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Scânteia As – Nr. 5 septembrie - octombrie 2009
On Monday of this week, the Financial Times Germany
reported for its exclusive readership about a moratorium
between the leading monopolies and the government on
postponing mass dismissals and other massive attacks upon
the workforce until election day and only until then!
Comprehensive attacks on the part of the state are also
being prepared, because the gigantic crisis management
programs with hundreds of billions of euros have to be
refinanced somehow. Surely the focus will be on the
planned increase in indirect taxes, cutbacks in social
services, further dismantling the equal financing of social
security, the cuts in pensions, further cuts in Hartz IV
income support - in short: deep cuts in all social security
systems. That is why we are using the election campaign for
preparing the masses for what is coming. After the elections
we will have to pay the bill! The working class, the broad
masses of people have to be brought into position against
this: they have to fight 2 against the shifting of the burdens
of the crisis onto their backs.
What is the essence of the MLPD’s election campaign?
The most important thing is to conduct the federal election
campaign as an offensive for genuine socialism. This means
that we fight within the framework of the present trend to
the left among the masses for winning the people for a
revolutionary socialist alternative.
The left-reformist tendency within the trend to the left still
has the upper hand. The Left Party could use the
parliamentary illusions among the masses for its own ends.
For this reason we also have to deal with the policy of the
Left Party critically, but without cutting the ties. Many
members and supporters of the Left Party remain to be the
most important potential allies in the struggle against the
dismantling of social gains, against neo-fascism, against
military missions in Afghanistan. Nevertheless we have to
tell people the truth. Lafontaine’s slogan of an “economy of
free people” without abolishing capitalism is illusory and a
misleading fantasy which harms the class struggle.
If the working class wants to liberate itself from
exploitation and oppression it has to overcome the capitalist
system. For this reason, on the one hand, the offensive for
genuine socialism means a dispute with the illusory view of
the petty-bourgeois-reformist, pettybourgeois-revisionist
and petty-bourgeois-parliamentary mode of thinking,
especially of the Left Party. On the other hand, it also
means spreading our concept of genuine socialism among
the masses in a lively, convincing, popular and selfconfident
way. They are open to this more than I have never
experienced before.
How is this openness expressed?
In the run-up to these federal elections, we experienced that
anti-communism no longer played the primary role as an
obstacle in the debate over the collection of signatures.
We collected 40,000 signatures and for this we had to
conduct about 200,000 partly very demanding individual
talks. There it became evident that the main problem was a
certain disenchantment with politics and discontent about
“politicians” on the whole. We first have to convincingly
draw a line of demarcation as “rebels of politics” and
declare our position in order not to take a beating for the
bourgeois parties.
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People have to realize that muffled expressions of
discontent are not enough. Instead of declining into
negativism and defeatism you have to fight for your
interests and get organized. Sheer discontent off the top of
one’s head is even a breeding-ground for right populists.
The collection of signatures was an important preliminary
battle which we could deal with very successfully as a
whole. We are the only party in Germany that had to collect
signatures and was successful in this in all federal states.
That was a great success that we can build upon. The
election campaign will further intensify the debate that has
started and the method of the intensive work of convincing
people.
Every offensive means making special efforts and must
have an excellent quality!
There is the time of holiday and relaxation and there is the
time of the mobilization of forces and exertion of all one’s
energies. Now is a time that requires great efforts! During
the next weeks we will be on the streets daily, with and
among the people, and concentrate completely on this
offensive of the work among the rank and file of the masses.
Our voter action groups have to be built up, our contacts
have to be consolidated and we have to win many people
for the MLPD and the struggle for socialism. This will be
the test whether our offensive in connection with the federal
elections will be successful or not.
The spirit that has been spread from our start in Hamburg is
very important for these goals: The strong power to
convince people, the aggressiveness and the selfconfidence,
but also attractiveness of the great solidarity
and the intensified alliance-building work. We have to
emphasize especially the alliance-building work with
various migrant organizations with which we are
conducting a joint election campaign. The decisive method
of our offensive is a really systematic and intensive work
among the rank and file of the broad masses – the success of
Hamburg was also based on this.
Would you give us a glance behind the curtains and tell us
what problems are currently being discussed within the
MLPD ?
Naturally, every social dispute is reflected within the party
in one way or another.
Those who are influenced by the pseudo-soft-soap course of
the government are avoiding polarization. Those who are at
odds with the growing number of votes for the "Left Party"
cannot carry out the patient work of accompanying the
masses in coping with the pettybourgeois parliamentary
mode of thinking. Those who are frustrated that the workers
don't start fighting immediately with the outbreak of the
crisis are still worshiping spontaneity themselves.
Dilettantism and disorganization spread, if you don't work
tirelessly on raising your level in mastering the dialectical
method. However, we have progressed quite well in solving
all these problems, because all in all, as a party, we are
positioned excellently and have outstanding and enthusiastic
members, whose commitment other parties are panting for.
The offensive for genuine socialism is advancing and
cannot be stopped.
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