ICP was a mistake
In opposition to this creation of the party, the elements of the communist left of France attempt to present a theory of the party from which we extract the following passages:
« 11. – The tendency to the constitution of the party of the proletariat is made from the birth of capitalist society. But as long as the historical conditions for socialism are not sufficiently developed, the ideology of the proletariat like the constitution of the party can only remain in the embryonic stage. It is only with the “League of Communists” that a complete type of political organization of the proletariat appears for the first time.
When one examines closely the constitutional development of class parties, it immediately becomes apparent that the party organization does not follow a constant progression, but on the contrary registers periods of great development alternating with others during which the party disappears. Thus the organic existence of the party does not seem to depend solely on the will of the individuals who compose it. These are the objective conditions that condition its existence. The party, being essentially an organism of revolutionary class action, can only exist in situations where the action of the working class comes to light. In the absence of conditions for class action by the workers (economic and political stability of capitalism, or following the profound defeats of the workers' struggles) the party cannot survive. It breaks up organically or else it is obliged in order to subsist, that is to say in order to exert an influence, to adapt to the new conditions which negate revolutionary action, and then the party inevitably fills up with a new content. . It becomes conformist, that is to say, it ceases to be the party of the revolution.
Marx better than anyone else understood the conditioning of the party's existence. Twice he was the architect of the dissolution of the great organization, in 1851 the day after the defeat of the revolution and the triumph of reaction in Europe, a second time in 1873 after the defeat of the Paris Commune, he decides for the dissolution. The first time from the League of Communists, and the second time from the First International.
- – For these reasons the constitution of a party, of an international for the Trotskyists since 1935 and the recent constitution of an internationalist communist party in Italy, while being artificial formations, can only be enterprises of confusion and confusion. 'opportunism. Instead of being moments in the constitution of the future class party, these formations are obstacles, and discredit it by the caricature they present.
Thus all these organizations are not only caught in their positivity by their immediate activism in the gears of their opportunism but also produce in their negativity a limited spirit specific to sects, a parochial patriotism, a fearful and superstitious attachment to its "leaders". », to the caricatural reproduction of the game of the big organizations, to the deification of organizational rules and to the submission to a discipline « freely consented » all the more tyrannical and more intolerable that it is in inverse proportion to the number.
Posted Oct 2, 2022, 8:24 PM UTC