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

Why has Khrushchov so shamelessly distorted the worksof Marx and Lenin, fabricated history and resorted to subterfuges?Again, that is where the trouble lies.LIES CANNOT COVER UP REALITYThe principal argument used by the leaders of the CPSUto justify their anti-revolutionary line of “peaceful transition”is that historical conditions have changed.With regard to the appraisal of the changes in historicalconditions since World War II and the conclusions to bedrawn from them, Marxist-Leninists hold entirely differentviews from those of Khrushchev.Marxist-Leninists hold that historical conditions havechanged fundamentally since the War. The change is mainlya manifested in the great increase in the forces of proletariansocialism and the great weakening of the forces of imperialism.Since the War, the mighty socialist camp and a wholeseries of new and independent nationalist states have emerged,and there have occurred a continuous succession of armedrevolutionary struggles, a new upsurge in the mass movementsin capitalist countries and the great expansion of theranks of the international communist movement. Theinternational proletarian socialist revolutionary movementand the national democratic revolutionary movement in Asia,Africa and Latin America have become the two major historicaltrends of our time.In the early post-war period, Comrade Mao Tse-tung repeatedlypointed out that the world balance of forces wasfavourable to us and not to the enemy, and that this newsituation “has opened up still wider possibilities for theemancipation of the working class and the oppressed peoples382