At the 34^th Anti-Imperialist Camp of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), which was attended by thousands of young people, the publication “On the socialist state: The History that Teaches Us, the History that Remains to Be Written - Conference of the CC of the KKE” was presented by Loukas Anastasopoulos, a member of the CC and head of its Ideological Committee.

“The workers’ state and workers’ power express a higher form of democracy, whose basic feature is the active participation of the working class and the people in general in the shaping of socialist society, resolving all old contradictions and social inequalities, controlling the management of productive units, social and administrative services, and all organs of power from the bottom up. Criticism of decisions and actions that hinder the socialist construction is ensured through the unhindered denunciation of subjective arbitrariness, bureaucratic attitudes among cadres and other negative phenomena and deviations from socialist-communist principles.

The foundation of workers’ power lies in the production units, social services,  administrative units and production cooperatives. The Assembly of Workers establishes direct and indirect workers’ democracy, based on the principles of control, accountability, and recall. Under socialist power, the right to vote means that workers elect and are elected to all organs of power, and can control and recall councillors and representatives.

The superiority of the new power lies precisely in the fact that it is the state of a higher society, where the exploiters have been overthrown.

Indeed, this state, the state of workers’ power, insofar as it helps the new socialist society to take steps towards developed communism, overcome contradictions, leave the old behind and develop new relations of production, it renders itself superfluous and withers away, as the classics of Marxism aptly wrote. This is the greatest feature of the superiority of the new workers’ power”, said Loukas Anastasopoulos.

“The KKE and KNE are optimistic. We know that, even though the first attempt to build socialism was overturned, the working class and the peoples have not yet had their say!”, he added. “We are optimistic because we worked hard to draw conclusions about what went wrong and led to the overthrow of socialism, to develop a contemporary revolutionary strategy at the 19^th Congress of the Party and to follow the long path of restoration of the revolutionary characteristics of the Party.

Above all, we are optimistic because we are at the forefront of the struggles of the working class and youth every day”.

During the discussion that followed, the KKE cadre responded to various questions, including those regarding the causes of the overthrow of socialism in the USSR, based on the studies and assessments collectively reached by the KKE, describing the 20^th Congress of the CPSU (1956) as a "turning point" due to its adoption of a series of opportunist positions on economic matters, the strategy of the communist movement, and international relations. The balance of power in the struggle that had been ongoing throughout the previous period shifted in favour of the revisionist-opportunist positions at the 20^th Congress, resulting in the Party gradually losing its revolutionary characteristics. In the 1980s, opportunism, through perestroika, openly manifested itself as a treacherous, counter-revolutionary force.

“The KKE and KNE are optimistic. We know that, even though the first attempt to build socialism was overturned, the working class and the peoples have not yet had their say!”, he added. “We are optimistic because we worked hard to draw conclusions about what went wrong and led to the overthrow of socialism, to develop a contemporary revolutionary strategy at the 19^th Congress of the Party and to follow the long path of restoration of the revolutionary characteristics of the Party.

Above all, we are optimistic because we are at the forefront of the struggles of the working class and youth every day”.

During the discussion that followed, the KKE cadre responded to various questions, including those regarding the causes of the overthrow of socialism in the USSR, based on the studies and assessments collectively reached by the KKE, describing the 20^th Congress of the CPSU (1956) as a "turning point" due to its adoption of a series of opportunist positions on economic matters, the strategy of the communist movement, and international relations. The balance of power in the struggle that had been ongoing throughout the previous period shifted in favour of the revisionist-opportunist positions at the 20^th Congress, resulting in the Party gradually losing its revolutionary characteristics. In the 1980s, opportunism, through perestroika, openly manifested itself as a treacherous, counter-revolutionary force.