Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 01:43:26 +0100 (MET) From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens) Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #22en: 8/12 The 4-Gang in China, 1976 UNITE! Info #22en: 8/12 The 4-Gang in China, 1976 [Posted: 03.11.96] [Continued from part 7/12] In this part are reproduced the original series postings (9) and (10). "The Four" & events in China '76 (9): NE on Oct Blow [Sent: 10.06.96] This is part of a discussion on the Jefferson Village Virginia Marxism list and is also sent to newsgroups. [Note: In one earlier posting today on another subject, headed "Does the Avakian clone 'C' really want to debate line?", I by misfortune in the very first line maintained that a certain debate on the Marxism list "took part" instead of "took place", which was what I meant, of course, and later in the posting also wrote a couple of things which were linguistically somewhat inconsistent. They could hardly have caused misunderstandings of any importance, but I hereby apologize for the errors - I do have the intention to "let each part stand in its place" and regret each time in my postings this isn't quite so. - RM] [In this posting on the role of the Gang of Four in the struggle which eventually led to the overtrow of socialism in China, I bring in translation the telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT), Germany, to Chairman Hua Guofeng of the Communist Party of China congratulating the latter on his appointment and on the victory against the phoney"left" Gang of Four, of 1 November 1976. My source is the No. 3 /1976 issue of the journal NEUE EINHEIT, pp 15-19, and I include also the comments on the telegram in that issue of the journal.] [Concerning the reception which this telegram got in China, see a brief comment after the reproduced text - RM] [Precisely this document is of considerable importance in this context to the revolutionaries of today. This because it among other things points to that *subversion against the international communist movement* which, 20 years ago and *still today*, was and is connected with the question of the Gang of Four in China. "Avakianism" and also "MIMism" are present-day reactionary, phoney"Marxist" ideological currents corresponding to it. This document, by the extraordinarily great insight in the matters on the part of the then KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) which it shows up, also points to the extremely advanced character of that party at that time. I'll later, for comparison, reproduce the statements on the same occasion by some other parties in the world, as published in the issuies of the Peking Review in late 1976.] [One later statement by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), that of October 1978 which condemned the betrayal by the Chinese revisionists, repudiateed the reactionary line of Deng Xiaoping / Hua Guofeng and also that of the Gang of Four, and declared that that party would continue to uphold Mao Zedong's allsidedly correct line, I already have reproduced once, in my "UNITE" Info #1en" (and also #1de and #1se) of 23.12.1995. I'll bring it again as posting (10) on the present subject. Further postings concerning above all the subversion against the international communist movement in this context will follow.] [In studuing this document, readers today, I hope, will get a hint towards the fact that, if they today could reach an understanding of the situation in the world which is comparable to that which the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) had of the situation then, some 20 years ago, this would mean a considerable advance on the part of the revolutionary forces.] A G R E A T H I S T O R I C V I C T O R Y The Telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender to Chairman Hua Kuo-feng The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands / Marxisten - Leninisten (NEUE EINHEIT), comrade Klaus Sender, on 1 November 1976 sent to comrade Hua Kuo-feng, on the occasion of his appointment as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Military Commission of the C.P.C Central Committee, a telegram which also expresses the joy of our Party at the victory over the counter-revolutionary black Gang of Four and contains some important points concerning the political evaluation of these counter-revolutionary forces. Because of its importance, the telegram was also published as "Revolutionaere Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28. [Those extra editions of that party's paper were disseminated as leaflets. - RM] The "Revolutionaere Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28 was published on 6 November under the title "A Great Historical Victory - The Telegram of Chairman Klaus Sender to Chairman Hua Kuo-feng" and was distributed in mass edition in our country. From 30 October on, the article "Great Historic Victory" was distributed by our party [i.e. the leading article of three Chiese publications on 25.10.76, published abroad in e.g. the Peking Review issue No. 44 / 76 of 29.10.76 - text, see my posting (8) on this subject], later together with the text of the telegram in the "Revoultionaere Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28. The telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender reads: To the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, comrade Hua Kuo-feng! To your appointment as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communistof Party of China and Chairman of the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China I would like to convey to you the most cordial congratulations and at the same time congratulate you to the great victory over the anti-Party clique of four Wang Hung-wen, Chang Chun-chiao, Chiang Ching and Yao Wen-yuan on the occasion of their attempt to usurp Party and state leadership. With the victory over the Gang of Four, a quite extraordinarily important victory against revisionism has been achieved, a point of departure for an entire new epoch of battles. With it, the most dangerous grouping at the present time has been hit. They are representatives of phoney"Marxism" and capitulation. They indeed are typical representatives of the bourgeoisie within the Party. They stand in connection with the very worst reaction and have committed enormous crimes. The subversion which emanates from them constitutes a considerable danger to the international proletariat, to the Communist world movement, to the Chinese people and the entire Third World and all peoples and to the European peoples, who are under the threat of an aggression by social-imperialism, in a particularly great degree. Their plots and international machinations, their intervention in favour of phoney"Marxism" and revisionism have caused most serious damage internationally and must be smashed completely. They are a clique of rejection of Marxism and of resistance against the proletarian revolutionary line of Chairman Mao. The annihilating and hate-filled outcries of the proletariat and the broad masses in the gigantic demonstrations in China correspond to the interests of the international proletariat and of all peoples. These we have learned of with great joy indeed. By your resolute action, you have done an extremely great service to the international proletariat and to the overwhelming majority of all people. The repudiation of the influence of this Gang and its sources is an important constituent part of the continuation of the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping likewise is being continued. It is impossible in the briefness of a telegram to go into all aspects of this really great victory. But quite certainly, the criticism of the clique of four will serve the uniting of all revolutionary forces in the world, both the uniting of the proletariat with the oppressed peoples and nations and the uniting of the proletariat in the different countries and also the unity of the Third World and also the uniting of those forces which oppose hegemonism and also the crystallization, the further development and the carrying-out of the genuinely Marxist-Leninist line. To carry the great criticism further to the annihilation of this clique is a great common task, to free both China and the Marxist-Leninist movement in the world from an evil. With this victory, years of hopes entertained by phoney"Marxism" have been put to an end. Long live the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China! Long live the Central Committee led by comrade Hua Kuo-feng! Long live the great historic victory over the anti-Party clique guilty of heinous crimes, the Gang of Four! End of October 1976 Klaus Sender Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands / Marxisten-Leninisten (NEUE EINHEIT) So far the text of the telegram and the political taking of position which it contains. To the telegram is appended the leaflet with the joint leading article of the Chinese newspaper "People's Daily", the journal "Red Flag" and the newspaper "Liberation Army's Daily" of 25 October 1976, "A Great Victory of Historic Significance", which since 30 October 1976 is being disseminated by us and which gives an account of the essential events in China. [See my posting (8) on this subject, in which this leading article was reproduced. - RM] Further on, it will be necessary to go into the details of all the questions in this connection, both as to China and as to the international movement and also in particular as to events in this country. [So far the telegram and the comments on it by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT).] [How was this telegram received in China? It was suppressed completely!] [It wasn't even mentioned, much less published, by the Peking Review, for instance. This in contradiciton to the publishing by that journal in English, with versions in several other languages too, of a great number of such congratulatory statements on this occasion, in its issues No.:s 46 (12.11.76) to 52 (24.12.76) of the year 1976. For comparison and also to show what were the standpoints, on that occasion, of several other parties which supported the Communist Party of China, I'll reproduce some of them in full or in part in a later posting.] [But the suppression of this extremely important telegram from the chairman of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), precisely that statemennt, too, which contained the most enthusiastic support of all for, and