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

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internati<strong>on</strong>al agreements”. 1 On this questi<strong>on</strong>, Khrushchov hastaken over the line <strong>of</strong> the revisi<strong>on</strong>ists <strong>of</strong> the Sec<strong>on</strong>d Internati<strong>on</strong>al;he advocates a “quiet burial <strong>of</strong> the col<strong>on</strong>ial system”. 2The old revisi<strong>on</strong>ists attacked the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary <strong>Marx</strong>ists,hurling at them the slander that “Bolshevism is in essence awarlike type <strong>of</strong> socialism” 3 and that “the Communist Internati<strong>on</strong>alharbours the illusi<strong>on</strong> that the liberati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the workerscan be achieved by means <strong>of</strong> the bay<strong>on</strong>ets <strong>of</strong> the vic<strong>to</strong>riousRed Army and that a new world war is necessary for theworld revoluti<strong>on</strong>”. They also spread the s<strong>to</strong>ry that this positi<strong>on</strong>had “created the greatest danger <strong>of</strong> a new world war”. 4The language Khrushchov uses <strong>to</strong>day <strong>to</strong> slander the ChineseCommunist Party and other fraternal <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist Partiesis exactly the language used by the old revisi<strong>on</strong>ists inslandering the Bolsheviks. It is hard <strong>to</strong> find any difference.It must be said that in serving the imperialists’ neocol<strong>on</strong>ialism,Khrushchov is not a whit inferior <strong>to</strong> the oldrevisi<strong>on</strong>ists in their service <strong>of</strong> the imperialists’ old col<strong>on</strong>ialism.Lenin showed how the policy <strong>of</strong> imperialism caused the internati<strong>on</strong>alworkers’ movement <strong>to</strong> split in<strong>to</strong> two secti<strong>on</strong>s, therevoluti<strong>on</strong>ary and the opportunist. The revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary secti<strong>on</strong>sided with the oppressed nati<strong>on</strong>s and opposed the imperialistsand col<strong>on</strong>ialists. On the other hand, the opportunist secti<strong>on</strong>fed <strong>on</strong> crumbs from the spoils which the imperialists and col<strong>on</strong>ialistssqueezed out <strong>of</strong> the people <strong>of</strong> the col<strong>on</strong>ies and semicol<strong>on</strong>ies.It sided with the imperialists and col<strong>on</strong>ialists andopposed the revoluti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the oppressed nati<strong>on</strong>s for liberati<strong>on</strong>.1“Resoluti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the Terri<strong>to</strong>rial Questi<strong>on</strong>”, adopted by the Internati<strong>on</strong>alSocialist C<strong>on</strong>ference in Berne, 1919, Material <strong>on</strong> the First and Sec<strong>on</strong>dInternati<strong>on</strong>als, Russ. ed., Moscow, 1926, p. 380.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the U.N. <strong>General</strong> Assembly, September23, 1960.3Ot<strong>to</strong> Bauer, Speech <strong>on</strong> the Oriental Questi<strong>on</strong> at the Internati<strong>on</strong>alSocialist C<strong>on</strong>gress in Marseilles, 1925, Material <strong>on</strong> the First and Sec<strong>on</strong>dInternati<strong>on</strong>als, Russ. ed., Moscow, 1926, pp. 468.4“Resoluti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> the Oriental Questi<strong>on</strong>”, adopted by the Internati<strong>on</strong>alSocialist C<strong>on</strong>gress in Marseilles, 1925, Material <strong>on</strong> the First and Sec<strong>on</strong>dInternati<strong>on</strong>als, Russ. ed., Moscow, 1926, p. 474.218

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