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

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e no war. Then if any madman wanted war, we would buthave <strong>to</strong> shake our fingers <strong>to</strong> warn him <strong>of</strong>f.” 1“. . . if there is agreement between N. S. Khrushchov, thehead <strong>of</strong> the Soviet Government, and John Kennedy, the President<strong>of</strong> the United States, there will be a soluti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>alproblems <strong>on</strong> which mankind’s destinies depend.” 2We would like <strong>to</strong> ask the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU: Since the1957 Declarati<strong>on</strong> and the 1960 Statement say clearly thatU.S. imperialism is the sworn enemy <strong>of</strong> the people <strong>of</strong> the worldand the main force making for aggressi<strong>on</strong> and war, how canyou “unite” with the main enemy <strong>of</strong> world peace <strong>to</strong> “safeguardpeace”?We would like <strong>to</strong> ask them: Can it be that more than ahundred countries and over three thousand milli<strong>on</strong> peoplehave no right <strong>to</strong> decide their own destiny? Must they submit<strong>to</strong> the manipulati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the two “giants”, the two “greatestpowers”, the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> and the United States? Isn’t thisarrogant n<strong>on</strong>sense <strong>of</strong> yours an expressi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> great-power chauvinismand power politics pure and simple?We would also like <strong>to</strong> ask them: Do you really imaginethat if <strong>on</strong>ly the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> and the United States reachedagreement, if <strong>on</strong>ly the two “great men” reached agreement,the destiny <strong>of</strong> mankind would be decided and all internati<strong>on</strong>alissues settled? You are wr<strong>on</strong>g, hopelessly wr<strong>on</strong>g. <strong>From</strong> timeimmemorial, things have never happened in this way, and theyare much less likely <strong>to</strong> do so in the nineteen sixties. Theworld <strong>to</strong>day is full <strong>of</strong> complex c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong>s, the c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong>between the socialist and the imperialist camps, the c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong>between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in the capitalistcountries, the c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong> between the oppressed nati<strong>on</strong>sand imperialism, and the c<strong>on</strong>tradicti<strong>on</strong>s am<strong>on</strong>g the imperialistcountries and am<strong>on</strong>g the m<strong>on</strong>opoly capitalist groups in,1N. S. Khrushchov Interview with the U.S. Corresp<strong>on</strong>dent C. L. Sulzberger,September 5, 1961, Pravda, September 10, 1961.2A. A. Gromyko, Speech at the Sessi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Supreme Soviet <strong>of</strong> theUSSR, December 13, 1962.296

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