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

The broad masses of the Soviet workers, collective farmersand intellectuals are seething with discontent against the oppressionand exploitation practised by the privileged stratum.They have come to see ever more clearly the revisionist featuresof the Khrushchov clique which is betraying socialismand restoring capitalism. Among the ranks of the Sovietcadres, there are many who still persist in the revolutionarystand of the proletariat, adhere to the road of socialism andfirmly oppose Khrushchov’s revisionism. The broad massesof the Soviet people, of Communists and cadres are usingvarious means to resist and oppose the revisionist line of theKhrushchov clique, so that the revisionist Khrushchov cliquecannot so easily bring about the restoration of capitalism.The great Soviet people are fighting to defend the glorioustraditions of the Great October Revolution, to preserve thegreat gains of socialism and to smash the plot for the restorationof capitalism.REFUTATION OF THE SO-CALLED STATE OFTHE WHOLE PEOPLEAt the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Khrushchov openlyraised the banner of opposition to the dictatorship of the proletariat,announcing the replacement of the state of the dictatorshipof the proletariat by the “state of the whole people”.It is written in the Programme of the CPSU that the dictatorshipof the proletariat “has ceased to be indispensable in theU.S.S.R.” and that “the state, which arose as a state of the dictatorshipof the proletariat, has, in the new, contemporarystage, become a state of the entire people”.Anyone with a little knowledge of Marxism-Leninismknows that the concept of the state is a class concept. Leninpointed out that “the distinguishing feature of the state isthe existence of a separate class of people in whose hands444