The Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement

The Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement is a collection of many of the most important documents by the Communist Party of China in its struggle against Khrushchev's modern revisionism. Following the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union by the Khrushchev clique, Chairman Mao Zedong and the CPC took up the defense of Marxism–Leninism internationally in “A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement” and the Nine Comments on the Open Letter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. These documents are central to understanding the struggle against revisionism and the development of the third, new, and higher stage of the ideology of the international proletariat, Maoism.

In the interview of the century, Chairman Gonzalo remarked: “Some unlucky soul lent me the famous Chinese letter, ‘A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement.’ He lent it to me on the condition that I’d return it. Obviously it was an understandable theft. The letter led me to get more deeply into the great struggle between Marxism and revisionism.”

Also included in this volume is the article “Why Khrushchev Fell,” as well as two appended documents from the CPSU which directly demonstrate the bankruptcy of modern revisionism.

ISBN: 978-0-557-71352-3

693 Pages