Fuwa explains JCP's fresh look at Marx's 'Critique of the Gotha Program'

Japanese Communist Party Central Committee Chair Fuwa Tetsuzo gave a lecture on Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Program" on August 18 to JCP Central Committee's staff members. The talk was aimed at helping deepen understanding of the draft revised JCP Program, which is now being discussed by JCP members in preparation for the JCP 23rd Congress scheduled for November.

The draft revised JCP Program defines a "future society" (socialist/communist society) as a society based on socialization of the means of production, a fundamental departure from the "established theory" of development in two stages, from socialism to communism.

Illustrating from Marx's and Engels' documents, Fuwa said that this two-stage theory is the result of misunderstanding Marx's "Critique". He also expounded on how this misunderstanding occurred and has been accepted as an internationally established theory over the last 90 years.

Fuwa emphasized the need to return to the basics of Marx's and Engels' view of a future society to replace the conventional futurist theory concerned only with formula of distribution of products. (end)