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

like to put this question: In those circumstances, should wehave kept silent on the wrong views and absurd argumentswhich had become current? Did we not have the right, andindeed the duty, to come forward in defense of Marxism-Leninism and the Declaration of 1957?THE SURPRISE ASSAULT ON THE CPC BYTHE LEADERSHIP OF THE CPSUA week after the publication of “Long Live Leninism!” andour two other articles, an American U-2 plane intruded intoSoviet air space and the United States aborted the four-powersummit conference. The “spirit of Camp David” completelyvanished. Thus events entirely confirmed our views.In face of the arch enemy, it was imperative for the CommunistParties of China and the Soviet Union and the fraternalParties of the whole world to eliminate their differences,strengthen their unity and wage a common struggle againstthe enemy. But that was not what happened. In the summerof 1960 there was a widening of the differences in the internationalcommunist movement, a large-scale campaign waslaunched against the Chinese Communist Party, and theleadership of the CPSU extended the ideological differencesbetween the Chinese and Soviet Parties to the sphere of staterelations.In early June 1960 the Central Committee of the CPSUmade the proposal that the Third Congress of the RumanianWorkers’ Party to be held in Bucharest later in June, shouldbe taken as an opportunity for representatives of the Communistand Workers’ Parties of all the socialist countries tomeet and exchange views on the international situationfollowing the miscarriage of the four-power summit conferencecaused by the United States. The Chinese CommunistParty did not approve of this idea of a hasty meeting nor ofthe idea of a representative meeting of the Parties of the79