Growing and tumultuous has been the road along which the oppressed masses have had to travel in the arduous search for their definitive liberation. From those attempts to hold back the Inca invasion, through the hard fights to get rid of Spanish colonialism, and in the now permanent struggle to destroy bureaucrat-capitalism, semi-feudalism and bury imperialist opprobrium, very high has been the “quota” of blood that the masses have had to put in to achieve the countless conquests achieved to date and aim for new and better days.
It is true that those who live tied to the feudal past and sheltered in the skirts of imperialism will not give way to progress without putting up stiff resistance. But it is also true that the organized masses, always makers of history, are ready to “conquer the heights” at any cost.
Very varied have been the forms of struggle that the masses have used to fight against the exploiting yoke. According to the historical moment, the class struggle has taken the form of resistance struggles, agrarian wars, with which it has evidently been possible to win over the shores of feudal obscurantism, mainly.
However, since the struggles rightly led by Rumiñahui, Cecilio Taday, Julian Quito, Lorenza Avemanay, Fernando Daquilema, etc., and who left us great examples, it has been, subsequently, revisionism and opportunism who, riding on the masses, have known how to “comply” with their masters, the big bourgeoisie and big landowners, diverting and/or confusing our people in the concrete objectives to be achieved, such as the violent seizure of political power for the proletariat and the people.
Dispersion and eclecticism have been the result of the betrayal of those who, calling themselves Marxists, have traveled and continue to travel “old roads” of revisionism that lead to abandonment and capitulation.
Revisionism also went further, even going so far as to propose armed struggle and to exercise one or another armed foco, based on the experience of the Cuban Revolution. All have failed and those who persist in following that line can only fail again.
Abandoning or denying Marxism-Leninism, today Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, maintaining “its expiration” or denying the contribution of the greatest communists of the world such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Chairman Gonzalo has been the death sentence in some cases and the “death certificate” in others. They have wanted and want to fly “like condors, but their flight is that of chickens”.
What has led us communists of Ecuador to shelter ourselves in the unfading flags of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism? In the first instance, the analysis of the historical development of Ecuador as a whole, which highlights the class struggle as the “locomotive of history”. This as the fundamental. From this analysis and this interpretation derives the characterization of our country as semi-feudal and semi-colonial.
This characterization of the Ecuadorian society we make by applying the development made by Chairman Mao to the ideology of the proletariat, who according to the historical needs of the oppressed peoples of the world, proposes the realization of the NEW-DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION in those countries whose characteristics are similar to ours. Thus the Maoists of Ecuador are processing Marxism-Leninism-Maoism according to the historical needs of our people, to give it an accurate application to the concrete, specific reality.
Chairman Mao teaches that the democratic revolution on its uninterrupted road to socialism is only possible under proletarian guidance and its Communist Party of a new type, i.e., whose reason to exist is the application and development of the military theory of the proletariat: The People’s War.
Within this framework, we, the communists of Ecuador, that is to say the Maoists, rise up to build the instruments of the Revolution, as Chairman Mao pointed out to us: Party, United Front, and People’s Army. Understanding, of course, that the construction can only be carried out under the application of Revolutionary Violence, breaking with this those opportunist theses of “accumulating forces in the cold”. This is a very definite particularity in the application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of the Ecuadorian revolution. We are clear and conscious that steel can only be tempered with the heat of fire. In that measure, the reason why during these last years our Party has been exercising revolutionary violence without concealment, without false petty bourgeois sentimentalism and with profound class hatred. That is the guarantee of consolidating the construction of the three instruments of the revolution. That is the guarantee that the People’s War will develop like a storm and sweep away from its roots the “three mountains” that weigh on the Ecuadorian people: Semi-feudalism, Bureaucrat-capitalism, and Imperialism.
We have nothing to lose but centuries of exploitation. In return we have “a world to win”. That is the premise.
In Peru, the People’s War led by the Communist Party of Peru was ignited under the great leadership of Chairman Gonzalo. Today it is a beacon of the World Proletarian Revolution. Following the example of our brother Peruvian people, the Ecuadorian proletariat, headed by its Communist Party of a new type, has taken the historic decision to initiate and develop the People’s War. In Ecuador the fire is stoked and in the world the bonfire is growing, these are the designs of the new power that is approaching. The struggle to conquer the red sun of liberation: COMMUNISM, in the world, is at dawn’s door.
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
TO DEVELOP THE NEW-DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION AND PUT IT IN SERVICE OF THE WORLD PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN ECUADOR!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU!
TO DEVELOP THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN THE WORLD!
LONG LIVE MAOISM! DEATH TO REVISIONISM!
LONG LIVE THE CENTENARY OF CHAIRMAN MAO’S BIRTHDAY!