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

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class struggle in the U.S.S.R.., and allege that the CPSU Programmepropositi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> a state <strong>of</strong> the entire people and a party<strong>of</strong> the entire people is wr<strong>on</strong>g. These allegati<strong>on</strong>s are far removedfrom <strong>Marx</strong>ism.We do not intend <strong>to</strong> analyze all their arguments in detailin this letter. Any<strong>on</strong>e who reads the CPC Central Committeeletter <strong>of</strong> June 14 will undoubtedly notice that its argumentsare utterly helpless and betray complete isolati<strong>on</strong> from Sovietlife. We are being taught that hostile classes still remain inSoviet society and the need therefore remains, we are <strong>to</strong>ld,for the dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat. What classes? <strong>From</strong>the CPC letter <strong>on</strong>e c<strong>on</strong>cludes that they are “bourgeois hangers<strong>on</strong>,parasites, blackmarketeers, thieves, idlers, hooligans andembezzlers.”The Chinese comrades certainly have a unique noti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong>classes and class struggle. Since when have these parasiticelements been c<strong>on</strong>sidered a class? And what class? A class<strong>of</strong> idlers or a class <strong>of</strong> hooligans, a class <strong>of</strong> embezzlers, or aclass <strong>of</strong> parasites? In no society do criminals c<strong>on</strong>stitute aclass. Even schoolboys know that. And, <strong>of</strong> course, theseelements do not c<strong>on</strong>stitute a class in socialist society. Theseare manifestati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the survivals <strong>of</strong> capitalism.You do not need proletarian dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>to</strong> combat suchelements. The state <strong>of</strong> the entire people can fully cope, andis coping, with this task. We know from our own experiencethat the better the educati<strong>on</strong>al work <strong>of</strong> party, trade uni<strong>on</strong> andother public organizati<strong>on</strong>s, the higher the role <strong>of</strong> the public,the better the work <strong>of</strong> the Soviet militia, the more effectiveis the struggle against crime.There is no refuting the fact that Soviet society is now madeup <strong>of</strong> two main classes — the workers and the peasants, alsothe intelligentsia, that no class <strong>of</strong> Soviet society occupies apositi<strong>on</strong> enabling it <strong>to</strong> exploit other classes. Dicta<strong>to</strong>rship isa class c<strong>on</strong>cept; over whom do the Chinese comrades propose<strong>to</strong> exercise dicta<strong>to</strong>rship <strong>of</strong> the proletariat in the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong>:over the collective-farm peasantry or the people’s intelligent-561

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