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

mutual assistance and comradely co-operation, voluntary fulfilmentof international duty by each country. At the sametime, we should like to emphasize that socialist equality notonly means having equal rights to take part in workingout collectively the common policy but also entails equalresponsibilities for the fraternal Parties of socialist countriesfor the destinies of the entire community.The Statement of the Moscow Meeting of the FraternalParties stressed the need for the closest alliance betweencountries breaking away from capitalism, for the pooling oftheir efforts in the building of socialism and communism.National interests and the interests of the socialist system asa whole combine harmoniously. Life has proved convincinglythat every country can best solve its national tasks onlythrough the closest co-operation with the other socialistcountries on the basis of genuine equality and mutual aid.Our unity, our well-concerted actions, do not arisespontaneously. They are dictated by objective necessity, theyare the result of conscious activities, of the purposeful internationalistpolicy of the Marxist-Leninist Parties and theirtireless concern for the uniting of our ranks.We do not close our eyes to the fact that different interpretationsof certain questions of internal construction and theinternational communist movement, different interpretationsof the forms and methods of our co-operation may occur inthe relations between socialist countries. This is possible,for the countries making up the world socialist system are atdifferent stages in the construction of a new society, and theirexperience in developing relations with the outside world isnot the same in all respects. One should not exclude thepossibility, either, that differences may result from differentapproaches to the solution of some questions of Marxism-Leninism in individual fraternal Parties. To exaggerate therole of national, specific features may lead to a departurefrom Marxism-Leninism. To ignore national features may516