Problems of Communism

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Documentary Studies Section, International Information Administration, 1964
 

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Page 66 - History has entrusted to the proletarian parties in these areas the glorious mission of holding high the banner of struggle against imperialism, against old and new colonialism and for national independence and people's democracy, of standing in the forefront of the national democratic revolutionary movement and striving for a socialist future.
Page 10 - In April and May 1962 the leaders of the CPSU used their organs and personnel in Sinkiang, China, to carry out large-scale subversive activities in the Hi region and enticed and coerced several tens of thousands of Chinese citizens into going to the Soviet Union.
Page 47 - In the last analysis, the outcome of the struggle will be determined by the fact that Russia, India, China, etc., account for the overwhelming majority of the population of the globe.
Page 2 - By moving up troops in an attempt to subdue the Polish comrades by armed force it committed the error of great-power chauvinism. And at the critical moment when the Hungarian counter-revolutionaries had occupied Budapest, for a time it intended to adopt a policy of capitulation and abandon socialist Hungary to counter-revolution...
Page 6 - But if the quantity of social labor spent in the production of a certain article corresponds to the social demand for it, so that the quantity produced is that which is the ordinary on that scale of production and for that same demand, then the article is sold at its market-value. The exchange, or sale, of commodities at their value is the rational way, the natural law of their equilibrium.
Page 66 - On the basis of the worker-peasant alliance the proletariat and its party must unite all the strata that can be united and organize a broad united front against imperialism and its lackeys. In order to consolidate and expand this united front it is necessary that the proletarian party should maintain its ideological, political and organizational independence and insist on the leadership of the revolution.
Page 11 - In Russia secrecy presides over everything: secrecy— administrative, political, social; discretion— useful and useless; silence— superfluous for assuring necessary security; such are the inevitable consequences of the primitive character of this people, corroborated by the influence of its government. Every traveler is indiscreet; so it is necessary, as politely as possible, to keep track of the always too inquisitive foreigner lest he see things as they are— which would be the greatest of...
Page 2 - Stalin deserves to be criticized, but we do not agree with the method of criticism, and there are some other matters we do not agree with." On November 30, 1956, on receiving the Soviet Ambassador to China, Comrade Mao Tse-tung again pointed out that the basic policy and line during the period when Stalin was in power were correct and that methods that are used against enemies must not be used against one's comrades. Both Comrade Liu Shao-chi in his conversation with leaders of the CPSU in...

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