The central committee of the
Communist Party of China never
informs its readers why it per-
sists in its reckless attempt to
divide the world Communist
movement. Because ofthis there
is widespread speculation, parti-
cularly concerning possible sub-
jective motives.

Aside from all such specula-
tion and ignoring the question of
subjective motivation, it is nec-
essary to emphasize one reason
which is clearly observable in
statements by leading members
of the Chinese party, This reason
is a challenge to Communists —
yes, and to all men of good will
—everywhere in the world.

It is expressed in the pretence
that the Chinese party and the
people of Asia and Africa, and to
only a slightly less extent Latin
America, have a special com-
munity of interests apart from
all the other Communist pdrties;
with a strong implication that it
is a community of interest again-
st the communist parties of what
the Chinese leaders refer to sar-
donically as ‘‘the superior na-
tions.”’

os ee

A crass example of this is to.
be seen in the June 14 document,
In point 8 its authors write:
**Certain persons .. . cater to
the needs of imperialism and
create anew ‘theory’ to justify
the rule of imperialism in these
areas and the promotion of its
policies. of old and new colonial-
ism. Actually, this‘theory’ seeks,
not to break down the barriers
of nationality, color, andgeogra-
Phical location, but to maintain
the rule of the ‘superior nations’
over the oppressed nations,”’

This statement isa flagrant at-
tempt by the Chinese party lead-
ers to turn honest healthy hatred
of imperialism and imperialist
exploiters against other Com-
munist parties.

Such unprincipaled propaganda
has nothing in common with
Marxism-Leninism. To the extent

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the people of the world; perhaps
for a generation.

In addition to its disruptive in-
fluence within the world Com-
munist movement it can do only
harm to struggle for national
independence everywhere be-
cause, contrary to the pretenses
of the Chinese party, the power
of the socialist world system is
indispensable to the final victory
of the struggles for national in-
dependence,

The attempt at theoretical
**justification’’ for this motiva-
tion was stated by comrade Liu
Shao-chi to the U.S. journalist
Anna Louise Strong. According to
her report of that interview, com-
rade Liu Shao-chi asserts that
**Marx and Lenin were Europ-
eans; they wrote in European
languages about European history
and problems, only rarely touch-
ing upon Asia and China. Mao
Tse-tung,’’ on the other hand,
says Liu Sao-chi, ‘thas’not only
applied Marxism to new condi-
tions but has developed it further.
He has created a distinctive Cnin-
ese or Asian form of Marxism.”’’:

This idea that the world - histo-
rical science of Marxism-Lenin-
ism is to be superceded now bya
distinctively **Chinese or Asian
Marxism” is startling; especial-
ly when it is voiced by the first
secretary of the great Communist
Party of China, It’s essential
political content is not new how-
ever. It has been expressed for
years in Mao Tse-tung’s slogan
**the east wind prevails over the
west wind’’. The official organ
of the Chinese Party, Red Flag,
expressed it editorially in the
words, ‘‘We have the full right
to say that the ideas of Mao
Tse-tung are the Marxism -

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Leninism of the epoch of social-
ist revolutions and socialist con-
struction.’’

We shall not be disparaging
comrade Mao Tse-tung or mini-

mizing his historic role in the:

great Chinese Revolution if we
remind the editor of the Red
Flag that ‘*the Marxism-Lenin-
ism ofthe epoch of socialist revo-
lutions’’ was elaborated before
comrade Mao Tse-tung started to
write and the theory and practise

of socialist construction were de-
veloped and its laws were re-
vealed in the Soviet Union, the
people of which, led by their
zreat historic party of Lenin, are

. now building the material basis

for Communism.

If what comrade Liu Shao-chi
describes as Asian Marxism is to
be identified: by the point of view
and the arguments as well as the
tone which have characterized the
party statements, letters, editor-
ials and articles that have been
published on the line put forward
in 1960 in the booklets, ‘‘Under
the Banner of Leninism’’ and
‘Long Live Leninism’’, it must
be said without equivocation that
it is a serious step backward from
the line set forth in the 81-party
Statement.

That document is based
squarely on recognition of the fact
that the main content of political
development today is the transi-
tion from capitalism to social-
ism, of struggle between the two
systems, a struggle in which the
socialist world system is winning

~ and is approaching the achieve-

ment of decisive superiority in all
spheres of social activity.
Recognizing the fact that we
are in a new epoch and identify-
ing the contradiction between
the socialist world system and
capitalism as the main source of
the driving forces for social
change, the 81-Party Statement
sets forth the tasks that must be
undertaken by the Communist
and Workers Parties and the poli-
tically advanced members of the
working class in alliance with
the democratic, peace-loving

forces all over the,world.

The CCof the Chinese party
does not accept the thesis of the
81-Party Statement on the main
characteristic of the new epoch.
Corresponding with this it does
not accept the thesis that the
main contradiction in world poli-

‘ties is that between the socialist

world system and imperialism.
In their June 14 platform of

opposition, they oppose this the-

sis by pointing to several other

TIM BUCK writes on ‘The Errors
of the Central Commiftee

of the Communist Party of China’
(LAST OF A SERIES)

contradictions and declaring that
they are all fundamental, i.e.

equal, On this basis they an-
nounce that:

‘The contradiction between the
socialist camp and the imperial-
ist camp is a contradiction be-
tween two fundamentally differ-
ent social systems, socialism and
capitalism. It is undoubtedly
very sharp. But Marxists-Lenin-
ists must not regard the contra-
dictions in the world as consist-
ing solely and simply of the con-
tradiction between the socialist
camp and the imperialist camp,’’

By journalistic sleight of hand
the authors of the June 14 docu-
ment succeed in dissociating the
Communist Party of China from
the thesis that the central con-
tradiction of world politics to-
day is that between the two sys-

~ tems; without openly repudiating

the 81-Party Statement. It must
be noted however that they also
dissociate themselves from
Lenin’s famous injunction that
Communists ‘‘must be able.
to find that special link in the
chain which one must grasp with
all one’s might in order to hold
the whole chain, and to make last-
ing preparations for the transi-
tion to the next link; ...’’

The Chinese leaders, in ef-
fect, reject Lenin’s admonition

because, if they accept the the-
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sis that the central contradiction
in world politics is between the
two systems they would not have
a shadow of justification for their
propaganda to the effect that the
national liberation struggleis the
key task,

But practise of sleight ofhand,
journalistic or otherwise, cannot
change reality. It cannot stop, or
even slow down the advance of
socialism to the decisive role in
world politics, the deepening
crisis and decay of imperialism,
the collapse of the old colonial
empires, and the unprecedented
growth of the democratic forces
in the capitalist countries.

In this situation of stormy ad-
vance and new possibilities, the
CC of the Communist party of
China wants the Communist and
Workers parties of the world to
fight for the speedy triumph of
peace and socialism with politi-
cal weapons and slogans which
characterized the period before
the world socialist system em- —
braced a third of mankind, be-
fore there had emerged, con-
cretely, the prospect of early as-
sumption of world leadership by
socialism.

This is the corollary of their
attempt to divert militant work-
ers away from recognition of the
fact that the main contradiction
in world politics today is that
between the socialist world sys-
tem and capitalism and that,

therefore, this contradiction is

the crux of the struggle for social
change,

Because the CC of the Chinese
party rejects the thesis that the

main contradiction in worldpoli-.

tics is that between the two sys-
tems, they are unable to under-

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