WHY KIIRUSHCHOY FELL

FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS PEK ING \s

WHY KHRUSHCIIOY FELL

-Editorial, Hongqi (Reit Ftag), Nos, 21-22, 1964

FORE,IGN I"ANGUAGES PRESS PEKING 1984 Krr*rarcHov has fallen. This arch-schemer who usurped the leadership of the Soviet Party and state, this number one representative of modern , has finally been driven off the stage of history. This is a very good thing and is advantageous to the revolutionary cause of the people of the world. The collapse of Khrushchov is a great victory for the Marxist-Leninists of the world in their persistent struggle against revisionism. It marks the bankruptcy, the fiasco, of modern revisionism. How was it that Khrushchov fell? Why couldn,t he muddle on any longer? This question has aroused different comments from dif_ ferent political groups al1 over the world. The imperialists, the reactionaries, and the opportunists and revisionists of a1J. shades, whether they sympathize with Khrushchov or have had conflicts of interest with him, have expressed varied views on the sudden coliapse of this seemingly "strong man,,, Khrushchov. Many Communist and Workers, parties have also pub_ Iished articles or documents expressing their opinion on Khrushchov's downfall. In the present article we too would like to discuss the question of Khrushchov's downfall. For Marxist-Leninists, this downfali is not something Printed in the People's Reyublic of which is hard to understand. Indeecl, it may be said to Khrushchov collected all the anti-Nlarxist views of have been fully expected. Marxist-Leninists had long history's opportunists and revisionists and out of them foreseen that Khrushchov would come to such an end. knocked together a full-fledged revisionist line consisting People may hundreds even thousands charges list or of of "peaceful coexistence", "peaceful competition", "peace- against Khrushchov to account for his collapse. But the ful transition", "the state of the whole people" and important one to most of ail is that he has vainly tried "the party of the entire peop1e". He pursued a capitula- obstruct the advance of history, flying in the face of the tionist line towards imperialism and used the theory of law of historical development as discovered by - class conciliation to oppose and liquidate the people's and of the revolutionary will of the people of revolutionary struggles. In the international communist the and the whole world. Any obstacle on movement, he enforced a divisive line, replacing prole- the people's road of advance must be removed. The tarian internationalism with great-power chauvinism. people were sure to reject Khrushchov, whether he and In the Soviet Union he worked hard to disintegrate the his kind liked it or not. Khrushchov's downfall is the dictatorship of the proletariat, attempting to replace the inevitable result of the anti-revisionist struggle waged socialist system with the ideology, politics, economy and staunchly by the people of the Soviet Union and revolu- culture of the bourgeoisie, and to restore capitalism. tionary people throughout the world. In the last eleven years, exploiting the prestige of the im- Ours is an epoch in which world capitalism and Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of the first perialism doom and socialisrn and com- are moving to their socialist country that had been built up under the leader- munism are marching towards victory. The historie ship of Lenin and Stalin, Khrushchov committed aII the mission this epoch has placed on the people is to bring bad things he possibly could in contravention of the proletarian revolution step step to complete the world by genuine rvill of the Soviet people. These bad things may and establish a new world imperialism, victory without be summed up as follows: capitalism and without the expioitation of man without 1. Cn the pretext of "combating the personality cult" man through their own efforts and in the light of the _ by and using the most scurrilous language, he railed at Stalin, conditions their respective countries. This concrete of the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the inexorable of historical development and the is trend and the Soviet people. In opposing Stalin, he opposed people of the common demand of the revolutionary world. Marxism-Leninism. He tried at one stroke to write off trend is an objective 1aw which operates This historical all the great achievernents of the Soviet people in the of man's wi1l, and it is irresistible. But independently entire period under Stalin's leadership in order to defame Khrushchov, this buffoon on the contemporary political the dictatorship of the proletariat, the socialist system, chose to go against this trend in the vain hope of stage, the great Soviet Communist Party, the great Soviet Union turning the