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

and to replace the Declaration and the Statement with theirown revisionist programme. They describe their erroneousline as the “whole set of Leninist policies of the internationalcommunist movement of recent years”, 1 and they call theirrevisionist programme the “real Communist Manifesto of ourtime” 2 and the “common programme” of the “Communist andWorkers’ Parties and of the people of countries of the socialistcommunity”. 3Any fraternal Party which rejects the erroneous line andprogramme of the CPSU and perseveres in the fundamentaltheories of Marxism-Leninism and the revolutionary principlesof the Declaration and the Statement is looked upon as anenemy by the leaders of the CPSU, who oppose, attack andinjure it and try to subvert its leadership by every possiblemeans.2. Disregarding all consequences, the leadership of theCPSU broke off diplomatic relations with socialist Albania,an unprecedented step in the history of relations betweenfraternal Parties and countries.3. The leadership of the CPSU has continued to exert pressureon China and to make outrageous attacks on the ChineseCommunist Party. In its letter of February 22, 1962 to theCentral Committee of the CPC, the Central Committee of theCPSU accused the CPC of taking a “special stand of theirown” and pursuing a line at variance with the common courseof the fraternal Parties, and even made a crime out of oursupport for the Marxist-Leninist Albanian Party of Labour.As pre-conditions for improving Sino-Soviet relations, theleaders of the CPSU attempted to compel the CPC to abandonits Marxist-Leninist and proletarian internationalist stand,1J. Y. Andropov, “The 22nd Congress of the CPSU and the Developmentof the World Socialist System”, Pravda, December 2, 1961.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the Conference of the AgriculturalWorkers of the Uzbek and Other Republics, November 16, 1961.3“Unity Multiplies Tenfold the Forces of Communism”, Pravdaeditorial, August 25, 1961.94