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times”. 1 He extols to the sky a letter by Roswell Garst, a bigU.S. farmer, which propagates the capitalist system; 2 actuallyhe has taken it as his agricultural programme. He wants tocopy the United States in the sphere of industry as well asthat of agriculture and, in particular, to imitate the profitmotive of U.S. capitalist enterprises. He shows great admirationfor the American way of life, asserting that the Americanpeople “do not live badly” 3 under the rule and enslavementof monopoly capital. Going further, Khrushchov is hopeful ofbuilding communism with loans from U.S. imperialism. Duringhis visits to the United States and Hungary, he expressed onmore than one occasion his readiness “to take credits from thedevil himself”.Thus it can be seen that Khrushchov’s “communism” is indeed“goulash communism”, the “communism of the Americanway of life” and “communism seeking credits from the devil”.No wonder he often tells representatives of Western monopolycapital that once such “communism” is realized in the SovietUnion, “you will go forward to communism without any callfrom me”. 4There is nothing new about such “communism”. It is simplyanother name for capitalism. It is only a bourgeois label,sign or advertisement. In ridiculing the old-line revisionistparties which set up the signboard of Marxism, Lenin said:Wherever Marxism is popular among the workers, thispolitical tendency, this “bourgeois labour party,” will swearby the name of Marx. It cannot be prohibited from doing1N. S. Khrushchov, Interview with Leaders of U.S. Congress andMembers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, September 16,1959.2N. S. Khrushchov, Speech at the Plenary Meeting of the CentralCommittee of the CPSU, February 1964.3N. S. Khrushchov, Talk at a Meeting with Businessman and PublicLeaders in Pittsburgh, U.S.A., September 24, 1959.4N. S. Khrushchov, Talk at a Meeting with French Parliamentarians,March 25, 1960.465