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

The Korean people carried on fifteen years of revolutionaryarmed struggle against Japanese imperialism beginning in the1930’s, built up and expanded their revolutionary armed forces,and finally achieved victory with the help of the Soviet Army.After the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic ofKorea, it took another three years of war against U.S. imperialistarmed aggression before the victory of their revolutioncould be consolidated.The Vietnamese people seized state power by the armeduprising of August 1945. Immediately afterwards, they hadto begin fighting a war of national liberation lasting eightyears against French imperialism and to defeat the U.S. imperialistmilitary intervention, and only then did they triumphin northern Viet Nam. The people of southern Viet Nam arestill waging a heroic struggle against U.S. imperialist armedaggression.The Cuban people started their armed uprising in 1953, andlater it took more than two years of people’s revolutionary warbefore they overthrew the rule of U.S. imperialism and itsCuban puppet, Batista. After their victorious revolution, theCuban people smashed armed invasions by U.S. imperialistmercenaries and safeguarded the fruits of revolution.The other socialist countries too were all established througharmed struggle.What are the main lessons of the successful proletarian revolutionsin the countries extending from China to Cuba afterWorld War II?1. Violent revolution is a universal law of proletarian revolution.To realize the transition to socialism, the proletariatmust wage armed struggle, smash the old state machine andestablish the dictatorship of the proletariat.2. The peasants are the most dependable allies of theproletariat. The proletariat must closely rely on the peasants,establish a broad united front based on the worker-peasantalliance, and insist upon proletarian leadership in the revolution.400