers state in a world dominated by imperialist powers bent on its destruction.
The demise of the USSR, the world's first and most powerful workers state, has ushered in a global offensive against the living standards and basic democratic rights of the working class and the oppressed, as well as an ideological climate dominated by widespread belief in the“death of communism” and a resurgence of religious fanaticism.
Dialectical thinking analyzes all things and phenomena in their continuous change while determining in the material conditions of thosechanges that critical limit beyond which A ceases to be A, a workers state ceases to be a workers state.
When the DDR sealed off the open border to West Berlin-a bureaucraticmeasure by the Stalinists that we defended because it served to protect the workers state from imperialist penetration and economic hemorrhaging-Grass wrote an urgent message to Anna Seghers, a Jewish Communist who narrowly escaped Nazi persecution and became chair of the DDR authors association.
Palmer's dissolution of communism-the program of the revolutionary international working class for the overthrow of capitalism-into the amorphous“Left” is a bow in the direction of the pervasive retrogression of politicalconsciousness that followed the destruction of the world's first workers state in 1991-92.
Whether or not their governments broke all ties with the capitalist mode of production or kept it despite the liquidation of the national bourgeoisie, depended on the relation of forces between the classes in the country,on the current policy of imperialism and the workers state and above all on the relation of forces in the political leadership, the power of the left wing in the movement.
They fought as well to imbue militants with the consciousness that to tear down the walls imprisoning fighters against exploitation and oppression once and for all requires a socialist revolution thatdestroys the capitalist state and replaces it with a workers state, where those who labor rule.
As long as the bureaucracy, though in the service of its own material interests, still found itself compelled to defend the property forms created on the basis of October, the Soviet Union remained,in its basic tendencies, a workers state and the perspective of the political revolution remained viable.
Liu emerged as Washington's most favoured Chinese anti-Communist"dissident" a little over two years ago as the primary author of the Charter 08 manifesto which, as we wrote at the time,was"an explicit programme for capitalist counterrevolution in the Chinese deformed workers state, wrapped in the envelope of'democracy'" Workers Hammer no 207, Summer 2009.