wheel of history back onto the old capitalist and the international communist movement. In so cloing, and of thus prolonging the life of the moribund ex- road Khrushchov provided the imperialists and the reaction- ploiting classes and their moribund system of exploitation. aries of al1 countries with the dirtiest of weapons for their the people in the capitalist countries, demanding that thLy anti-Soviet and anti-Communist activities. take the so-called Iega1, parliamentary road. This er- 2. In open violation of the Declaration of 1gb? and roneous line paralyses the revolutionary will of the pro- ,,all-r,ound the Statement of 1g60, he sought co-operation,, Ietariat and d.isarms the revolutionary people ideoiogi- with U.S. imperialism and fallaciously maintained that cally, causing serious setbacks to the cause of revolution the heads of the Soviet Union and ihe United States in certain countries. It has made the Communist Parties would "decide the fate of humanity,,, constantly praising in a number of capitalist countries lifeless social-demo- ,,having the chieftains of U.S. imperialism as a sincere cratic parties of a new type and caused them to degen- desire for peace". Pursuing an adventurist poiicy at one erate into servile tools of the bourgeoisie. moment, he transported guided missiles to , and 5. Under the signboard of "peaceful co-existence" he pursuing a capitulationist policy at another, he docilely did his utmost to oppose and sabotage the national libera- withdrew the missiles and bombers from Cuba on the tion movement and went so far as to work hand in glove order of the U.S. pirates. He with U.S. imperialism in suppressing the revolutionary U.S. fleet and even tried to s struggles of the oppressed nations. He instructed the by agreeing, behind the Cuban SoviCI delegate at the United Nations to vote for the "inspection" of Cuba by the dispatch of forces of aggression to the Congo, which under U.S. control. In so doing, Khrushchov brought a helped the U.S. imperialists to suppress the Congolese humiliating disgrace upon the great Soviet people un- people, and he used Soviet transport faciiities to move heard of in the forty years and more since the October these so-called United Nations troops to the Congo. He Revolution. actually opposed the revolutionary struggles of the 3. To cater to the U.S. imperialist policy of nuclear Ai.gerian people, describing the Algerian national libera- blackmail and prevent socialist China frorn building up tion struggle as an "internal affair" of France. He had her own nuclear strength for self-defence, he did not - the audacity to "stand aloof" over the events in the Guif hesitate to damage the defence capabilities of the Soviet of Bac Bo engineered by U.S. imperialism against Viet Union itself and concluded the so-called partial nuclear Nam, and cudgelled his brains for ways to help the U.S. test ban treaty in collusion with the two imperialist provocateurs get out of their predicament and to white- powers of the United States and Britain. Facts have wash the criminal aggression of the U.S. pirates. shown that this treaty is a pure swindle. In signing this 6. In brazen violation of the Statement of 1960, he treat5, Khrushchov perversely tried to sell out the in- spared no effort to reverse its verdict on the renegade terests of the Soviet people, the people of aIl the socialist Tito clique, describing Tito who had degenerated into countries and ali the peace-loving people of the world. a lackey of U.S. imperialism as a "Marxist-Leninist" and 4. In the name of "peaceful transition,, he tried by Yugoslavia which had degenerated into a capitalist coun- every means to obstruct the revolutionary rnovements of try as a "socialist country". Time and again he declared that he and the Tito clique had "the same ideology', and 9. In flagrant violation of the principles guiding rela- were "guided by the same theory" and expressed his tions among the fraternal countries, he encroached upon desire to learn modestly from this renegade who had their independence and sovereignty and wilfully inter- betrayed the interests of the Yggoslav people and sabo- fered in their internal affairs. In the name of "mutual taged the international communist movement. economic assistance", he opposed the independent devel- 7. He regarded Albania, a fraternal socialist country, I opment of the economies of fraternal countries and forced as his sworn enemy, devising every possible means to in- them to become a source of raw materials and an outlet for jure and undermine it, and only wishing he could devour i finished goods, thus reducing their industries to append- it in one gulp. He brazenly broke off ail economic and ages. He bragged that these were all new theories and diplomatic relations with Albania, arbitrarily deprived it doctrines of his own invention, but in fact they were the of its legitimate rights as a rnember state in the Warsaw jungle law of the Capitalist world which he applied to Treaty Organization and in the Council of Mutual Eco- relations among socialist countries, taking the Common Market monopoly nomic Assistance, and publicly called for the overthrow of the capitalist blocs as his model. of its Party and state leadership. 