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

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nati<strong>on</strong>s, whose internati<strong>on</strong>al role arid influence <strong>on</strong> the course<strong>of</strong> world events are growing from year <strong>to</strong> year.” And it is inthe accomplishment <strong>of</strong> this all-important task that our partysees its supreme internati<strong>on</strong>al duty.V. I. Lenin taught us that “we exert our main influence <strong>on</strong>the internati<strong>on</strong>al revoluti<strong>on</strong> by our ec<strong>on</strong>omic policy. . . . Inthis field the struggle is being waged <strong>on</strong> an internati<strong>on</strong>al scale.When we solve this task, we shall have w<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> an internati<strong>on</strong>alscale, finally and for certain.” (Works, Vol. 32, p. 413.)That behest <strong>of</strong> the great Lenin has been firmly assimilatedby the Soviet Communists; it is being followed by Communistsin other lands <strong>of</strong> socialism. But, it appears, somecomrades have decided that Lenin was wr<strong>on</strong>g.What is this, disbelief in the ability <strong>of</strong> the socialist countries<strong>to</strong> win the ec<strong>on</strong>omic race with capitalism? Or is it theattitude <strong>of</strong> men who, c<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ted with the difficulties <strong>of</strong> socialistc<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong>, are disappointed and do not see the possibility<strong>of</strong> exerting our main influence <strong>on</strong> the internati<strong>on</strong>al revoluti<strong>on</strong>arymovement by our ec<strong>on</strong>omic achievements, by theexample <strong>of</strong> successful socialist c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> in our countries?They want <strong>to</strong> achieve the revoluti<strong>on</strong> quicker, by followingpaths which, in their opini<strong>on</strong>, are a short cut. But thevic<strong>to</strong>rious revoluti<strong>on</strong> can c<strong>on</strong>solidate and extend its achievementsand prove socialism’s superiority over capitalism <strong>on</strong>lyby labour, <strong>on</strong>ly by the labour effort <strong>of</strong> the people. True,this is not easy, especially in the case <strong>of</strong> revoluti<strong>on</strong>s performedin countries inheriting underdeveloped ec<strong>on</strong>omies. But the example<strong>of</strong> the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> and <strong>of</strong> many other socialist countriesc<strong>on</strong>vincingly shows that, even under these c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s,immense progress can be made and the superiority <strong>of</strong> socialismover capitalism dem<strong>on</strong>strated <strong>to</strong> the world, providingthere is correct leadership.Further: what is more favourable for the working-class revoluti<strong>on</strong>arystruggle in capitalist countries — an atmosphere <strong>of</strong>peace and peaceful co-existence, or an atmosphere <strong>of</strong> unrelaxinginternati<strong>on</strong>al strain and cold war?566

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