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

How the imperialists are hoping for the restoration of capitalismin the Soviet Union! How they are rejoicing!We would advise the imperialist lords not to be happy toosoon. Notwithstanding all the services of the revisionist Khrushchovclique, nothing can save imperialism from its doom.The revisionist ruling clique suffer from the same kind ofdisease as the imperialist ruling clique; they are extremelyantagonistic to the masses of the people who comprise over 90per cent of the world’s population, and therefore they, too, areweak and powerless and are paper tigers. Like the clay Buddhathat tried to wade across the river, the revisionist Khrushchovclique cannot even save themselves, so how can theyendow imperialism with long life?HISTORICAL LESSONS OF THE DICTATORSHIPOF THE PROLETARIATKhrushchov’s revisionism has inflicted heavy damage onthe international communist movement, but at the same timeit has educated the Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary peoplethroughout the world by negative example.If it may be said that the Great October Revolution providedMarxist-Leninists in all countries with the most importantpositive experience and opened up the road for the proletarianseizure of political power, then on its part Khrushchov’s revisionismmay be said to have provided them with the mostimportant negative experience, enabling Marxist-Leninists inall countries to draw the appropriate lessons for preventing thedegeneration of the proletarian party and the socialist state.Historically all revolutions have had their reverses andtheir twists and turns. Lenin once asked:. . . if we take the matter in its essence, has it ever happenedin history that a new mode of production took root467