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

imperialism both understand that in order to make a socialistcountry degenerate into a capitalist country, it is first necessaryto make the Communist Party degenerate into a revisionistparty. The old and new bourgeois elements, the oldand new rich peasants and the degenerate elements of all sortsconstitute the social basis of revisionism, and they use everypossible means to find agents within the Communist Party.The existence of bourgeois influence is the internal source ofrevisionism and surrender to imperialist pressure the externalsource. Throughout the stage of socialism, there is inevitablestruggle between Marxism-Leninism and various kinds ofopportunism — mainly revisionism — in the Communist Partiesof socialist countries. The characteristic of this revisionismis that, denying the existence of classes and class struggle,it sides with the bourgeoisie in attacking the proletariat andturns the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorshipof the bourgeoisie.In the light of the experience of the international workingclassmovement and in accordance with the objective law ofclass struggle, the founders of Marxism pointed out that thetransition from capitalism to communism, from class to classlesssociety, must depend on the dictatorship of the proletariatand that there is no other road.Marx said that “the class struggle necessarily leads to thedictatorship of the proletariat”. 1 He also said:Between capitalist and communist society lies the periodof the revolutionary transformation of the one into theother. There corresponds to this also a political transitionperiod in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionarydictatorship of the proletariat. 21“Marx to J. Weydemeyer, March 5, 1852”, Selected Works of KarlMarx and Frederick Engels, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1951, Vol. II,p. 410.2Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme”, Selected Works ofKarl Marx and Frederick Engels, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1951, Vol. II,p. 30.424