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

Does this not fundamentally conflict with the teachings ofMarx and Lenin on the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat?Does this not license the development of “this contagion,this plague, this ulcer that socialism has inherited from capitalism”?In other words, this would lead to extremely grave consequencesand make any transition to communism out of thequestion.Can there be a “state of the whole people”? Is it possible toreplace the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat by a“state of the whole people”?This is not a question about the internal affairs of any particularcountry but a fundamental problem involving theuniversal truth of Marxism-Leninism.In the view of Marxist-Leninists, there is no such thing asa non-class or supra-class state. So long as the state remainsa state, it must bear a class character; so long as the stateexists, it cannot be a state of the “whole people”. As soonas society becomes classless, there will no longer be a state.Then what sort of thing would a “state of the whole people”be?Anyone with an elementary knowledge of Marxism-Leninismcan understand that the so-called “state of the wholepeople” is nothing new. Representative bourgeois figureshave always called the bourgeois state a “state of all thepeople”, or a “state in which power belongs to all the people”.Certain persons may say that their society is already onewithout classes. We answer: No, there are classes and classstruggles in all socialist countries without exception.Since remnants of the old exploiting classes who are tryingto stage a comeback still exist there, since new capitalistelements are constantly being generated there, and since thereare still parasites, speculators, idlers, hooligans, embezzlersof state funds, etc., how can it be said that classes or class36