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

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ec<strong>on</strong>omy owned by the whole people in<strong>to</strong> a state capitalistec<strong>on</strong>omy and the decline <strong>of</strong> Yugoslavia in<strong>to</strong> a dependency <strong>of</strong>U.S. imperialism are all due <strong>to</strong> the degenerati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Partyand state power in Yugoslavia.Fighting heroically against the German and Italian fascistaggressors during World War II, the Communist Party andpeople <strong>of</strong> Yugoslavia overthrew the reacti<strong>on</strong>ary rule <strong>of</strong> imperialismand its lackey in Yugoslavia and established the people’sdemocratic state power under the dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat.Not l<strong>on</strong>g afterwards, the leading group <strong>of</strong> the YugoslavCommunist Party betrayed <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism and embarked<strong>on</strong> the path <strong>of</strong> revisi<strong>on</strong>ism, bringing about the gradual degenerati<strong>on</strong><strong>of</strong> the Party and state power in Yugoslavia.The Yugoslav Communist Party had a glorious traditi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong>revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary struggles. The betrayal <strong>of</strong> the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique metfirst <strong>of</strong> all with str<strong>on</strong>g resistance inside the Party. To suppressthis resistance, the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique used its power <strong>to</strong> expel andpurge from the Party a great number <strong>of</strong> Communists loyal <strong>to</strong><strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism. In the period from 1948 <strong>to</strong> 1952 al<strong>on</strong>e,more than 200,000 Party members, or half the original membership<strong>of</strong> the Yugoslav Communist Party, were expelled.Taking acti<strong>on</strong> against the so-called Cominform elements, itarrested and slaughtered large numbers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninistsand revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary cadres and people, the number <strong>of</strong> Communistsand active revoluti<strong>on</strong>aries arrested and impris<strong>on</strong>ed al<strong>on</strong>eexceeding thirty thousand. At the same time, the Ti<strong>to</strong> cliqueopened the door wide <strong>to</strong> counter-revoluti<strong>on</strong>aries, bourgeoiselements, all kinds <strong>of</strong> anti-socialist elements and careeristsseeking positi<strong>on</strong> and wealth through their membership cards.In November 1952 the Ti<strong>to</strong> clique declared that “the appellati<strong>on</strong>Party no l<strong>on</strong>ger fits” and changed the name, the CommunistParty <strong>of</strong> Yugoslavia, in<strong>to</strong> the League <strong>of</strong> Communists<strong>of</strong> Yugoslavia. In violati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the will <strong>of</strong> all h<strong>on</strong>est Communistsin Yugoslavia, it changed the character <strong>of</strong> the YugoslavCommunist Party as the vanguard <strong>of</strong> the proletariat and made172

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