THE LEADERS OF THE CPSU ARE BETRAYERS OF THE DECLARATION AND

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THE LEADERS OF THE CPSU ARE BETRAYERS OF THE DECLARATION AND

THE STATEMENT by the Editorial Department of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily)

(December 30, 1965)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS PEKING 1965

Printed in the People's Republic of China.

ON the fifth anniversary of the issuance of the Statement of 1960, the new leaders of the CPSU staged a short

anti-Chinese farce by publishing a batch of articles. The revolutionary principles of the Declaration of 1957 and

the Statement of 1960 are as diametrically opposed to Khrushchov revisionism as is fire to water. In trying to confuse people by flaunting the banner of the Declaration and the Statement the faithful followers of Khrushchov re­visionism only help to reveal their own ugly features still further.

During the drafting of the Declaration and the Statement, the Marxist-Leninists waged intense struggles against the Khrushchov revisionists.

The revisionist line advanced by Khrushchov at the 20th Congress of the CPSU is the opposite of the revolutionary principles of the Declaration of 1957. The 20th Congress of the CPSU created grave confusion in the international com­munist movement. Together with other fraternal Parties, the Commtmist Party of China conducted a principled struggle against Khrushchov's revisionist line at the Moscow Meeting.

It was again at Khrushchov revisionism that the revolu­tionary principles of the Statement of 1960 were directed. By that time, Khrushchov had completely transposed enemies and friends, was openly collaborating with U.S. imperialism, had thoroughly undermined the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries and was creating a split in the international communist movement. Together with other Marxist-Leninist Parties, the Communist Party of China waged a tit-for-tat struggle against the Khrushchov revisionist clique and safeguarded the purity of Marxism-Leninism.

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Of course, the formulation of certain questions in the Declaration and the Statement is not altogether clear and there are even weaknesses and errors. As the leaders of the CPSU repeatedly requested that allowances should be made for their need to connect this formulation with the formula­tion of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, we made certain con­cessions at that time in order to reach agreement. On more than one occasion, we have expressed our readiness to ac­cept any criticism of us on this point. Despite all this, the Declaration and the Statement set forth a series of revolu­tionary principles which all Marxist-Leninist Parties should abide by.

In the eyes of the Khrushchov revisionists, however, both the Declaration and the Statement were mere scraps of paper. They tore up these documents on the very day they signed them. The Khrushchov revisionists had made up their minds to sing a tune opposite to that of Marxism-Leninism and the Declaration and the Statement. By the time of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU they produced the revisionist Programme of the CPSU, casting to the four winds all the basic theses of Marxism-Leninism and all the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement.

Let us contrast the revolutionary principles of the Declara­tion and the Statement with the line laid down at the 20th and 22nd Congresses and in the Programme of the CPSU, which is being followed tenaciously by its new leaders.

The Declaration and the Statement lay down a revolu­tionary line. But the Khrushchov revisionists are pressing forward with their anti-revolutionary line of "peaceful coexistence", "peaceful competition" and "peaceful transi­tion". They themselves do not want revolution and forbid others to make revolution. They themselves oppose the armed revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and forbid others to support armed revolutionary struggles.

The Declaration and the Statement point out that U.S. im­perialism is the common enemy of the people of the world

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a n d t h a t t h e p e o p l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e w o r l d m u s t f o r m t h e b r o a d e s t u n i t e d f r o n t a g a i n s t t h e U . S . i m p e r i a l i s t p o l i c i e s o f a g g r e s s i o n a n d w a r . B u t t h e K h r u s h c h t > v r e v i s i o n i s t s a r e u n i t i n g w i t h U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m a g a i n s t t h e p e o p l e o f t h e w o r l d a n d c a r r y i n g o u t t h e p o l i c y o f U . S . - S o v i e t c o l l a b o r a t i o n f o r w o r l d d o m i n a t i o n .

