The anti-capitalist revolution

? the newest goal of the World History

Today, the 7^th of February 2009, it is another great day of the fight against capitalism ? the biggest antagonist of humanity for more than 200 years. It is one of the signs of the new communist era: today our French brothers are founding their New Anti-Capitalist Party. Imposing ? as they advocate ? the redistribution of wealth in favour of the vast majority of the people who produce it by their labour will inevitably confront the small minority which currently scoops it up. Congratulations, France! We love you!

Our message for Olivier Besancenot, the leader of the new party, is: A real anti-capitalist revolution is a communist revolution. You can only abolish and supersede a political order if you can find and impose a principle which is higher than the principle of the preceding political and economic system and its regime.

Today we certainly need first and foremost a philosophical revolution as a precondition of a successful total political transformation of the present regime. The New Communist Manifesto aims at originating this necessary philosophical revolution.

The new communist ideology of the 21^st century is the new alternative. The communists are the ones who are going to abolish the capitalist "rule of law" and the totalitarian control of the outdated capitalist system and build a truly rational and truly free communist society ? the only one that will genuinely be a post-capitalist society.

It is absolutely necessary for us ? the communists ? to humanise the existing bourgeois state through revolutionary means. Now it is the time for the newest, the latest political and economic revolution ? and it is definitely an anti-capitalist revolution. It aims at constituting the common good, the common deed of all members of the political community and establishing a private property of humanist type in the sphere of economy.

The role of the Communist Party of new type is to bring up people with new communist will and consciousness adamantly convinced of the economic and political necessity of their political participation and total political engagement as well as the infinite importance of their grand project.

In his Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx argued that ?Communism is the necessary form and the dynamic principle of the immediate future, but communism as such is not the goal of human development, the form of human society.?¹ Absolutely true! But not true enough! We have to define clearly what communism is all about and why it is the necessary form for the next stage of historical development in the process of human emancipation and what is to be done. Stalin ? the Great Anti-Communist ? did not even made a step towards communism.

One of the absolute ends of Man is his total emancipation. And it is namely the further communist emancipation of Man that is one of the most fundamental tasks of our time.

Today we have to draft a New Charter of the Rights and Duties of Man and the Citizen. Never did the founding fathers of bourgeois democracy and rule of law think about creating a truly democratic political community. It is the task of our times. We have to do what our predecessors failed to do.

Marx goes on saying in his Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 that ?Communism as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being ? a return accomplished consciously and embracing the entire wealth of previous development.?² Unfortunately, the concrete way of this return is not clearly elaborated upon by Marx; this is a very general statement. What is the the determinate way of ?positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man?? The complete return of Man to himself as a community being, as a communist ? as a political being, as an ever active member of his polity ? is absolutely essential.

Now I ? everyone is I ? am still refused my right to have a social (i.e. communist human) being, to participate freely in the life of my political community. I have no communist being, I am not a member of a political community, I am not a social being. This is the modern form of enslavement. My rights are only written on a useless piece of paper. Every corrupted totalitarian power aims at creating and successfully creates a dismembered atomised society.

The reality is that I have only negative duties, pure restrictions: Be a slave with some limited rights of participation. Forget about being a part of a political community, and consequently having any influence on the political reality of your country.

No more! Enough is enough!

Only a successful anti-capitalist revolution will be an enormous leap forward in building an authentically ethical political community, in which every human being is guaranteed political and economic freedom.

With Olivier Besancenot, the leader of the New Anti-Capitalist Party, we say:

?We believe that there are tens of thousands of men and women that are available to build a party for struggles and mobilizations.

A left that is not afraid to face down the attacks from the right and the renunciation of the left. A new political representation for the world of work, young people and victims of various oppressions. A left that does not confine its ambitions to limiting the damage of capitalist globalization, but which still wants to do away with the system and radically change society. And, indeed, change society! On these tens of thousands of men and women who are ready, like us to ?revolutionize society," we do not impose our past, whether the general history of Trotskyism or the specific history of the LCR. But put them together to build something new!

M. Besancenot says that the party is democratic but wants to overturn "pseudo-democratic" institutions and give people control of their own lives. This means getting rid of the market economy, starting with the nationalisation of the banks into a single "state banking service".

Asked this week if he is still a "revolutionary", M. Besancenot said: "More than ever. We want our ideas to govern, but not through the present institutions."

Asked if he is a "Trotskyist" (an allegiance which he has not claimed publicly for several years), he said: "Our political logic is to take the best of the different traditions of the working-class movement, whether it be Trotskyism, Socialism, Communism, libertarianism, Guevarism, or radical environmentalism.?

1. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

2. Ibidem,