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

organs is production.” 1 And what is more, they have foistedthese views on Lenin, claiming that they are acting in accordancewith his principles.However, anyone at all acquainted with the history of theCPSU knows that, far from being Lenin’s views, they are anti-Leninist views and that they were views held by Trotsky. Onthis question, too, Khrushchov is a worthy disciple of Trotsky.In criticizing Trotsky and Bukharin, Lenin said:Politics are the concentrated expression of economics. . . .Politics cannot but have precedence over economics. Toargue differently means forgetting the A B C of Marxism.He continued:. . . without a proper political approach to the subject thegiven class cannot maintain its rule, and consequently cannotsolve its own production problems. 2The facts are crystal clear: the real purpose of the revisionistKhrushchov clique in proposing a “party of the entire people”was completely to alter the proletarian character of the CPSUand transform the Marxist-Leninist Party into a revisionistparty.The great Communist Party of the Soviet Union is confrontedwith the grave danger of degenerating from a partyof the proletariat into a party of the bourgeoisie and from aMarxist-Leninist into a revisionist party.Lenin said:A party that wants to exist cannot allow the slightestwavering on the question of its existence or any agreementwith those who may bury it. 31N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the Election Meeting of the KalininConstituency of Moscow, February 27, 1963.2V. I. Lenin, “Once Again on the Trade Unions, the Present Situationand the Mistakes of Trotsky and Bukharin”, Selected Works, Eng. ed.,International Publishers, New York, 1943, Vol. IX, pp. 54 and 55.3V. I. Lenin, “How Vera Zasulich Demolishes Liquidationism”, CollectedWorks, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1963, Vol. XIX, p. 414.458