T h e D e c l a r a t i o n a n d t h e S t a t e m e n t p o i n t o u t t h a t s o c i a l i s t c o u n t r i e s m u s t m a i n t a i n t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a n d c a r r y o u t s o c i a l i s t r e v o l u t i o n a n d s o c i a l i s t c o n s t r u c t i o n . B u t t h e K h r u s h c h o v r e v i s i o n i s t s a d v a n c e t h e f a l l a c i e s o f t h e " s t a t e o f t h e w h o l e p e o p l e " a n d t h e " p a r t y o f t h e e n t i r e p e o p l e " , a b o l i s h i n g t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t i n t h e S o v i e t U n i o n a n d c h a n g i n g t h e c h a r a c t e r o f t h e C P S U a s t h e v a n g u a r d o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t . T h e y a r e e n f o r c i n g t h e d i c ­t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r i v i l e g e d b o u r g e o i s s t r a t u m i n t h e S o v i e t U n i o n a n d h a v e e m b a r k e d o n t h e r o a d o f c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a ­t i o n .

T h e D e c l a r a t i o n a n d t h e S t a t e m e n t p o i n t o u t t h a t u n i t y a m o n g a l l t h e C o m m u n i s t P a r t i e s a n d s o c i a l i s t c o u n t r i e s m u s t b e b a s e d o n M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m a n d p r o l e t a r i a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l ­i s m a n d t h a t i n t h e i r r e l a t i o n s w i t h e a c h o t h e r f r a t e r n a l P a r t i e s a n d c o u n t r i e s m u s t f o l l o w t h e p r i n c i p l e s o f i n d e ­p e n d e n c e , c o m p l e t e e q u a l i t y , m u t u a l s u p p o r t a n d t h e a t ­t a i n m e n t o f u n a n i m i t y t h r o u g h c o n s u l t a t i o n . B u t t h e K h r u ­s h c h o v r e v i s i o n i s t s p r a c t i s e b i g - p o w e r c h a u v i n i s m , n a t i o n a l e g o i s m a n d s p l i t t i s m , w a v i n g t h e i r b a t o n e v e r y w h e r e , w i l f u l l y i n t e r f e r i n g i n t h e a f f a i r s o f f r a t e r n a l P a r t i e s a n d c o u n t r i e s , t r y i n g h a r d t o c o n t r o l t h e m a n d c a r r y i n g o u t d i s r u p t i v e a n d s u b v e r s i v e a c t i v i t i e s a g a i n s t t h e m , a n d s p l i t t i n g t h e i n t e r n a ­t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t a n d t h e s o c i a l i s t c a m p .

T h e D e c l a r a t i o n a n d t h e S t a t e m e n t p o i n t o u t t h a t a l l C o m ­m u n i s t P a r t i e s m u s t w a g e s t r u g g l e s a g a i n s t r e v i s i o n i s m a n d d o g m a t i s m , a n d p a r t i c u l a r l y a g a i n s t r e v i s i o n i s m , w h i c h i s t h e m a i n d a n g e r i n t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t a t p r e s ­e n t , a n d t h e S t a t e m e n t , m o r e o v e r , e x p l i c i t l y d e n o u n c e s t h e Y u g o s l a v T i t o c l i q u e a s r e n e g a d e s . B u t t h e K h r u s h c h o v r e v i -

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sionists join the Tito clique in a passionate embrace and publicly try to reverse the verdict on this gang of traitors. They gather around themselves revisionists of all descriptions to oppose the Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary people throughout the w^orld.

The great debate in the international communist movement over the last few years represents a great struggle over whether to uphold or to betray Marxism-Leninism and whether to safeguard or to discard the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement.

The "Proposal Concerning the General Line of the Interna­tional Communist Movement" which the Communist Party of China put forward on June 14, 1963 sums up the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement, upholds the Marxist-Leninist position and refutes Khrushchov revisionism on a series of fundamental questions relating to the revolution in our times.

