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

through three books on Mongolian history, looking for historystories, did I find out that the conquest of “Russia” bythe Mongolians and their invasion of Hungary and Austriaactually preceded their conquest of China, and that theGenghis Khan of that time was not yet our Khan. TheRussians were enslaved before we were, and presumably itis they who ought to be able to say, “When our GenghisKhan conquered China, he ushered in the most splendidperiod of our history.” 1Anyone with a little knowledge of modern world historyknows that the “theory of the Yellow Peril” about which theCPSU leadership has been making such a noise is a legacy ofthe German Kaiser William II. Half a century ago, WilliamII stated, “I am a believer in the Yellow Peril.”The Kaiser’s purpose in propagating the “theory of theYellow Peril” was to carry the partition of China further,to invade Asia, to suppress revolution in Asia, to divertthe attention of the European people from revolution and to useit as a smokescreen for his active preparations for the imperialistworld war and for his attempt to gain world hegemony.When William II spread this “theory of the Yellow Peril”,the European bourgeoisie was in deep decline and extremelyreactionary, and democratic revolutions were sweepingthrough China, Turkey and Persia and affecting India, aroundthe time of the 1905 Russian Revolution. That was the period,too, when Lenin made his famous remark about “backwardEurope and advanced Asia”.William II was a bigwig in his day. But in reality he provedto be only a snow man in the sun. In a very short time thisreactionary chieftain vanished from the scene, together withthe reactionary theory he invented. The great Lenin and hisbrilliant teachings live on for ever.1Lu Hsun, Collected Works, Chin. ed., People’s Literature PublishingHouse, Peking, 1958, Vol. VI, p. 109.215