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

that the leadership of the CPSU would not proceed too fardown the wrong path.On September 10, 1960 the Central Committee of the CPCreplied to the June 21 Letter of Information of the CentralCommittee of the CPSU. In its reply which set forth thefacts and reasoned things out, the Central Committee of theCPC systematically explained its views on a series of importantquestions of principle concerning the world situation andthe international communist movement, refuted the attacksof the leadership of the CPSU on us, criticized its wrong viewsand put forward to the Central Committee of the CPSU fivepositive proposals for settling the differences and attainingunity. (For the five proposals, see Appendix III.)The Central Committee of the CPC subsequently sent adelegation to Moscow in September for talks with the delegationof the CPSU. During these talks, the delegation of theCPC pointed out that, while prettifying U.S. imperialism, theleadership of the CPSU was actively opposing China and extendingthe ideological differences between the two Parties tostate relations, and was thus treating enemies as brothers andbrothers as enemies. Again and again the delegation of theCPC urged the leaders of the CPSU to change their wrongstand, return to the principles guiding relations amongfraternal Parties and countries, and strengthen the unity betweenthe Chinese and Soviet Parties and between the twocountries in order to fight the common enemy. However, theleaders of the CPSU showed not the slightest intention of correctingtheir errors.Thus a sharp struggle became inevitable. This struggle firstunfolded in the Drafting Committee, attended by the representativesof 26 fraternal Parties, which prepared the documentsfor the meeting of fraternal Parties, and later grew to unprecedentedacuteness at the meeting of the representativesof 81 fraternal Parties.In the meetings of the Drafting Committee in Moscowduring October, the leaders of the CPSU attempted to force84