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

Lenin said in 1913, “. . . a new source of great world stormsopened up in Asia. . . . It is in this era of storms and their‘repercussion’ on Europe that we are now living.” 1Stalin said in 1925:The colonial countries constitute the principal rear of imperialism.The revolutionisation of this rear is bound toundermine imperialism not only in the sense that imperialismwill be deprived of its rear, but also in the sense thatthe revolutionisation of the East is bound to give a powerfulimpulse to the intensification of the revolutionary crisis inthe West. 2Is it possible that these statements of Lenin and Stalin arewrong? The theses they enunciated have long been elementaryMarxist-Leninist knowledge. Obviously, now that the leadersof the CPSU are bent on belittling the national liberationmovement, they are completely ignoring elementary Marxism-Leninism and the plain facts under their noses.DISTORTION OF THE LENINIST VIEW OFLEADERSHIP IN THE REVOLUTIONIn its Open Letter of July 14, the Central Committee of theCPSU also attacks the standpoint of the Chinese CommunistParty on the question of proletarian leadership in the nationalliberation movement. It says:. . . the Chinese comrades want to “correct” Lenin andprove that hegemony in the world struggle against imperialismshould go not to the working class, but to the petty1V. I. Lenin, “The Historical Destiny of the Doctrine of Karl Marx”,Selected Works, Eng. ed., International Publishers, New York, 1943,Vol. XI, p. 51.2J. V. Stalin, “The Revolutionary Movement in the East”, Works,Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, Vol. VII, pp. 235-36.203