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

PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ABOLISHING THE REVOLUTIONOF THE OPPRESSED NATIONSIn line with their erroneous theories the leaders of the CPSUhave sedulously worked out a number of nostrums for all theills of the oppressed nations. Let us examine them.The first prescription is labelled peaceful coexistence andpeaceful competition.The leaders of the CPSU constantly attribute the great postwarvictories of the national liberation movement won by theAsian, African and Latin American peoples to what they call“peaceful coexistence” and “peaceful competition”. The OpenLetter of the Central Committee of the CPSU says:In conditions of peaceful co-existence, new important victorieshave been scored in recent years in the class struggleof the proletariat and in the struggle of the peoples for nationalfreedom. The world revolutionary process is developingsuccessfully.They also say that the national liberation movement is developingunder conditions of peaceful coexistence betweencountries with different social systems, and of economic competitionbetween the two opposing social systems 1 and thatpeaceful coexistence and peaceful competition “assist the unfoldingof a process of liberation on the part of peoples fightingto free themselves from the domination of foreign monopolies”,2 and can deliver “a crushing blow” to “the entire systemof capitalist relationships”. 3All socialist countries should practise the Leninist policy ofpeaceful coexistence between countries with different social1“The General Line of the International Communist Movement andthe Schismatic Platform of the Chinese Leaders”, editorial board articlein Kommunist, Moscow, No. 14, 1963.2Ibid.3B. N. Ponomaryov, “Some Problems of the Revolutionary Movement”,World Marxist Review, No. 12, 1962.193