10. In comp).ete violation of the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties, he resorted to aII sorts 8. He nourished an inveterate hatred for the Com- of schemes to carry out subversive and disruptive activi- munist Party of China which upholds Marxism-Leninism ties against them. Not only did he use the sessions of and a revolutionary line, because the Chinese Communist the Central Committee and Congress of his own Party as Party was a great obstacle to his press effort to on with well as the Congresses of some fraternal Parties to launch revisionism and capitulationism. He spread innumerable overt large-scale unbridled attacks on the fraternal Par- rumours and slanders against the Chinese Communist ties which uphold Marxism-Leninism, but in the case of Party and Comrade Mao Tse-tung and resorted to every many fraternal Parties he shamelessly bought over kind of baseness in his futile attempt to subvert socialist political degenerates, renegades and turncoats to support China. He perfidiously tore up severaL hundred agree- his revisionist 1ine, to attack and even illegally expel ments and contracts and arbitrarily withdrew more than I Marxist-Leninists from these Parties, thus creating splits one thousand Soviet experts working in China. He without considering the consequences. engineered border disputes between China and the Soviet 11. He wantonly violated the principle of reaching Union and even conducted large-scale subversive activi- J unanimity through consultation among fraternal Parties ties in Sinkiang. He backed the reactionaries of India and, playing the "patriarchal father Party" ro1e, he wil- in their armed attacks on socialist China and, together fully decided to convene an iIIegaI international meeting with the United States, incited and helped them to per- of the fraternal Parties. In the notice dated July 30, petrate armed provocations against China by giving them 1964, he ordered that a meeting of the so-called drafting military aid. committee of the twenty-six fraternal Parties be held on December 15 this year, so as to create an open split in Such are the so-called meritorious d.eeds of Khrushchov. the international communist movement. The downfall of a fellow like Khrushchov is certainly 12. To cater to the needs of the imperialists and the not due to o1d age or ill health, nor is it merely due to domestic forces of capitalism, he pursued a series of revi- mistakes in his methods oi work and style of leadership. sionist policies leading back to capitalism. Under the Khrushchov's downfall is the result of the revisionist signboard of the "state of the whole people", he abolished general line and the many erroneous policies he pursuecl the dictatorship of the proletariat; under the signboard at home and abroad. of the "party of the entire people", he altered the prole- Khrushchov conisidered the masses of the people as tarian character of the Communist Party of the Soviet simply beneath his notice, thinking that he could manip- Union and divided the Party into an "industrial" and an ulate the destiny of the Soviet people at his own sweet "agricultu-ral" Party in contravention of the Marxist- will and that the "heads" of the two great powers, the Leninist principle of Party organization. Under the Soviet Union and the United States, could settle the signboard of "full-sca1e communist construction" he tried destiny of the people of all countries. To him, the people in a thousand and one \Mays to switch back to the old were nothing but fools and he alone was the ,,hero,, mak- path of capitalism the world's first which ing history. He vainly tried to force the Soviet people the Soviet people under the leadership of Lenin and and the people of other countries to prostrate themselves Stalin had created by their sweat and blood. His blind under his revisionist baton. Thus he placed himself in direction of Soviet agriculture and industry wrought great direct opposition to the Soviet people, to the people of havoc with the Soviet national economy and brought the countries of the socialist camp and to the proletariat great difficulties to the life of the Soviet people. and revolutionary people of the whole world, and got Everything Khrushchov did over the last eleven years himself into an impasse he was deserted by his own proves that the policy he pursued was one of alliance with followers and could not -extricate himself from internal