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

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the proletariat in power in its state relati<strong>on</strong>s with countrieshaving different social systems with the general line <strong>of</strong> all theCommunist Parties, and they try <strong>to</strong> substitute the former forthe latter, demanding that Communist Parties and revoluti<strong>on</strong>arypeoples should all follow what they call the general line<strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistence. Not desiring revoluti<strong>on</strong> themselves,they forbid others <strong>to</strong> make it. Not opposing imperialismthemselves, they forbid others <strong>to</strong> oppose it.This the Open Letter <strong>of</strong> the Central Committee <strong>of</strong> the CPSUand Khrushchov’s recent remarks have strenuously denied. Ithas been asserted that it is “a m<strong>on</strong>strous slander” <strong>to</strong> accuse theleaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU <strong>of</strong> extending peaceful coexistence <strong>to</strong> relati<strong>on</strong>sbetween the oppressed and oppressor classes and betweenthe oppressed and oppressor nati<strong>on</strong>s. They have even hypocriticallystated that peaceful coexistence “cannot be extended<strong>to</strong> the class struggle against capital within the capitalist countriesand <strong>to</strong> nati<strong>on</strong>al liberati<strong>on</strong> movement”.But such prevaricati<strong>on</strong> is futile.We should like <strong>to</strong> ask the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU: Since thepolicy <strong>of</strong> peaceful coexistence c<strong>on</strong>stitutes <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e aspect <strong>of</strong>the foreign policy <strong>of</strong> socialist countries, why have you asserteduntil recently that it represents “the strategic line forthe whole period <strong>of</strong> transiti<strong>on</strong> from capitalism <strong>to</strong> socialism <strong>on</strong>a world scale”? 1 In requiring the Communist Parties <strong>of</strong> allthe capitalist countries and <strong>of</strong> the oppressed nati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>to</strong> makepeaceful coexistence their general line, are you not aiming atreplacing the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary line <strong>of</strong> the Communist Partieswith your policy <strong>of</strong> “peaceful coexistence” and wilfully applyingthat policy <strong>to</strong> the relati<strong>on</strong>s between oppressed and oppressorclasses and between oppressed and oppressor nati<strong>on</strong>s?We should also like <strong>to</strong> ask the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU: Sincethe peoples win vic<strong>to</strong>ry in their revoluti<strong>on</strong>s by relying primarily<strong>on</strong> their own struggles, how can such vic<strong>to</strong>ry be attrib-1“For the Unity and Solidarity <strong>of</strong> the Internati<strong>on</strong>al Communist Movement”,edi<strong>to</strong>rial board article in Pravda, December 6, 1963.287

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