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

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FIGHT OR CAPITULATE?World peace can be w<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong>ly through struggle by thepeople <strong>of</strong> all countries and not by begging the imperialists forit. Peace can be effectively safeguarded <strong>on</strong>ly by relying <strong>on</strong>the masses <strong>of</strong> the people and waging a tit-for-tat struggleagainst the imperialist policies <strong>of</strong> aggressi<strong>on</strong> and war. Thisis the correct policy.Tit-for-tat struggle is an important c<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong> drawn bythe Chinese people from their prol<strong>on</strong>ged struggle against imperialismand its lackeys.Comrade <strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung said:Chiang Kai-shek always tries <strong>to</strong> wrest every ounce <strong>of</strong>power and every ounce <strong>of</strong> gain from the people. And we?Our policy is <strong>to</strong> give him tit for tat and <strong>to</strong> fight for everyinch <strong>of</strong> land. We act after his fashi<strong>on</strong>. 1He added:He always tries <strong>to</strong> impose war <strong>on</strong> the people, <strong>on</strong>e swordin his left hand and another in his right. We take upswords, <strong>to</strong>o, following his example. 2Analysing the domestic political situati<strong>on</strong> in 1945, Comrade<strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung said:How <strong>to</strong> give “tit for tat” depends <strong>on</strong> the situati<strong>on</strong>. Sometimes,not going <strong>to</strong> negotiati<strong>on</strong>s is tit-for-tat; and sometimes,going <strong>to</strong> negotiati<strong>on</strong>s is also tit-for-tat. . . . If theystart fighting, we fight back, fight <strong>to</strong> win peace. Peace willnot come unless we strike hard blows at the reacti<strong>on</strong>arieswho dare <strong>to</strong> attack the Liberated Areas. 31<strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung, “The Situati<strong>on</strong> and Our Policy After the Vic<strong>to</strong>ryin the War <strong>of</strong> Resistance Against Japan”, Selected Works, Eng. ed.,FLP, Peking, 1961, Vol. IV, p. 14.2Ibid.3<strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung, “On the Chungking Negotiati<strong>on</strong>s”, Selected Works,Eng. ed., FLP, Peking, 1961, Vol. IV, p. 56.249

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