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Revolutionary Bolsheviks of Costa Rica Bolcheviques Revolucionarios de Costa Rica | |
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| Abbreviation | BRCR |
| General Secretary | Rodrigo Alvarez |
| Founded | 31 March 1993 |
| Headquarters | San José, Costa Rica |
| Newspaper | The Hammer and the Sickle (La Hoz y el Martillo) |
| Youth wing | Young Bolshevik League (Liga Joven Bolchevique) |
| Women's wing | League of Women Bolsheviks (Liga de Mujeres Bolcheviques) |
| Armed wing | The Proletarian Army (El Ejército Proletario) |
| Indigenous wing | Indigenous Bolshevik League (Liga Bolcheviques Indígenas) |
| Membership (2018) | 3,000 + |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | ICMLPO |
| Colors | Red and Yellow |
| Slogan | "Workers and oppressed peoples of all countries, unite!" ("¡Trabajadores y pueblos oprimidos de todos los países, uníos!") |
| Anthem | La Internacional |
| Legislative Assembly | 0 / 57
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| Website | |
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The Revolutionary Bolsheviks of Costa Rica (BRCR; Spanish: Bolcheviques Revolucionarios de Costa Rica) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Costa Rica, founded in 1993. It is guided by the theoretical contributions of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Enver Hoxha. The current General Secretary and principal theorist is Rodrigo Alvarez, who also co-founded the party.
The party is named after the Bolshevik Party in the Russian Empire, which under the leadership of Lenin led the first successful communist revolution after the Paris Commune and established the first workers' state in the Soviet Union. It is organized according to the principles of democratic centralism. It sees Leninism as the furthest development of Marxism and scientific socialism in the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions; as such, it sees the theories of Lenin and Stalin as applicable to the present day. It publishes a monthly newspaper called La Hoz y el Martillo (The Hammer and the Sickle). It has an armed, insurgent wing: El Ejército Proletario (The Proletarian Army).
The party's stated goal is to organize workers and campesinos into a vanguard detachment to create the material conditions necessary to lead a workers' revolution and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat in Costa Rica, as the pre-requisite for building socialism and communism. It staunchly defends women's liberation and proletarian feminism, believing the patriarchy and capitalism to be intertwined; it also supports LGBT liberation, but is critical of what it calls "rainbow capitalism". It shuns reformism and encourages abstention of elections.
It is a member of the International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle). As a staunch anti-revisionist party, it is critical of other leftist and socialist currents, such as anarchism, social democracy, Trotskyism and Maoism. It has made inroads into the various trade unions and campesino organizations throughout the country, as well as running laundromats, soup kitchens and food banks for the poor.