En viktig teoretiker

En viktig marxistisk teoretiker som många kommunister och revolutionärer i Sverige är helt obekanta med är Georges Politzer. Ni kan läsa om hans liv här. Här hittar ni några av hans texter. Här hittar hans viktigaste verk (på spanska). Nedan följer ett kort utdrag ur en av hans texter som tar upp en viktiga frågor, för vem ska vi skriva och hur.

"...we don’t hide the fact that if we are the convinced, we also want to convince, nor the basis upon which we make our effort at convincing. I think there is no reason to be intimidated by reproaches like those comrade Edith Thomas expressed in her speech. She doesn’t want Marx and Engels to be used as hammers — which is how she expressed it — but at the same time she declared that she wrote in order to liquidate these conflicts, which is a Freudian theory. And in this way, at the precise moment when our comrade thought she was carrying out an act of independence in separating herself from the proletarian thinkers that Marx and Lenin are, it was only to make herself a subject — unintentionally, I'm sure — of the bourgeois thinker that is Freud.

And so, in order to not pass for dogmatic must we renounce making this kind of demonstration or, in general, demonstrations of this kind? This is exactly the goal of the bourgeoisie’s blackmailing of “liberalism.” For while we would renounce the affirmation of our Marxist-Leninist ideology, the bourgeoisie wouldn’t renounce the propagation of its ideology. Every retreat on our part would be met with an ideological offensive on their part. And while we would renounce making our texts known “in order not to annoy our comrades,” we would purely and simply deliver them over to the texts of the bourgeoisie. But this famous blackmail doesn’t impress us. I consider Marxism-Leninism a science in the true meaning of the term. I put the scandalized expressions made before statements like these by so-call positive spirits — like the high-school leaving exam level logician Rougier, who wanted to demonstrate the Scholastic character of Marxism — on the same level as the professional grimaces of prostitutes.

Fare from hiding the texts of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, we will increasingly make them known. We will demonstrate the scientific character of Marxism-Leninism by showing how it alone allows us to understand events. We even think that in France in all branches of science — the natural and social alike — there will come research that will flow from a consistent application of the dialectical-materialist method.

At the same time we will demonstrate how Marxism-Leninism allows us to unmask the trickery through which the bourgeoisie seeks to enslave honest intellectuals in the name of the independence of the spirit."

(Who Do You Write For, 1933)