Antimonopoly democracy
The Anti Monopolistic democracy has (eg. In some communist parties of Western Europe German Communist Party , Communist Party of Greece ), the (intermediate) target " dictatorship of the proletariat replaced". In the anti-monopoly democracy, within the framework of existing laws, it should be possible to transfer large corporations into public ownership. Anti-monopoly democracy is a “period of fundamental transformations” in which the working class and other “democratic forces” jointly have sufficient parliamentary power to assert their interests, also as a starting point for further socialist development. There are parallels to the situation in the Eastern Bloc countries up to around the mid- 1950s . Until then, for example, according to the official interpretation , the GDR was in the phase of "anti-fascist-democratic upheaval", in which the property of Nazi criminals was expropriated and made under state ownership, but the market economy was otherwise left untouched. It was not until 1952 that the building of socialism began in the GDR .
At its 19th party congress in 2013, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) made a return to the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Theoretical underpinning
The concept is based on the analysis of modern capitalism as state monopoly capitalism , developed by Marxist economists and political scientists , also in the GDR and France and at the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research (IMSF) in Frankfurt am Main, which is affiliated with the DKP has been. Accordingly, an increasing and historically new entanglement of large and internationally operating corporations with the state administration and executive took place in capitalism , which made the distribution of the macroeconomic surplus product to the advantage above all of the large economy ("big capital") and to the detriment of small capital owners and employees in a new order of magnitude and endanger the democratic decision-making processes . This was accompanied by processes of social decline, which more than ever before would affect both the self-employed and the wage-dependent middle classes and whose combating required comprehensive social and political alliances against the policies of internationalized corporations .
Differentiation from the workers' government
The above characteristic of anti-monopoly democracy as a period in which the working class has sufficient parliamentary power to assert its interests also applies to the workers' government . The difference lies in the underlying alliance policy .
The workers 'government is supported by a single or a coalition of workers' parties . So behind it stands the concept of the united front , it is the united front in power. The anti-monopoly democracy, like its historical model, the people 's democracy (in China: New Democracy ) also explicitly includes other classes. It can therefore be described as a popular front in power. It is thus compatible with the Stalinist stage theory , it represents, so to speak, an adaptation of the concept of the workers' government (from the early 1920s ) to the new concept of the popular front (from the 1930s ).
Reception outside the KPen
While this concept found approval within the left social democracy ( Stamokap wing), it was and is predominantly rejected by the New Left as “reformist”. Non-socialist political groups and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, on the other hand, consider this approach to be a purely strategic positioning in order to reduce the risk of a party ban.