Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

In the final analysis, this was done in order that the leadersof the CPSU should be able to throw the Declaration and theStatement overboard, oppose Marxism-Leninism and pursuea systematically revisionist line.Their revisionism was expressed in concentrated form inthe new Programme of the CPSU which that Congress adopted.The Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUsays that the line of the 22nd Congress was “approved at themeetings of representatives of the Communist Parties andset out in the Declaration and Statement”. Is it not verycareless of the leaders of the CPSU to make such a statement?How can they describe what happened in 1961 as having been“approved” or “set out” at the meeting of the Communistand Workers’ Parties in 1960, or as far back as that in 1957?But leaving aside such silly self-commendation for themoment, let us first see the kind of stuff the Programmeadopted at the 22nd Congress is made of.Even a cursory study of the Programme and the report onit made by Khrushchov shows that it is an out-and-out revisionistprogramme which totally violates the fundamentaltheories of Marxism-Leninism and the revolutionary principlesof the Declaration and the Statement.It runs counter to the 1957 Declaration and the 1960 Statementon many important questions of principle. Many ofthe erroneous views of the leadership of the CPSU which wererejected at the 1960 meeting of fraternal Parties reappear.For instance, it describes peaceful coexistence as the generalprinciple of foreign policy, one-sidedly stresses the possibilityof peaceful transition and slanders the policy of a socialistcountry’s relying mainly on its own efforts in constructionas “going it alone”.The Programme goes a step further in systematizing thewrong line pursued by the leadership of the CPSU since its20th Congress, the main content of which is “peaceful coexistence”,“peaceful competition” and “peaceful transition”.91