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

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Khrushchov and his like are spreading an Arabian Nightstale. They maintain:Now favourable internati<strong>on</strong>al and internal c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s aretaking shape for the working class <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> capitalistcountries <strong>to</strong> accomplish the socialist revoluti<strong>on</strong> inpeaceful form. 1They say:In the period between the first and sec<strong>on</strong>d world wars,the reacti<strong>on</strong>ary bourgeoisie in many European countries,incessantly developing and perfecting its police-bureaucraticmachine, savagely repressed the mass movements <strong>of</strong> theworking people and left no possibility for the achievement<strong>of</strong> the socialist revoluti<strong>on</strong> by the peaceful road.But according <strong>to</strong> them the situati<strong>on</strong> has now changed. 2They say that “basic shifts in favour <strong>of</strong> socialism in therelati<strong>on</strong>ship <strong>of</strong> forces in the internati<strong>on</strong>al arena” now createthe possibility <strong>of</strong> “paralyzing the interventi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> internati<strong>on</strong>alreacti<strong>on</strong> in the affairs <strong>of</strong> countries carrying out revoluti<strong>on</strong>”,3 and that “this lessens the possibilities for theunleashing <strong>of</strong> civil war by the bourgeoisie”. 4But the lies <strong>of</strong> Khrushchov and his like cannot cover uprealities.Two outstanding facts since World War II are that theimperialists and the reacti<strong>on</strong>aries are everywhere reinforcingtheir apparatus <strong>of</strong> violence for cruelly suppressing the massesand that imperialism headed by the United States isc<strong>on</strong>ducting counter-revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary armed interventi<strong>on</strong> in allparts <strong>of</strong> the world.1A. Butenko, “War and Revoluti<strong>on</strong>”, Kommunist, Moscow, No. 4,1961.2O. V. Kuusinen and others, Foundati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism, Russ.ed., Moscow, 1959, p. 528.3A. Beliakov and F. Burlatsky, “Lenin’s Theory <strong>of</strong> Socialist Revoluti<strong>on</strong>and the Present Day”, Kommunist, Moscow, No. 13, 1960.4A. Butenko, op. cit.384

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