PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE The recent diplomatic games between the Chinese government and U.S. imperialism formalise the recent right tum taken by the Chinese leadership and mark the end of the limited efforts made by China in the past to organise its followers on a world scale. Revolutionary politics are not in command. If the matter was simply restricted to establishing and normalising diplomatic relations on a state level, there could be no reason for protest, The People's Republic of China has a perfect right to trade and establish relations with any section of the capitalist world and only purists or moralists would raise an objection. Unfortunately the recent talks in Peking between Chou en Lai and Henry Kissinger represent something much more sinister and have therefore to be judged as part of a much wider discission related to the spread of the Asian Revolution and China's unequivocal betrayal of the same: we refer in. particular to bengal and Ceylon.
The recent Chinese tum, therefore, represents a serious blow to the world revolution. Ever since the Sino-Soviet split which symbolised the dramatic disintegration of the Stalinist monolith, the Chinese had, with a few notable exceptions, followed u policy of aiding movements of national liberation throughout the Third World, but particularly in Asia. Their trenchant criticisins of Soviet peaceful coexistence had further aided in the political development of hundreds of thousands of militants and creation of an independent political vanguard. This is not the place to make a balance-sheet of the Chinese Revolution and its development, but we can say without doubt that the Vietnamese revolutionaries in particular have benefited greatly from the Sino-Soviet split and from the support they received from the Chinese to counterbalanee Soviet pressure and to ndopt a fairly independent political strategy. The spread of the struggle to Loos and Cambodia, the military defeats suffered by the U.S. arnies, the complete demoralisation of the same army, the massive anti-war movement in the heartland itself and the possibilities of other revolutionary breakthroughs, decreased the isolation of China and made the halance of forces much more favourable. It would he ludicrous to argue that China is today in a similar position to that of the Sovict Union when, for instance, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed. (There was much more "justification" for the latter than there is for the Kissinger-Chou talks which have recently taken place.)
DEFEND THE INDO-CHINESE REVOLUTION United States imperialism is in a terrible mess in Asia and is now looking towards some sort of a deal with the Chinese government in order to lessen the impact of the blows it has suffered, but it is not simply a question of the Chinese responding in order to help the Americans stahility of Asia via penceful coexistence as well as preserse the internal stubility of the Chinese bureaucracy, which has only recently begun to maintain its old pre"cultural revolution" hegemony. An extension of the the bureaucracy. The recent editoriul in the North Vietnamese party paper, Ahan Dhan, without mentioning the Chinese, nevertheless has delivered a stinging rebuke to Peking-Washington diplomacy. The North Vietnamese hare attacked the concept of a "Big Power inflicted comThe Red Mole August 1971 Page 12 promise" and have made it clear that they would fight alone if this was necessary. In that sense one can only welcome the cleavage which still exists befween the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies because it allows tbe Vietnamese a considerable degree of autonomy. A joint Moscow-Peking-Washington pressure would be difficult for the Vietnamese to resist. The task of defending the lism and the burcaucracies thus comes to the fore again in Europe and the United States. Solidarity actions even though in Western Europe they will be small und limited -are therefore needed in the coming months as SOVIET "FASCISM'?
this has given both the Soviet bureancracy and its supporters all over the world the chance to try and oufflank the Chinese from the "left" (cf. Moring Star editorial, 17th July 1971), The Bulgarians even talk about U.S.Chinese collusion aguinst the Soviet Union. While all talk of U.S. Chinese collusion is pure fantasy at the of the class nature of the Soviet Union have an equally dangerous logic. The Chinese have Inbelled the Soviet state us "capitalist". "fascist", ete., run by "new czars" and the "new bourgeoisie". Much of this has been dis missed as demagogy by Peking supporters in the West, but the new turn adopted by the Chinese forces one to discuss them seriously. Because if the USSR isa of the Chinese, an alliance with the more "progressive"
sary to speculate what the results of such an alliance would mean for the world revolution.
TEMPEST ZONES Many of the supporters of Maoism in Europe and North America have not been similar to the Stalinists of the '30s and "40s. A large bulk of them have been revolutionary militants, confused certainly, but who have tionaries in many parts of the world. Many of them are Marxists who have studied both Marx and Lenin, and it is theit revolutionary duty to make clear where they stand. The only explanation of China's evolution lies in its internal regime which is totally bureaucratised. There is no inner party democracy in the Chinese Commenst Party, leave ulone the factories and the farms and communes. The bureaucracy still exists and none of Man's promises during the "cultural revolution" base been fulfilled. It is futile to argue against this on the grounds that Mao himself has remained silent (though even that can be disprosed) and it is Chou en Lai who is the villain of the piece. What is needed is a vigorous Marxist-Leninist analysis and If one makes that one is forced to call for a political revolution against the Chinese burenucracy. There are no two ways about it. Only the overthrow of the bureaucracy can revive the Chinese Revolution. Is it then sectarian to pose the question of the Fouth International? We think not and we believe that unless Maoist conrades study and evaluate the situstion Indo-Chinese revolution against the intrigues of imperiaand demands the attention of the revolutionary vanguard the pressure begins to mount on the Vietnamese militants.
It is clear that China will not stop at a Mao-Nixon meeting and that its rightward evolution will continue. Even today pelicy present moment, we have to remember that the extremely dangerous characteristions which the Chinese have made capitalist-fascist state, then given the ideological baggage (i.e. bourgeois democratic) wing of the world bourgeoisie against "fascism" is a concrete possibility. It is not necesFOR MAOISTS FARTHER AWAY FROM THE fought on the sume side of the barricades as other revoluas Marxists, they will fall prey to sentimentality and will finally abandon resolutionary politics. It is important from the vintage point of the international proletarim struggle that this does not happen. If the Maoist militants fail to understand what is going on in China and instead try and justify it, they will be taking the road to their own doom and we will be able to say, as the Chinese Central Committee wrote to the CPSU:
"Flowers fall off, do whar one mary;
Swations retar, no strangers they.
-Tarig Ali TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY "World Peace can he won only through struggle by the people of all countries and not by begging the imperialists for it. Peace can be effectively saleguarded only by relying on the masses of the people and waging a tit-for-tat struggle against the imperialist policies of agression and war That is the correct Two Different Lines on she Question of War and Peace (Pekine. 1963; "., And those who serve the United Scates in its political intrigues may also continue their activities. But. no matter what tricks the Uniled States plays, it will not be able to deceive the Vietnamese people. The more it plays such tricks, the more clearly will the people of the world recognise the ugly features of U.S. imperialsm and its collaborators and the more resolutely will they support the Vietnumese people in carrying through their Just struggie against the US, negressor to the end."
-Support the People of Vietnam, Defear C.S. Aggressors (Peking, 1965).
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