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

And he answered in the negative, “. . . we cannot agreeto these or similar concessions without being false to ourselves.. . .” 1These remarks of Stalin’s are still of great practical significance.There are indeed two diametrically opposed foreignpolicies, two diametrically opposed policies of peaceful coexistence.It is an important task for all Marxist-Leninists to distinguishbetween them, uphold Lenin and Stalin’s policy andfirmly oppose the policy of betrayal, capitulation and withholdingsupport from revolution as well as the policy whichconverts a socialist country into a “good” bourgeois republic— policies which Stalin denounced.THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA UPHOLDSLENIN’S POLICY OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCEThe Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUalleges that the Chinese Communist Party “disbelieves in thepossibility of peaceful coexistence” and slanderously accusesit of opposing Lenin’s policy of peaceful coexistence.Is this true? No. Of course not.Anyone who respects facts can see clearly that the ChineseCommunist Party and the Government of the People’s Republicof China have unswervingly pursued Lenin’s policy ofpeaceful coexistence with great success.Since World War II, a fundamental change has taken placein the international balance of class forces. Socialism hastriumphed in a number of countries and the socialist camphas come into being. The national liberation movement isgrowing apace and there have emerged many nationalist stateswhich have newly acquired political independence. The imperialistcamp has been greatly weakened and the contradic-1J. V. Stalin, “The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the CentralCommittee and Central Control Commission”, Works, Eng. ed., FLPH,Moscow, 1954, Vol. XI, pp. 58, 59 and 60.270