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

tion’s path of development depends not only on the workingclass. If the exploiting classes resort to violence against thepeople, the working class will be forced to take the nonpeacefulpath of capturing power. Everything depends on theconcrete conditions, on the line-up of class forces within thecountry and internationally.“Needless to say, whatever the form of transition from capitalismto socialism, it is possible only through socialist revolutionand proletarian dictatorship in its various forms. TheCPSU highly regards the self-sacrificing struggle of theworking class, led by the Communists, in all capitalist countriesand considers it its duty to give it every possible assistanceand support.”We have time and again explained our point of view, andthere is no need to set it out in more detail here.But what is the position of the Chinese comrades on thisquestion? It is fully apparent in all their pronouncements andin the CPC Central Committee letter of June 14.The Chinese comrades consider recognition of armed uprising,always, everywhere and in everything, to be the chiefcriterion of devotion to the revolution. They thereby virtuallynegate the possibility of utilizing peaceful forms of struggle forthe victory of the socialist revolution, whereas Marxism-Leninism teaches us that the Communists must master allforms of revolutionary class struggle, both violent and nonviolent.Still another important issue is the relation between theinternational working-class struggle and the national-liberationmovement of the Asian, African and Latin-American peoples.The international revolutionary labour movement — whichnow includes also the socialist world system and the Communistparties of the capitalist countries — and the nationalliberationmovement of the Asian, African and Latin-Americanpeoples — these are the great forces of our age, and a correctrelationship between them is we cardinal condition for victoryover imperialism.570