Article by Rui Paz, Collaborator of the International Department
In a historical moment, layed down by a deep financial, economic, social and moral capitalist system crisis, 67 communist and workers parties, representing millions of communists from all continents, proclaimed, in S. Paulo, the exigency of " the revolutionary surmounting "of the capitalist system and reaffirmed that " socialism is the alternative ".
It is convenient to highlight that this assertion on the " communist superiority of ideals and project ",comprehends parties which struggle within the most diverse situations, since those that govern states, and allege the purpose of the construction of socialism or participate or support governments of anti-imperialist or progressist alliances, to parties that impel powerful movements of opposition to policies of governments submitted to imperialism or that resist to the most difficult conditions of underground and fierce repression.
The S. Paulo meeting refutes the imperialism ideologists propaganda, that the 20th century, was the century of the end of communism and demasked the "superiority" theories of the capitalist system and the "impossibility "of socialism.
The political forces which decided to serve the imperialism exploiting and oppressor power, such as social-democracy, are nowadays in difficulties, as prisoners of an ideology which hinders them of learning the reality and brings them into discredits them before the popular masses.
In fact, the workers and the peoples discover, more and more, the absurdity of a system based on private appropriation, purchase and selling of the great productive means, banking, natural resources and wealth, essential to the subsistence of millions and millions of human beings, as if those social goods were transactionable personal objects, such as a car, tie or a pair of shoes. Such principle is too primitive and irrational to be accepted as a support of a modern, developed and democratic society. Only an obscurantist ideology, at the service of a parasite and decaying oligarchy, can attempt to inculcate such strains in the mind and behaviour of human societies.
But the participant parties in the S .Paulo meeting, did not only confine in removing the ideological scrap of capitalism, resulting from the disaster resulting by the "market invisible hand "dogma, which would resolve all problems. They greeted the "popular struggles which grow all over the world, against imperialist exploitation and oppression, against the increasing assaults against the historical conquests of the worker’s movement, against militarist and anti-democratic offensives. They appealed to "the workers’ class, the workers and peoples all over the world", in order "to come together with the communists and the revolutionaries struggle and that, united round their class interests and just aspirations, take into their hands the building of a future of prosperity, justice and peace for Humanity". And they pointed out that the answer to the present capitalism crisis can only be found "within the rupture with the great capital power, the imperialist blocks and alliances, with deep changes of anti-monopolist and liberating character".
