Preface

The world needs a new liberal communist teaching; it needs new humanists.

The time has come for communism to resume its work and time and time again to play its predestined role in the political history of mankind. The great merit of modern humanism is the fact that it has come to the point to create a new revolutionary ideology and become a world-historic force capable of inspiring the activists of the humanist anti-capitalist revolution willing to take part in the political fight for power and win.

The time has come for us, the new humanists, to declare our will for a new political contract. A new humanistic ethics is absolutely needed; it will be created.

We want to inspire the intellectuals again, to attract them, to present them a victorious ideology with both a world-historic mission and vision persuading them to side with us, to give them new goals and a sense of purpose: building a new humanist world.

The success of the initiative for humanisation of the political and economic life of mankind depends on how and to what extent humanity will succeed in creating the new type of Man passionately willing to come into possession of the common good and constitute practically all necessary political and economic institutions of a new humanist world order.

Europe and the world have a need of new humanist movements and parties capable of creating an economically and politically viable – Pan-European as well as worldwide – anti-capitalist project for a humanist social alternative.  New liberal communism  aims at providing this so much needed alternative; it aims at setting the beginning of that theoretical revolution which will cause the practical revolution for rational and successful abolition and radical transformation of the capitalist system through nationwide and worldwide movements for changes. The deed of humanism cannot but be successful. The new communists are ready to put a great amount of work into educating all humanistic political forces in order to win the approval of the predominant part of the society for the humanist project.

New communism aims at firing up a new theoretical revolution; it has to begin this long process of educating and changing the world.

It is bound to become the teaching of a strong humanist movement similar to the one of the first Christians and as powerful as the communist parties in the XIX and XX centuries. Bearing in mind that the beginning of the new millennium needs a new vigorous winning humanist ideology capable of expanding its influence amongst supporters of social-democratic and communist parties, its major objective is to raise humanity to a perfectly new stage of its development and to lay the foundations for the more humanized societies of the future.

The aim of new liberal communism is to originate the founding of many newly-formed genuinely Left parties, to show the way forward and reinvigorate the humanist movement. It has to start the long march of neo-humanism all over the world; a march, which is a part of the perpetual revolution of humanism and a manifestation of the absolute necessity of the absolute rational will to overcome and achieve its ends.

New liberal communism aims at developing the theory of humanism of the new millennium; it is the task of our time. Implementing the newest political humanistic project is one of the categorical imperatives of the XXI century.

The communists have the historical mission, the theoretical courage and the political will to abolish – to supersede – the capitalist civilisation and develop a new humanist civilisation. Modern Marxism has to be adjusted to the world that has changed so much. We are going to preserve everything that is good in capitalism; yet, developing it tremendously.

In times of worldwide powerful neo-liberalism and conservatism today's Left need a powerful teaching, a new humanist Bible, which can inspire the masses in order to win the ideological fight against all doctrines of modern capitalism. Our teaching will counterbalance their tremendous influence and power not only to brainwash people but also to destroy the willpower of humanist-minded people willing to fight for Equality, Fraternity and Liberty in their modern humanist form.

The teaching of communism must be developed.

Marx's communism – the first conscious experiment of humanity willing to establish communism as the highest form of humanism in modern times – has failed. What is more, not only was it doomed to fail for it was badly elaborated and not humanist enough but also its Stalinist form omitted to become a creative development of Marxism.

We cannot want a few of the greatest geniuses of humanity – Plato, Jesus, Marks, Engels and Lenin, as well as thousands of other great thinkers – to have revealed the truth of communism once and forever. This is a task, which the whole humanity is faced with and will always be faced with; everything is in the future and will invariably be in the future.

Marxism and other XIX century thinkers' communism set neither the beginning nor the end of the science of communism. The world history must be grasped in its truth as permanent development of the rational will for humanism, which is and will always be in the process of developing its principles.

The absolute rational will starts its development and its self-organization as an ethical community with the universal common property of the primitive tribal community. Being ineffective and not productive enough, primitive communism necessarily had to develop to its other moment, to its opposite, to political orders based on  the one-sided principles of private property and privatised public property. The practical institutions of these political orders are devoid of justice and, absolutely naturally, amongst the members of  all oppressed political communities appears the urge, the will to expropriate their expropriators. The first utopian communists had to appear and they appeared; they expressed the highest – and yet profoundly abstract, – determinations of the will for humanism. Marx's communism, for example, was significantly more mature than his predecessors' one but still utopian in most of its details. All in all, the works of the utopian communists were still immature for they were sons of their time; yet, they performed the task of their time. It was a special time – an era of childhood of the rational will of mankind for humanism. They felt the thirst of Man for real equality, real fraternity and real liberty, which are the defining principles of Humanism; this thirst is unquenchable. All humanists have it.

The pretensions of today's lackeys of Big Bourgeoisie that communism has discredited itself once and forever are just ridiculous and grotesque. Willing to please and defend their masters at any cost, the lackeys of Big Bourgeoisie are happy to bark at the shadow of communism.

