English

p. 27-31:
HANDBILL,, particularly distributed for B&W, Christianshavn (machine factory) 3rd May 1968.

"We have said it again and again, and we are going to continue saying it. It has come about because, as Engels wrote, from the beginning of colonialism the workers “have gladly taken their share of the booty” from the exploitation of the colonial peoples.

AND BECAUSE NO ONE HAS TOLD THEM, THAT THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE DOING!

This has come about because no one has told them that it would take them directly into the bourgeois, uncanny, horrible, stinking imperialist pool, if they did not stop in time to think things over."

p. 23-26:
"Should we strive to lead the workers in the struggle for higher wages, shorter working hours, mobilize it to demand more bourgeois “social benefits”, more “spare time benefits”, to satisfy its bourgeois needs for “leisure”?"

"Should we not openly say that the whole of this struggle for the fulfilment of bourgeois needs is leading the working class directly away from a socialist way of thinking? That the trade union activity at the present level of development of the parasite state is directly harmful and a hindrance to the struggle for socialism?"

p. 19-22:
"It was self-evident to Lenin that the then existing small minority did not want socialism introduced and wanted capitalism back again, when the socialist revolution had taken place.

For us today it is self-evident that since by now it is the great majority, when, it is the class as a whole, who live well under capitalism, of course this majority do not want socialism – and it is self-evident to us that they will not start wanting socialism by being even better off under capitalism! They will only get to want socialism by being badly off."

p. 13-18:
"Lenin made his speech at the Second Congress of Comintern on the basis of the then existing situation in Europe.

He could not foresee the fact that imperialism in the West European and North American countries would prove able to use still more of its superprofits for bribery. He could not foresee that opportunism was not only a “protracted disease”, but that it had struck root so deeply in the West European working class that not even Fascism and World War 11 could exterminate it. He could not foresee that it was  n e v e r  exterminated in one single West European communist party.

He could not foresee that the workers of the imperialist countries would not only allow a World War II, but that even after that war they still “gaily share the feast” of the increased and manifold intensified exploitation of the oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa. and Latin America."

p. 11-12:
"The almost 100.000 votes against, the some 170.000 votes in favour at the voting, and the some 270.000 votes which were not cast at all thus expressly serve to show that the working class has been split up, is without common determination, without genuine class solidarity, without genuine class consciousness.

When this is said, and in our opinion it  m u s t  be said, it must also be said and heavily stressed that this situation in the Danish working class is a temporary and transitory phenomenon. It is a phenomenon which has been caused by a certain historical, economic and ideological development, and it will change again under a new historical, economic and ideological development."

p. 7-10:
The economic-trade union demands involved in the present and a number of former collective agreement situations are manifestations of needs and wishes on a material level (and spiritual-ideological level) characteristic of a working class in a country, where the capitalists have been able to give and have had a direct interest in giving the workers a share in the super profits of western capitalism as a whole from the exploitation of the majority of mankind – the peoples of the present and former colonial, semicolonial and dependent countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

There is  n o  direct road from a parasite state of Denmark's kind to socialism!

s. 5:
The six articles in this pamphlet were originally published in “Communist ORIENTATION” in the years 1967 and 1968. They were the result of long-term deliberations and thorough discussions among a group of people in Communist Working Circle (CWC), and they were published anonymously as an expression of the view of this organisation.

p. 35-36:

Two letters from Friedrich Engels to August Bebel on working class and movement:

Eastbourne, 30th August 1883 and London, 20th-23rd January, 1886.

p. 27-34:

THE SPARK from Gothenburg thinks itself capable of lighting a revolutionary prairie fire in Sweden. Unfortunately, there are several “sparks” of this kind in the capitalist world today. They make profuse use of quotations from Mao Tse-tung, and they do not understand what they themselves are saying. They have no idea what a revolutionary situation means. They speak of themselves as “Marxists-Leninists” and have not understood one iota of historical materialism. They hail Mao Tse-tung – and they insult him by distorting his statements and turning them into subjectivist and idealistic rubbish.

p. 19-26:

"A struggle for higher wages, shorter working hours, longer holidays, better working conditions etc. can  n e v e r  in itself become a political struggle, a class struggle. In “What is to be done?” Lenin unequivocally asserted that it is the purest of nonsense to try to “lend the economic struggle itself a political character”. On the other hand the economic struggle may – under certain circumstances – be  r a i s e d  to the level of a political struggle."

p. 5-18:

"One of the reasons why we have not had the socialist revolution is to be found in the fact that the economic development in our part of the world has created a working class which is unable to overthrow the capitalist class by its own strength. The lever of the socialist revolution in the fully developed capitalist countries in West Europe must not yet be applied in these countries themselves – it must be applied in the former and present colonial, semi-colonial and dependent countries!"

Contains 3 recast and abbreviated articles previously published as part of the debate with the Swedish organization: Kommunistiska förbundet marxist-lenisterna. What is the class struggle, the relationship between wage match and class struggle and when can you talk about a revolutionary situation, all parts of the parasite state theory. As well as a supplement with 2 letters from Friedrich Engels to August Bebel.

Published by publishinghouse Futura, 1971 36 p.

Statement from KUF.
A statement made at the end of March by a delegation from KUF at a preparatory meeting in Holland for a congress in Rome in support of the fighting peoples in the Portuguese colonies, represented by MPLA, Frelimo and PAIGC.
Translated from "Ungkommunisten", Vol 3, no. 6 August 1970.

Why do We Support PFLP?
Written by Gotfred Appel on behalf of Communist Working Circle, CWC (Kommunistisk arbejdskreds. KAK) and Communist Youth League , CYL (Kommunistisk Ungdomsforbund, KUF).
Translated from the Danish "Ungkommunisten", Vol 3, no. 6 August 1970.

A Letter from a Journey.
On corrupt trade unionists and their work i Ethiopia.
Translated from the Danish "Ungkommunisten" issue Vol. 3, no. 5, June 1970.

3 articles translated from the Danish "Ungkommunisten" from Kommunistisk Ungdoms Forbund (KUF):
Letter from a Journey.
Why do We Support PFLP.
Statement from KUF.

Follow-up and deepening of Gotfred Appels critique of CCP media outlets information of the situation in Western Europe presented in previous letter to the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, posted at April 24, 1968.
The letter was published for the first time at snylterstaten.dk [Parasite State] in August 2013.

Crititique of Chinese media information about the situation in different parts of the world and of CCPs analysis of the situation in Western Europe.
The letter is published here at snylterstaten.dk for the first time.