The immediate struggle of the U.S. proletariat is to overthrow the U.S. bourgeoisie and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism.
Socialism will be won and built by the proletariat and its allies, the millions of oppressed people. This struggle can only be victorious when correctly led by the Marxist-Leninist vanguard party.
Socialist revolution is the most radical break with oppression and exploitation in history. Socialist society is the first society based on the conscious application of objective laws. Under the leadership of the party of the proletariat, society no longer proceeds in chaos, but according to the planned fulfillment of genuine human needs.
Socialist revolution can only come about as a result of an armed insurrection by the proletariat and its allies. The objective of this insurrection will be seizure of the means of production, destruction of the present bourgeois state, and establishment of a new proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat. The fundamental question of the revolution is the armed seizure of state power.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is a weapon of the proletarian revolution. It protects and defends the revolutionary seizure of state power by the proletariat against the efforts of the bourgeoisie to restore its rule of exploitation and misery. It leads the socialist revolution through to its completion, consolidates the alliance of the proletariat and the revolutionary masses and insures the state leadership of the proletariat. It organizes socialism for the transition to the abolition of classes and the withering away of the state.
With the victory of the revolution, the proletariat and its allies will act immediately to consolidate political power in the hands of the proletariat under the leadership of the CPUSA(M-L). The first acts of the dictatorship of the proletariat will include:
* Provision for the political, economic and ideological well-being of the people and suppression of the reactionary bourgeoisie.
* Immediate confiscation of the major instruments of production and all major natural resources; socialization of large farms and other productive forces; all to be placed under the control of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
* Nationalization of all banks.
* Establishment of the Peoples’ Congress based upon democratic elections, which will lead to the formation of a geunine People’s Socialist Republic of the United States.
* Elimination of all forms of landlord ownership of the land.
* Abolition of unfair or unequal treaties; establishment of state relations with all socialist states, and states with other social systems.
* Guarantees of the right of self-determination for all oppressed nations within the state boundaries of the U.S. and full democratic rights forthe proletariat and its allies.
* Provision of immediate assistance as is requested and possible to all those worldwide who fight to gain or consolidate new democracy and socialism.
Socialism will be built in stages, solving step by step the most essential problems facing the proletariat and its allies. Socialist revolution links the internal and external class struggle and ensures the constant transformation of material, spiritual and moral life in the interests of the proletariat. Classes and class struggle will continue to exist.
The establishment of a socialist, planned economy, based on the needs of the people, will mean the end to the chaos of capitalist production with its lack of planning, repeated crises, unemployment, inflation and criminal waste. The trade unions, under the leadership of the Party, will participate in the planning and organization of production. They will also tend to the well-being and political education of the workers. The guiding principle of labor will be “from each according to ability, to each according to labor.”
The dictatorship of the proletariat, led by the CPUSA(M-L), will begin to eliminate the material basis for the oppression of women. Women will engage in socialized production to a greater degree than ever before. The struggle to liberate women from the chains of domestic slavery will continue.
The right of nations to self-determination will be fully guaranteed and the basis for national equality will be laid.
As socialist production is built and the material reality of society changes, so will the ideological outlook of the masses of people. National chauvinism, male chauvinism and bourgeois ideology in all its forms will be combated and eventually destroyed.
The vast creative potential of the millions of working people will be unleashed with their direct participation in the dictatorship of the proletariat. A new man and a new woman will be born in the building of a new, socialist society.
Throughout the entire period of socialist construction, the Party will play an extremely important role to mobilize, educate and organize the proletariat and its allies to break with the old society and build the new. The struggle against old bourgeois and revisionist ways of thinking will be constant, protracted and intense. The dictatorship of the proletariat must be consistently defended against all efforts at capitalist restoration. Because the danger of capitalist restoration will be real, the class struggle will continue to be the key link in the struggle for socialism and communism.
Socialism in the U.S. will unleash a level of productive forces unknown before in the history of mankind. The socialist relations of production will play the decisive role in political, economic and ideological transformation of society.
The ultimate aim of the international proletariat is to replace the world capitalist system with world communism. This stage in world development will mark the end of classes and private property.
Each step in the struggle of class society and each battle of the oppressed against the oppressor has been a step toward the ultimate aim of communism. Exploitation, oppression, and degradation will not exist in communist society. Commodity production, that is, production for sale or exchange on the market, will not exist. The system of wage labor will be abolished and the guiding principle of labor will be “from each according to ability, to each according to need.” The means of production will be held communally and private property will be eliminated.
With the abolition of classes and class distinctions, all social and political inequality arising from them will disappear. The conflicts of interest between workers and farmers, town and country, manual and intellectual labor will disappear. As classes will not exist, the state will not be necessary as an instrument of class rule and will gradually have withered away.
The ideological outlook of the society will be communist consciousness, with high moral qualities. The social relationships between people will be above-board and principled. Labor will be conscious and enthusiastic as the way of life rather than only as a means of survival. The forces of production will be unleashed and there will be high standards of social wealth. There will be broad and profound advances made in the fields of education, art, culture and science, as the masses of people are free to pursue these endeavors.
As communism is not a “utopia”, there will be contradictions. But there will no longer be the struggle between opposing classes. The contradictions between old and new, humanity and nature, what is correct and incorrect, will propel the development of human society forward.