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

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. . . it is <strong>on</strong>e thing <strong>to</strong> practise peaceful coexistence betweencountries with different social systems. It is absolutelyimpermissible and impossible for countries practisingpeaceful coexistence <strong>to</strong> <strong>to</strong>uch even a hair <strong>of</strong> each other’ssocial system. The class struggle, the struggle for nati<strong>on</strong>alliberati<strong>on</strong> and the transiti<strong>on</strong> from capitalism <strong>to</strong> socialism invarious countries are quite another thing. They are all bitter,life-and-death revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary struggles which aim atchanging the social system. Peaceful coexistence cannot replacethe revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary struggles <strong>of</strong> the people. The transiti<strong>on</strong>from capitalism <strong>to</strong> socialism in any country can <strong>on</strong>lybe brought about through the proletarian revoluti<strong>on</strong> andthe dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat in that country.In a class society it is completely wr<strong>on</strong>g <strong>to</strong> regard peacefulcoexistence as “the best and the sole acceptable way <strong>to</strong> solvethe vitally important problems c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ting society” and as the“basic law <strong>of</strong> life for the whole <strong>of</strong> modern society”. This issocial pacifism which repudiates class struggle. It is an outrageousbetrayal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism.Back in 1946, Comrade <strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung differentiated betweenthe two problems and explicitly stated that compromise betweenthe Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> and the United States, Britain andFrance <strong>on</strong> certain issues “does not require the people in thecountries <strong>of</strong> the capitalist world <strong>to</strong> follow suit and make compromisesat home. The people in those countries will c<strong>on</strong>tinue<strong>to</strong> wage different struggles in accordance with their differentc<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s.” 1This is a correct <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist policy. Guided by thiscorrect policy <strong>of</strong> Comrade <strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung’s, the Chinese peoplefirmly and determinedly carried the revoluti<strong>on</strong> through <strong>to</strong> theend and w<strong>on</strong> the great vic<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> their revoluti<strong>on</strong>.Acting against this <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist policy, the leaders <strong>of</strong>the CPSU equate <strong>on</strong>e aspect <strong>of</strong> the policy <strong>to</strong> be pursued by1<strong>Mao</strong> Tse-tung, “Some Points in Appraisal <strong>of</strong> the Present Internati<strong>on</strong>alSituati<strong>on</strong>, Selected Works, Eng. ed., FLP, Peking, 1961, Vol. IV,p. 87.286

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