BIBLE OF REVISIONISM
A book that really speaks volumes about trends in the Communist parties of Western Europe has appeared in Sweden.
Entitled The Road for the Left in Sweden, the book was written by Carl Henrik Hermansson, who has served as chairman of the Swedish Communist party since 1964. Under his guidance, the party has gained a reputation among CP circles internationally for a policy that is more "adapted" to present conditions in Sweden.
It is sufficient to skim through the book to see that the "adaptation" is not exactly in a revolutionary direction. Under cover of being realistic, the Swedish Communist party is developing a policy that makes Togliatti's class collaborationism seem ultraleft.
According to Hermansson, the state apparatus must not be broken up and replaced with something qualitatively different; it must not even be transformed!
He actually writes as follows: "In a society that reaches the critical stage between monopoly capitalism and socialism and in which the workers and employees represent the majority of the population and in which the workers movement holds a majority in parliament and in the administration, the state apparatus must be utilized to break up the economic positions of big finance capital and to transform society in a socialist direction."
Thus Hermansson takes the same position as the Social Democrats for whom "political democracy" merely needs "completing" with "economic democracy."
As for the state. apparatus, it "must be democratized in the following way: the cadres in the state apparatus must be replaced in such a way that they correspond more or less to the social composition of the population. This also means that the top posts must be occupied mostly by functionaries who were formerly wage workers."
As can be seen it all boils down to the question of voting for the best man for the job.