Communism has discredited itself. Really? When?

Poor, poor lackeys! Your grotesque absurdities will make the future generations laugh forever. Paradoxically, what you call communism and bark at exists only in your wildest fantasies for it is not the communism, which Humanity aims to achieve and will achieve.

Unfortunately, there has never been communism on Earth. Yet!

What should be made crystal clear and immediately said is that communism is not what Stalin and his comrades as well as their disciples wanted to build. The past epoch – the ancien regime – was nothing more but Stalinism. It is a clever trap of all liberal propagandists and all bourgeois lackeys to claim that Stalin was building communism. They have every reason to do that. This is what they are paid for: to divert the attention of the exploited classes away from Marxism, away from what is eternally alive in it – the idea of true communism.

We cannot allow and will not allow the so called anti-communists as well as the bourgeois lackeys to revile communism. Their preposterous name-calling is unacceptable for the object of their critique does not have anything in common with true communism. How is it possible the most pathetic and in the highest degree unjust Stalinist dictatorship over the proletariat to be called communism. The economic narrow-mindedness and immaturity of Stalin's doctrine and the state based on it were fated to fail.

However, the funniest thing which exposes the poor lackeys and their hapless anti-communist mates to ridicule is that in fact there has never been communism in modern times. There has been Stalinism. There has not been communism. Not yet! Up to this day. But ... tomorrow? The wheel of history has not yet reached the point when it will once again rotate until the living implementation of the principle of common property is achieved but it will be a communism at an incomparably higher level because it will contain the total wealth of the whole previous development.

There has never been communism. Stalinist "communism" was only a state capitalism; a peculiar kind of private property of the means of production and private property of what, in fact, is public property – the state, – for they belonged to the leaders of the so called "Communist Party", i.e. de facto they belonged to the Red Bourgeoisie.

There has not been communism yet because of the anti-communism of Stalin and all so called "communist" parties in the former communist bloc. In fact, they were totally anti-communist parties of Stalinist type. The dictatorship of the proletariat was quickly transformed into dictatorship of the Red Bourgeoisie over the proletariat.

State property of the whole wealth of the nation could only lead and really led to the totalitarian power of some, to the despotic and uncontrolled power of the Red Bourgeoisie, which had its own vested interests in preserving its countless privileges and protected them mercilessly. The Red Bourgeoisie with the ferocious terror of its security services, Mao Tze-Tung's cultural revolution, the red Khmers – trying to preserve their power, they all were equally cruel and ruthless, as much cruel and ruthless as Stalin. Their deeds were utterly anti-communist; they had nothing in common with rational communism. Their states did not satisfy the conditions for a truly humanist res publica. What they created was anything else but communism. 

Stalinism as a peculiar feudalisation of the economic and political life in Soviet Russia and its satellites failed to succeed and could not succeed because it was not true communism. The peoples of the former "socialist" block were not allowed to enter in possession of public property. The results were calamitous.

Stalinist economy was not truly communist. By the way, it was not and could not be a communist economy because despite his brilliant critique of capitalism, Marx did not create even the foundations of the theory of communist economy; a fact, which had enormous and disastrous consequences for the movement of practical communism. Stalinist economy did not have the slightest chance to become the most productive one in the world. The Stalinist attempt to abolish the institution of private property and the capitalist state based on it could only end in disaster.

Marx's followers stood by his idea of dictatorship of the proletariat and in no way did they want to develop it, to go beyond it. Marx did not foresee the fact that the dictatorship of the proletariat is only a necessary temporary stage during the revolution; a stage, which had to be changed by direct humanist democracy as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Stalin's bad communism was an absolutely necessary moment of development of world history because willing to develop, humanity invariably applies the method of trials and errors. The so called "communist" parties began the socialist experiment but being anti-communist, in fact, and deprived of a genuine teaching of communism, never did they will to go the whole way and implement it truly and wholeheartedly, to accomplish the deed of communism; they achieved nothing more than the false start of communism. True, the leadership of the "communist" parities, was quick to transform into a Red Bourgeoisie, the local incompetent party secretaries vested with huge almost feudal power, the peculiar mixture of feudalism and state capitalism and all other deficiencies of the "communist" parities made the experiment impossible; however, the experiment has to be and will continually be made over and over again until it is properly accomplished. The bad "communism" of Stalinist type was an error but a necessary error because not only does humanity have to understand the absolute necessity with which the humanist state must be established but also how to establish it.

During the time of Stalinist anti-communism it was crystal clear that Marxism had to be developed. Its evolutionary development was absolutely necessary. There were lots of wonderful people having the intellectual power to develop it. Being persecuted and tortured, they failed to do their job in time before the collapse of the Stalinist type of "communism".

New communism declares the end of utopian communism. It is the newest, the latest development of the ideas of true and genuinely down-to-Earth humanism.

The question which modern humanism must answer is: What is truly communistic? This question needs to be given a meticulous, honest and wise scientific answer.

