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

nucleus, to oppose the imperialists and reactionaries headedby the United States; it is a line of boldly arousing the masses,expanding the revolutionary forces, winning over the middleforces and isolating the reactionary forces.This general line is one of resolute revolutionary struggleby the people of all countries and of carrying the proletarianworld revolution forward to the end; it is the line that mosteffectively combats imperialism and defends world peace.If the general line of the international communist movementis one-sidedly reduced to “peaceful coexistence”, “peacefulcompetition” and “peaceful transition”, this is to violatethe revolutionary principles of the 1957 Declaration and the1960 Statement, to discard the historical mission of proletarianworld revolution, and to depart from the revolutionary teachingsof Marxism-Leninism.The general line of the international communist movementshould reflect the general law of development of world history.The revolutionary struggles of the proletariat and thepeople in various countries go through different stages andthey all have their own characteristics, but they will not transcendthe general law of development of world history. Thegeneral line should point out the basic direction for the revolutionarystruggles of the proletariat and people of all countries.While working out its specific line and policies, it is mostimportant for each Communist or Workers’ Party to adhere tothe principle of integrating the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of revolution and constructionin its own country.4. In defining the general line of the international communistmovement, the starting point is the concrete classanalysis of world politics and economics as a whole and ofactual world conditions, that is to say, of the fundamentalcontradictions in the contemporary world.6