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German Communist Party
Fred Merger
 

p The discussion has been really enriching for me. Most of the JL points that have been expressed here are also important for the discussion within our Party. I would like to bring out three principal chains of thought, which I have known, having listened to what you all have said today, and that will be important for our Party also. I see a common point of discussion, because the communist parties are in a situation at the moment concerning its role after the death or the collapse of socialism to determine it anew and be conscious of its own possibilities through this process. In most of the discussions the contradiction between the communist movement and revisionism has been brought forth. I would like to agree with what was said but still I would like to add the question — whether there is not dogmatism in the communist movement which exists now or used to exist before, in the matter of a few particular questions? Concretely speaking, I am talking about the changes in the working class composition in the highly developed industrialised nations. The question that had to be asked in connection with the ecological and social issues and the processes which are taking place among the youth. I think these are questions that should be analysed by us.

The second chain of thought, I was deeply impressed by the discussion that was brought forth by the SACP comrade who told us about concept of the national democratic revolution. I would like to go back and speak retrospectively about something that happened many years ago in the communist parties of East Europe, also it was a discussion in the communist parties of West Europe in middle of the seventies. In these countries, the transition from capitalism to socialism can take place in the background of the 338 experiences that were made in Chile and also in Portugal and France. The German Communist Party in the programme put out in 1975 formulated that in an anti-monopolistic democracy a revolutionary transition to socialism, the possibility exists for more than one party under the hegemony of the working class to carry out this process. One should consider different the objective conditions. A further point, in this connection. One can see that how different the initial conditions are, like the comrades from South Africa,who are fighting in their own conditions and some communist parties in West Europe - how they are conducting their struggle. It is a situation where the bourgeoisie of these countries are trying to marginalise the communist parties in these countries and posing the question of the validity of their existence. I would like to point out the difference in the positions of the various communist parties. In conclusion I would like to support all ideas and thoughts which were brought forth and the situation to build a new anti-imperialist movement which we would like to naturally go beyond the line and range of communists. Wherein however, the communists would play initialising a very crucial role. From the point of view of our Party, we would like to support such an anti-imperialist front, against the attacks of the bourgeoisie and imperialism on the social and democratic rights. We would like to carry out such a fight.

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