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

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ideology. This is a truism which all who regard themselvesas <strong>Marx</strong>ists-Leninists should have mastered.IIIThere are serious differences between the CPC and theCPSU and the other <strong>Marx</strong>ist-Leninist parties <strong>on</strong> the questi<strong>on</strong><strong>of</strong> combating the c<strong>on</strong>sequences <strong>of</strong> the Stalin pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult.The CPC leaders have taken up<strong>on</strong> themselves the role <strong>of</strong>defenders <strong>of</strong> the pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult and peddlers <strong>of</strong> Stalin’s err<strong>on</strong>eousideas. They are trying <strong>to</strong> impose up<strong>on</strong> other partiesthe order <strong>of</strong> things, the ideology and morals, the forms andmethods <strong>of</strong> leadership that flourished in the period <strong>of</strong> thepers<strong>on</strong>ality cult. Let it be frankly said that this is an unenviablerole, and <strong>on</strong>e that will bring them neither h<strong>on</strong>our norglory. No <strong>on</strong>e will succeed in persuading <strong>Marx</strong>ists-Leninists,or progressives in general, <strong>to</strong> take up the defence <strong>of</strong> the pers<strong>on</strong>alitycult.The Soviet people and the world communist movement highlyappreciate the courage, boldness, the truly Leninist firmness<strong>of</strong> principle displayed by our party and its Central Committeeheaded by N. S. Khrushchov in eliminating the c<strong>on</strong>sequences<strong>of</strong> the pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult.Every<strong>on</strong>e knows that our party did this in order <strong>to</strong> removethe heavy burden that fettered the powerful forces <strong>of</strong> the peopleand thereby accelerate the development <strong>of</strong> Soviet society.Our party did this in order <strong>to</strong> keep pure the ideals <strong>of</strong> socialismbequested <strong>to</strong> us by the great Lenin and purge them <strong>of</strong> thestigma <strong>of</strong> abuse <strong>of</strong> pers<strong>on</strong>al power and arbitrariness. It didthis in order <strong>to</strong> prevent a recurrence <strong>of</strong> the tragic events thatwere a c<strong>on</strong>comitant <strong>of</strong> the pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult, <strong>to</strong> help all fightersfor socialism draw less<strong>on</strong>s from our experience.The entire communist movement correctly unders<strong>to</strong>od andsupported the struggle against the pers<strong>on</strong>ality cult, which isalien <strong>to</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism, against its harmful c<strong>on</strong>sequences.556

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