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

tryside. New bourgeois elements and kulaks were still incessantlygenerated. Throughout the long intervening period,the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisieand the struggle between the socialist and capitalist roads havecontinued in the political, economic and ideological spheres.As the Soviet Union was the first, and at the time the only,country to build socialism and had no foreign experience to goby, and as Stalin departed from Marxist-Leninist dialecticsin his understanding of the laws of class struggle in socialistsociety, he prematurely declared after agriculture was basicallycollectivized that there were “no longer antagonistic classes” 1in the Soviet Union and that it was “free of class conflicts”, 2one-sidedly stressed the internal homogeneity of socialistsociety and overlooked its contradictions, failed to rely uponthe working class and the masses in the struggle against theforces of capitalism and regarded the possibility of the restorationof capitalism as associated only with armed attack byinternational imperialism. This was wrong both in theory andin practice. Nevertheless, Stalin remained a great Marxist-Leninist. As long as he led the Soviet Party and state, heheld fast to the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialistcourse, pursued a Marxist-Leninist line and ensured the SovietUnion’s victorious advance along the road of socialism.Ever since Khrushchov seized the leadership of the SovietParty and state, he has pushed through a whole series ofrevisionist policies which have greatly hastened the growthof the forces of capitalism and again sharpened the classstruggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and thestruggle between the roads of socialism and capitalism in theSoviet Union.Scanning the reports in Soviet newspapers over the last fewyears, one finds numerous examples demonstrating not only1J. V. Stalin, “On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R.”, Problemsof Leninism, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, p. 690.2J. V. Stalin, “Report to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B)on the Work of the Central Committee”, Problems of Leninism, Eng.ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1954, p. 777.429