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

As Lenin said, the bourgeoisie understands that “the activepeople in the working class movement who adhere to the opportunisttrend are better defenders of the bourgeoisie, thanthe bourgeoisie itself”. 1 The imperialist lords and masters aregleefully letting the leaders of the CPSU clear the way for thedestruction of the proletarian cause of world revolution.Having brought on the serious danger of a split in the internationalcommunist movement, the leaders of the CPSUare trying to shift the blame, vilifying the Chinese CommunistParty and other Marxist-Leninist Parties as guilty of “splittism”and “sectarianism” and fabricating a host of chargesagainst them.Here we deem it necessary to take up some of their chiefslanders and to refute them one by one.REFUTATION OF THE CHARGE OFBEING ANTI-SOVIETThe leaders of the CPSU accuse all who resist and criticizetheir revisionism and splittism of being anti-Soviet. This isa terrifying charge. To oppose the first socialist country inthe world and the Party founded by the great Lenin — whatinsolence!But we advise the leaders of the CPSU not to indulge inhistrionics. The anti-Soviet charge can never apply to us.We also advise the leaders of the CPSU not to become selfintoxicated.The anti-Soviet charge can never silence Marxist-Leninists.Together with all other Communists and revolutionarypeople the world over, we Chinese Communists have alwayscherished sincere respect and love for the great Soviet people,the Soviet state and the Soviet Communist Party. For it was1V. I. Lenin, “The International Situation and the FundamentalTasks of the Communist International”, Selected Works, Eng. ed., InternationalPublishers, New York, 1943, Vol. X, p. 196.326