ing sacrifices is in reality to demand that the people
Should for ever remain slaves and endure infinite pain

and sacrifice. —

Elementary knowledge of Marxism-Leninism tells
Us that the birth-pangs of a revolution are far less
_ Painful than the chronic agony of the old society.
Lenin rightly said that “even with the most peaceful
‘Course of events, the present [capitalist] system always
and inevitably exacts countless sacrifices from the
Morking class.”

| Whoever considers a revolution can be made only
if €verything is plain sailing, only if there is an ad-
Vance guarantee against sacrifices and failure, is cer-
qanly no revolutionary.

; eyes difficult the conditions and whatever sacri-
€s and defeats the revolution may suffer, proletarian
Tevolutionaries should educate the masses in the spirit
of revolution and hold aloft the banner of revolution
and not abandon it.

Party should rashly launch a revolution before the
Objective conditions are ripe. But it would be right
pportunism if the proletarian party should not dare
lead a revolution and to seize state power when
the objective conditions are ripe.

_ Even in ordinary times, when it is leading the masses
a the day-to-day struggle, the proletarian ‘party
ould. ideologically, politically and organizationally

8nd promote revolutionary struggles, so that it will
not Miss the opportunity to overthrow the reactionary
Tegime and establish a new state power when the con-
ions for revolution are ripe. Otherwise, when the

oy throw away the Cupar of seizing victory.

sie | The proletarian party must be flexible as well as
hly principled, and on occasion it must make such
‘ompromises as are necessary in the interests of the
‘evolution, But it must never abandon principled poli-
cles. and the goal of revolution on the pretext of flex-
ility and of necessary compromises.
e The Rrcletacian party must lead the masses in wag-
in Struggles against the enemies, and it must know
ag to utilize the contradictions among those enemies.
But the purpose of using these contradictions is to
ake it easier to attain the goal of the people’s revo-
fonary struggles and not to liquidate these SHEE:

: Countless facts have proved that, wherever the dark
Tule of imperialism and reaction exists, the people

or Jater, rise in revolution,

al eis scalars: fremeclocs from the revolu-

tionary demiands of the masses, they are bound to lose
the Confidence of the masses and will be. tossed to ie
aor v the eeclungpary current. "

if fhe hing eroun in any party adopt a non-revo-
ey line and convert it into a reformist party,
wil | Marxist-Leninists inside and outside the party.

~ Teplace them and lead the people in making re-
Volution, In another kind of situation, the bourgeois
£volutionaries will come forward to lead the revolu-

'ge0isie betray the revolution and suppress the
People, an opportunist line will cause tragic and un-
Ssary losses to the Communists and the revolu-
amasses.

will degenerate into bourgeois nationalists and
me appendages of the age eb and ae reac,
Bee coalc: \ a

Thee are terial paren wae aueat that ‘they have
© the greatest creative contributions to revolution-

yt 18 very dubious whether they have ever really
ES Consideration to the extensive experience of the
tire world Communist movement, whether they have

th iternational proletarian movement as a whole,
whether they geet have a cts line ae ee

Tt would be “left” adventurism if the proletarian

Prepare its own ranks and the masses for revolution-

jective conditions are ripe, the proletarian party will:

form over 90 percent of the EPO: will soon- :

mand the party of the proletariat will forfeit its
ership of the revolution. ‘When the ‘reactionary -

“gif Communist slide aciui the path of Supemantan :

theory: since lenin and that they alone are correct.

Teall al and tasks ©
Y considered the interests, t ies ternational Communist movement talk about how

international Communist movement- which conforms
with Marxism-Leninism.

In the last few years the international Communist
movement and the national-liberation movement have
had many experiences and many lessons. There are
experiences which people should praise and there are
experiences which make people grieve. Communists and
revolutionaries in all countries should ponder and seri-
ously study these experiences of success and failure, so
as to draw correct conclusions and useful lessons from
them. .

13

The socialist countries and the revolutionary strug-
gles of the oppressed peoples and nations support and
assist each other.-

The national-liberation movements of Asia, Africa
and Latin America and the revolutionary movements
of the people in the capitalist countries are a strong
support to the socialist countries. It is completely
wrong to deny this.

The only attitude for the socialist countries to adopt
towards the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed
peoples and nations is one of warm sympathy and
active support; they must not adopt a perfunctory
attitude, or one of national selfishness or of great-
power chauvinism.

Lenin said, “Alliance with the revolutionaries of the
advanced countries and with all the oppressed peoples
against any and all the imperialists — such is the ex-
ternal policy of the proletariat.” Whoever fails to un-
derstand this point and considers that the support and

_ aid given by the socialist countries to the oppressed

peoples and nations are a burden or charity is going
counter to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian interna-
tionalism.

