The dictatorship of the Proletariat

Fri, Jun 12 at 8:40 PM

The dictatorship of the Proletariat

By Jorge Maspóns

Notes: I do not know if I sent this one, please excuse me if this is a duplicate

I remember that when I was a boy, while still in Cuba, my father told us about his plans and wishes to turn the business to us, his three sons. He invested years of time and effort in this business in which he had worked so much but now he was near retirement from so many years of work then he could rest, travel and enjoy the fruit of his efforts for so many years. Like my father, there were many merchants with the same intentions in the year 1959 when the fall of Batista came and the imposition of communism in Cuba. That was the beginning of the end of all those wonderful plans, not only for dad but also for many of his friends and associates. To Dad's misfortune The "bearded men” arrived in Cuba and stole the entire island.

In those first years of the Castro police state, I observed as posters appeared in shopping malls saying, "We support the intervention." What the authors of these posters, advertisements and labels were saying was that they supported the theft authorized by the state.

My father had 12-15 employees in his "accumulator" business; he was, as we say in the United States, "a small businessman." One of these employees, by the way, the one who made the most money working with my dad, suddenly overnight became a communist and started to attend Marxist indoctrination classes every week. I do not know where he received these classes but I remember that the next day he came to the workshop repeating everything that had been stuffed into him. I remember this well because, although my father did not want to see me at the workshop (for my safety in the event of accidents) somehow I would sneak in to see the employees working on the manufacture of batteries for cars and trucks. I also liked talking to customers who came to buy or repair their batteries.

One day, after one of those "talks," the aforementioned employee appeared by dad's workshop speaking of "the dictatorship of the proletariat." It seems to me that this phrase feels good because he spent the entire day talking about this topic. As several minutes passed, he raised his voice and said, "because the dictatorship of the proletariat ......" and so throughout the day continued repeating the hated phrase that evidently seemed funny to him. You could not scold him because we were already bad enough and very soon also dad he would lose all the work of so many years, he would be one more victim of the damn communist system. Dad too soon he would lose his establishment thanks to one of these "interventions."

What is "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat"? I will try to give a brief explanation to this phrase that is relevant to our times and of course, when I heard it For the first time I did not understand what it was because I was still very young.

Carlos Marx and Federico Engels believed that the workers' revolution was inevitable and they asked themselves this: Should we wait for the normal course of events? Should we take the pazos to promote the revolution and accelerate the evolution of society towards communism?

Marx and Engels decided that it was their stated duty to securely promote the revolution. Why prolong suffering? As they saw it, ancient society was doomed to failure but in light of the principles discovered by Marx and Engels perhaps humanity could be saved from a dozen generations of exploitation and injustice simply by compressing this entire face of social evolution into one unique generation of violent readjustment.

They believed they could do it in three steps.

First: effectively liquidating the old order. They believed only in a means of simplifying and shortening the inevitable while concentrating the deadly agony of ancient society as well as the bloody labor of the birth of the new world

Second: Representatives of the working class must establish a DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT. José Stalin described The things that must be achieved during this period:

1. Completely suppress the old capitalist class.

2. Create a powerful"defense" army for the "consolidation of ties with the proletarians of other nations and for the development and victory of the revolution in all countries."

3. Consolidate the unity of the masses in support of the dictatorship.

4. Establish universal socialism by eliminating PRIVATE PROPERTY and preparing all mankind for the definitive adoption of communism.

Stalin knew well what he was saying. A man possessed by Lucifer who murdered during his government perhaps more than 20 million human beings, from his own people.

Third: The final step is the transition from socialism to full communism. Socialism is characterized by absolute control of land and property as well as the means of production by the state. [1]

Marx and Engels believed that after a short time the class consciousness has disappeared and there is no more resistance to overcome. The state gradually withers away and then the property will automatically belong to all humanity "in common." Later Lenin explained how the dictatorship of the proletariat would pave the way for this final face. He said that the dictatorship would be "an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against another, by one part of the population against the other. But as we strive to establish socialism, we are convinced that such a thing develops more go ahead in communism and along with this it will disappear the necessity of force, by the submission of one man to another, from one section of society to the other, since people became accustomed to observing the elementary conditions of social existence without strength and without dependency. "[2]

Until In the last stages of socialism, Lenin visualized a world without courts, lawyers, judges, governors, elected representatives and even without police. All of these would be swept away until they reached the limbo of the forgotten and incompetent, the final destination of those who characterized the old order of decadent capitalism. Lenin believed that the new society would change human nature until resistance to communal society would become "a rare and serious exception accompanied by such swift and severe punishment." (Because armed workers are men of practical life, not sentimental intellectuals and they will hardly allow anyone to joke or play with them.) Very soon the need to observe the simple fundamental rules of common daily life will become in one habit. Then the door will be open for the transition from the first phase of communism to the highest [complete communism] [3]

On many occasions I listen to many people, while still in Cuba, including my father, that "communism would never come there" because according to them, we were very close to the United States and that the Americans "would never allow a communist regime so close to them. "

Not only has communism arrived in Cuba. It has been forcibly sustained for sixty-one with the approval and blessing of our friends in the north. The great capitalists, who are supposed to be the enemies of communism, are the creators and preservers of this evil system. This can be easily demonstrated.

Will communism come to the United States? I invite you to a careful reading of the Communist Manifesto and you will be amazed at how close we are to the dream of Marx and Engels.

Jorge A. Maspóns

New Orleans, Louisiana

March 7, 2009

　

Notes:

[1] [2] [3] Portions of the paragraph were taken from the book "The Naked Communist" by W. Leon Skousen. The Ensign Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Ninth Edition, July 1969, Pages 56-57-58 (In English, translation by Jorge Maspons)Short