Call for peace or call for insurrection? - Ukraine question.

Some call the danger of communism, others salvation

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Calls for peace sound and accepted to be “humanitarian”.  However, for Marxist Leninists there are fundamental questions to be asked for this call to be made; Peace for whom? With whom? Under what conditions? At what cost?  At whose expense? At whose benefit?

Petty bourgeois who ideologically falters between two opposing classes under various disguises and changes the sides based on the shifts in the balance of powers, now crying for peace at the expense of the gains of communists and anti-fascists in Ukraine.

The cowardice nature of petty bourgeois who believe that capitalism is indispensable, and its forces are indestructible do not believe in the people’s struggle. They disregard or at best minimize the impact of communist and anti-fascist struggle of people. They call for peace without answering the question of “what the details of that peace will be?” “What the fundamental character of that peace will be.?”

Are we talking about a peace between the imperialists or between the neo-Nazis and the Communists and anti-Fascists? Are we talking about a peace between the imperialists proxy neo-Nazis and the Communists and anti-Fascists? Are we calling for a peace to save the neo-Nazis or communists and anti-fascists? In simple words, are we calling for a “democratic peace”? Or are we talking with all our humanitarianism, our love of humanity, our celestial virtue, and our high intellect to embellish the imperialist peace!”

Lenin said once; “The imperialist bourgeoisie needs lackeys of both species and varieties: the Plekhanovs, to encourage the continuation of the slaughter by shouting “Down with the conquerors”; the Kautskys, to console and placate the embittered masses by sweet songs of peace.” A Turn in World Politics

Since the practice is a mirror of ideology, the same lackeys of imperialist bourgeoisie are at large singing the same familiar songs for the question of the war in Ukraine. These lackeys were the ones who were chanting the “peace” song when the Ukrainian neo-Nazi bourgeoisie was trying to disarm the communists and anti-fascists by force since 2014, and they are the same lackeys of today. They are presenting the outmost possible sophistry in order to save the neo-Nazi militias and Neo-Nazi, imperialist proxy government. A “peace “returning to the previous status quo, not a “democratic peace” for the interests of people but a “peace” for the interests of imperialists and their proxy government. A thoroughly ‘nice’ kind of “peace” call to the joy of the warmongers and neo-Nazis. It is not “peace”, it is illusion, it is fiction serving the interests of reaction. This war is a war in particular not a world war in general in where we have mass movements in support of “peace.”  Calls for democratic “Peace” in particular includes the reduction of armaments, neutrality – refusal of any foreign military personnel and equipment in the subject country, a democratic government, recognizing the rights of minorities, etc. etc. The” status quo- peace” calls of pseudo-socialists actually indications of them being the lackeys of the warmongers. That is why they in deed are the worst enemies of peace, democracy, and Socialism.

The only genuine forces of acquiring and preserving “peace” is the force of masses under the leadership of socialists and anti-fascists. Because peace can only be achieved and preserved through mass movements and more often through armed struggle. It is not coincidence that the communists were guided by the fact that an integral program for the preservation of peace with the accumulated experience of the anti-fascist and anti-war movements constitute the most important element of the popular movement. Democratic peace is not a negotiation between the bourgeoisies, it is an end result of mass movements lead by the communists and anti-fascists forcing the hands of bourgeoisie to capitulate. That is why the call of pseudo socialists is in fact a reformist call capitulating to reaction- in this case to neo-Nazis at the expense of communists and anti-fascists and of their blood earned gains.

The struggle for peace and the struggle for socialism are interlinked which requires mobilizing all peace-loving forces and peoples and counter the reactionary and imperialist proxy actions. That mobilization helps to resolve the class tasks of the proletariat because struggle for peace is a part of general democratic struggle which helps uniting not only the working class, the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie, the intelligentsia and as a result strengthens the position of socialist struggle.

To deny a peace when there is no socialist and anti-fascist mass power decisive enough, in Lenin’s words, “would be a reckless gamble,” but to speak of a peace under the conditions where the socialist and anti-fascist mass power is decisive (or at least heavily effective) “will be a betrayal” to the cause of socialism.

The “peace” goes through the transformation of the idea of revolutionary struggle against -the neo-Nazi proxies in the Ukraine specific and - imperialism into practice. That is an active policy of peace which should try to embrace all the laboring, anti-fascist masses of Ukraine and mobilize them to topple the neo-Nazi, imperialist proxy regime. Such a policy of peace is a means of gathering socialist and anti-fascist forces against imperialism in specific and in general.

Socialists and antifascists should reject any passive, “postponement peace” imposed on them by the reaction but should follow the active policy of gathering forces against imperialism and against their proxies for a "democratic peace".

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June 14,2022