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

tyranny” towards the socialist countries in Eastern Europe, soas to provide “free choice” for the people of those countries. 1The meaning of these words, too, is very clear. The U.S.imperialists malign the socialist system as “dictatorial” and“tyrannical” and describe the restoration of capitalism as“free choice”. They say to the Soviet leaders: Do you wishto live in peace with the United States? Very well! But thisdoes not mean we recognize the status quo in the socialistcountries; on the contrary, capitalism must be restored there.In other words, the U.S. imperialists will never reconcilethemselves to the fact that one-third of the world’s populationhas taken the socialist road, and they will always attempt todestroy all the socialist countries.Briefly, what the U.S. imperialists call peaceful coexistenceamounts to this: no people living under imperialist dominationand enslavement may strive for liberation, all who have alreadyemancipated themselves must again come under imperialistdomination and enslavement, and the whole world mustbe incorporated into the American “world community of freenations”.It is easy to see why the general line of peaceful coexistenceof the leaders of the CPSU is exactly to the taste of U.S. imperialism.On the pretext of peaceful coexistence, the leaders of theCPSU do their best to curry favour with U.S. imperialism andconstantly proclaim that the representatives of U.S. imperialism“are concerned about peace”; this exactly serves its fraudulentpeace policy.On the pretext of peaceful coexistence, the leaders of theCPSU apply the policy of peaceful coexistence to the relationsbetween oppressed and oppressor classes and between oppressedand oppressor nations, and they oppose revolution andtry to liquidate it; this exactly suits the U.S. imperialists’1J. F. Kennedy, Speech at the Polish-American Congress at Chicago,October 1, 1960.293