House of Paine

zig zags and stages

  V.I. ON 
 A COUPLE POINTS...


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 "IN ORDER NOT TO LOSE OUR WAY
IN THESE ZIG ZAGS
THESE SHARP TURNS IN HISTORY

IN ORDER TO RETAIN 
THE GENERAL PERSPECTIVE

TO BE ABLE TO SEE
THE SCARLET THREAD
THAT JOINS UP

THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT 
OF CAPITALISM

  AND THE ENTIRE ROAD
                     TO SOCIALISM

THE ROAD WE NATURALLY
 IMAGINE AS STRAIGHT

AND
 WHICH
WE MUST IMAGINE AS STRAIGHT

IN ORDER TO SEE

THE BEGINNING

THE CONTINUATION 

    AND
              THE END  

IN REAL LIFE 
IT WILL NEVER BE STRAIGHT
 
IT WILL BE INCREDIBLY 
INVOLVED

IN ORDER NOT TO LOSE 
OUR WAY
IN THESE TWISTS AND TURNS

IN ORDER NOT
TO GET LOST AT TIMES
WHEN WE ARE 

TAKING 
STEPS BACKWARD

TIMES OF RETREAT

AND 

TEMPORARY DEFEAT

OR

 WHEN HISTORY
OR 

THE ENEMY

 THROW US BACK

IN ORDER
 NOT TO GET LOST

IT IS IN MY OPINION
           IMPORTANT 

NOT TO DISCARD
OUR BASIC PROGRAM.......



TODAY WE HAVE REACHED
 ONLY
 THE FIRST STAGE
 OF TRANSISTION
FROM CAPITALISM
 TO SOCIALISM  

HISTORY
HAS NOT PROVIDED US 
WITH A PEACEFUL SITUATION

A SITUATION
WHICH WOULD
ENABLE US TO PASS 
THROUGH THESE STAGES 
OF TRANSITION 
SPEEDILY.......

MARXISTS 
HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN 
THAT

 VIOLENCE
MUST INEVITABLY
ACCOMPANY

 THE COLLAPSE
OF CAPITALISM
         IN ITS ENTIRETY

AND

 THE BIRTH OF
SOCIALISM

THAT VIOLENCE

WILL CONSTITUTE

A PERIOD OF WORLD HISTORY

A WHOLE ERA
OF
 VARIOUS KINDS OF WARS

IMPERIALIST WARS

CIVIL WARS INSIDE COUNTRIES

THE INTERMINGLING 
OF THE TWO

AND

NATIONAL WARS 

LIBERATING
THE NATIONALITIES

OPPRESSED
 BY THE IMPERIALISTS



WE HAVE ONLY JUST TAKEN 
THE FIRST STEPS

TOWARDS

 SHAKING OFF 
CAPITALISM ALTOGETHER

AND 

BEGINNING
 THE TRANSITION 
       TO SOCIALISM


WE DO NOT KNOW
AND
 CAN NOT KNOW

HOW MANY STAGES

 OF TRANSITION
TO SOCIALISM 

THERE WILL BE

WE DO NOT KNOW THIS

AND 
THE PROGRAM
OF A MARXIST PARTY

MUST BE
 BASED ON FACTS
THAT HAVE BEEN
 ESTABLISHED 
WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY


THE  POWER
 OF OUR PROGRAM 
IS 
IN THAT ALONE "  

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