The Nature and the Political Function of the Political Party of the Proletariat Internationalisme #38, Gauche Communiste de France -Communist Left of France-, 1948 Socialist revolution is the beginning of history where humanity is called upon to dominate the productive forces that it has already strongly developed, and it is from this domination that socialist revolution arises. 4 –For this reason, all attempts to establish socialism on practical realizations within capitalist society are, by the very nature of socialism, doomed to failure. Socialism requires at times an advanced development of productive forces, with the entire planet as its domain and as primordial condition the conscious willingness of human beings. The experimental demonstration of socialism within capitalist society cannot surpass, in the best case, the level of a utopia. And persistence along this path leads from utopia to a position of conservation and strengthening of capitalism [Note]. Socialism can never offer more than a theoretical demonstration under capitalism, its materialization can only take the form of an ideological force and its realization takes the form of revolutionary struggle of the proletariat against the social order. And since the existence of socialism can only manifest itself primarily in socialist consciousness, the class which brings it about and personifies it, has no historical existence except through this socialist consciousness. The formation of the proletariat as an historical class is only the formation of its socialist consciousness. These are two aspects of the same historical process, which are impossible to separate since one can’t exist without the other. Socialist consciousness does not follow from the economic position of workers; it is not a simple reflection of their salaried condition. For this reason, socialist consciousness does not arise simultaneously and spontaneously in the minds of all workers nor only in their brains. Socialism as ideology appears separately and parallel to workers economic struggles, they do not generate one another even though they find their roots in the historical development of capitalist society. Note : It is what has happened with all the currents of utopian socialism which, become “schools”, lost their revolutionary aspect for transforming themselves in active conservative forces. See the Proudhonism, the Fourrierism, the cooperativism, the reformism and the State Socialism. igcl.org/The-Nature-and-the-Political
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