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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:30:31 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: Posting "On Khrushchov's Phoney Communism", CPC, '64


Posting "On Khrushchov's Phoney Communism", CPC, '64
[Posted: 26.12.97]

In my "UNITE! Info #60en" in 9 parts which I'm posting soon to
this list (M-G), the 1964 Chinese article "On Khrushchov's 
Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World* - 
Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee of the 
CPSU (IX)" is reproduced.

This article very clearly shows how capialism at that time
was being restored in the Soviet Union.

Seemingly strangly, many subscribers to this list seem to be
quite unaware of this restoration having taken place at all,
at such an early time, and seem to think that "socialism was
overthrown in the Soviet Union only in 1989/91" - when in fact
it was the very opposite of socialism that was defeated then
(and replaced by a system that was likewise bourgeois, only 
openly so), namely, the social-imperialist system that had de-
veloped in the Soviet Union as a result of the earlier capita-
list restoration.

Quite probably, many have not even seen any of those Chinese
articles that were published in the 1960s and which so clearly
demonstrated the facts of what was then taking place in the So-
viet Union. Here, then, is one of them, and IMO a very good one.

One subscriber who for natural reasons has taken a particular
interest in "Russian" questions, Vladimir Blienkin (earlier of
the Soviet Union and now living in the USA), wrote some interes-
ting articles last spring discussing above all the question of
what to propagandize concerning Russia today, what advice, if
any, could be given to present-day revolutionaries in Russia.

"War on Russian conditions!", he wrote, for instance. And I sup-
pose all agree on that. But some other things that Vladimir
has written seem to indicate that he is completely ignorant of
this criticism long ago of Soviet society by the Chinese commu-
nists, who at that time were upholding Marxism-Leninism, in 
sharp contradiction to the Soviet leaders then.

For all understanding of the present problems in Russia (for in-
stance), I hold, it's necessary to know and understand *this*
criticism. Later events have demonstrated how very correct it
was. 

This 1964 article from China also refutes the views of Trotskyism
on the history of the Soviet Union.

It would interest me to read, for instance, the views of Vladimir
B. and of (other) adherents of Trotskyism on this article.

Can you possibly not see that *this* is the basic truth on the
Soviet Union from the late 1950s on and on a number of related
matters too?

Rolf M.



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