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

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Every<strong>on</strong>e who p<strong>on</strong>ders <strong>on</strong> the meaning <strong>of</strong> the present strugglefor peace and against therm<strong>on</strong>uclear war will realize thatthe Soviet Communists and the fraternal parties in other socialistcountries are, by their peace policy, rendering invaluableassistance <strong>to</strong> the working class and working people generally<strong>of</strong> the capitalist countries. Nor is it merely a matter <strong>of</strong> avertingnuclear war in order <strong>to</strong> save from destructi<strong>on</strong> the workingclass and the people <strong>of</strong> whole countries, even c<strong>on</strong>tinents,though this is in itself ample justificati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> our policy.There is another c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> — this policy is the best way<strong>of</strong> helping the internati<strong>on</strong>al revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary labour movementachieve its basic class aims. Is it not an immense c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong><strong>to</strong> the working-class struggle that the lands <strong>of</strong> socialism, inthe c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the peace they themselves w<strong>on</strong>, are scoringremarkable achievements in ec<strong>on</strong>omic development, advancingfrom vic<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>to</strong> vic<strong>to</strong>ry in the scientific and technical fields,steadily improving the living and working c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> thepeople and developing and perfecting socialist democracy?In face <strong>of</strong> these successes and vic<strong>to</strong>ries every worker inevery capitalist country will say: “Socialism has proved inpractice its superiority over capitalism. It is a system worthfighting for.” Socialism is now winning men’s hearts andminds, not <strong>on</strong>ly through books, but primarily by its deeds, bythe living example it has set.The 1960 Statement regards as the chief distinctive feature<strong>of</strong> our time the fact that the socialist world system is becomingthe decisive fac<strong>to</strong>r in the development <strong>of</strong> human society. Allthe Communist parties represented at the meeting arrived atthe c<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong> that the internati<strong>on</strong>al working class and itscreati<strong>on</strong>, the socialist world system, is the central fac<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong>our era.The soluti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> all the other problems c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ting the revoluti<strong>on</strong>arymovement depends in very great measure <strong>on</strong>strengthening the socialist world system. That is why theCommunist and Workers’ parties have assumed the obligati<strong>on</strong>“indefatigably <strong>to</strong> strengthen the great socialist community <strong>of</strong>565

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