The fundamental reason for the success of the Party is that it has a correct analysis of society. —The country is led by an ideology which precludes and suppresses all others. The entire Press and censorship serves exclusively the Party, and is in the hands of the state. —You cannot eliminate even one basic assumption, one substantial part of this philosophy of Marxism (it is as if it were a solid block of steel) without abandoning objective truth, without falling into the arms of the bourgeois-reactionary falsehood. —To belittle socialist ideology in any way, to deviate from it in the slightest degree means strengthening bourgeois ideology. —Criticism and research are therefore lacking in the revolutionary ideology. All that may be criticized is individual facts and persons, and then only if they do not hold a high position. Criticism of the foundations of the existing social order, the principles governing the organization of power and the leadership of social life, is prohibited under threat of severe penalties.
Recognizing that imperialism is the most voracious beast that ever stalked the earth, that it is engaged in crimes of blood against humankind, and that it can only be destroyed by the people of the world picking up the sword and fighting it, we affirm the right and duty of all revolutionary peoples and classes to wage armed struggles for liberation, we commit ourselves to give concrete aid to these struggles wherever they arise, and we undertake to educate the people and prepare them and ourselves to wage a determined struggle with arms in hand to destroy imperialism in its lair. —The lack of a great, new, creative idea means at all times a limitation of this fighting power. The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe. A movement which does not fight for such highest aims and ideals will therefore never take the ultimate weapon. —It is an important task of the movement to wage internal struggle against so-called revolutionaries who argue that—"In the appropriation by the proletarians, a mass of instruments of production must be made subject to each individual, and property to all." —These so-called revolutionaries counterpose the struggle for socialism to the struggle for self-determination of oppressed people by arguing that—"Modern universal intercourse can be controlled by individuals only when controlled by all. This appropriation is further
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