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

unified leadership which is based on democratic centralism,dissipate its fighting strength and disintegrate its ranks.Lenin criticized the erroneous views which counterpose theleaders to the masses. He called them “ridiculously absurdand stupid”.The Communist Party of China has always disapproved ofexaggerating the role of the individual, has advocated andpersistently practised democratic centralism within the Partyand advocated the linking of the leadership with the masses,maintaining that correct leadership must know how to concentratethe views of the masses.While loudly combating the so-called “cult of the individual”,certain persons are in reality doing their best to defamethe proletarian party and the dictatorship of the proletariat.At the same time, they are enormously exaggerating the roleof certain individuals, shifting all errors onto others andclaiming all credit for themselves.What is more serious is that, under the pretext of “combatingthe cult of the individual”, certain persons are crudelyinterfering in the internal affairs of other fraternal Partiesand fraternal countries and forcing other fraternal Parties tochange their leadership in order to impose their own wrongline on these Parties. What is all this if not great-powerchauvinism, sectarianism and splittism? What is all this ifnot subversion?It is high time to propagate seriously and comprehensivelyLenin’s integral teachings on the interrelationship of leaders,party, class and masses.21. Relations between socialist countries are internationalrelations of a new type. Relations between socialist countries,whether large or small, and whether more developed or lessdeveloped economically, must be based on the principles ofcomplete equality, respect for territorial integrity, sovereigntyand independence, and non-interference in each other’s internalaffairs, and must also be based on the principles of40