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

history it is the only lawful, rightful, just, and truly greatwar.” 1 If we are accused of being warlike simply because ofthis, it only goes to prove that we genuinely side with theoppressed peoples and nations and are true Marxist-Leninists.The imperialists and revisionists always denounced theBolsheviks and revolutionary leaders like Lenin and Stalinas being “warlike”. The very fact that today we are likewiseabused by imperialists and revisionists shows that we havebeen holding aloft the revolutionary banner of Marxism-Leninism.Khrushchov and others vigorously propagate the view thatall wars can be prevented and “a world without weapons, withoutarmed forces and without wars” can be brought into beingwhile imperialism still exists. This is nothing but Kautsky’stheory of “ultra-imperialism” which has long been bankrupt.Their purpose is all too clear; it is to make the people believethat permanent peace can be realized under imperialism andthereby to abolish revolution and national liberation wars andrevolutionary civil wars against imperialism and its lackeys,and in fact to help the imperialists in their preparations fora new war.NUCLEAR FETISHISM AND NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL ARETHE THEORETICAL BASIS AND GUIDING POLICYOF MODERN REVISIONISMThe heart of the theory of the leaders of the CPSU on warand peace is their thesis that the emergence of nuclear weaponshas changed everything including the laws of class struggle.The Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUsays, “The nuclear and rocket weapons created in the middleof this century have changed former conceptions of war.” Inwhat way were they changed?1V. I. Lenin. “Revolutionary Days”, Collected Works, Eng. ed., FLPH,Moscow, 1969, Vol. VIII, p. 107.242