The revolutionary motion in Canada is growing ever more intense. There is an urgent need for a true Communist Party, one which is based on the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. For that reason, I suggest the name include the demand for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as that is the ”touchstone” of a true Marxist, according to Lenin. In this way, we can distinguish ourselves from the social chauvinists, those who are socialist in words, chauvinist in deeds. Such people want no part of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
With that in mind, I suggest the name of the Party be that of the Canadian Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, CCP,DP.
As for the political platform, I can suggest the following list of demands:
1) Canada must separate from Britain, no longer recognize the Queen as the head of state, and declare Canada to be a republic.
2) Quebec is to be recognized as a separate country.
3) Canada must withdraw from NATO.
4 )Abolish the Canadian Senate.
5) Declare the national debt to be null and void.
6) Open the borders to all refugees.
7) The class consciousness of all working people must be raised.
8) All prisons, including those referred to as ‘’correctional institutions’’, should be closed.
9) The death penalty should be applied only as a last resort.
10) All government officials are to work at the wages of workers, and are subject to recall at any time.
11) All large scale capitalist enterprises, which include but are not limited to the banks, factories, mills, mines, railroads, airlines and communications networks, are to become the property of the state.
12) The middle class people, the petty bourgeois, are to be respected. They are the natural and desirable allies of the proletariat. Their property is to remain in their hands.
A little explanation is in order.
As Canada has not embraced militarism, and does not have a considerable bureaucracy, it is similar to Great Britain of 1871. At that time, Marx was of the opinion that a revolution was possible without the condition of first destroying the ‘’ready made state machinery’’. For that reason, it is possible to ‘’buy out’’ the capitalists. A team of professional negotiators should be assigned this task.
Each and every member of the Senate has been appointed by the Prime Minister. None of them has ever been elected. For that reason, the Senate should be abolished.
Canada must become a socialist republic, with power vested in the working class, the proletariat, and that power will be exercised under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
The precise form that this Dictatorship will take, is in the shape of Councils, or Soviets, as that is the Russian translation of the word. Lenin referred to these Soviets as ‘’mass organizations’’, to include only the workers, no capitalists. After the Russian Revolution of October, 1917, he stated that ‘’these Soviets wield all state power’’. He went on to say that ‘’Soviet power must necessarily, inevitably, and in the not distant future, triumph all over the world’’.
For that reason, the various Councils, or Soviets (as yet we have no way of knowing which word will soon be used) must be enlarged, encouraged and strengthened. They have recently appeared, quite spontaneously, and as yet are rather weak, but are destined to ‘’triumph all over the world’’.
As yet, the proletariat is not aware of itself as a class, complete with its own class interests. The more advanced workers should be encouraged to read the Essential Works of Lenin, including State and Revolution, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and What Is To Be Done? More popular literature must be made available for the workers who are less advanced.
People who are guilty of serious crimes should be given the opportunity to perform useful, productive work, in the interests of contributing to society, and as a means of redeeming themselves.
Those who are considered to be a threat to society, such as sex offenders – rapists and ‘’pedophiles’’, child molesters, – as well as ‘’human traffickers’’, -slave traders-, are to also be isolated, perhaps in the Arctic, so that there is no chance that any of them can escape and once again prey upon people.
Those who are determined to overthrow the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as a means of restoring capitalism, are to be considered political prisoners. They must be not only isolated, but also denied any contact with the outside world. As they are the leaders of the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, we can expect them to make every effort to cause trouble.
The courts must be abolished and replaced by a panel of working people. This is precisely what happened in the Paris Commune of 1871. As Marx stated, ‘’The judicial functionaries were to be divested of their sham independence …Like the rest of the public servants, magistrates and judges were to be elective, responsible and revocable’’.
It must be emphasized to these judicial people that the death penalty must be administered only as an absolute last resort. Those who are dead can be of absolutely no use.
Student loans are to be considered part of the national debt, and cancelled. Education is to be free to all.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 