ONE: Decolonization theory focuses on the effect—unjust and savage colonization and genocidal settler-colonial occupation—and not the root cause, which is the system of capitalism-imperialism. This theory cannot lead to liberation.
The new communist revolution scientifically identifies and moves to uproot the main cause and source of the oppression—capitalism-imperialism.
TWO: Proponents of “decolonization” talk endlessly of “the people.” But “the people” are divided into different classes with fundamentally different interests.
The new communist revolution fights for the objective interests of the proletariat worldwide and on that basis aims for the emancipation of all humanity. As part of that, revolutionary states under new communist leadership move to uproot all forms of colonial, national, “racial,” and neocolonial domination, and all other forms of oppression.
THREE: Too many proponents of “decolonization” enshrine revenge as justified; and too many have excused or even applauded Hamas’s murder of civilians and taking of hostages.
The new communism, as Bob Avakian has said, stands for “the abolition of the state of Israel, and in its place the creation of a revolutionary state in which the government and the laws do not promote any religion and do not favor one people over another, and instead there is equality between Jews and Palestinians.” That will require an all-out revolutionary struggle of millions.
But we oppose the poisonous idea that the ends justify the means. Instead we insist, in the words of Bob Avakian, that even within the all-out struggle for real revolution, “the means must be consistent with the ends.”
