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

therewith also the antithesis between mental and physicallabour, has vanished; after labour has become not only ameans of life but life’s prime want; after the productiveforces have also increased with the all-round developmentof the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealthflow more abundantly — only then can the narrow horizonof bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and societyinscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability,to each according to his needs! 1According to Marxist-Leninist theory, the purpose of upholdingthe dictatorship of the proletariat in the period of socialismis precisely to ensure that society develops in thedirection of communism. Lenin said that “forward development,i.e., towards Communism, proceeds through the dictatorshipof the proletariat, and cannot do otherwise”. 2 Sincethe revisionist Khrushchov clique have abandoned the dictatorshipof the proletariat in the Soviet Union, it is going backwardand not forward, going backward to capitalism and notforward to communism.Going forward to communism means moving towards theabolition of all classes and class differences. A communistsociety which preserves any classes at all, let alone exploitingclasses, is inconceivable. Yet Khrushchov is fostering a newbourgeoisie, restoring and extending the system of exploitationand accelerating class polarization in the Soviet Union. Aprivileged bourgeois stratum opposed to the Soviet peoplenow occupies the ruling position in the Party and governmentand in the economic, cultural and other departments. Canone find an iota of communism in all this?Going forward to communism means moving towards aunitary system of the ownership of the means of production1Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme”, Selected Works ofKarl Marx and Frederick Engels, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1951, Vol.II, p. 23.2V. I. Lenin, “The State and Revolution”, Selected Works, Eng. ed.,FLPH, Moscow, 1952, Vol. II, Part 1, p. 291.460