The principle I'm going to explain now is a temporary Vanguard Dictatorship. Now as we know immediately after the Revolution a power vacuum is inevitable, and we know that this power vacuum cannot immediately be filled by the Communistic social structure. Thus, it is necessary to install a Vanguard Party, or a Political Party made up of those who truly represent and serve the people and the Revolution, which would then take power in the Revolutionary country. The Vanguard Party will then establish itself and it will bring about the process of consolidation between the people and the new Revolutionary society. This Party will then begin to institute the policies of Anarcho-Marxism, such as abolition of private property, mass nationalization, de-centralization of the state, the setting up of mass committees in which everyone can participate in the running of their own lives. As these policies start to take effect and the Revolutionary Socialist Society begins to develop into an Anarcho-Communist one, the people will begin more and more to run their own lives and to govern society themselves. Thus, after about 5 - 7 years the need for a Vanguard Party will fade away and, in accordance with the Anarcho-Communistic society, as the need for it fades the Vanguard Party itself will fade away too, creating a true Anarcho-Communist society without money, class, or the state.
However, the Vanguard Party shall have to consolidate the people with the Revolution in its immediate aftermath. Of course we know, by common sense, that the dethroned ruling class will not want to give up its power or its profit: it will fight back with armies, terrorism, etc. Thus, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution there is a very serious and veryy real threat of Counter-Revolution. Thus, materials harmful to the Revolution must be gotten rid of: this includes books, essays, films, TV series, internet links and websites - everything which might bring about the risk of Counter-Revolution. However, as Anarcho-Communism takes hold and Class structure, the Vanguard Party and the state begin to fade, teh risk of Counter-Revolution, too, will fade, because the classes that want to fight back will disappear as Class and Class Structure in general disappears. Thus, after a certain time (1, 2, 5, perhaps 7 years) these things, books, essays, films, TV series, Internet links and websites will be restored, re-released to the general public because they will no-longer be dangerous. Even people arrested and not vaporized under Revolutionary justice will be released into the general public.
This is not to say that the Revolutionary society shall descend into an Authoritarian State: people will still be allowed to criticise, write and publish books and essays, make films and put up websites, as only pre-existing records need to be gotten rid of. So some degree of personal and mass 'freedom' will still exist, and we shall not become a Stalinist State. And the freedom increases as the risk of Counter-Revolution and, eventually, the Vanguard Party itself fades away.
Of course, some people will have to be 'gotten rid of'. The criminals of the old regime; the monopoly corporate officials, the huge bankers, the generals, the war criminals, the high-ranking government officials, etc. will be given public trials. And by public trials I do not just mean a trial where the public gets access to the proceedings, I mean a trial where the public decides the fate of the criminal. There will be mass gatherings in the courts, the evidence will be shown, and then the people will vote on what to do with the criminal. And by vote, I do not just mean choosing options that the Vanguard Party gives them, I mean they write down their sentence on pieces of paper.
But of course many will have to be gotten rid of, including bankers, CEOs, Government Officials, Religious Extremists, Fascists, Racists, etc. as these people are very great threats and the leading advocaters of Counter-Revolution, not to mention the fact that they are criminals, exploiters and persecuters anyway.
The last thing I will say is that it is to be encouraged that people work for the good of the whole of society above their own personal gain: put the community above themselves. Because if everyone works for the good of everyone else, then each individual's life will be improved, and that individual improves the lives of everyone else too.
So Comrades, the temporary Vanguard Dictatorship may have to be brutal and may have to use considerable repression and brutality to do that, but if we look at the results we can see that, in this case at least, the end certainly justifies the means: it wil be worth it in the long run.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre! Viva La Revolucion!
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