New communism aims at pointing out the principles of true communism and comparing it with the "socialism" of Stalinist type – which, in fact, was a kind of state capitalism – to prove that Stalinist "socialism" was thoroughly anti-communistic and deprived of any real political will for implementation of the ideas of communism because the Red Bourgeoisie, which was greedy for power and cared first and foremost for its class welfare, did not want to allow and did not allow anybody to develop the "socialist" political order in a creative manner. In point of fact, there were a lot of wonderful people having the intellectual capacity to do that. They were persecuted mercilessly.

Without all question, Marxism helped humanity to make an enormous step forwards; yet, Marx's teaching of communism failed to absorb and adapt the whole previous development of humanism and from the very beginning – even before its Stalinist realisation – was doomed to fail.

The simple truth is that the principle of Marx-Plato's doctrine is still one-sided and it had to appear in its one-sidedness; every principle appears in its one-sidedness. Only then is it cognised in its truth and then superseded with all the necessity which the absolute has in itself. Thanks to Marx we cognised the principle in its one-sidedness. Now the time has come to begin developing it again and cognise it in its complete truth.

A powerful critique of Marks is absolutely indispensable. Marks's teaching had all the diseases typical of childhood. It was a very early stage of development of communism. Here we see a noble will which is still not able to cognise itself in its truth and reveals itself in its one-sidedness.

At the same time new communism declares its Apologia for Marx and Marxsm: it is naive to expect Marks to have developed the theory of communism once and forever. He was a great communist thinker but he was a son of his time. Everyone is a son of his time; the supreme task of every generation of humanists is to take part in the perpetual development of the notion of true communism and without all question there is no nobler task on Earth.

Marx was the hero of modern times who expressed the absolute ends of Man and due to his teaching mankind has worked for progress on human rights, democracy and humanism and has definitely made huge progress in achieving its ends in many highly developed countries; as a result, we have witnessed the economic and political liberation of Man – to a certain degree! – in modern times. Now the task is to continue the fight for liberation of Man and expropriation of the expropriators. God wills everybody to be free from exploitation.

Absolutely naturally Marx could only begin developing the theory of communism. His many works are only the beginning of this necessary development. He was the first greatest theoretician of communist thinking in modern times. Absolutely naturally, he made a lot of mistakes. Nowadays more than anything else we have to develop the notion of true communism. There is no doubt about it: Marx's teaching is to be developed and will be developed.

Today we need a powerful development of the idea of humanism. Marx-Plato's doctrine was just the very first – still primitive – stage of the will for communism. Now it is the time to declare a second – equally important – stage of development of the ideas of humanism. Marx and, generally speaking, Marxism failed to take into account the doctrines of other great thinkers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, which made Marxism quite one-sided.

Today this task is a must. Creating powerful and influential humanist think tanks able to give practical solutions is a mission of paramount importance.

Marx made enormous mistakes which also led to the disaster of modern communism. Had he studied Hegel hard, he would not have made these mistakes. Only when we create a wise new communist teaching, will we attract the people, inspire them and fire up their imagination to start implementing it step by step; people, who will not live only for their private interests but will direct their energies for implementation of the great ideas of the political communities, of which they are members, and serve to more elevated and noble social interests.

These people will have the will for change, the will for creating a just political and world order based on the principle of humanism, which is the main motive – the life and the soul – of the political communities of the future.

Unlike Marx, whose doctrine was predominantly economic, we have to elaborate upon the political institutions of the humanist society. The newest history aims at creating a new humanist constitutional law based on the principle of public property; history will write it.

The strongest point of new communism is that not only is it an intellectual manifestation of modern rational will to change the world but it is also to become an inspiration for a real new political movement which a large number of people all over the world strive for. It is definitely the most rational humanist offer for mankind in modern times.

We stand for a new humanist order of the world. The natural resources we have at our disposal are not limitless; it is not worth wasting them. We come with the manifesto of a new era. New conventions, new international relations, new humanistic international ethics, new solutions.

Given the fact that modern progressive classes "sleep" due to the total lack of intellectual and volitional leadership capable of showing the way forward, the aim of the new communists is to provide this leadership.

We have to create a new powerful will for democracy, i.e. the task of our times is how to make the will for public property as powerful as the will for private property and private welfare.

Today we want to set to work and begin to change the traditional capitalistic way of thinking about wealth and virtue and to give humanity a new goal: creating a political order of a new type based on a new humanistic idea of virtue capable of leading to the ethical perfection of the human species.

Presenting humanism in its truth as an implacable realisation of the will for justice, fraternity and liberty, the aim of new communism is to encourage and inspire a lot of progressive intellectuals for whom the permanent humanist revolution is of paramount importance.

Today – there is no doubt about it! – we have to create a down to Earth, pragmatic and perfectly feasible theory of humanist economy. It is a new task for a new world and we invite and encourage all humanistically thinking economists to start developing this new science.

The time has come for powerful, mature, responsible and wise communism.