Preliminary but important results have already been achieved in the Marxist-Leninists' fight against the Khru­shchov revisionists. The new leaders of the CPSU love to talk of the "line confirmed by life itself", don't they? Please open your eyes and have a look. The results "confirmed by life itself" are quite clear. In the face of resolute struggle by all the Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary people, the great people of the Soviet Union included, Khrushchov revisionism has been discredited and its founder driven off the stage of history. This is a great victory in the struggle to defend Marxism-Leninism. It is a great victory in the struggle to defend the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement.

In an article in Pravda, the new leadership of the CPSU said, "The CPSU has been and will continue to be loyal to the general line of the international communist movement." Well, let us now examine what the new leaders of the CPSU have been and will continue to be.

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. What were they in the past? They were Khrushchev's close comrades-in-arms. They were loyal to the general line of Khrushchov revisionism. They had to relegate to limbo the illustrious Khrushchov, the founder of their faith and the maestro who "creatively developed Marxism-Leninism", sim­ply because Khrushchov was too disreputable and too stupid to muddle on any longer, and because Khrushchov himself had become an obstacle to the carrying out of Khrushchov revisionism. The only way the Khrushchov revisionist clique could maintain its rule was to swop horses.

What are they now? They are the old cast of the Khrushchov revisionist leading group. They remain loyal to the general line of Khrushchov revisionism. They never weary of swear­ing that the general line worked out at the 20th and 22nd Congresses of the CPSU under Khrushchev's sponsorship is their "only, immutable, line in the entire heme and foreign policy". At times they give the appearance of opposing the United States, but all their policies boil down to one of U.S.-Soviet collaboration for the domination of the world. They have reaffirmed time and again "the immutability of the policy of the U.S.S.R. aimed at establishing all-round coopera­tion with the United States". While proclaiming that they are building "communism" in the Soviet Union, they are speed­ing up the restoration of capitalism. Amidst the dust and din of their "united action", they called the divisive March Mos­cow meeting, stepping up their divisive activities, and they are now hatching a big plot for a general attack en China and a general split in the international communist movement and the socialist camp. They are going farther and farther along the road of Khrushchev revisionism.

And what will they continue to be? Whether or net they can return to the path of Marxism-Leninism and whether or net they can return to the path of the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement, depend mainly on whether or net they themselves can repudiate the revisionist general line laid down at the 20th and 22nd Congresses and in

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t h e P r o g r a m m e o f t h e C P S U . U n l e s s t h e y u t t e r l y r e p u d i a t e t h i s l i n e , w h a t e v e r t r i c k s t h e y p l a y a n d w h a t e v e r p a t c h i n g t h e y d o c a n o n l y p r o v e t h a t t h e y a r e s t i l l p r a c t i s i n g K h r u s h c h o v r e v i s i o n i s m w i t h o u t K h r u s h c h o v . A l l M a r x i s t -L e n i n i s t s , t h e g r e a t S o v i e t p e o p l e a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y p e o ­p l e e v e r y w h e r e h a v e n o a l t e r n a t i v e b u t t o c o n t i n u e t o e x p o s e t h e m a n d f i g h t t h e m t o t h e e n d .

