103 YEARS OF GREAT OCTOBER AND ITS VALUE
O. Statsky
Today, 103 years after the accomplishment of this world-historic event, we turn back and ask where is our state of workers and peasants, where is the dictatorship of the proletariat, where did it go, where are the socialist gains of October ?
These are all very painful questions that hurt to the very heart, but our task, as Marxists, is to avoid naked emotions, blind moralism (behind which lies often lie), we need to rely on facts, on reality itself, to study the subject not in its form, but according to its content. This is how you can correctly, scientifically, give answers to these pressing questions.
Nevertheless, let us again ask ourselves the question, what was the October Revolution, whose brainchild?
October, first of all, is the great creativity of the masses, the creativity of the proletariat and its ally, the working peasantry, in transforming the world. There is no need to perceive the history of mankind as the history of heroes, there is no need to deliberately exalt, elevate any person to the demiurge of history, for it is created, first of all, by the masses, classes. Now in the labor movement there is a very widespread tendency towards Socialist-Revolutionaryism, towards populism in terms of understanding the attitude of the individual to history. For the layman, history is created not by classes, huge masses and their creativity, but by concrete people, we will not be afraid even of this word – “Atlanteans” who, in their own subjective imagination, decide the fate of people. But this is a fundamentally wrong approach, fundamentally wrong! An example of the fallacy of this approach, the Socialist-Revolutionary and populist approach, the consequence of which is individual terror, there is the murder of the Tsar of the Russian Empire Alexander II, after whose death, according to the populists, something should have improved in the state. But nothing of the kind happened, the next Tsar Alexander III came, after whose arrival the situation did not change, everything in general remained the same, and in some moments – even worse, namely the tsarist regime became even more ferocious, even more oppressive. There is only one conclusion – the destruction of idealistic views on the world, the need for a correct, Marxist understanding of the role of the individual in history! and in some moments even worse, namely the tsarist regime became even more ferocious, even more oppressive. There is only one conclusion here – the destruction of idealistic views of the world, the need for a correct, Marxist understanding of the role of the individual in history! and in some moments it was even worse, namely, the tsarist regime became even more ferocious, even more oppressive. There is only one conclusion here – the destruction of idealistic views on the world, the need for a correct, Marxist understanding of the role of the individual in history!
But what is the specificity of the October proletarian revolution, how does it differ from bourgeois revolutions?
The main difference between the socialist revolution and the bourgeois one is that the exploiting formations, for example, capitalism from feudalism, arose in the depths of the old system, they left it directly, transformed the economic basis, and only then did the superstructure change, i.e. the victory of the bourgeois revolution. In a socialist revolution, the specificity is different, socialism does not grow itself out of the old society, here a completely different process takes place, namely, first the proletariat takes power, and only then begins to build socialism. The only thing that drives the socialist revolution on the basis is an increase in the quantitative increase in productive forces, an increase in the class of wage workers – the proletariat. Those. during the transition period to socialism, the superstructure, in the form of proletarian power, becomes dominant over the basis, directly dependent on the will of the proletarian vanguard – the party. And only with the building of socialism – the basis again becomes a decisive force, in which the transition period from capitalism to communism begins. It is the lack of understanding of this point that prompts many aesthetic “Marxists” to delve into and look for the reasons for the collapse of the USSR in the economic basis, shouting all sorts of fables – “marketability in the economy leads to capitalism, it became the cause of the degeneration of the party nomenklatura!” Of course, it cannot be denied that the basis even during the transitional period to socialism has a tremendous influence on public consciousness, but after all, abolishing the proletarian gains and stopping the process of building socialism, turning to the return of capitalism is possible only through counter-revolution, i.e. replacing the superstructure (political power) from the dictatorship of the proletariat to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, but, of course, we cannot deny that counter-revolution comes from the base, but takes place in the superstructure and only then destroys the socialist gains in the base. And this counter-revolution in the superstructure took place in March 1953, it overthrew the dictatorship of the proletariat, established the dictatorship of the new bourgeoisie in the country, namely the dictatorship of the oligarchy of the Central Committee of the CPSU, as one of the forms of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, vulgarly covered with a red flag. After that, a period of destruction of the gains of building socialism began, the systematic destruction of the Soviet Union. And this counter-revolution in the superstructure took place in March 1953, it overthrew the dictatorship of the proletariat, established the dictatorship of the new bourgeoisie in the country, namely the dictatorship of the oligarchy of the Central Committee of the CPSU, as one of the forms of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, vulgarly covered with a red flag. After that, a period of destruction of the gains of building socialism began, the systematic destruction of the Soviet Union. And this counter-revolution in the superstructure took place in March 1953, it overthrew the dictatorship of the proletariat, established the dictatorship of the new bourgeoisie in the country, namely the dictatorship of the oligarchy of the Central Committee of the CPSU, as one of the forms of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, vulgarly covered with a red flag. After that, a period of destruction of the gains of building socialism began, the systematic destruction of the Soviet Union.
Yet, looking at the past and the future, what is the significance of October and its conquests for us now?
First of all, this is a rich practical experience of building socialism, this is a warning to the next generations of the social revolution against making mistakes that the Bolsheviks made, this is a vast subject for research that has yet to be studied in a truly scientific way.
October was, is and will be for us, Marxists, a great ideological inspirer, looking at which we are proud of our great ancestors, for our once mighty working class, for the Bolshevik Party, which was able to create a state of workers and peasants for the first time in the world.
Long live the Great October Socialist Revolution!
Long live its great leader – the Bolshevik Party!
Happy holiday, comrades!