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

Comrades from the CPC are making particular efforts toconduct subversive activities in the Communist and Workers’parties of the Asian, African, and Latin-American countries.Lauding the renegades and defectors from the ranks of thecommunist movement, the Chinese leaders reprint in theirnewspapers and magazines slanderous articles from thepublications of these renegade groups directed against thepolicy of the CPSU, against the course of the entire worldcommunist movement.In Ceylon, Chinese representatives maintain close contactwith the grouping of E. Samarakkody, which is a tool of theTrotskyist “Fourth International.”The Trotskyists from the “Fourth International” are tryingto utilize the position of the Chinese comrades for their ownends; they even addressed an open letter to the CPC CentralCommittee in which they openly declare: “The Fourth International,which from the day of its foundation has beenwaging . . . a struggle against the ideas you oppose today,stands on your side. . . . The international secretariat of theFourth International welcomes this discussion you have startedwithin the entire communist movement. It urges you todevelop it.”The Chinese leaders level sharp attacks on the fraternalCommunist parties and their leaders, who do not want todepart from the general line of the international communistmovement. They have published and circulated in manylanguages articles discrediting the activity of the CommunistParty of the United States, and the French, Italian and IndianCommunist parties.. There is no term of abuse their authorsfail to hurl at well-known leaders of these fraternal parties.“Double-dealing” and “Right opportunism,” “revisionism”and “incompatibility with the standards of communist ethics,”“social-democratic degeneration” and “faint-heartedness,”“irresponsibility” and “parroting,” “supercilious and disdainfulattitude towards the revolutionary peoples of the Asian,African and Latin-American countries” — they are all there.579