T h e n e w l e a d e r s o f t h e C P S U a r e s h o u t i n g t h e m s e l v e s h o a r s e f o r " u n i t e d a c t i o n " . A b o v e a l l , t h e y a r e c l a m o u r i n g f o r " u n i t e d a c t i o n " o n t h e q u e s t i o n o f V i e t N a m . B u t i t i s p r e ­c i s e l y o n t h i s q u e s t i o n , w h i c h i s t h e f o c u s o f t h e p r e s e a t i n ­t e r n a t i o n a l s t r u g g l e , t h a t t h e i r a n t i - r e v o l u t i o n a r y p o s i t i o n i s r e v e a l e d i n i t s m o s t c o n c e n t r a t e d f o r m . F a r f r o m b e l i e v i n g t h a t t h e V i e t n a m e s e p e o p l e c a n w i n i n a p e o p l e ' s w a r a g a i n s t U . S . i m p e r i a l i s t a g g r e s s i o n , t h e y a r e a f r a i d t h a t t h i s w i l l b r i n g t h e m " t r o u b l e s " a n d h a m p e r t h e i r c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h U . S . i m ­p e r i a l i s m . W h a t e v e r p r e t e n c e s t h e y p u t u p , i n t h e f i n a l a n a l y s i s a l l t h e i r a c t i v i t i e s a r e a i m e d a t u n i t e d a c t i o n w i t h U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m t o b r i n g t h e q u e s t i o n o f V i e t N a m i n t o t h e o r b i t o f S o v i e t - U . S . c o l l a b o r a t i o n , h e l p U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m t o r e a l i z e t h e p l o t o f " p e a c e f u l n e g o t i a t i o n s " a n d e x t i n g u i s h t h e r a g i n g f l a m e s o f t h e V i e t n a m e s e p e o p l e ' s r e v o l u t i o n . T h e s l o g a n o f " u n i t e d a c t i o n " h a s n o w b e c o m e a p o i s o n e d w e a p o n i n t h e h a n d s o f t h e K h r u s h c h o v r e v i s i o n i s t s f o r s o w i n g d i s s e n ­s i o n . I n c o - o r d i n a t i o n w i t h U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m , t h e y a r e v a i n l y t r y i n g t o u s e t h i s s l o g a n t o u n d e r m i n e t h e f i g h t i n g f r i e n d s h i p b e t w e e n t h e C h i n e s e a n d V i e t n a m e s e p e o p l e s a n d t h e V i e t ­n a m e s e p e o p l e ' s u n i t y a g a i n s t U . S . a g g r e s s i o n . T h e V i e t ­n a m e s e p e o p l e a r e w a g i n g a v i c t o r i o u s s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m a n d f o r n a t i o n a l s a l v a t i o n . I t i s t h e d u t y o f t h e M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y p e o p l e t o g i v e t h e i r s t a u n c h s u p p o r t t o t h e j u s t r e v o l u t i o n a r y s t r u g g l e o f t h e V i e t ^ n a m e s e p e o p l e a n d f i r m l y e x p o s e t h e p l o t o f " u n i t e d a c t i o n " h a t c h e d b y t h e n e w l e a d e r s o f t h e C P S U .

T h e n e w l e a d e r s o f t h e C P S U a s s e r t t h a t a n y o n e w h o d o e s n o t t a k e " u n i t e d a c t i o n " w i t h t h e m i s " e n c o u r a g i n g t h e i m -

perialists to launch their ventures". This is turning things upside down. Is it not the very policies of appeasement and capitulationism of the revisionist leading group of the CPSU and its line of Soviet-U.S. collaboration for world domination that are helping to inflate the aggressive arrogance of U.S. imperialism? It should be pointed out that it is the new lea<f6rs of the CPSU themselves who are actually "encouraging the imperialists to launch their ventures".

What the new leaders of the CPSU fear most is that the Marxist-Leninists will draw a line of demarcation between themselves and these leaders. But, as Lenin said,

The great work of uniting and consolidating the fighting army of the revolutionary proletariat cannot be carried out unless a line of demarcation is drawn and a ruthless struggle is waged against those who serve to spread bourgeois in­fluence among the proletariat.^

By clinging to their revisionism and splittism the new leaders of the CPSU have placed themselves in direct antagonism to Marxism-Leninism. In such circumstances, can the Marxist-Leninists be expected to fail to draw a line of demarcation, both politically and organizationally, between themselves and the new leaders of the CPSU?

If we failed to draw a clear line of demarcation, both politically and organizationally, between ourselves and the Khrushchov revisionists:

Wouldn't we be joining them in betraying Marxism-Leninism and the revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement and become revisionists ourselves?

Wouldn't we be joining them in entering into the service of U.S. imperialism and acting as its accomplices?

'v . I. Lenin, "Resolution Adopted by the Second Paris Group of the R.S.D.L.P. on the State of Affairs in the Party", Collected Works, Eng. ed.. Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1963, Vol. XVII, p. 223.

