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

If one avoids a concrete class analysis, seizes at random oncertain superficial phenomena, and draws subjective andgroundless conclusions, one cannot possibly reach correct conclusionswith regard to the general line of the internationalcommunist movement but will inevitably slide on to a trackentirely different from that of Marxism-Leninism.What are the fundamental contradictions in the contemporaryworld? Marxist-Leninists consistently hold that they are:the contradiction between the socialist camp and the imperialistcamp;the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisiein the capitalist countries;the contradiction between the oppressed nations and imperialism;andthe contradictions among imperialist countries and amongmonopoly capitalist groups.The contradiction between the socialist camp and the imperialistcamp is a contradiction between two fundamentallydifferent social systems, socialism and capitalism. It is undoubtedlyvery sharp. But Marxist-Leninists must not regardthe contradictions in the world as consisting solely and simplyof the contradiction between the socialist camp and the imperialistcamp.The international balance of forces has changed and hasbecome increasingly favourable to socialism and to all the oppressedpeoples and nations of the world, and most unfavourableto imperialism and the reactionaries of all countries.Nevertheless, the contradictions enumerated above still objectivelyexist.These contradictions and the struggles to which they giverise are interrelated and influence each other. Nobody canobliterate any of these fundamental contradictions or subjectivelysubstitute one for all the rest.It is inevitable that these contradictions will give rise topopular revolutions, which alone can resolve them.7