ON THE COMINFORM

1 The Place of the Cominform in the History of the World Communist Movement

- On the critical revision of the revisionist historiography

This is only our momentary assessment of the history of the Cominform and it cannot be anything else, because documents are still missing or continue to be falsified, interpreted anti-communistically and "revised" - all in the service of the ruling class. With this caveat, corrections of our views on the Cominform, taking into account new documents, are not only allowed, but also desirable and indispensable.

The historical truth only comes to light through a sharp proletarian class struggle, which is why we want to encourage all communists interested in the truth to actively participate in the reappraisal of the history of the Cominform, and to help us liberate the proletarian historiography from its bourgeois-revisionist falsification.

In particular, the historiography of the Cominform and the socialist camp has been significantly falsified by the modern revisionists. The fact is that this falsification of history still has a negative, even determining influence on today's communist world movement. We have to face this challenge if we want to be taken seriously.

For us, this necessary correction of the revisionist historiography of the Cominform (and its "revision" by historians of western capitalism) is new territory, which is why we cannot do it without mistakes. For example, we have to be careful that our criticism does not overshoot the mark. We must strictly adhere to dialectical and historical materialism in order to avoid mistakes in the opposite direction - mistakes of sectarianism, mistakes of dogmatism. We are aware of this counter-danger. But that does not stop us from doing what we are obliged to do:

Only we Stalinist-Hoxhaists are destined and capable of cutting neo-revisionism's umbilical cord to the womb of modern revisionism cleanly and without complications. It is in this direction that we have written this critique of the Cominform.

We are equally aware that the modern revisionists in particular have blamed the mistakes, shortcomings and weaknesses of the Cominform on comrade Stalin and it is in this sense that the neo-revisionists operate, albeit under the cloak of the "4½ classics of Marxism-Leninism".

It is quite clear that the historians of the modern revisionists used the method of bourgeois ideology, namely to criticise everything about the Cominform that was Stalinist and to present as allegedly "Stalinist" everything that was revisionist. The ideological formation of the power of the modern revisionists is based on "Stalinism" in words and anti-Stalinism in deeds. And in this way they have also harnessed the Cominform to their cart - especially after Stalin's death!

The truth is:

The Cominform was created by Stalin with the intention to counteract the ongoing process of ideological flattening of Stalinism, to push back the growing influence of revisionism and social-democratism in the world communist movement, to purify Marxism-Leninism tainted by revisionism and to purge the revisionists from the world communist movement in general and from the world Stalinist camp in particular.

The Cominform was created by Stalin with the intention to counteract the ongoing process of ideological flattening of Stalinism, to push back the growing influence of revisionism and social-democratism in the world communist movement, to purify Marxism-Leninism tainted by revisionism and to purge the revisionists from the world communist movement in general and from the world Stalinist camp in particular.

This was welcomed in particular by comrade Enver Hoxha and it is the documents of the Party of Labour of Albania that defended, supported and propagated the Comintern (SH) on the anti-revisionist meaning of the Cominform from the beginning. In this direction, we defend the Albanians against all their critics. We must realise the fact that Hoxhaism, which perfected and developed Stalin's critique of modern revisionism, was still in its infancy at the time of the Cominform. Today we have the complete weapon of Hoxhaism and with it we can critically illuminate the Cominform, which is impossible without Hoxhaism.