In the following days of the 15th July coup attempt in Turkey, the Communist Party, Turkey released numerous statements and analysis regarding the situation in the country and the immediate agenda of the class struggle in Turkey. The following is a commentary by the First Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party, Turkey, Kemal Okuyan which composes KP's recent line of politics.
Source: International Communist Press.
Kemal Okuyan.
The
Gulenists had seized the state. This is what they say. But, the
picture shows that the Gulenists are in some extent the state itself.
‘Seizing’ does not, and cannot, correspond to reality. The truth
is totally the opposite.
I
shall not repeat how and why the Gulenist movement had increased its
influence, as we have talked and written a lot about this issue.
But
I shall reverse the above question and thus focus on the answer of
the following one: What and who is the state?
Marxists
have long debated on topics like, which mechanisms attribute class
character to the state; how the state serves the interests of the
ruling class; in this process to what extent the state is capable of
creating an autonomous area and how the apparatus of the state, in
the existing context, will fade with the annihilation of all classes.
There is a whole and very valuable sum of writings to comprehend and
analyse the complicated structure of the state.