I
don't think any of the Communist Parties support the idea that there
are "intermediate systems' although they do bring forward the concept of
an anti-monopoly government being an intermediate, albeit probably very
brief, stage of government during which
time the working class can catch a new breath to continue on with the
struggle for socialism through which many of the anti-monopoly allies
will be won to supporting socialism.
What would you
see as an "intermediate system?" Capitalism and socialism are "systems."
Anti-monopoly and democratic are stages, not systems.
I think it is up to Communists to be creative... whatever works to get the working class on the road to socialism.
I don't think any Communists have ever said that we "must" take the anti-monopoly struggle to a "stage."
Most
Communist Parties around the world are much weaker in influence among
the working class than is the KKE. If Greek workers don't need this
intermediate stage we refer to as the "anti-monopoly" stage all the more
power to you. Why go backwards in struggle when the trend of the
struggle in Greece is for making the transition from capitalism to
socialism?
On the other hand, where working class
struggles are not so advanced other industrialized capitalist countries,
I don't see how the working class can avoid the anti-monopoly stage.
Wall
Street (and its many junior partners around the world) is the common
enemy of workers, and most other people, in every single country. My
personal opinion is that the Communist Parties should be working
together to advance a common anti-monopoly struggle against Wall Street
by encouraging mass struggle for the implementation of the United
Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in every country--- the
task is to take the words of these hypocritical liberals from a piece of
paper to make these words a reality for everyone.
I
should think the KKE would understand the need for a global and
international anti-monopoly struggle like this? And such a struggle
would help Greek workers in their struggle for socialism.
I
think we need to be thinking in terms of Wall Street (and its numerous
junior partners around the world) is our common enemy, anti-imperialist
struggle, anti-monopoly struggle combined with the struggle for
socialism.
Viewing the class struggle in this way would lend support to the struggle for socialism in Greece, would it not?
Is not the Communist movement flexible enough to take into consideration how all of this fits together internationally?
Quite
frankly, I think the international Communist movement has,
collectively, done a very poor job in taking issue with the Communist
Parties, like the CPUSA which have gone completely astray to the point
of siding with the enemies of the working class and sabotaging
international working class solidarity including attacking the KKE.
I
believe the CPUSA leaders like William Z. Foster, Gus Hall and Henry
Winston were correct in advocating the building of a massive all peoples
anti-monopoly front as a "stage" in the struggle (here in the United
States) as the road to socialism just as the KKE is probably correct in
assessing there is no need for this anti-monopoly stage of struggle in
Greece.
I think the NDP in Canada is a good example
of anti-monopoly struggle, too. The NDP for all practical purposes is
the anti-monopoly coalition... although I understand there are those who
would disagree with this and they think the anti-monopoly struggle can
be by-passed... but, here again, Canada is not Greece.