Theses on Socialism of the CC Communist Party of Greece

http://inter.kke.gr/News/2008news/2008-12-thesis-socialism/

The above link will take you to a document summing up the experience of revolution and counter-revolution in the USSR submitted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to the Party’s 18th Congress. I am posting their theses here as an important summation of Marxist-Leninist historical and political analysis, one worthy of discussion and debate in the international communist movement.
Theses of the CC on Socialism

Table of contents

A. The contribution of the Socialist System

B. Theoretical positions on Socialism as the first, lower stage of Communism

C. Socialism in the USSR - Causes of the victory of counter-revolution

Assessment of the Economy during the course of Socialist construction in the USSR

Conclusions concerning the role of the Communist Party in the process of Socialist construction

The development of Soviet Power

Developments in the international Communist Movement and its strategy

Assessment of the Stance of KKE

D. The necessity and relevance of Socialism. Enrichment of our programmatic conception of Socialism

The necessity and relevance of Socialism

Enrichment of our programmatic conception concerning Socialism

Epilogue





A. The contribution of the Socialist System



1. The development of capitalism and the class struggle inevitably brought communism to the historical limelight during the middle of the 19th century. The first scientific communist programme is the “Communist Manifesto” written by K. Marx and Fr. Engels 160 years ago in 1848. The first proletarian revolution was the Paris Commune in 1871. With the 20th century came the success of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917, which was a starting point for one of the greatest achievements of civilization in the History of humankind, the abolition of exploitation of man by man. Following this, after World War II, state power was seized, in order for socialist construction to take place, in a series of countries in Europe, Asia, as well as the American continent, in Cuba.