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

local press of the Soviet Union, we have not even begun toreply to them.In his answers to newspapermen on October 25, 1963,Khrushchov called for a cessation of the public debate. Subsequently,however, the Soviet press continued to publisharticles attacking China.Recently, the leaders of the CPSU again proposed a halt tothe public debate which they said had “done enormous harmto the communist movement”. Yet in the past they said thatpublic polemics were “in the interests of the whole worldcommunist movement” 1 and “the only correct and genuinelyMarxist-Leninist position of principle”. 2 We would like toask the leaders of the CPSU: What sort of games are youplaying, saying one thing at one time and another thing atanother?We would also like to ask the leaders of the CPSU: Is itin accord with the principle of equality among fraternal Partiesfor you to ask us to be silent after publishing less thanten articles in reply to your two thousand articles and otheritems attacking China, and when we have not yet even completedour reply to your Open Letter? Is it in accord with theprinciples of democratic discussion for you to become impatientand intolerant and to refuse to listen when we have saidonly a little while you have talked so much and for so long?Again, we would like to ask the leaders of the CPSU: Wasit not an outright threat and intimidation when you brazenlydeclared in the Soviet Government statement of September21, 1963 that if the Chinese continued the polemics, “theymust clearly realize that the most resolute rebuff from theCPSU and the Soviet people awaits them on this road”? Doyou really believe that other people are bound docilely to obeyyour orders and tremble at your roar? To be frank, ever since1“Toward New Victories of Communism”, editorial board article inKommunist, No. 16, 1961.2“The Banner of Our Epoch”, editorial board article in Pravda,February 21, 1962.351