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The mutated PCF removes the hammer and sickle as well
[FONT=Arial Narrow]An inevitable result…The PCF at its 36th Congress, which concluded on Sunday in Paris, even renounced the hammer and sickle.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]The abandonment of the hammer and sickle by the PCF did not take place at a random moment, but at a time when the authorities in many EU countries are banning the communist symbols, when the EU is attempting in an anti-historical way to equate communism with fascism. This is the moment which the “president” party of the European Left Party (ELP) chooses to willingly renounce the hammer and sickle, On 12/2, the following comment was made on this issue in the newspaper “Rizospastis”, organ of the CC of the KKE, which noted that:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]The PCF long ago abandoned Marxism-Leninism and the revolutionary principles of the Communist Parties,[/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow] while from its position as head of the ELP it plays the leading role in the propagation of opportunism, with aim of mutating the Communist Parties in Europe.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]The GS of the PCF and President of the ELP, P. Laurent, personally made sure that he demonstrated in every way the goal of the Congress, with his statements on the LCI TV station, when he was asked about the new party identity cards, on which the hammer and sickle was replaced by the “star” of the ELP: “[FONT=Arial Narrow]It's an established and revered symbol that continues to be used in all of our demonstrations, but it doesn't illustrate the reality of who we are today. It isn't so relevant to a new generation of communists[/FONT].”…[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Indeed after the protests of a section of the delegates which were caused by his statements, as well as by the replacement of the hammer and sickle, Laurent presented a party identity card from 1944 of the then illegal PCF, saying ironically that this one also did not have the hammer and sickle on it![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Beyond the vulgarity and degeneration of the leadership of the opportunist PCF, which is a provocation for the revolutionary communists all over the world, the essence is that the replacement on the part of the French party of the historic symbol of the communist parties is the outcome of the path it has been treading for several decades now. Methodically and stably, it has distanced itself from the theory of Marxism-Leninism, the principles of the formation and functioning of a revolutionary communist party and, what is most important, it made the management of capitalism, the unprincipled policy of alliances, the participation in bourgeois governments, its strategy, betraying the goal for the overthrow of capitalist barbarity and denigrating the struggle for socialism. It should be noted that for many years tendencies and platforms have operated within the PCF in the name of pluralism and democracy… i.e. it has no relation with a communist party but continues the tradition of euro-communism. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]The PCF [FONT=Arial Narrow]has irrevocably betrayed the working class and popular strata[/FONT] in France. It has governed together with the social-democrats on two occasions, contributing to the attacks on the French people, while systematically, since then, providing assistance to social-democracy, calling on the workers to support those forces which are digging the pit to throw the workers in. In the face of the crisis, the PCF seeks “development”, concealing that this will take place in conditions where the labour rights will literally be flattened and a real hell will be created for the working class.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]But the working class in every country can determine its own future and enjoy the wealth it produces and not live in conditions which belong to bygone eras. But the CP must, as the vanguard of the working class, have a strategy for the overthrow of capitalism, for socialism. It must have a plan to concentrate and prepare forces, even today, for this goal. In the final analysis it must prepare the working class itself and its allies to realize this goal. This has nothing to do with whatever the opportunist PCF says about “communism of the new generation”, with “democracy”, “socialism” which denies the scientific laws of socialist construction, and the impossible prospect of a humanized capitalism which it propagates.
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]Communists all over Europe must draw conclusions from this development in the PCF, the party which is at the head of European opportunism, and fight to smash opportunism politically, ideologically and organizationally in their countries.[/FONT]
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Dark days when I find myself in agreement with the KKE.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
Formerly Virgin Molotov Cocktail (11/10/2004 - 21/08/2013)
The PCF is just admitting what has been true for decades. They supported French imperialism in Algeria, Tunisia, and elsewhere. The destroyed the promising revolutionary climate of 1968. Recently their condemnation of French intervention in Mali has been half heated at best.
