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

tween the Soviet Union and Other Socialist Countries”, inwhich they examined some of their own past mistakes inhandling their relations with fraternal countries. On November1, the Chinese Government issued a statement expressingsupport for the Soviet Government’s declaration.All this we did in the interests of the international communistmovement, and also in order to persuade the leadersof the CPSU to draw the proper lessons and correct theirerrors in good time and not slide farther away from Marxism-Leninism. But subsequent events showed that the leadersof the CPSU nursed rancour against us and regarded the CPCwhich perseveres in proletarian internationalism as the biggestobstacle to their wrong line.THE 1957 MOSCOW MEETING OFFRATERNAL PARTIESThe 1957 Meeting of Representatives of the Communistand Workers’ Parties took place in Moscow after the repulseof the heavy attacks of the imperialists and the reactionariesof various countries on the international communist movement.The Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSUsays that the 20th Congress of the CPSU played an “immensepart” in defining the general line of the international communistmovement. The facts show the very reverse. Theerroneous views of the 20th Congress on many importantquestions of principle were rejected and corrected by the 1957meeting of fraternal Parties.The well-known Declaration of 1957, adopted by theMoscow Meeting, summed up the experience of the internationalcommunist movement, set forth the common fightingtasks of all the Communist Parties, affirmed the universalsignificance of the road of the October Revolution, outlinedthe common laws governing socialist revolution and socialist70