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W o u l d n ' t w e b e j o i n i n g t h e m i n u n d e r m i n i n g t h e r e v o l u t i o n o f t h e f r a t e r n a l V i e t n a m e s e p e o p l e a n d r e n d e r i n g s e r v i c e t o t h e U . S . i m p e r i a l i s t p o l i c y o f a g g r e s s i o n a g a i n s t V i e t N a m a n d o f w a r e x p a n s i o n ?

W o u l d n ' t w e b e a c c e p t i n g t h e m a s t h e " p a t r i a r c h a l f a t h e r P a r t y " a n d s e r v i n g a s a n i n s t r i m i e n t u n d e r t h e i r b a t o n , r e c ­o g n i z i n g t h e i r b i g - p o w e r p r i v i l e g e d s t a t u s a n d s e r v i n g a s t h e i r a p p e n d a g e ?

W o u l d n ' t w e b e f o l l o w i n g t h e m i n r e s t o r i n g c a p i t a l i s m a t h o m e a n d o n c e a g a i n r e d u c i n g t h e b r o a d m a s s e s o f l a b o u r i n g p e o p l e t o a p o s i t i o n i n w h i c h t h e y a r e o p p r e s s e d a n d e x p l o i t e d ?

W o u l d n ' t w e b e f o l l o w i n g t h e m i n p u t t i n g o u r s e l v e s i n a n t a g o n i s m t o t h e p e o p l e o f o u r o w n c o u n t r y a n d t h e w h o l e w o r l d a n d h e a d i n g f o r a m i s e r a b l e e n d w i t h o u t b e i n g a b l e t o e s c a p e t h e p u n i s h m e n t o f h i s t o r y ?

A s a s e r i o u s M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t P a r t y , t h e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a c a n o n l y g i v e t h e c a t e g o r i c a l a n s w e r t h a t w e w i l l d o n o n e o f t h e s e t h i n g s e i t h e r n o w o r i n t h e f u t u r e .

T h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y h a s c o n s i s t e n t l y u p h e l d t h e u n i t y o f t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t a n d o f t h e s o c i a l i s t c a m p . T h e o n l y g e n u i n e u n i t y i s u n i t y b a s e d o n M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m a n d p r o l e t a r i a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l i s m a n d o n t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y p r i n c i p l e s o f t h e D e c l a r a t i o n a n d t h e S t a t e ­m e n t . W h a t t h e n e w l e a d e r s o f t h e C P S U c a l l " i m i t y " i s s h a m u n i t y . T h e y h a v e b e t r a y e d M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m , p r o l e ­t a r i a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l i s m a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y p r i n c i p l e s o f t h e D e c l a r a t i o n a n d t h e S t a t e m e n t , a n d t h e i r b e t r a y a l c a n o n l y l e a d t o a s p l i t . W e w a n t g e n u i n e u n i t y a n d r e s o l u t e l y o p p o s e s h a m u n i t y . I t i s f o r t h e s a k e o f a c h i e v i n g g e n u i n e i n t e r n a t i o n a l p r o l e t a r i a n u n i t y t h a t w e a r e w a g i n g s t r u g g l e s a g a i n s t K h r u s h c h o v r e v i s i o n i s m .

T o g e t h e r w i t h a l l t h e o t h e r M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t s a n d r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y p e o p l e o f t h e w o r l d , t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t s w i l l c o n t i n u e , a s a l w a y s , t o h o l d a l o f t t h e b a n n e r o f M a r x i s m -L e n i n i s m a n d p r o l e t a r i a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l i s m , a b i d e b y t h e

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revolutionary principles of the Declaration and the Statement and carry the struggle against Khrushchov revisionism through to the end.

The world is on the march. It is our strong conviction that the struggle of the people of the world against imperialism, reaction and modern revisionism and the cause of world peace, national liberation, people's democracy and socialism are bound to keep on winning new great victories.

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