Message of the African Section of the Comintern (SH) on occasion of the 61st anniversary of the African Liberation Day 25th of May 1963
This year, African Liberation Day takes place in the year of the centenary of Comrade Lenin's death.
Lenin wrote:
Constitutional illusions are the deceptive belief in a constitution.
What is the significance of this on the 61st anniversary of African Liberation Day?
On African Liberation Day, the African peoples celebrate their liberation struggle.
Indeed, it is partly a paradox that the black bourgeoisie is bringing the colonialists back into the country and would rather celebrate with them than with their own people, who are rising up in revolutionary resistance on the streets against exploitation and oppression by the black bourgeoisie.
All this shows that the liberation struggle continues and is still not finished with a victory. What we want is for the liberation struggle to finally end in victory. We do not want to celebrate the unfulfilled African Liberation Day, but its final victory, for which much sweat and blood will still flow.
The rule in Africa today is de facto not in the hands of the African peoples, but still in the hands of a bourgeois corrupt upper class that is more or less dependent on one or the other camp of world imperialism and is paid for its lackey services and lives in luxury, while the African peoples live in abject poverty.
In other words, African Liberation Day is a day for African peoples to remind themselves to continue their revolution until people's rule is complete.
The progress of African Liberation Day for the African proletariat so far has not been the achievement of any positive gains [- for slavery still exists !-] but the liberation from harmful illusions against the African bourgeoisie in its pact with the old and new colonialists.
All laws on the election of representatives of the people are not worth a red cent as long as the rule of the people, the full freedom of speech, press, assembly and association has not actually been fought for, as long as the dictatorship of the proletariat has not been realised.
Who can guarantee the practical realisation of the constitution? Only the armed working class that organises itself into a revolutionary army.
The African states are class states, they are all states ruled by exploiters and oppressors. To expect the rule of law of the people in a capitalist state is an illusion, because the capitalist state is a state of injustice, is the instrument of the bourgeoisie's rule over the exploited and oppressed classes.
The spread of constitutional illusion, where oppressors and oppressed are supposedly all "equal" before the law - "independent" of their class affiliation, does not benefit the oppressed, but only the oppressors.
The constitution of all African bourgeois states is not above the classes, but serves solely as an instrument of oppression for the ruling classes.
On the 61st anniversary of African Liberation Day, the African Section of the Comintern (SH) proclaims the need to combat the constitutional illusions, i.e. the belief in the promises and laws of the then autonomous, independent, bourgeois African states !
Bourgeoisie is bourgeoisie - no matter what skin colour it wears.
And the proletariat is the proletariat - regardless of the colour of its skin.
The bourgeoisie and the proletariat can both wear the same skin colour, but that does not make them equal before the constitution, it does not abolish their antagonistic class contradiction.
Exploiters and exploited can never be equal under the law, never under the same constitution. This is an illusion and remains an illusion.
It can be said that the period of constitutional illusions fostered the rise of bourgeois nationalism, racism and chauvinism as well as Pan-Africanism in Africa.
The period of the creation of autonomous, independent bourgeois states throughout Africa was a shift of the revolutionary liberation struggle into the constitutional-bourgeois channels of capitalism. A pseudo-constitutionalism emerged, constitutions in words, on paper, partly copies of the constitutions of the colonial masters in a slightly modified form.
Basically, the rights of exploitation and oppression of the white colonialists were not abolished, but were transferred by law to black exploiters and oppressors. Black capitalist states emerged, which to this day continue to be more or less in the service of world capital.
Today, there is a tendency in all African states towards a fascist police state, towards imperialist war on African soil. The liberation from colonialism has turned into a war of liberation of the revolutionary proletariat against the fascist police state. At the request of the black bourgeoisie, the former colonial rulers are supposed to help put an end to the unrest, protests, uprisings and social revolutions in their own country. The black bourgeoisie is closer to the old and new colonial masters than its own people. The black bourgeoisie is afraid of the black revolution and uses counter-revolutionary means. Black capitalism will not voluntarily give way to red communism.
The 61st anniversary of the liberation of bourgeois Africa must be transformed by revolutionary means into a day of liberation of the African proletariat from the bondage of the bourgeois-capitalist African bourgeoisie.
A Stalinist-Hoxhaist who forgets the task of the struggle against constitutional illusions in a revolutionary situation puts himself on the same political level as the bourgeoisie. The opportunist avoids exposing these illusions. The supporter of the revolution ruthlessly exposes its deceptive character.
At a time when the contradictions between wage labour and capital have sharply intensified in all African states, the bourgeoisie is trying all the more desperately to weaken these contradictions by spreading constitutional illusions, because it fears the socialist revolution under the leadership of the working class.
The reformists are praised by the bourgeoisie because they see the parliamentary road as the only correct way to resolve the contradictions between wage labour and capital peacefully. In contrast, the ruling class in the African states condemns and fights against all those who choose the revolutionary path, namely to continue the revolutionary path of the past against the colonial masters now also against their own black bourgeoisie and to smash their black oppressor state in a revolutionary way.
The struggle against the constitutional illusions is not an anarchist struggle. We Stalinist-Hoxhaists are waging the struggle against the constitutional illusions of the bourgeoisie with the aim of creating a socialist constitution for the one and only socialist African state.
We want a socialist African constitution for a united socialist African state as part of the socialist world state.
Long live proletarian internationalism in Africa and in the whole world!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST AFRICA IN A COMMUNIST WORLD !
Down with bourgeois nationalism, racism and imperialist pan-Africanism !
Wolfgang Eggers
25 May 2024
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