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

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INCE the 20th C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> the CPSU Khrushchov andS other comrades have talked more about the questi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong>peaceful coexistence than about anything else.Again and again the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU claim that theyhave been faithful <strong>to</strong> Lenin’s policy <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistenceand have creatively developed it. They ascribe <strong>to</strong> their policy<strong>of</strong> “peaceful coexistence” all the credit for the vic<strong>to</strong>ries w<strong>on</strong>by the peoples <strong>of</strong> the world in prol<strong>on</strong>ged revoluti<strong>on</strong>arystruggles.They advertise the noti<strong>on</strong> that imperialism, and U.S. imperialismin particular, supports peaceful coexistence, andthey want<strong>on</strong>ly malign the Chinese Communist Party and all<strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist Parties as being opp<strong>on</strong>ents <strong>of</strong> peacefulcoexistence. The Open Letter <strong>of</strong> the Central Committee <strong>of</strong>the CPSU even slanders China as favouring “competiti<strong>on</strong> inunleashing war” with the imperialists.They describe the words and deeds by which they havebetrayed <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism, the proletarian world revoluti<strong>on</strong>and the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary cause <strong>of</strong> the oppressed peoples and nati<strong>on</strong>sas being in c<strong>on</strong>formity with Lenin’s policy <strong>of</strong> peacefulcoexistence.But can the words “peaceful coexistence” really serve asa talisman for the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU in their betrayal <strong>of</strong><strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism? No, absolutely not.We are now c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ted with two diametrically opposedpolicies <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistence.One is Lenin and Stalin’s policy <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistence,which all <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninists, including the Chinese Communists,stand for.The other is the anti-Leninist policy <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistence,the so-called general line <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistenceadvocated by Khrushchov and others.261

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