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

At present, the revisionist Khrushchov clique is again confrontingthe broad membership of the great Communist Partyof the Soviet Union with precisely this serious question.KHRUSHCHOV’S PHONEY COMMUNISMAt the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchov announcedthat the Soviet Union had already entered the period of theextensive building of communist society. He also declaredthat “we shall, in the main, have built a communist societywithin twenty years”. 1 This is pure fraud.How can there be talk of building communism when therevisionist Khrushchov clique are leading the Soviet Uniononto the path of the restoration of capitalism and when theSoviet people are in grave danger of losing the fruits ofsocialism?In putting up the signboard of “building communism”Khrushchov’s real aim is to conceal the true face of his revisionism.But it is not hard to expose this trick. Just as theeyeball of a fish cannot be allowed to pass as a pearl, sorevisionism cannot be allowed to pass itself off as communism.Scientific communism has a precise and definite meaning.According to Marxism-Leninism, communist society is a societyin which classes and class differences are completelyeliminated, the entire people have a high level of communistconsciousness and morality as well as boundless enthusiasm forand initiative in labour, there is a great abundance of socialproducts and the principle of “from each according to hisability, to each according to his needs” is applied, and in whichthe state has withered away.Marx declared:In the higher phase of communist society, after the enslavingsubordination of the individual to the division of labour, and1N. S. Khrushchov, Report on the Programme of the CPSU, deliveredat the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in October 1961.459