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

all, the monopolists, the imperialists, are only a comparativelysmall group, while the bulk of the population of the capitalistcountries consists of the working class, the working peasantry,working intelligentsia. The atomic bomb does not distinguishbetween imperialists and working people, it strikesat areas, so that millions of workers would be killed for everymonopolist destroyed. The working class, the working people,will ask such “revolutionaries”: What right have you todecide for us questions involving our very existence and ourclass struggle — we too want socialism, but we want to winit through the class struggle, not by unleashing a worldthermonuclear war.The way the Chinese comrades present the question canarouse legitimate suspicion that this is no longer a class approachto the struggle for the abolition of capitalism, but thatthere are entirely different aims. If both the exploiters andthe exploited are buried under the ruins of the old world, whowill build the “beautiful future”?The fact cannot pass unnoticed, in this connection, that insteadof the class, internationalist approach expressed in theslogan “Workers of all countries, united the Chinese comradesstubbornly propagate a slogan deprived of all classmeaning: “The wind from the East prevails over the windfrom the West.”On questions of the socialist revolution our party firmlyadheres to Marxist-Leninist class positions, believing that ineach country the revolution is carried out by the workingclass, the working people, without outside military interference.It stands to reason, of course, that if the imperialist madmenunleash a war, the peoples will sweep away capitalism andbury it. But the Communists, representatives of the peoples,true champions of socialist humanism, must do everythingthey can to prevent another world war, in which hundredsof millions would perish.545