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

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ascribe <strong>to</strong> the CPSU and other <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist parties viewswhich they have never expressed and which are alien <strong>to</strong> them;sec<strong>on</strong>dly, they try, by verbal acceptance <strong>of</strong> formulas andprinciples taken from the documents <strong>of</strong> the communist movement,<strong>to</strong> mask their err<strong>on</strong>eous views and incorrect positi<strong>on</strong>s.To come out openly against the peoples’ struggle for peace,against peaceful co-existence <strong>of</strong> states with different socialsystems, against disarmament, etc., would expose their policyin the eyes <strong>of</strong> the Communists and peace-loving peoples <strong>of</strong>the whole world and would alienate them. The further thepolemics develop, the clearer the weakness <strong>of</strong> the CPC leadership’spositi<strong>on</strong> becomes, the more zealously they resort <strong>to</strong>such camouflage. If this method <strong>of</strong> the Chinese comrades isnot taken in<strong>to</strong> c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>, it might appear <strong>to</strong> the outsiderthat the c<strong>on</strong>troversy has acquired a scholastic nature, that itc<strong>on</strong>cerns individual formulas, far removed from vital issues.In point <strong>of</strong> fact, however, the c<strong>on</strong>troversy centres <strong>on</strong> issuesaffecting the vital interests <strong>of</strong> the peoples.They are the issue <strong>of</strong> war and peace, the questi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> therole and development <strong>of</strong> the world socialist system, they arequesti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the struggle against the ideology and practice<strong>of</strong> the “pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult,” they are questi<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the strategyand tactics <strong>of</strong> the world labour movement and the nati<strong>on</strong>alliberati<strong>on</strong>struggle.These questi<strong>on</strong>s are posed by life itself, by the deep-goingchanges that have taken place in the socialist countries andthroughout the world, the changes in recent years in thebalance <strong>of</strong> strength between socialism and imperialism, thenew possibilities for our movement. The communist movementhad <strong>to</strong>, and did, provide the answers <strong>to</strong> these questi<strong>on</strong>sand worked out a general line in adaptati<strong>on</strong> <strong>to</strong> the c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>sand requirements <strong>of</strong> the present stage <strong>of</strong> world development.In the unanimous opini<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Communist parties, an immensepart in this was played by the 20th C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> theCPSU, which ushered in a new stage in the development <strong>of</strong>the entire communist movement. This appraisal was recorded539

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