Dispatches

On the 107th anniversary of the October Revolution, the American Communist Party would like to extend its revolutionary solidarity and greetings to the forces of anti-imperialism and proletarian class struggle worldwide.

Since the official dissolution of the USSR in 1991, many regarded the immortal historical significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution as liquidated. The historical memory of this great event was nearly forgotten, as the venal falsifiers of history, under the direct payroll of world imperialism, spent decades attempting to discredit the first successful proletarian revolution in the history of mankind.

The development of world history since the dissolution of the USSR has confirmed that the true significance of the October revolution still has yet to be fully appreciated by today’s prevailing ideological consciousness.

Despite having occurred over a century ago, the world has yet to recover from or fully draw out the implications of this monumental and decisive period of modern history, which laid the foundation of both a fundamentally new form of state power and paradigm of modernization.

Today’s pseudo-intellectual commentators lament the rise of a post-liberal world order, but what they neglect to appreciate is that it was none other than the October Revolution that marked the transition of modern history from the liberal to post-liberal era.

As a new, cybernetically-driven form of mass politics overwhelms so-called ‘liberal democracies,’ long adorned with the false conceit of representing the “end of history” and the final, most advanced form of statehood, it is necessary to remember how political liberalism was objectively outmoded after the events of 1917 — in the wake of both of the rise of proletarian dictatorship and imperialism.

The October Revolution gave rise to the most advanced form of statehood yet achieved by mankind, known as the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The superior flexibility and adaptability of this form of state dictatorship has proven itself comprehensively by the example of the People’s Republic of China, and many other states shaped by the legacy of the October Revolution.

Today’s Western ‘liberal democracies’ struggle to catch up with the objective development of history, torn apart by contradictions already resolved a century ago by the events surrounding the October Revolution.

The October Revolution inspired the countless anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, and worker’s movements that have irreversibly shaped today’s world.

‘Liberal democracy,’ which is a cynical disguise for a new brazen and open form of imperialist dictatorship, itself was constructed in reaction to the superior form of statehood represented by the proletarian dictatorship.

The extra-constitutional repressive apparatuses of state power, in addition to mechanisms of economic control, originally served the purpose, in part, of suppressing the effects of this revolution. However, like all counter-revolutions, it only accomplished in hastening their final and ultimate victory.

Such a victory is finally within sight, as the American-led imperialist world order is collapsing both internally and externally in the face of a new, multi-polar world order.

Long live the immortal memory of the Great October Socialist Revolution!

Executive Board
American Communist Party (ACP)