Class collaboration

Class collaboration is a bourgeois ideological endeavor which attempts to reconcile the class struggle between the owning and working class. Throughout history, class collaborationism has been a powerful weapon for the bourgeoisie. One of the most prevalent forms of class collaboration is nationalism, whose proponents claim to create "unity" of all the citizens of a nation, regardless of class.

Class collaborationism is fundamentally anti-scientific, as it does not understand that class decides the relation of people to material products needed to survive, and that the interests of the proletariat and bourgeoisie are fundamentally irreconcilable.

Class collaboration may also be progressive depending on the context in which it is employed. In New Democracy, progressive and anti-feudal classes collaborate for the completion of bourgeois revolutionary tasks. Collaboration between progressive strata may serve socialist construction should the proletariat maintain its leading role.

"The proletariat needs state power, a centralized organization of force, an organization of violence, both to crush the resistance of the exploiters and to lead the enormous mass of the population — the peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, and semi-proletarians — in the work of organizing a socialist economy." [Emphasis added]
Vladimir Lenin, the State and Revolution

Examples of class collaborationists include Deng Xiaoping, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.

Manifestations

Fascist

Main articles: Fascism and Third position

Fascists denies and attempts to obscure the presence and inherent nature of class struggle and exploitation between exploited and exploiting strata and introduces sentiments of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie. For instance, fascists have claimed that their state is "above" classes:

"[...] Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people. No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle." —Benito Mussolini

In reality, this is to hide the position of the fascist state as a totalitarian dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and an extreme expression of monopoly capitalism.

See also

• Nationalism
• Fascism
  • Corporatism
  • Volksgemeinschaft
  • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
• Reformism
• Trickle-down economics