Excerpts from the Programme: Chapters 5; Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Declaration of Principles and Establishment of the Transitional State

 

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5. Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Declaration of Principles and Establishment of the Transitional State

5.1. The Proclamation of the Dictatorship

Immediately after the victorious overthrow of bourgeois power, the dictatorship of the proletariat is established and its goal proclaimed without mystification. The dictatorship of the proletariat is a class state built upon the ruins of bourgeois states—a transitional state whose declared goal is to destroy classes and liberate communism. The destruction of classes, completed at the end of the lower communist phase, is the very foundation of its own disappearance as a transitional state. Only higher communism will see the complete disappearance of all states. Thus, the periodization of communism is clearly affirmed, and the declaration of the principles of the comprehensive revolution is disseminated by all means of propaganda, which are immediately seized and activated.

5.2. The "Totalitarian" Activity of the Party

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the totalitarian state activity of the World Communist Party for the implementation of the Communist program. All power is concentrated and centralized in the hands of the World Communist Party. The World Communist Party directs with an iron fist a class struggle which, brought to its climax, dialectically reverses the balance of power between Capital and Proletariat. With the construction of the state apparatus, the conditions for the exercise of revolutionary totalitarianism for the destruction of social classes are met.

The exercise of power is not shared. The World Communist Party is omnipresent and omnipotent. It subordinates all parts to the Whole, the particular interests of any particular fraction of the proletariat to the general interest. There is no longer any direct or indirect tactical solution to be put forward, because there is no longer, anywhere, any prospect of a revolutionary class alliance. The globalization strategy of the dictatorship of the proletariat for the purely proletarian revolution is being directly implemented. From the first constituted proletarian state begins the movement that must embrace the world or perish.

5.3. The Preservation and Extension of Power

The first measures of the dictatorship of the proletariat address the vital question of preserving and extending proletarian power. Their success is conditional: all the differentiated organs of the transitional proletarian state charged with carrying out the revolutionary measures voluntarily submit to the organic authority of the Communist Program; all subversive forces are consciously converted during the constitution of the transitional proletarian state; the conquest of the as-yet-unorganized fractions of the proletariat, a matter of effectiveness, is not subject to the law of numbers; the exercise of the dictatorship of the proletariat is not subject to the “conquest of the majority”; the state organs charged with implementing the program of class destruction adopt the principle of organic centralism characteristic of the party; the possible survivals of democracy, or of the illusion of the development of “proletarian democracy” within the organs of the proletarian state, are eradicated; the designation and co-optation of the most determined elements in the organs of leadership, transmission of slogans, and control of achievements advantageously replace the electoral mechanisms used during yesterday’s revolutionary attempts in the context of double revolutions or impure revolutions (October Revolution 1917).

5.4. The Enigma of Democracy

Democracy is founded on the historical principles of Capital: liberty, equality, fraternity. Democracy is the solved enigma of all constitutions. Democratic constitutions enshrine the division of society into antagonistic classes and institute peaceful coexistence between these enemy classes. Democratic constitutions also provide for the violent mechanisms for defending the interests of the ruling class, protecting profits and perpetuating their conditions, separating producers from the means of subsistence, and producing and reproducing the class-based relations of exploitation. Capital has realized, in, by, and for itself, the democratic program.

The realization of liberty and equality leads to inequality and despotism. The democratic program, embraced by revisionism, masks class exploitation, produces the integration of the working class, engenders the absolute political impotence of the proletariat, and the totalitarian economic power of Capital. There will be no more social democracy than the social democracy realized by Capital for itself. The Democratic Republic was the most suitable mystifying political form for the sustained exercise of the dictatorship of Capital. Fascism, a national response—a more fragile, circumstantial, and less enduring form of the dictatorship of Capital—historically and locally implemented the social-democratic reformist program, while democracy, by triumphing globally, fulfilled fascism.

It is in the form of pure democracy, the most adequate for renewing the conditions of bourgeois totalitarianism, that Capital confronts, in the catastrophic crisis, the explosion of the contradictions it has engendered; and it is in this perfect form that it perishes under the hateful blows of the proletariat.

5.5. The Inflexible Power of Force

The transitional state wields inflexible power based directly on force and subject to no law. It cannot, without failing, claim democracy or establish a particular form of democracy, whether as an end, a means, or an internal mechanism. Communism is the negation of democracy—of all democracy—because it is the realization of the human community. The dictatorship of the proletariat, intended to suppress democracy in general, does not achieve it in a particular and illusory form. “Proletarian democracy” existed under the conditions of the double revolution (1917); it is a fatal contradiction under the conditions of pure revolution.

