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

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fraternal Parties, and so the questi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> c<strong>on</strong>tending forleadership simply does not arise. What c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ts the internati<strong>on</strong>alcommunist movement now is not whether this or thatParty should assume leadership but whether <strong>to</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>d <strong>to</strong>the bat<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> revisi<strong>on</strong>ism or <strong>to</strong> uphold the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary principles<strong>of</strong> the Declarati<strong>on</strong> and the Statement and perseverein the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary line <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism. Our criticism<strong>of</strong> the leadership <strong>of</strong> the CPSU c<strong>on</strong>cerns its attempt <strong>to</strong> lord i<strong>to</strong>ver fraternal Parties and <strong>to</strong> impose its line <strong>of</strong> revisi<strong>on</strong>ism andsplittism <strong>on</strong> them. What we desire is merely the independentand equal status <strong>of</strong> the fraternal Parties stipulated in theDeclarati<strong>on</strong> and the Statement and their unity <strong>on</strong> the basis<strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism and proletarian internati<strong>on</strong>alism.It is the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU who have provoked and extendedthe present great debate in the internati<strong>on</strong>al communistmovement and forced it <strong>on</strong> us. Since they have levelledlarge-scale attacks and all kinds <strong>of</strong> unscrupulous slandersagainst us, and since they have openly betrayed <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism and proletarian internati<strong>on</strong>alism and <strong>to</strong>rn up theDeclarati<strong>on</strong> and the Statement, they cannot expect us <strong>to</strong>abstain from replying, from refuting their slanders, from safeguardingthe Declarati<strong>on</strong> and the Statement and from defending<strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism. The debate is <strong>on</strong>, and right andwr<strong>on</strong>g must be thoroughly clarified.We Chinese Communists persevere in principle and upholdunity; we did so in the past, we do so now and we shall c<strong>on</strong>tinue<strong>to</strong> do so in the future. While engaging in polemicswith the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU, we still hope they will realizethat they have taken a most dangerous road by aband<strong>on</strong>ingrevoluti<strong>on</strong>, aband<strong>on</strong>ing the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary people <strong>of</strong> the world,aband<strong>on</strong>ing the unity <strong>of</strong> the socialist camp and <strong>of</strong> the internati<strong>on</strong>alcommunist movement and eagerly collaborating withthe U.S. imperialists, the reacti<strong>on</strong>aries <strong>of</strong> all countries andthe renegade Ti<strong>to</strong> clique.The interests <strong>of</strong> the Chinese and Soviet peoples, <strong>of</strong> thesocialist camp, <strong>of</strong> the internati<strong>on</strong>al communist movement, and103

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