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

Such is the Leninist policy. Any policy to the contrarydefinitely will not lead to world peace but will only encouragethe ambitions of the imperialists and increase thedanger of world war.In recent years, certain persons have been spreading theargument that a single spark from a war of national liberationor from a revolutionary people’s war will lead to a worldconflagration destroying the whole of mankind. What arethe facts? Contrary to what these persons say, the wars ofnational liberation and the revolutionary people’s wars thathave occurred since World War II have not led to world war.The victory of these revolutionary wars has directly weakenedthe forces of imperialism and greatly strengthened theforces which prevent the imperialists from launching a worldwar and which defend world peace. Do not the facts demonstratethe absurdity of this argument?15. The complete banning and destruction of nuclearweapons is an important task in the struggle to defend worldpeace. We must do our utmost to this end.Nuclear weapons are unprecedentedly destructive, whichis why for more than a decade now the U.S. imperialists havebeen pursuing their policy of nuclear blackmail in order torealize their ambition of enslaving the people of all countriesand dominating the world.But when the imperialists threaten other countries withnuclear weapons, they subject the people in their own countryto the same threat, thus arousing them against nuclear weaponsand against the imperialist policies of aggression andwar. At the same time, in their vain hope of destroying theiropponents with nuclear weapons, the imperialists are in factsubjecting themselves to the danger of being destroyed.The possibility of banning nuclear weapons does indeedexist. However, if the imperialists are forced to accept anagreement to ban nuclear weapons, it decidedly will not bebecause of their “love for humanity” but because of the pres-29