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

. . . to the extent that the internal as well as the internationalsituation of individual countries became morecomplicated, the solution of the problems of the labourmovement of each country through the medium of someinternational centre would meet with insuperable obstacles.Events have shown that this resolution corresponded toreality and was correct.In the present international communist movement, thequestion of who has the right to lead whom simply does notarise. Fraternal Parties should be independent and completelyequal, and at the same time they should be united.On questions of common concern they should reach unanimityof views through consultation, and they should concert theiractions in the struggle for the common goal. These principlesguiding relations among fraternal Parties are clearly stipulatedin the Declaration of 1957 and the Statement of 1960.It is a flagrant violation of these principles, as laid down inthe Declaration and the Statement, for the leaders of theCPSU to consider themselves the leaders of the internationalcommunist movement and to treat all fraternal Parties as theirsubordinates.Because of their different historical backgrounds, thefraternal Parties naturally find themselves in different situations.Those Parties which have won victory in their revolutionsdiffer from those which have not yet done so, and thosewhich won victory earlier differ from those which did solater. But these differences only mean that the victoriousParties, and in particular the Parties which won victoryearlier, have to bear a greater internationalist responsibilityin supporting other fraternal Parties, and they have absolutelyno right to dominate other fraternal Parties.The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was built byLenin and Stalin. It was the first Party to win the victory ofthe proletarian revolution, realize the dictatorship of the proletariatand engage in socialist construction. It was only334