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

is strange and surprising, considering that out of the 110 countriesrepresented, only two — China and Albania — votedagainst the Appeal to Women of All Continents. Is it a caseof the entire multi-million army of freedom-loving womenbeing out of step, and only two marching in step, keepingthe ranks?Such, in brief, is the history of the differences betweenthe Chinese leadership and the CPSU and the other fraternalparties. It shows that the CPC leaders counterpose theirown special line to the general line of the communist movement,trying to impose on it their own dictate, their deeplyerroneous views on the key problems of our time.IIWhat is the substance of the differences between the CPC,on the one hand, and the CPSU and the international communistmovement, on the other? That question will undoubtedlybe asked by everyone who reads the CPC Central Committeeletter of June 14.At first glance, many of its propositions may set onewondering: whom are the Chinese comrades actually arguingwith? Are there Communists who object, for instance, tosocialist revolution, or who do not regard it their duty tofight imperialism, or support the national-liberation movement?Why is the CPC leadership so insistent in advancingsuch propositions?The question may also arise: why is it impossible to agreewith the position of the Chinese comrades, formulated in theirletter, on many important problems? Take, for instance, sucha cardinal problem as war and peace. The CPC Central Committeeletter speaks of peace and peaceful co-existence.The essence of the matter is that, having started an offensiveagainst the views of the Marxist-Leninist parties on thecardinal problems of the times, the Chinese comrades, firstly,538