imperialism against , alliance with the United and external difficulties. He put the noose around his China, alliance with the reactionaries every- States against own neck - dug his own grave. where against the national liberation movements and History has witnessed many buffoons who cherished the people's revolutions, and alliance with the Tito clique the idle hope of turning back the tide of history, but they and renegades of all descriptions against all Marxist- all came to an ignominious end. Countless instances Leninist fraternal Parties and aII revolutionaries fighting have demonstrated that the evil-doer who goes counter imperialism. This policy of Khrushchov's has jeopard- to the needs of social development and the will of the ized the basic interests of the Soviet people, the people pecple can only end up as a ridiculous good-for-nothing, of the countries of the socialist camp and the revolutionary no matter what kind of "hero" he may have been, &nd people all over the wor1d. no matter how arrogant. To start with the aim of doing harm to others only to end up by ruining oneself such people reasoned with him and asked him to return to is the general Iaw governing these people. - the fo1d, he paid not the slightest heed and finally plunged such as Bakunin in the period of the First "Personages" to his doom. arrogant anti-Marxist in International were "heroes" Khrushchov has fallen and the revisionist line he en- their day, but they were soon relegated to the garbage- thusiastically pursued is discredited, but Marxism- heap history. Anti-Marxist like Bernstein of "heroes" Leninism will continue to overcome the revisionist trend period the Second International and Kautsky in the of and forge ahead, and the revolutionary movement of the once giants" entrenched in Ieading were "formidable people of all countries wiII continue to sweep away the positions, the end history wrote them down as but in obstacles in its path and surge forward. notorious renegades. Trotsky, the ringleader of the Nevertheless, the course of history will continue to be himself out as a after opposition faction, decked "hero" tortuous. Although Khrushchov has faIlen, his support- Lenin's death, but facts confirmed the correctness of he resembles an actor rather than Stalin's remark: ". modern revisionists will not resign themselves to this not confused a hero a hero; and an actor should be with failure. These hobgoblins- are continuing to pray for under any circumstances." Khrushchov and are trying to "resurrect" him with their of man's His- "But progress is the eternal law world." incantations, vociferously proclaiming his "contributions" has taught us that whoever wants to stop the wheel tory and "meritorious deeds" in the hope that events will de- ground Mao Tse- of history will be to dust. As Comrade velop along the lines prescribed by Khrushchov, so that repeatedly pointed out, imperialisrn and aII reac- tung has "Khrushchevism without Khrushchev" may prevail. It paper revisionists too. tionaries are tigers, and the are can be asserted categorically that theirs is a blind alIey. they may However rampant and overbearing be, "heroes" Different ideological trends and their representatives reactionary forees representing reactionary classes and invariably strive to take the stage and perform. It is paper powerful appearallice; are actually tigers, only in entirely up to them to decide which direction they will only transients soon to be overwhelmed they are fleeting take, But there is one point on which we have not the Khrushchov is no ex- by the surging waves of historyl slightest doubt. History will develop in accordance with his inordinate arrogance in the ception. Just think of the laws discovered by Marxism-Leninism; it will'march days when he viciously attacked Stalin and Marxism- forward along the road of the . and when at Leninism at the 20th and 22nd Congresses, Beyond all doubt, the great Communist Party of the on the Bucharest meeting he launched his surprise attack Soviet Union and the great Soviet people, with their the which upholds Marxism- revolutionary traditions, are fully capable of making new Leninism. But it did not take long for this anti-Soviet, contributions in safeguarding the great socialist achieve- anti-Communist and anti-Chinese "hero" to meet the ments, the lofty prestige of the first socialist power predecessors. same fate as his revisionist However much founded by Lenin, the purity of Marxism-Leninism and 10 1l the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of the proletariat. Let the international communist movement unite on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian interna_ tionalism! fffAH*EiHt+TffE! & ,tdl,hfrE+rIHIE ( fiF ) 1964+ffi-ffi. ffiEr (rq)3050-1044 00012 3-E-641P

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