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

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will cease <strong>to</strong> be necessary before the state withers away” 1and that after the end <strong>of</strong> the dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat,there is yet another stage, the “state <strong>of</strong> the whole people”.These are out-and-out sophistries.In his “Critique <strong>of</strong> the Gotha Programme”, <strong>Marx</strong> advancedthe well-known axiom that the dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariatis the state <strong>of</strong> the period <strong>of</strong> transiti<strong>on</strong> from capitalism <strong>to</strong> communism.Lenin gave a clear explanati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Marx</strong>istaxiom.He said:In his “Critique <strong>of</strong> the Gotha Programme” <strong>Marx</strong> wrote:“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period<strong>of</strong> the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary transformati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>on</strong>e in<strong>to</strong> theother. There corresp<strong>on</strong>ds <strong>to</strong> this also a political transiti<strong>on</strong>period in which the state can be nothing but the revoluti<strong>on</strong>arydicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat.”Up <strong>to</strong> now this axiom has never been disputed by Socialists,and yet it implies the recogniti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the existence <strong>of</strong>the state right up <strong>to</strong> the time when vic<strong>to</strong>rious socialismhas grown in<strong>to</strong> complete communism. 2Lenin further said:The essence <strong>of</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>’s teaching <strong>on</strong> the state has beenmastered <strong>on</strong>ly by those who understand that the dicta<strong>to</strong>rship<strong>of</strong> a single class is necessary not <strong>on</strong>ly for every classsociety in general, not <strong>on</strong>ly for the proletariat which hasoverthrown the bourgeoisie, but also for the entire his<strong>to</strong>ricalperiod which separates capitalism from “classless society”,from Communism. 31“Programme for the Building <strong>of</strong> Communism”, edi<strong>to</strong>rial boardarticle in Pravda, August 18, 1961.2V. I. Lenin, “The Discussi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> Self-Determinati<strong>on</strong> Summed Up”,Collected Works, Internati<strong>on</strong>al Publishers, New York, 1942, Vol. XIX,pp. 269-70.3V. I. Lenin, “The State and Revoluti<strong>on</strong>”, Selected Works, FLPH,Moscow, 1952, Vol. II, Part 1, p. 234.446

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