The superiority of the socialist system and the

achievements of the socialist countries in construction

play an exemplary role and are an inspiration to the
oppressed peoples and the oppressed nations.

But this exemplary role and inspiration can never
replace the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed
peoples and nations. No oppressed people or nation
can win liberation except through its own staunch re-
volutionary struggle.

Certain persons have one-sidedly exaggerated the
role of peaceful competition between socialist and
imperialist countries in their attempt to substitute.

peaceful competition for the revolutionary struggles of -

the oppressed peoples and nations. According to their
preaching, it would seem that imperialism will auto-
matically collapse — in the course of this peaceful com-
petition and that the only thing the oppressed peoples
and nations have to-do is to wait quietly for the advent

’ Of this day. What does ta have in common with Marx.

sae gine wiEWsSt

Moreover, certain persons haved eohcoeel: the
strange tale that China and some other socialist coun-
tries want “to unleash wars” and to ‘spread socialism
by “wars between states.” As the Statement of 1960
points out, such tales are’ nothing but imperialist and
reactionary slanders. To put it bluntly, the purpose of
those who repeat these slanders is to hide the fact
that they are opposed to revolutions by the oppressed
peoples and nations of the world and opposed to
na aieae supporting: ee revolutions.

In the last few years much — in fact a great deal
— has been said on the question of war and peace.
Our views and policies on this question are known

‘to the world, and no one can distort them.

It is a pity that although certain persons in the in-

och ge love oles and gute war, aon are unwilling —

ever will hold that revolution must be made through

still exists. This is sheer. illusion. ©

_geoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-—

shadow of evidence that the imperialist countries head-

to acquire even a faint tinderstanding of the sia
truth on war pointed out by Lenin.

Lenin said,

“It seems to me that the main thing that is usually
forgotten on the question of war, which receives inade-
quate attention, the main reason why there is so much
controversy, and, I would say, futile, hopeless and aim-
less controversy, is that people forget the fundamental
question of the class character of the-war; why the
war broke out; the classes that are waging it; the
historico-economic conditions that gave rise to it.” _

As Marxist-Leninists see it, war is the continuation
of politics by other means, and every war is insepar-
able from the political system and the political strug-—
gles which give rise to it. If one departs from this
scientific Marxist-Leninist proposition which has been —
confirmed by the entire history of class struggle, one
will never be able to understand either the ae
of war or the queriiog of peace.

There are different types of peace and dikexcat
types of war. Marxist-Leninists must be clear about
what type of peace or what type’of war is in question.
Lumping just wars and unjust wars together and op-
posing all of them undiscriminatingly is a bourgeois
pacifist and not a Marxist-Leninist approach. >

Certain. persons say that revolutions are entirely :
possible without war. Now which type of war are they
referring to—is it a war of national liberation or
a revolutionary civil war, or is it a world war?

If they are referring to a war of national liberation —
or a revolutionary civil war, then this formulation is, _
in effect, opposed to pa cpricintctea A wars and to revo-
lution. :

If they are referring to a world war, then they are
shooting at a non-existent target. Although Marxist-
Leninists have pointed out, on the basis of the history
of the two world wars, that world wars inevitably
lead to revolution, no Marxist-Leninist ever has held or

world war.

Marcia sninicté take the abolition of war as ae :
ideal and believe that war can be abolished. os

But how can war be abolished?
This is how Lenin viewed at:

. Our object is to achieve the socialist system of :
Scar which, by abolishing the division of mankind
into classes, by abolishing all exploitation of man by
man, and of one nation by other nations, will inevit-
ably abolish all possibility of war.”

The Stateinery of 1960 ais puts it very yee “The
victory of socialism all over the world will ETE :
remove the social Sag national causes of all wars.”

‘However, certain persons now actually hold that it a
is possible to bring about “a world without weapons,
without armed forces and without wars” through _

“general and complete disarmament” while the system _
of imperialism and of the exploitation of man lak ae

An eee ake knowledge ae Marxism-Leninism tells _
us that the armed forces are the principal part of the
state machine and that a so-called world without weap-
ons and without armed forces can only be a world —
without states. Lenin said: es

Fee

“Only after the proletariat has disarmed the ws

historical mission, to throw all armaments on the
scrap heap; and the proletariat will undoubtedly do
this, but only sage this condition Ra Mesertypee sn

What are he farts ail "the: Wand “wag Is sok”
ed by the United States are ready to carry out

general and complete disarmament? Are they not each

oe
Sight

We have always maintained that, fn order to ex

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