Communist revolution or "Democratic" Revolution in Third World Countries

[internasyonalista]

Hi Guys,

Many people believe that in the peripheries/3rd world countries, communist revolution is not YET in the agenda but "new" bourgeois-democratic revolution. What is your opinion?

[Killfacer]

welcome!!!!!!!!!

[Q]

Welcome

Many people believe that in the peripheries/3rd world countries, communist revolution is not YET in the agenda but "new" bourgeois-democratic revolution. What is your opinion?

These issues should be linked in our propaganda and programme. The working class, once in revolutionary motion, will not stop at the intermediary trainstation of the bourgeois revolution, but will strive to complete its socialist tasks as long as its political leadership provides the best tactics in the given circumstances and strategy to complete the socialist revolution, an international revolution.

[GracchusBabeuf]

The third world countries are not isolated from global capital. All first and third world countries are in pretty much the same boat today, i.e. capitalism has firmly got the working classes of those countries under its boot. In fact, nearly all of the third world countries have experienced the bourgeois revolutions or bourgeois transformations in one way or the other. For example, the former colonies of the old colonial empires are all "independent" now in the bourgeois sense. There is not much point in the third world working classes to make more of the same bourgeois "revolutions". The revolutions that will happen in those countries have to be communist.

[Tower of Bebel]

The answer depends on a study of the class relations and forces in place at a certain moment in time. In the meantime it's best to organize around the demands which could offer the working class the most favourable position possible in society. That doesn't necessarily mean decent wages. It means organizing them as a class.
While Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution dismisses the mechanic view that inevitably all revolutions in 3rd World countries will need to have a bourgeois fase first, it certainly does not mean that there will inevitably be socialist revolutions. If we want a socialist revolution we should struggle towards it ourselves. Democratic revolutions are certainly not to be dismissed beforehand, even though the bourgeoisie will probalby not lead the masses.