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

“There are differences between us and Comrade Khrushchovon a series of fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism.” “The future of the international communist movementdepends on the needs and the struggles of the peopleof all countries and on the guidance of Marxism-Leninism,and will never be decided by the baton of any individual.”“. . . our Party believes in and obeys the truth of Marxism-Leninism and Marxism-Leninism alone, and will never submitto erroneous views which run counter to Marxism-Leninism.” (See Appendix II.)The leaders of the CPSU did not reconcile themselves totheir failure to subdue the Chinese Communist Party inBucharest. Immediately after the Bucharest meeting, theybrought more pressure to bear on China by taking a series ofsteps to extend the ideological differences between the Chineseand Soviet Parties to the sphere of state relations.In July the Soviet Government suddenly took a unilateraldecision recalling all the Soviet experts in China within onemonth, thereby tearing up hundreds of agreements and contracts.The Soviet side unilaterally scrapped the agreement onthe publication of the magazine Druzhba (Friendship) by Chinafor Soviet readers and of Su Chung You Hao (Soviet-ChineseFriendship) by the Soviet Union for Chinese readers andtheir distribution on reciprocal terms; it took the unwarrantedstep of demanding the recall by the Chinese Government of astaff member of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union; andit provoked troubles on the Sino-Soviet border.Apparently the leaders of the CPSU imagined that oncethey waved their baton, gathered a group of hatchet-men tomake a converging assault, and applied immense political andeconomic pressures, they could force the Chinese CommunistParty to abandon its Marxist-Leninist and proletarian internationaliststand and submit to their revisionist and greatpowerchauvinist behests. But the tempered and long-testedChinese Communist Party and Chinese people could neither82