[ministe van agitatie]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door An Arkos

Eén van de gevaren die een revolutie bedreigen is dat een selecte groep de macht grijpt en zo een nieuwe elite wordt, met andere belangen dan de onderdrukten/werkende klasse. Dat ga je niet oplossen door een kleine groep mensen de staatsmacht te geven.

Dit is wat Ernest Mandel als handleiding voorstelt om te vermijden dat die proletarische staat verwordt tot een dictatuur van de nomenclatura of de bureaucraten:

Guarantees against bureaucracy

What guarantees can be introduced in the future to avoid the abnormal growth of the bureaucracy that appeared in the USSR?

1. Scrupulously respect the three rules concerning the beginning of the withering away of the workers’ state:

(1) No distinct separation between the executive and legislative powers.

(2) Public offices to be elective, to the greatest extent.

(3) No excessive salaries.

2. Scrupulously respect the democratic character of management of the economy: workers’ self-management committees elected in the enterprises; a congress of producers (“economic senate”) elected by these committees, etc. In the last analysis those who control the surplus social product control the entire society.

3. Scrupulously respect the principle that if the workers’ state must of necessity restrict the political liberties of all class enemies who are opposed to the advent of socialism (a restriction that should be in proportion to the violence of their resistance), it should at the same time extend these same liberties for all workers: freedom for all parties that respect socialist legality; freedom of the press for all newspapers that do the same; freedom of assembly, association, demonstration for the workers – without any restrictions; real independence of the trade unions from the state, with recognized right to strike.

4. Respect the democratic and public character of all deliberative assemblies and their full freedom of debate.

5. Respect the principle of a written law.