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

equirement that the socialist countries should not supportpeoples revolutions in the capitalist world.On the pretext of peaceful coexistence, the leaders of theCPSU try to substitute international class collaboration forinternational class struggle and advocate “all-round co-operation”between socialism and imperialism, thus opening thedoor to imperialist penetration of the socialist countries; thisexactly suits the needs of the U.S. imperialist policy of “peacefulevolution”.The imperialists have always been our best teachers by negativeexample. Let us here cite extracts from two speechesby Dulles after the 20th Congress of the CPSU.He stated:. . . I had said . . . that there was evidence within theSoviet Union of forces toward greater liberalism. . . .. . . if these forces go on and continue to gather momentumwithin the Soviet Union, then we can think, and reasonablyhope, I said within a decade or perhaps a generation, thatwe would have what is the great goal of our policy, that is,a Russia which is governed by people who are responsive tothe wishes of the Russian people, who had given up theirpredatory world-wide ambitions to rule and who conformto the principles of civilized nations and such principles asare embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. 1He also stated:. . . the long-range prospect — indeed, I would say thelong-range certainty — is that there will be an evolutionof the present policies of the Soviet rulers so that they willbecome more nationalist and less internationalist. 2Apparently, Dulles’ ghost has been haunting the betrayersof Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, and1J. F. Dulles, Press Conference, May 15, 1956.2J. F. Dulles, Press Conference, October 28, 1958.294