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

The Programme crudely revises the essence of Marxism-Leninism, namely, the teachings on proletarian revolution, onthe dictatorship of the proletariat and on the party of theproletariat, declaring that the dictatorship of the proletariatis no longer needed in the Soviet Union and that the natureof the CPSU as the vanguard of the proletariat has changed,and advancing fallacies of a “state of the whole people” anda “party of the entire people”.It substitutes humanism for the Marxist-Leninist theory ofclass struggle and substitutes the bourgeois slogan of Liberty,Equality, Fraternity for the ideals of communism.It is a programme which opposes revolution on the part ofthe people still living under the imperialist and capitalistsystem, who comprise two-thirds of the world’s population,and opposes the carrying of revolution through to completionon the part of the people already on the socialist road, whocomprise one-third of the world’s population. It is a revisionistprogramme for the preservation or restoration of capitalism.The Communist Party of China resolutely opposed the errorsof the 22nd Congress of the CPSU. Comrade Chou En-lai,who headed the CPC delegation to the Congress, stated ourParty’s position in his speech there, and he also franklycriticized the errors of the leadership of the CPSU in subsequentconversations with Khrushchov and other leaders ofthe CPSU.In his conversation with the delegation of the CPC,Khrushchov flatly turned down our criticisms and advice andeven expressed undisguised support for anti-Party elementsin the Chinese Communist Party. He openly stated that afterthe 20th Congress of the CPSU, when the leaders of the CPSUwere beginning to take a “road different from that of Stalin”(that is, the road of revisionism), they still needed the supportof the fraternal Parties. He said, “The voice of the ChineseCommunist Party was then of great significance to us”, but92