showed by far the best understanding of all of, that big blow in China against the Gang of Four together with the continuation - which there still was, in words at least - of the criticism of Deng Xiaoping, that suppression was something which could not but lead to the gravest suspicions concerning the real motives of those leading forces who had - so far, with the massive support of the Chinese people - dealt the Gang of Four that blow. This, and later developments in China and internationally, will be the subject of later postings by me, not necessarily in the present series, i.e. the one (mainly) about the role of the Gang of Four. - RM] [So far the original series posting (9). No. (10) follows:] ___________________________________________________________________ "The Four" & events in China '76 (10): NE Oct 1978 [Posted:10.06.96] This is part of a discussion on the Jefferson Village Virginia Marxism list and is also sent to newsgroups. [As posting (10) on this subject I bring again the important statement of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in Germany of October 1978. It evaluated the then recent events in China in a correct and all-round way and also pointed out what was the significance to the entire world of these events. At that time, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) was still a genuinely proletarian revolutionary party and an extremely advanced one, and it remained so for approximately another decade. On later events, I'll bring some more postings, not necessarily in this series. This statement of October 1978 I still consider to be an important guideline for all Marxist-Leninists in the world today. - RM] UNITE! Info #1en: A Basic Statement of Oct 1978 [Posted: 23.12.95] ["UNITE! Info" intro note deleted here] As #1 I post in translation a statement by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) published in Germany in 1978/79: A BASIC STATEMENT BY OUR PARTY OF OCTOBER 1978 Our Party here reaffirms and stresses: We continue to adhere completely to the basic principles of Mao Zedong. Both his line of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, of continued struggle against the bourgeoisie, and also his revolutionary foreign policy during the seventies were in their basic conception and in their execution completely correct. In this there is nothing decisive and important to criticize. Deng Xiaoping and also the "Gang of Four" have tried to undermine this line and to split the correct forces from one another. Both the big blow against the "Gang of Four" and the discharge of the hate and fury against the machinations of this grouping and also the actions of the present Chinese leadership show how very right Mao Zedong was. We absolutely repudiate both the line "KPD" / Deng Xiaoping / Hua Guofeng and also the line "Roter Morgen" / "Gang of Four". They constitute two deviations which wish once more to act, to the detriment of the correct line, as opportunist underminers and pacifiers. They have however already in the main failed, since Mao Zedong in his last years through his decision against Deng Xiaoping and also against the "Gang of Four" achieved that they can only more or less openly today take a stand against him and no longer can directly refer to him and must work towards his being "surmounted". We combat this. Under the conditions of further regrouping in the world, which now is being caused by the betrayal also by the Chinese revisionists, the chances for and the necessity of such a political line absolutely remain in existence. We shall defend it. The peoples are badly advised to embrace either one of the two big revisionists and to applaud him, or to welcome U.S. imperialism as the one who pulls the strings behind the stage. All those are reactionaries, and what is necessary is revolution. This truth of Mao Zedong's remains in existence and will undoubtedly vanquish. (Translation from the German by RM, 1993) NOTE: The above statement was also published by me in Swedish on 1.5.1980 as part of INFORMATIONSBLAD No. 14, and later in English and Swedish in a leaflet in June 1993. The latter also contained the following note: "Unfortunately, later, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) itself degenerated and became a bourgeois party. Concerning this, see 'EINE KRITIK der buergerlichen Politik der KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), oder wie sie nunmehr heisst, und ihres Vorsitzenden Klaus Sender, 1989 / Mitte 1990' by the below publisher, Aug/Sep 1990." I later received a letter from the CC of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), of 15.9./13.10.1994. It stated i.a. that "copyright" to all publications of that party belonged to its chairman, Klaus Sender, and that he "expressly forbade" the publishing of translations etc of such publications together with statements that did not suit that party. In order to avoid a legal conflict over copyright, no statement will be made here concerning the present class character of the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT). ["UNITE! Info" end note deleted here] [Continued in part 9/12] --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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