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ceased to give active support to the revolutionary aspirationsof the people and rolled up the national banner of oppositionto U.S. imperialism. The result of their pursuit of this revisionistline is that the Communist Party, which once had greatinfluence among the people, has become increasingly isolatedfrom the masses and has deteriorated more and more.Certain leaders of the Indian Communist Party, typified byDange, have long pursued a revisionist line, hauled down thebanner of revolution and failed to lead the masses in nationaland democratic revolutionary struggles. The Dange clique hasslid farther and farther down the path of revisionism and degeneratedinto national chauvinists, into tools of the reactionarypolicies of India’s big landlords and big bourgeoisie, andinto renegades from the proletariat.The record shows that the two fundamentally different lineslead to two fundamentally different results. All these lessonsmerit close study.FROM BROWDER AND TITO TO KHRUSHCHOVKhrushchov’s revisionism has deep historical and socialroots and bears the imprint of the times. As Lenin said, “opportunismis no accident, no sin, no slip, no betrayal on thepart of individual persons, but the social product of a wholehistorical epoch”. 1While making great progress since World War II, the internationalcommunist movement has produced its antithesiswithin its own ranks — an adverse current of revisionism whichis opposed to socialism, Marxism-Leninism and proletarian revolution.This adverse current was chiefly represented firstby Browder, later by Tito and now by Khrushchov. Khru-1V. I. Lenin, “The Collapse of the Second International”, CollectedWorks, Eng. ed., International Publishers, New York, 1930, Vol.XVIII, p. 310.403