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

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In Khrushchov’s opini<strong>on</strong>, Yugoslavia is not <strong>on</strong>ly a socialistcountry but an “advanced” socialist country. There, <strong>on</strong>efinds not “idle talk about revoluti<strong>on</strong>” but “actual c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong><strong>of</strong> socialism’’, and the development <strong>of</strong> Yugoslavia is “ac<strong>on</strong>crete c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> <strong>to</strong> the general world revoluti<strong>on</strong>aryworkers’ movement”, 1 which Khrushchov rather envies andwishes <strong>to</strong> emulate.In Khrushchov’s opini<strong>on</strong>, the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU and theTi<strong>to</strong>ites are “not <strong>on</strong>ly class brothers” but “brothers tied <strong>to</strong>gether. . . by the singleness <strong>of</strong> aims c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ting us”. Theleadership <strong>of</strong> the CPSU is a “reliable and faithful ally” <strong>of</strong>the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique. 2Khrushchov believes he has discovered genuine <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism in the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique. The Central Committee <strong>of</strong> theCPSU was merely pretending when it asserted in its OpenLetter that “differences <strong>on</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> fundamental ideologicalquesti<strong>on</strong>s still remain between the CPSU and theYugoslav League <strong>of</strong> Communists”. Now Khrushchov has<strong>to</strong>ld the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique that “we bel<strong>on</strong>g <strong>to</strong> <strong>on</strong>e and the sameidea and are guided by the same theory”, and that both stand<strong>on</strong> the basis <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism. 3Khrushchov has cast the Statement <strong>of</strong> 1960 <strong>to</strong> the winds.The Statement says:The Communist Parties have unanimously c<strong>on</strong>demnedthe Yugoslav variety <strong>of</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>al opportunism, a variety<strong>of</strong> modern revisi<strong>on</strong>ist “theories” in c<strong>on</strong>centrated form.It says:After betraying <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism, which they termedobsolete, the leaders <strong>of</strong> the League <strong>of</strong> Communists <strong>of</strong> Yu-1N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at a Mass Rally in Velenje, Yugoslavia,August 30, 1963.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at a Meeting in a Fac<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> Rakovica,Yugoslavia, August 21, 1963.3N. S. Khrushchov, Interview with Foreign Corresp<strong>on</strong>dents at Bri<strong>on</strong>i,Yugoslavia, August 28, 1963, as reported by Tanjug.142

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