ON THE COMINFORM

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Cominform and the question of people's democracy as a "modern type" of the dictatorship of the proletariat

proletarian or bourgeois democracy?

the revisionist degeneration of people's democracies (- causes).

There is agreement that Lenin's and Stalin's Soviet democracy was based on the dictatorship of the proletariat. However, there is ambiguity and disagreement as to whether or not the "modern type" of people's democracy was actually built on the dictatorship of the proletariat. For us, this question has been clarified.

The Comintern (SH) defends only one type of people's democracy, the type of socialist people's democracy, that is, exclusively the socialist people's democracy of Albania under the leadership of comrade Enver Hoxha.

The only true people's democracy, that is the socialist people's democracy under the sole leadership of the Marxist-Leninist Party.

With our standpoint, we distinguish ourselves in principle from the people's democracies of all other countries, which we classify as revisionist people's democracies under the rule of revisionist parties - except for their positive development in the initial period (during Stalin's lifetime). History has proved that all these people's democracies on the road to socialism had fallen victim to the treachery of this or that modern revisionist.

It follows from this:

We separate ourselves from the neo-revisionists who defend these revisionist people's democracies as "socialist" people's democracies.

And finally, we separate ourselves from the centrists who try to reconcile the socialist people's democracy with the revisionist people's democracy.

Between revisionist and socialist people's democracy there can be no common ground, no agreement, no mixed forms or intermediate stages of any kind. Between revisionist and socialist people's democracy there is an antagonistic, i.e., irreconcilable contradiction between the new bourgeoisie and the working class, which can only be solved by socialist revolution. This is what Hoxhaism teaches us, the anti-revisionist doctrine which showed the working class in the revisionist countries the way to socialist revolution.

A socialist people's democracy can only develop on the basis of the 5 classics of Marxism-Leninism, just as world socialist democracy can only develop on the basis of the 5 classics of Marxism-Leninism.

Lenin's and Stalin's Soviet Union and comrade Enver Hoxha's Albania - as we have always repeated - were the only two socialist states in the world in which the dictatorship of the proletariat actually ruled. The Stalinist-Hoxhaist World Movement of the Comintern (SH), the communist world movement after the overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Albania, is guided by this historical truth. On the lessons of the Albanian and Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat we are building the dictatorship of the world proletariat, without which there cannot and will not be a world proletarian democracy.

What we criticised in Mao Zedong's so-called "new democracy", in the "democratic dictatorship of the people".

(see Part 2: Declaration of War on Maoism),

namely, the unification of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, we also criticise in all other revisionist forms of "democracy", including Dimitroff's People's Democracy as derived from his Popular Front politics in the Comintern period.

Democratism must not be used as a classless concept for us communists. Beyond proletarian and bourgeois democracy, there can be no superior democracy standing above the classes. We Stalinists-Hoxhaists take care to distinguish between bourgeois and proletarian democracy in principle, not to equate or even oppose the two concepts, after all, proletarian democracy arises from nothing other than the revolutionary overcoming of bourgeois democracy. Whereby it is clear that there can be no mixed democracy of proletarian and bourgeois democracy in between. The Cominform never addressed this in principle. Therefore, it would have been correct if the Cominform had only used the term world camp of proletarian democracy. As is well known, communists are not only against the fascist form of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, but also against its democratic form. We want to overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and we cannot do that if we limit ourselves only to overthrowing the fascist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. That would be opportunism. Bourgeois democracy, which is nothing but a form of dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, cannot be voted out of office, but must be overthrown by armed socialist revolution. The same applies to the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Marxism-Leninism and the experience of the October Revolution teach that we are not fighting for the restoration of bourgeois democracy, but for its revolutionary overthrow. Our goal is the dictatorship of the proletariat. An intermediate stage between capitalism and socialism (such as the Maoist "New Democracy") is opportunist and incompatible with Marxism-Leninism.