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Arundhati Roy
Lenina Rosenweg is a glorious beacon of light
Is anyone really surprised by this symptom of the PCF's tradition of opportunism?
At the end of the day the hammer and sickle is just a symbol, the PCF long ago abandoned their commitment towards working class revolution and communism.
Yeah and the fact is that the hammer and sickle has beeen somewhat sullied by the soviets. You may as well replace the symbol for something more relateable like a gear and tractor, or a jibaro with a kalishnikov.
I think people who are holding this stance miss the point. This isn't something that the communist parties just decided to do, it is being spearheaded by the bourgeois governments in the EU, and going along with it shows that you support them in their efforts to smear communism during a crisis of capitalism (Not Grigori or any other user personally, I mean the parties that do it).
If the communist parties just got together and decided to start dropping the hammer and sickle it would be different, I would still disagree but it would be different. However this is not the case, the bourgeoisie are trying to force this upon us, and by going along with it the PCF are showing where their loyalties really lie (As if it wasn't obvious at this point). This isn't about renouncing "Stalinism," this is about giving into political pressure.
I've never been a fan of the hammer and sickle, due to the history. It's exclusively the symbol of the Soviet Union to many, so to drop it would be wise (but still be communist!)
I'm more surprised when the "official" Communist Parties created shortly before and after the Comintern act like communists should.
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And we’ll have this real equality, at whatever price. Unhappy will be those who stand between it and us! Unhappy will be those who resist a wish so firmly expressed.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
-Gracchus Babeuf
Nearly every cp west of the wall dropped the hammer sickle. Whatever, man.
I ALMOST DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE BECAUSE OF ANARCHISM AND PUNK ROCK
Dropping the symbol is a itself a nice symbol of its sellout.
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I find it way more obscene that the dutch centrist "labour" party still has a little fist hidden inside their rose symbol.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Actualy most communist parties in western europe still use the hammer and sickle.
The UK Labour Party has Lenin inside their rose psycho!
Standard stuff for the PCF, who are probably holding off the threat of being swallowed by Mélenchon's Parti de Gauche. The hammer and sickle is already associated with Stalinism in France and Western Europe so the EU won't have much work to do.
Any leftist in France should have voted for the NPA until its extinction. Led by a factory worker, and doesn't hang to the Marxist-Leninist proposals of yesteryear, instead striving for a new, better world. My only issue is with its name (Nouveau Parti Anticapitalist) which implies some kind of reactionary movement.
when i looked it up i could see itbut thats more of a bad caricature so i assume is coincidental, the PVDA fist is intentional:
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Hoxha was right, Eurocommunism really is Anticommunism.
"It is necessary for Communists to enter into contradiction with the consciousness of the masses. . . The problem with these Transitional programs and transitional demands, which don't enter into any contradiction with the consciousness of the masses, or try to trick the masses into entering into the class struggle, create soviets - [is that] it winds up as common-or-garden reformism or economism." - Mike Macnair, on the necessity of the Minimum and Maximum communist party Program.
"You're lucky. You have a faith. Even if it's only Karl Marx" - Richard Burton
Well, I think it is just right that the PCF is abandoning the hammer and sickle.
It's a matter of justice; after all, hammer and sickle have abandoned them for at the very least eight decades.
Luís Henrique
I can see the threat posed by state authorities to further discredit communism during a crisis, but the communists themselves have done more damage than the bourgeoisie could have dreamed. The hammer and sickle does not even correspond to a type of life most westerners experience anymore, and is weighed down with an enormous amount of historical baggage. There are much more alarming developments on the horizon.
Man is but a goat in the hands of butchers
There's nothing wrong with updating their image if it will allow them to engage with the workers without all the baggage getting in the way.
Do you guys seriously think the hammer and sickle is relevant in Western Europe? It has clearly been replaced with the mouse and keyboard. The proletariat in Europe is nigh-gone, instead we must talk of "proletarisation" of certain social classes.
