
Class struggle has been rising in recent years, especially in Latin America. And, in accordance with this, the idea of socialism is gaining sympathy among toiling classes to a certain extent. This, at first sight, is surely very important and pleasing at a time when the whole world is in turbulence and in the grip of an economic crisis, when main political pillars in all capitalist countries have begun shaking and imperialist wars and struggle for hegemony between imperialists are rampant. However, we must bear in mind that this process contains certain risks as well. The bitter experience of regimes like the one in the USSR, which call themselves “socialist” but have nothing to do with socialism, and their eventual collapse made toiling masses confused and damaged their belief for socialism. It is crystal clear that communist movement needs extremely careful approaches, correct analyses and genuine revolutionary and internationalist perspectives in order not to make the same mistakes and to avoid from the same fate. Today the fact that the concept of socialism is gaining sympathy among the masses again is utilized by reformist-nationalist-populist bourgeois left leaders in Latin America to come into power and to maintain their positions. Statesmen that has come into power anyway and are pretending as friend and leader of the people, and as leftist, are using a manifest discourse of “socialism”. This situation on the one hand causes reformism and left-nationalism to become popular and on the other hand prepares the way for an exaggeration of the potentials of such movements even by some Marxists and hence tailism. Without an awareness against any kind of petty-bourgeois socialism, no matter they are revolutionary or reformist, it would be inevitable to waste new opportunities for proletarian revolutions.