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

OUR HOPESOnly eight years have elapsed since the 20th Congress of theCPSU. In this extremely short period of history, Khrushchov’srevisionism has inflicted very great and grave damage on theSoviet Union and the revolutionary cause of the internationalproletariat.Now is the time — now it is high time — to repudiate andliquidate Khrushchov’s revisionism!Here, we would give the leading comrades of the CPSU apiece of advice: Since so many opportunists and revisionistshave been thrown on to the rubbish heap of history, why mustyou obdurately follow their example?Here, too, we express the hope that those leading comradesof other fraternal Parties who have committed revisionisterrors will think this over: What have they gained by followingthe revisionist line of the leaders of the CPSU? We understandthat, excepting those who have fallen deep into therevisionist quagmire, quite a number of comrades have beenconfused and deceived, or compelled to follow the wrong path.We believe that all those who are proletarian revolutionarieswill eventually choose the revolutionary line and reject theanti-revolutionary line, will eventually choose Marxism-Leninism and reject revisionism. We entertain very greathopes in this regard.Revisionism can never stop the wheel of history, the wheelof revolution. Revisionist leaders who do not make revolutionthemselves can never prevent the genuine Marxists and therevolutionary people from rising in revolution. In “The ProletarianRevolution and the Renegade Kautsky” Lenin wrotethat when Kautsky became a renegade, the German MarxistLiebknecht could only express his appeal to the working classin this way — “to push aside such ‘leaders,’ to free themselvesfrom their stultifying and debasing propaganda, to rise in re-411