5.6. Liquidation of the Superstructure

Before attacking the very foundations of democracy—the law of value or law of exchange between equivalents—the dictatorship of the proletariat first and quickly liquidates all the political and institutional superstructures of democracy, disperses the assemblies of chatterers, and breaks the empty shells of bourgeois authority. This includes:

●       The liquidation of all democratic institutions, from the halls of Parliament and the Senate to the courts and the administration; the dismantling of these will be the light of the fire that illuminates the spirit of the times;

●       The abrogation of all Constitutions, all Laws and all Rights;

●       The abolition of universal suffrage and the majority democratic principle;

●       The prohibition of all elected representative assemblies, all political parties, all trade unions, all councils, and all associations;

●       The total elimination of electoralism.

5.7. Revolutionary Intolerance

At the same time, the proletarian state exalts the principle of revolutionary intolerance, attacks just as quickly the capacity for democratic mystification in its other forms and all means of independent—therefore bourgeois—propaganda:

●       The Liquidation and suppression of bourgeois media;

●       The closure of religious and secular schools and universities;

●       Launching a systematic offensive against all theologico-political entities—Judeo-Christian institutions, religious nationalists, and fundamentalist groups of every stripe, specifically Islamist and Jihadist formations. We do not recognize these as 'faiths,' but as reactionary weapons of the ruling class. Their function is to fracture the human species and defend the current order. They must be dismantled, without exception;

●       The prohibition of cults, confessions, secret societies, Freemasonry, and private leagues;

●       The Dissolution of Civil Society: The forced disbanding of all NGOs, charities, and "neutral" civic associations; we recognize no "private sphere" where the old ideology can hide;

●       Détournement (The revolutionary hijacking of cultural symbols) of statues, monuments, victory arches, statues of liberty, these foul and odious representations of bourgeois society;

●       The suppression of all parasitic antisocial activities;

●       The calling of proletarian forces to actively counter all forms of bourgeois putrid culture and its nauseating morality.

5.8. Class War as the Midwife

Class war is the midwife of a society in labour. Nothing will be accomplished without the fanatical passion for the total defeat of the class enemy. To destroy resistance as quickly as possible, a policy of systematic war against the capitalist class and its allies is to be rapidly implemented the day after the seizure of power. The final solution to the capitalist question relies on revolutionary war. This war only ends when there is no longer any expression of the will to protect property and restore Capital—that is, when the capitalist class is unable to respond with any force.

The capitalist class is reactionary toward the proletariat as soon as, by the military, economic, social, political, or ideological means at its disposal, it seeks to perpetuate the capitalist character of production. The formidable counter-revolutionary power that the capitalist class has amassed cannot be defeated if the class state demonstrates moderation or the slightest hesitation in the use of force. Class war cannot be excessive, since it must be total and systematic. The ruling class must not just be dominated—they must be eliminated as a meaningful force.

Republicanism, humanism, and romanticism have always been at the root of bloody defeats and disillusioned futures. Their remnants are eradicated. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is trampled underfoot. To their bourgeois morality—a morality designed to keep the proletariat under the yoke—to their hypocritical Judeo-Christian proclamations about the sanctity of human life, the revolutionary movement answers their morality with the ferocious passion of uprooting, once and for all, the exploitation of man by man."  Capital is a crime against humanity! The ruin of bourgeois “civilization” is not merely encouraged; it is savagely orchestrated.

5.9. The Nature of the Global State

The dictatorship of the proletariat is not a “half-state,” nor is it a “commune-state,” nor is it a “national state”; it is a state that is by nature global, without homeland or borders, and which brings the class struggle to its zenith. Its decline depends on the speed of its development and the fullness of its achievements on a global scale. The causes of this decline are not inscribed in any “proletarian constitution,” nor is it guaranteed by a new “civil code” or by “statutes.” It does not wither away because it is constituted in this or that way. It is not an ideal form of organization that guarantees its gradual extinction. Its dormancy is the result of the systematic and periodic implementation of the communist program—the certain result of the continuity of programmatic achievements at the heart of a power dynamic extending to the planet.

The dictatorship of the proletariat rests its authority on the physical liquidation of capitalist resistance. To secure the victory of the insurrection, the Party enforces:

●       The disarmament of the capitalist class, its agents, and its mercenaries, stripping the enemy of the means of violence;

●     The liquidation of reactionary conspiracies through a well-equipped proletarian covert security organ, forged with the most modern techniques of surveillance and suppression;

●  The erection of revolutionary tribunals to deliver exemplary class sentences for the worst exploiters—the profiteers, rentiers, speculators, and stock market parasites who fuelled the counter-revolution;

●   The blocking of the fleeing elite: magnates, high finance traffickers, and heads of state are detained, ensuring the adversary is not bolstered by the arrival of émigré forces;

●       The immediate release of imprisoned comrades and those detained for crimes born of poverty, restoring the victims of the old world to the ranks of the new;

●      The conversion of prisons into places of rehabilitation for the low-level casualties of capitalist misery, reserving only the most degenerate specimens for general confinement.