HAVANA, Cuba.- This April 22, on the front page of the newspaper Granmaregarding the 154th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, an article appeared by the university professor and member of the Academy of Sciences Ernesto Estévez Rams titled “In Lenin there are many Lenins, all necessary.”
In his article, Estévez Rams, one of the many grinders and composers of ideological bate born by post-Fidelista continuity, in his praise of the founder of the Soviet Union, states that “Lenin insisted on the need to rethink Marxism at every step,” and that “everything about Lenin was anti-dogmatic and, therefore, Marxist.”
Lenin made a dogmatic, capricious and distorted, anti-historical and anti-economic interpretation of Marx’s ideas by adapting them to the conditions of Russia.
Contrary to what Estévez Rams claims, Lenin was the greatest dogmatist and revisionist that Marxism has ever had. After so much rethinking, he replaced Marx’s Marxism with Marxism-Leninism, that form of totalitarian dictatorship that was not “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” as he described it, but a dictatorship exercised by a bureaucratic-military caste.
Lenin, wanting to oppose dogmatism, created new dogmas. Estévez Rams says that Lenin “wanted to reduce his thoughts to commandments, published in rehashes that, using his words, denied him.”
Estévez Rams is surely referring to the simplifying Marxism-Leninism manuals of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union of the Stalinist era—which, by the way, were those studied with greater or lesser application by the leaders of the Castro regime.
The authors of the manuals had already studied and interpreted Marx, and also Engels. His thinking was simplified, pulped, compressed into a plasticine scheme, easy to memorize for revolutionaries who were too busy building socialism and could not devote much time to theorizing.
Those manuals, contrary to what Estévez Rams believes, did not deny Lenin, but confirmed him. Because Stalin, Lenin’s successor, what he did during his regime was not to deviate from Marxism-Leninism, as many communists claim, but to take it to its maximum expression by meticulously implementing centralized planning, five-year plans, gulags, and executions. Paraphrasing Lezama, under Stalinism, Leninism reached its best definition.
According to Estévez Rams, due to the lack of understanding of “the dialectical quality of Marxism”: “The idea of calling every act of thinking about it revisionism was invented. Lenin would have called the same exercise science. The thing is that there is no revisionism, there is a counterrevolution disguised as a rereading, but a counterrevolution nonetheless; and there is, from the communist perspective, a dialectical appropriation of his thought.”
It happened under Lenin’s regime. The so-called “democratic centralism”, the iron party discipline devised by Lenin, had nothing to do with democracy. Lenin ridiculed and mocked those who disagreed. That is, if he didn’t send them to prison, he would banish them to Siberia or have them killed. And why talk about Stalin’s regime.
He also spent time under the regime of Fidel Castro, who wanted to be anti-dogmatic and make more innovations and contributions to Marxism than Lenin, but accused anyone who dared to contradict him of being a revisionist, sectarian, counter-revolutionary or whatever occurred to him.
And it continues to happen with the successors of the Commander, the bosses of continuity, who get scared and offended every time someone from the left warns them that despite the rhetoric they use in their speeches, they are moving further and further away from socialism, and they become entangled in a web of absurdities and nonsense.
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2024-04-23 08:27:50
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