#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BULGARIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) Bulgaria, F.A.B.: Why did the Bolshevik Revolution serve as an inspiration in the "Third World"? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Continuation of Iliya Troyanov's interview with Georgi Konstantinov: The

revolutionary motivation ---- Iliya Troyanov: If "the Bolshevik revolution is one
of the belated modifications of the bourgeois revolutions", how can we explain
that until the 1970s it served as an example and inspiration in whole world,
especially in the "Third": with the influence of the USSR, with delusion or with
something else? ---- Georgi Konstantinov: In our correspondence, answers to
complex and complicated questions can only be schematic, concise and summarized.
To answer them I will go through them one by one, starting with the first one.
For more clarity, I need some definitions and historical notes/examples.

First we must explain what we mean by a belated modification of the bourgeois
revolution?

The bourgeois revolution is a capitalist revolution, that is, a capitalist
society is "born" as a result of it - regardless of the LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND
FRATERNITY written on its flag, it is characterized by the relations of
exploitation of wage labor by capital. The embryo of this society develops in the
womb of the pre-capitalist - this is usually a variation of feudal society. In
the classic case of the Great French Revolution, capital is private property, and
in the politics of "pluralism" of owners corresponds a multi-party parliamentary
system.

When the "birth" is delayed and a Marx-Leninist party accosts it, as happened in
the Russian Empire, capital is nationalized and the only capitalist monopoly -
the state monopoly - in politics corresponds to the dictatorship.

The delay is due to the fact that autocracy survived longer than French
absolutism in the 18th century, and in the capitalist embryo developing in its
womb, the tendency of concentration and centralization of capitals became
dominant. As a result of it, their consolidation takes place, i.e. absorption of
small and medium by large capitals. This is how monopolies are created. The
logical development of this process is the decreasing number of the largest
capitals. The finale is their absorption by Leviathan - the state. In the case of
the Russian Revolution, the midwife VKP (b) nationalized the entire economy and
instead of private capitalism, state capitalism was born through the dictatorship
of the party, administrative and military police bureaucracy.

DICTATORSHIP + STATEZIZATION = STATE CAPITALISM
This is precisely what I mean by a belated modification of the classical
bourgeois revolution. We saw that it took place in a backward semi-feudal
country, in which, along with autocracy and landlords, there were also capitalist
monopolies created with Russian and foreign capital.

This was also characteristic of the countries of the "Third World", where
dictators ruled instead of autocrats, and the level of their socio-economic and
political development was around that of Russia in 1917. Similar conditions in
China, Cuba, Vietnam and a number of other Third World countries produced similar
consequences.

A number of additional conditions also played a role in the "victory" and
influence of the Russian state-capitalist revolution:

The Manifesto of Marx and Engels with its 10 points is the most accurate and
adequate Program of the "construction" of state capitalism. It was embraced by
many parties in the Third World, which was colonized by the Western
private-capitalist empires against which the masses waged their anti-colonial or
national "liberation" struggle.
The USSR was a country at the nexus of imperialist contradictions - and because
the enemies of my enemies are my friends, Moscow became the natural ally of some
Third World colonies and semi-colonies. (During World War II, many of the British
and French colonies saw Hitler as a liberator. By the way, national "socialism"
is a transition from private to state capitalism.) The USSR supported them in
order to colonize them in another form, in order to have their raw materials, to
use them as military bases and to weaken in this way their great rivals from the West
It should be noted that in many of the "socialist" countries (not only in Eastern
Europe), anti-colonial and class struggles against Moscow and against the regimes
that were inspired by the "Soviet" example unfolded.
The Chinese case is particularly indicative. Beijing initially demanded "equal
status" and later asserted imperial aspirations. When the USSR "went down with a
whimper" from the world arena, all the so-called "Soviet" "socialist" republics
ran away from the arms of Russia.

Stay tuned for the last part of Iliya Troyanov's interview with Georgi
Konstantinov: The resistance against today's dictatorship

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