Indeed, the Chinese irruption characterised the world contention, with Beijing’s plans for a world-class military force triggering an arms race. And really the problem of how to confront Chinese imperialism, as well as to escape the pincer movement of Washington and Beijing, is confirmed as the strategic torment for European imperialism. Together with rearmament, in all the metropolises of imperialism colossal state intervention plans then mark the second half of the new strategic phase, which presages the next fifteen years as even more stormy.
In 2004 we argued that the new features of the contention required special attention to the third chapter of Class Struggles and the Revolutionary Party, the chapter on strategy. In the science-party, as well as in the strategy-party, lies the solution to facing the unprecedented conditions of the global confrontation, and to fighting the poisoned ideologies with which the masses will be mobilised and fanaticised: the liberal democracy of the West against Chinese authoritarianism, a Europe that protects against Beijing’s technological threat, and even an environmental social-imperialism against the giants of Asia devouring the environment.
The experience of the crisis of the pandemic of the century, however, has added a further confirmation to the Leninist theory of the party, that of the plan-party. In our book Their Politics and Ours, the conclusions of that battle were drawn: indeed, seizing the link in the organisational chain turned out to be the solution to facing a sudden and unpredictable crisis; indeed, that crisis has “educated” and “tempered” the militants, allowing us to collect and direct the unexpected energies that have emerged in our class. With that crucial experience behind them, the new generations will be able to face an increasingly tormented era. Class Struggles and the Revolutionary Party is confirmed as a vital text in the new battles that are already heralded.
