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

French monopoly capitalists, crying that “Algeria is aninalienable part of France” 1 and that France “should be a greatAfrican power, now and in the future”. 2 Thorez and otherswere most concerned about the fact that Algeria could provideFrance with “a million head of sheep” and large quantities ofwheat yearly to solve her problem of “the shortage of meat”and “make up our deficit in grain”. 3Just see! What feverish chauvinism on the part of the leadersof the CPF! Do they show an iota of proletarian internationalism?Is there anything of the proletarian revolutionary inthem? By taking this chauvinistic stand they have betrayedthe fundamental interests of the international proletariat, thefundamental interests of the French proletariat and the true interestsof the French nation.AGAINST THE “THEORY OF RACISM” ANDTHE “THEORY OF THE YELLOW PERIL”Having used up all their wonder-working weapons for opposingthe national liberation movement, the leaders of theCPSU are now reduced to seeking help from racism, the mostreactionary of all imperialist theories. They describe thecorrect stand of the CPC in resolutely supporting the nationalliberation movement as “creating racial and geographicalbarriers”, “replacing the class approach with the racial approach”,and “playing upon the national and even racialprejudices of the Asian and African peoples”.If Marxism-Leninism did not exist, perhaps such lies coulddeceive people. Unfortunately for the manufacturers of these1Documents of the September 24, 1946 Session of the ConstituentNational Assembly of France, Appendix II, No. 1013.2Florimond Bonte, Speech at the Constituent Assembly of France,1944.3Maurice Thorez, Report to the Tenth Congress of the CommunistParty of France, 1945.212