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

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much grief and suffering war brings, what hardships andsacrifices it costs the peoples.Agreement <strong>on</strong> the removal <strong>of</strong> the missile weap<strong>on</strong>s in reply<strong>to</strong> the United States government’s commitment not <strong>to</strong> invadeCuba and keep its allies from doing so, the heroic struggle <strong>of</strong>the Cuban people, the support given them by the peace-lovingnati<strong>on</strong>s, made it possible <strong>to</strong> thwart the plans <strong>of</strong> the extremeadventuristic circles <strong>of</strong> American imperialism, which wereready <strong>to</strong> go the whole hog. As a result it was possible <strong>to</strong> defendrevoluti<strong>on</strong>ary Cuba and save peace.The Chinese comrades regard as an “embellishment <strong>of</strong> imperialism”our statement that the Kennedy government, <strong>to</strong>o,displayed a certain reas<strong>on</strong>ableness, a realistic approach in thecourse <strong>of</strong> the crisis around Cuba. Do they really think thatall bourgeois governments, in all their doings, lack reas<strong>on</strong>?Thanks <strong>to</strong> the courageous and farsighted policy <strong>of</strong> theU.S.S.R., the staunchness and restraint <strong>of</strong> the heroic Cubanpeople and their government, the forces <strong>of</strong> socialism and peaceproved their ability <strong>to</strong> curb the aggressive forces <strong>of</strong> imperialismand impose peace <strong>on</strong> the war advocates. This was a majorvic<strong>to</strong>ry for the policy <strong>of</strong> reas<strong>on</strong>, for the forces <strong>of</strong> peace andsocialism; this was a defeat for the forces <strong>of</strong> imperialism, forthe policy <strong>of</strong> war gambles.As a result, revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary Cuba is living in peace and isbuilding socialism under the leadership <strong>of</strong> her United Party<strong>of</strong> the Socialist Revoluti<strong>on</strong> and the leader <strong>of</strong> the Cuban people,Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz.When agreement was reached with the President <strong>of</strong> theUnited States, and a start thus made <strong>on</strong> liquidating the Caribbeancrisis, the Chinese comrades were particularly inventivein insulting and abusing the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong>, arguing that therewas no believing the imperialists’ word.We are living in an age when there are two worlds, twosystems: socialism and imperialism. It would be absurd <strong>to</strong>think that all the issues inevitably arising in relati<strong>on</strong>s betweenthe countries <strong>of</strong> these two systems must be resolved <strong>on</strong>ly by549

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