Dispatches

The American Communist Party commemorates the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The Party extends revolutionary greetings and solidarity with all anti-imperialist and revolutionary parties worldwide. On this anniversary of the October Revolution, the Party invites all forces throughout the International Communist movement to reflect upon its lessons and lasting significance in light of recent and developing trends in the areas of the looming threat of global war, the emerging second American civil war, worldwide economic instability, and civil unrest. The so-called post-Communist rules-based world order has proven to be untenable, and the triumph of global liberalism and capitalism a mere facade. The same contradictions of modern society that produced the great modern revolutionary traditions clearly and evidently still prevail in shaping the continued development of history, and by no means can be regarded as having been resolved with the emergence of the unipolar American system — on the contrary, they have been magnified and intensified to an unprecedented degree. Still, it is the view of our American Communist Party that the great bulk of non-governing socialist and left-wing forces, especially within the imperialist countries, have yet to draw fundamental lessons from the October revolution, regarding it as merely one chapter in the saga of “social-democratic” and liberal “leftist” traditions of civil disobedience, and civil protest movements. The October revolution has yet to be given appropriate consideration as having marked a qualitative rupture with political liberalism, “social democracy” (including its various mutations in “democratic socialism”), and all other political traditions of bourgeois civilization. Now, more than ever, it is necessary to defend the memory of the October Revolution from not only those falsifiers of history which vilify it outright, but also from those “democratic socialist” opportunists who attempt to relegate it to the status of a mere footnote in the history of bourgeois political civilization. Today, there is no shortage of political opportunists, successful only in breathing newfound popularity in the term ‘socialism,’ of the same type which the triumphant heroes and titanic personalities of the October revolution struggled arduously against as enemies of the international working class. There are those which cast the recent electoral victory of US politician Zohran Mamdani as a newfound source of hope for the domestic and global “left,” failing to comprehend the dangers of confusing the bourgeois “socialism” of Democratic Party careerists with the historical socialism of the proletariat, which, unlike the thoroughly bourgeois “democratic socialists” had always genuinely been rooted in the working class, peasantry, and other popular forces. The Great October Socialist Revolution was, in addition to being a real proletarian revolution, also a genuine people's revolution, commanding and rousing the enthusiasm and active participation of the overwhelming majority of the Russian peasantry and industrial proletariat. Not as the fanciful propaganda of bourgeois intelligentsia, who confuse their swollen ranks of petty-bourgeois careerists and professionals with the masses - but genuinely so, as a revolution of the real masses and the real people of the nations of the then former Russian Empire, in all their “backwardness” and, as today’s “progressive” intellectuals would have almost surely regarded them, “deplorability.” Within American politics, the contradiction between actually and effectively revolutionary politics with the self-professed kind could not be more stark. Self-professed “leftists” enjoy the backing of major financial institutions, media, academia, and other forms of hegemonic backing by the imperialist state. This is a principal contradiction within socialist politics in the United States and the West. The American Communist Party would like to remind all forces of the global left that the Great October Socialist Revolution served not only as a thorough repudiation of capitalism, liberalism, and other outright representatives of the bourgeoisie — but also of the then prevailing, opportunist forces which falsely proclaimed themselves the representatives of international socialism.

Executive Board
American Communist Party (ACP)