Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:19:45 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #30en: 2/2 Albania - briefly on present, past 


UNITE! Info #30en: 2/2 Albania - briefly on present, past
[Posted: 25.03.97]


[Continued from part 1/2]

THE COMPLICATED CLASS STRUGGLE IN CHINA IN 1976:
WHAT STAND DID THE ALBANIAN PARTY TAKE?

As has been already quite extensively written about in several
earlier UNITE! Infos, socialism was overthrown in China between
late 1976 and the end of 1978 approximately. This was the result
of the actions by two reactionary groups, which indirectly
supported each others' actions as well as contending with each
other for supremacy and which both had been consistently
combated by Mao Zedong: The phoney"left" "4-Gang", intensively
hated by the people and finally stricken down in October 1976 by
the forces of Hua Guofeng, which initially at least on the surface
continued Mao Zedong's line completely but which only weeks later
started to commit treason and to coalesce with the openly-rightist
group of Deng Xiaoping, this eventually resulting in a complete
restoration of capitalism in China.


AN ERROR CONCERNING THE ALBANIAN PARTY OF LABOUR IN "UNITE!
INFOS" #21EN AND #22EN, AND A COMMENT ON SOME FALSE "FRIENDS"

And in this connection, it's suitable to correct one error that was
made both in "UNITE! Info #21en: Debate with Olaechea, '96 VII"
on 27.10.96, in "UNITE! Info #22en: The 4-Gang in China, 1976"
on 03.11.96 and in those earlier postings which were then repro-
dices in those Infos, namely, the statement that the Albanian
Party of Labour led by Enver Hodxa at the important point of the
striking down of the 4-Gang in China was among those extremely
few foreign parties that did *not* congratulate Hua Guofeng on
his being appointed Chairman of the CPC, those parties thus
making clear their open support for the ultra-rightist 4-Gang.

I erroneously wrote that there was "no" telegram or letter of
congratulations from Hodxa to Hua at that point. But there *was*,
as can be seen in issue No. 45 / 1976 of the Peking Review,
where Enver Hodxa's message on behalf of the APL was quoted
in full, and as the second one of all the many such messages
published; only the message from the Vietnamese party was
featured above it. There eventually *was* a break APL-CPC, but
this didn't come out into the open until 1978.

This shortens the list of actually open supporters (of any
importance) of the unmasked and beaten 4-Gang in China in
October 1976 down to two parties: the "Roter Morgen" in
Germany (see i.a. "UNITE! Info #12en) and the later even much
more infamous "RPC" of the USA - as nasty a little band of
backstabbers and CIA/KGB muppets as ever you saw. In fact it's
quite possible that the APL:s growing revisionism and eventual
open vilification of Mao Zedong to a certain extent were spurred
on by those and similar camouflaged representatives on the
international level of the superpowers in general and of US
imperialism in particular. That power, for instance, has been
working in such a way several times before and also later.


THE ALBANIAN PARTY OF LABOUR IN 1978 OPENLY VILIFIES MAO ZEDONG
AND BREAKS WITH  EQUALLY REVISIONIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

In 1978, the ALP under Hodxa finally went revisionist, which
took that expression in international affairs that it now started
vilifying, less than two years after his death, Mao Zedong, whose
correct line during his lifetime it had supported at least approxi-
mately, as purportedly  having been - " a revisionist of the same
kind as Deng Xiaoping"(!). This then meant that the APL took
up a similar position, in relation to Mao Zedong's correct line,
as had earlier the 4-Gang in China itself, only with the difference
that the 4-Gang had pretended that their reactionary phoney"left"
line had been "that of Mao Zedong", trying to "identify" Chairman
Mao with themselves, while Hodxa now tried to "identify" him with
Deng. Though different on that point, the lines of the 4-Gang and
Hodxa, respectively, were quite parallell in essence, and the
Albanian people were soon to experience what that meant as
far as economic policy was concerned.

Suppose that the 4-Gang had really got to rule China? (If the
reader will allow such a hypothetical question as meaningful.)
It appears obvious that they would have been even worse than
the Deng Xiaoping rightists, in fact turning China into another
Albania or something like that, before they were kicked out.

In Europe, the "Roter Morgen" in (West) Germany and a few other
miserable phoney"Marxist" groups in 1978 followed Hodxa's
openly-revisionist lead. On the first page of the newspaper
"Roter Morgen", for instance, Mao Zedong's head was cut off from
the earlier image of the "five classics" - a vile parody.
Precisely in 1978 too, the "RCP" in the USA started openly to
build up its total falsification of recent Chinese history and
recent international Marxist-Leninist history, which consisted -
and still consists - in portraying *the 4-Gang* as "the real
revolutionaries in China"(!!).

And this vile lie is still "with us", for the "RCP" and/or some
other forces controlled by US imperialism obviously managed to
convince that important party  the PCP in Peru of the "correct-
ness" of this falsification of history and of some other very
dirty attacks against the line of Mao Zedong which were likewise
embodied in the "RCP"-sponsored 1984 so-called "Declaration
of the RIM", a reactionary document which the PCP was fooled
into cosigning the same year and which unfortunately it hasn't
distanced itself from yet. Hodxa's revisionism has long been
condemned, quite rightly, by the PCP. The quite similar
revisionism of the 4-Gang has not. This is a serious problem.


WHAT HAS BEEN THE ROLE OF US IMPERIALISM?

As I pointed out in "UNITE! #3en" on 01.01.96, there was and is
an important connection between the 4-Gang in China and its
whole ideology, on the one hand, and the long-time efforts of
US imperialism at subverting the international Marxist-Leninist
movement, on the other.

And as a certain pendant to this, the earlier so important
KDP/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in 1992, even after it had itself in reality
turned into a bourgeois party, in one of its leaflets noted
as an interesting fact the very warm welcome that US Secterary
of State James Baker 3rd had received from actually very big
crowds of people on the occasion of his visit 1991 to Albania -
a country that, supposedly, had long been a "socialist" one and
whose only recently toppled leadership had always - in words -
squarely condemned precisely US imperialism as the biggest
oppressor and exploiter in the world. Behind those words, then,
what had been the real game of that former Albanian leadership?
For how long had, under the surface, massive US subversion been
going on in Albania?

I don't know the precise answer to that question, or to the one
in the sub-heading above. But I hold that they would merit
considerable attention, in any more complete future investi-
gation and analysis of the recent history of Albania and of
that of the international Marxist-Leninist movement.


What may lie ahead for the Albanian people? Concerning such
things, the Chinese communists always used to say: "The future
is bright, the road tortuous". Though the situation in that
country at present does look more "tortuous" than "bright", the
development of the whole international situation today
definitely seems to bear out this theory too.


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