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

He concluded: “Complete consistency and clarity!!”In Lenin’s tabulation, only the bourgeois state, the state ofthe dictatorship of the proletariat and the withering away ofthe state are to be found. By precisely this tabulation Leninmade it clear that when communism is reached the statewithers away and becomes non-existent.Ironically enough, the revisionist Khrushchov clique alsoquoted this very passage from Lenin’s Marxism on the Statein the course of defending their error. And then they proceededto make the following idiotic statement:In our country the first two periods referred to by Leninin the opinion quoted already belong to history. In theSoviet Union a state of the whole people — a communiststate system, the state of the first phase of communism, hasarisen and is developing. 1If the first two periods referred to by Lenin have alreadybecome a thing of the past in the Soviet Union, then the stateshould be withering away, and where could a “state of thewhole people” come from? If the state is not yet witheringaway, then it ought to be the dictatorship of the proletariatand under absolutely no circumstances a “state of the wholepeople”.In arguing for their “state of the whole people”, the revisionistKhrushchov clique exert themselves to vilify the dictatorshipof the proletariat as undemocratic. They assert thatonly by replacing the state of the dictatorship of the proletariatby the “state of the whole people” can democracy befurther developed and turned into “genuine democracy forthe whole people”. Khrushchov has pretentiously said thatthe abolition of the dictatorship of the proletariat exemplifies“a line of energetically developing democracy” and that “pro-1“From the Party of the Working Class to the Party of the WholeSoviet People”, editorial board article in Partyinaya Zhizn, No. 8, 1964.449