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

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For this reas<strong>on</strong>, <strong>to</strong> separate the fight for peaceful co-existence<strong>of</strong> countries with different social systems from the revoluti<strong>on</strong>aryfight against imperialism and col<strong>on</strong>ialism, forindependence and socialism — <strong>to</strong> counterpose them, as theChinese comrades do — is <strong>to</strong> reduce the principle <strong>of</strong> peacefulco-existence <strong>to</strong> a hollow phrase, <strong>to</strong> deprive it <strong>of</strong> all real meaning,<strong>to</strong> ignore, in effect, the need for resolute struggle againstimperialism, for peace and peaceful co-existence. But thatwould be <strong>to</strong> the benefit <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>of</strong> the imperialists.In its June 14 letter, the CPC Central Committee accusesthe Communist parties <strong>of</strong> extending peaceful co-existence <strong>of</strong>countries with different social systems <strong>to</strong> relati<strong>on</strong>s betweenthe exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressed andoppressor classes, between the working people and the imperialists.This is a m<strong>on</strong>strous fabricati<strong>on</strong> and slander <strong>of</strong> thefraternal parties, which are leading the proletariat in its classbattles with capital and which always support the revoluti<strong>on</strong>arystruggle and the just liberati<strong>on</strong> wars against imperialism.The arguments the CPC leaders advance in their struggleagainst the CPSU and the other fraternal parties are so feeblethat they have <strong>to</strong> resort <strong>to</strong> all manner <strong>of</strong> subterfuge. Theybegin by ascribing <strong>to</strong> us absolutely groundless propositi<strong>on</strong>s<strong>of</strong> their own inventi<strong>on</strong> and then proceed <strong>to</strong> accuse us, <strong>to</strong> fightus and expose these propositi<strong>on</strong>s. That applies <strong>to</strong> their absurdallegati<strong>on</strong> that the CPSU and the other fraternal parties haverenounced revoluti<strong>on</strong> and have substituted peaceful coexistencefor the class struggle. Even political-study-groupstudents know that peaceful co-existence applies <strong>to</strong> governmentalrelati<strong>on</strong>s between socialist and capitalist states. Theprinciple <strong>of</strong> peaceful co-existence, naturally, can in no way beextended <strong>to</strong> relati<strong>on</strong>s between antag<strong>on</strong>istic classes in capitaliststates. Nor is it permissible <strong>to</strong> extend it <strong>to</strong> the workingclassstruggle against the bourgeoisie for its class interests,or <strong>to</strong> the struggle <strong>of</strong> oppressed peoples against the col<strong>on</strong>ialists.The CPSU is resolutely opposed <strong>to</strong> peaceful co-existence in555

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