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

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Party must take in<strong>to</strong> account the experience <strong>of</strong> the entireworld communist movement, must take in<strong>to</strong> c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>those interests, aims and tasks set by our movement as awhole, its general line at the present time.But at the same time, the working out <strong>of</strong> forms and methods<strong>of</strong> fighting for socialism in each separate country is the internalaffair <strong>of</strong> the working class <strong>of</strong> that country and <strong>of</strong> its communistvanguard. No other fraternal Party, whatever its membership,experience and authority, can lay down the tactics, formsand methods <strong>of</strong> the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary struggle in other countries.Revoluti<strong>on</strong> is the cause <strong>of</strong> the masses themselves. An accurateanalysis <strong>of</strong> the actual situati<strong>on</strong> and a correct estimati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong>the correlati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> forces are am<strong>on</strong>g the most important c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s<strong>of</strong> a revoluti<strong>on</strong>. The enthusiasm <strong>of</strong> the revoluti<strong>on</strong>arymasses in the struggle for the vic<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> a socialist revoluti<strong>on</strong>cannot be kept back when objective and subjective c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>sare ripe. It would be tantamount <strong>to</strong> death. But a revoluti<strong>on</strong>cannot be artificially instigated if c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s for it are not yetripe. A premature uprising, as the experience <strong>of</strong> the revoluti<strong>on</strong>aryclass struggle teaches, is doomed <strong>to</strong> failure. Communistsrally the working people under the red banner inorder <strong>to</strong> win in the struggle for a better life <strong>on</strong> earth, andnot <strong>to</strong> perish, even though heroically. Heroism and selfsacrifice,necessary in revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary battles, are <strong>of</strong> no use bythemselves, but <strong>on</strong>ly for the vic<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> the great ideas <strong>of</strong>socialism.The CPSU has always hailed and will c<strong>on</strong>tinue <strong>to</strong> hail therevoluti<strong>on</strong>ary working class and the working people <strong>of</strong> anycountry who, headed by their communist vanguard, makeskilful use <strong>of</strong> the revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary situati<strong>on</strong> <strong>to</strong> inflict a crushingblow against the class enemy and <strong>to</strong> establish a new socialsystem.The tactics and policy <strong>of</strong> the Communist Parties in thecapitalist countries have in comm<strong>on</strong> substantial features c<strong>on</strong>nectedwith the present stage <strong>of</strong> the general crisis <strong>of</strong> capitalismand the correlati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> forces that has developed in the inter-509

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