The Socialist Party of Albania concluded its recent Congress on
August 26, with the decision to officially abandon Marxism as the
theoretical guide to their thinking. This entails fully
dissociating themselves from the legacy of the building of
socialism under the leadership of the Party of Labor of Albania
with Comrade Enver Hoxha at its head.
This open split with Marxism and the name and work of Comrade
Enver Hoxha positions the Socialist Party of Albania as a
straight-forward bourgeois and anti-national political party,
dedicated to serving the ambitions of the powerful European and
North American imperialists now operating in Albania and throughout
the world. This Party has fully exposed itself within a short
period of five years. It no longer has any pretensions to be
serious about tackling the problems of the contemporary world. On
the contrary, it has reverted back to the period of rabid
anti-communism reminiscent of the period of the cold war.
Any political party that does not openly declare the theory
guiding its thinking is necessarily a bourgeois party. At first the
Socialist Party crudely pretended that it did not follow Enver
Hoxha but followed Marxism according to their own interpretations.
The imperialist bourgeoisie, nonetheless, was not happy even with
this charade of the socialist party and insisted that it make a
full break with Marxism. They have now done so, leaving no bridges
behind them.
A bourgeois Albania will be but a subservient Albania. It is
too small to be anything else. Already, the U.S. and Britain are
training its army and police forces. They have also established
bases in Albania. With the Socialist Party abandoning Marxism and
the legacy of Enver Hoxha, it has placed itself in the ignominious
company of all national traitors.
When Mikhail Gorbachev declared his Perestroika and Glasnost
he was submitting to imperialist pressure to opt for classical
capitalism against the renovation and renewal that was necessary in
the Soviet Union. The whole of Eastern Europe and many other
countries quickly followed suit. Albania likewise was one of the
countries which, instead of renewal, opted for capitalism. The
Socialist Party, in contention with the Democratic Party in
Albania, is now openly working for capitalism. This is the main
content of their recent decision to split with Marxism. This desire
to work for capitalism has been taken despite all the obvious
disasters that capitalism has caused and is continuing to cause all
around the world.
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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