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

According to the leadership of the CPSU, the dictatorshipof the proletariat and the socialist system of society whichwere established as a result of the October Revolution failedto remove the oppression of the working people or acceleratethe development of Soviet society for several decades; onlyafter the 20th Congress of the CPSU carried out the “combatagainst the personality cult” was the “heavy burden” removedfrom the working people and “the development of Sovietsociety” suddenly “accelerated”. 1Khrushchov said, “Ah! If only Stalin had died ten yearsearlier!” 2 As everybody knows, Stalin died in 1953; ten yearsearlier would have been 1943, the very year when the SovietUnion began its counter-offensive in the Great Patriotic War.At that time, who wanted Stalin to die? Hitler!It is not a new thing in the history of the international communistmovement for the enemies of Marxism-Leninism tovilify the leaders of the proletariat and try to undermine theproletarian cause by using some such slogan as “combatingthe personality cult”. It is a dirty trick which people sawthrough long ago.In the period of the First International the schemer Bakuninused similar language to rail at Marx. At first, to wormhimself into Marx’s confidence, he wrote him, “I am yourdisciple and I am proud of it.” 3 Later, when he failed in hisplot to usurp the leadership of the First International, heabused Marx and said, “As a German and a Jew, he is authoritarianfrom head to heels” 4 and a “dictator”. 51Ibid.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the Soviet-Hungarian Friendship Rallyin Moscow, July 19, 1963.3M. A. Bakunin’s Letter to Karl Marx, December 22, 1868, Die NeueZeit, No. 1, 1900.4Franz Mehring, Karl Marx, the Story of His Life, Eng. ed., CoviciFriede Publishers, New York, 1935, p. 429.5“Engels to A. Bebel, June 20, 1873”, Selected Works of Karl Marxand Frederick Engels, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1951, Vol. II, p. 432.136