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

a political detachment of the bourgeoisie, . . . they are transmittersof its influence, its agents in the labour movement.” 1The economic basis of the emergence of modern revisionism,like that of old-line revisionism, is in the words of Lenin “aninsignificant section of the ‘top’ of the labour movements”. 2Modern revisionism is the product of the policies of imperialismand of international monopoly capital which are bothheaded by the United States. Terrified by the policy of nuclearblackmail and corrupted by the policy of buying over, the modernrevisionists are serving as the pawns of U.S. imperialismand its servile followers in opposing revolution.The revisionist Khrushchov is also scared out of his wits bythe hysterical war cries of the U.S. imperialists, and he thinksthat this “Noah’s ark”, the earth, is threatened with destructionat any moment and he has completely lost confidence inthe future of mankind. Proceeding from national egoism, hefears that revolutions by the oppressed classes and nationsmight create trouble for him and implicate him. Therefore, hetries to oppose every revolution by all means and, as in the caseof the Congo, does not scruple to take joint action with U.S.imperialism in stamping out a people’s revolution. He thinksthat by so doing he can avoid risks and at the same time conspirewith U.S. imperialism to divide the world into spheres ofinfluence, thus killing two birds with one stone. All thisonly goes to show that Khrushchov is the greatest capitulationistin history. The enforcement of Khrushchov’s perniciouspolicy will inevitably result in inestimable damage to the greatSoviet Union itself.Why has Khrushchov’s revisionism emerged in the SovietUnion, a socialist state with a history of several decades?1V. I. Lenin, “The Collapse of the Second International”, CollectedWorks, Eng. ed., International Publishers, New York, 1930, Vol. XVIII,p. 310.2V. I. Lenin, “Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International”,Collected Works, Eng. ed., International Publishers, NewYork, 1930, Vol. XVIII, p. 389.409