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

Were we to follow the example of the Chinese leaders, weshould, considering our serious differences with the leadersof the Albanian Party of Labour, long since have declaredAlbania a non-socialist country. But this would be an erroneous,subjective approach to the question. Despite theirdifferences with the Albanian leaders, the Soviet Communistsregard Albania as a socialist country and, for their part, aretaking steps to avert Albania’s detachment from the socialistcommonwealth.It grieves us to see how the leaders of the CPC are underminingtraditional Soviet-Chinese friendship and weakeningthe unity of the socialist countries.The CPSU stands and will stand for the unity and cohesionof the socialist commonwealth, of the entire world communistmovement.VILet us recapitulate:The time since the adoption of the Statement of 1960 hasfully confirmed the correctness of the Marxist-Leninist programmeof the world communist and working-class movement.The Soviet Union’s successes in building communism, the successesof socialist construction in other socialist countries exertan ever more revolutionizing influence on the minds of peopleall over the world. Revolutionary Cuba has lit the beacon ofsocialism in the Western Hemisphere. Crushing blows havebeen dealt the colonial system, which is now nearing its end.New victories have been scored by the working class of theimperialist countries. The world revolutionary movement issteadily advancing.This shows that the general line of the world communistmovement was set out correctly in the Statement of 1960. Thetask now is to work and act in conformity with this generalline, to develop and apply it in reference to the specific conditionsin which each given Communist party functions. Any583