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

But the fact that the U.S. reactionaries are now trumpetingso loudly about a U.S.-Soviet war and creating afoul atmosphere, so soon after the end of World War II,compels us to take a look at their real aims. It turns outthat under the cover of anti-Soviet slogans they are franticallyattacking the workers and democratic circles in theUnited States and turning all the countries which are thetargets of U.S. external expansion into U.S. dependencies.I think the American people and the peoples of all countriesmenaced by U.S. aggression should unite and struggleagainst the attacks of the U.S. reactionaries and their runningdogs in these countries. Only by victory in this strugglecan a third world war be avoided; otherwise it isunavoidable. 1Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s remarks were directed against apessimistic appraisal of the international situation at thetime The imperialists headed by the United States, togetherwith the reactionaries in various countries, were daily intensifyingtheir anti-Soviet, anti-Communist and anti-popularactivities and trumpeting that “war between the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union is inevitable” and that “the outbreakof a third world war is inevitable”. The Chiang, Kai-shekreactionaries gave this great publicity in order to intimidatethe Chinese people. Frightened by such blackmail, somecomrades became faint-hearted in the face of the armedattacks launched by the Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries withU.S. imperialist support and dared not firmly oppose thecounter-revolutionary war with a revolutionary war. ComradeMao Tse-tung held different views. He pointed out that anew world war could be prevented provided resolute andeffective struggles were waged against world reaction.His scientific proposition was confirmed by the great victoryof the Chinese Revolution.1Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works, Eng. ed., FLP, Peking, 1961, Vol. IV,p. 100.236