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

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CPSU leaders went farther and farther down the road <strong>of</strong>revisi<strong>on</strong>ism and splittism. In return for the advice we gavein goodwill, they applied a successi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> political, ec<strong>on</strong>omicand military pressures against us and launched attacks whichbecame increasingly violent.The CPSU leaders have a bad habit: they undiscriminatinglystick labels <strong>on</strong> any<strong>on</strong>e who criticizes them.They say, “You are anti-Soviet!” No, friends! The label“anti-Soviet” cannot be stuck <strong>on</strong> us. Our criticism <strong>of</strong> yourerrors is precisely for the sake <strong>of</strong> defending the great CPSUand the great Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> and preventing the prestige <strong>of</strong>the CPSU and the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> from being badly damagedby you. To put it plainly, it is you, and not we, who arereally anti-Soviet and who are defaming and discrediting theCPSU and the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong>. Ever since the complete negati<strong>on</strong><strong>of</strong> Stalin at the 20th C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> the CPSU, you havecommitted innumerable foul deeds. Not all the water in theVolga can wash away the great shame you have broughtup<strong>on</strong> the CPSU and up<strong>on</strong> the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong>.They say, “You want <strong>to</strong> seize the leadership!” No, friends!It is not at all clever <strong>of</strong> you <strong>to</strong> make this slander. Theway you put it, it would seem that some people are c<strong>on</strong>tendingwith you for some such thing as “the leadership”. Isthis not tantamount <strong>to</strong> shamelessly claiming that some sort<strong>of</strong> “leadership” exists in the internati<strong>on</strong>al communist movementand that you have this “leadership”? It is a very, verybad habit <strong>of</strong> yours thus <strong>to</strong> put <strong>on</strong> the airs <strong>of</strong> a patriarchalparty. It is entirely illegitimate. The 1957 Declarati<strong>on</strong>and the 1960 Statement clearly state that all Communist Partiesare independent and equal. According <strong>to</strong> this principle,the relati<strong>on</strong>s am<strong>on</strong>g fraternal Parties should under no circumstancesbe like the relati<strong>on</strong>s between a leading Party and theled, and much less like the relati<strong>on</strong>s between a patriarchalfather and his s<strong>on</strong>. We have always opposed any <strong>on</strong>e Partycommanding other fraternal Parties, and it has neveroccurred <strong>to</strong> us that we ourselves should command other102

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