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The January 1 issue of The People's ee official Feking publication, published without comment extensive excerpts from a ‘gpeech made December 24 in Djakarta by Aidit, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Indonesian Communist party.
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The failure of The People's Daily to comment is worth noting in view of the fact that the Tine expounded by Aidit is scarcely distinguishable from that of Togliatti, Thorez, Dange, or the highly opportunistic leaders of the American Communist party, all of whom are currently being raked over the coals by the Chinese Communist party leaders for their lack of militancy in relation to the bourgeois governments they live under.
The occasion for Aidit's speech was an address by President Soekarno stating that his government stood on three planks: "nationalism," "religion," and "socialism."
Aidit said that "every political party that wants to continue te exist must accept this message." Soekarno's address, he continued, represented what the Indonesian Communist party stood for. Aidit asked Soekarno to name a cabinet on this basis, assuing the Indonesian president that the Communist party would support it.
Flatly rejecting any other road to socialism than the “peaceful one," which he maintains is open in Indonesia, Aidit said that to oppose Soekarno's position would signify "rejecting the peaceful . road to socialism and adopting the road of nonpeaceful and antidemo~ cratic means."
Aidit boasted of the size and power of the Indonesian Communist party: From some 10,000 members in 1951, when the party was reorganized after an abortive insurrection a few years earlier which was put down in blood by Soekarno, the organization now has about 2,000,000 members, making it the largest Communist party in the world outside of China and the Soviet Union.
The head of the party boasted of its monolithism. Theres’ are "no differences" in its ranks, he said, because the "party teaches liarxism-Leninisn."
As for the differences between Peking and Moscow, Aidit con-sidered this “only a temporary phenomenon" which can be "resolved." He hoped for a world conference of Communist parties but said that there must first be "one or two years of preparatory work."
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