READING IN BOTH PEKING AND MOSCOW
DYNAMICS OF WORLD REVOLUTION TODAY. The Workers Vanguard Publish
ing Association, 81 Queen Street West, Toronto 1, Ontario, -
This document has probably never been read by most bourgeois commentators on the Sino-Soviet dispute. Why should they be inter~ ested in an analysis produced by the Fourth International, which as yet holds power in no country and exists as only a small force in most areas? Yet the top experts in both Moscow and Peking studied this document with the closest attention and no one less than Mikhail Suslov, leading ideologist of the Khrushchev bureaucraoy, quoted from it in a major speech dealing with the dispute,
In reporting to the Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union in April, Suslov said: "Does anyone think perhaps that the Chinese theory making the regions of Asia, Afrioa and Latin America the 'principal zone of the storms of the world revo~ lution' represents something original? No, this is the repetition almost word for word of one of the principal theses of current Trotskyism. One can read in the decision of the so-called Fourth Inter~ national (Trotskyist): 'As a result of the successive failure of the two major revolutionary waves of 1919-23 and of 1943-48 -- and of the minor one of 1934-37 -- the main center of world revolution shifted for a time to the colonial world.! Here is where the source of the political wisdom of the Chinese leadership must be sought,"
The quotation cited by Suslov appears in its original oontext on page 3 of this pamphlet. It is part of a key resolution passed at the Reunification Congress of the Fourth International held in June 1963,
It is, of course, an exaggeration to say that the dooument is the source of the "political wisdom" of the Chinese leadership. Nor is it the source of the "political wisdom" of Khrushchev, whom the Chinese, in turn, accuse of being a bigger "Trotskyist," But
it must be admitted that both Mao and Khrushchev do. display a oertain political wisdom in making sure that their brain trusts pour over the publications of the world Trotskyist movement.
_ In making this document, easily available, the Workers Van~ guard Publishing Association has done a service for all those interested in the process of world revolution, They state their’ reasons. as follows:
"We are reproducing it in pamphlet form because we consider it the most significant writing that has appeared in years on the developing world socialist revolution, It answers many key questions posed before the working-class leadership -- particularly on the interrelationship between the forces of the colonial revolution which are persistently bursting through the national stage onto the socialist stage of development, the rising tide of political revolution in the workers! states. that strives to remove the bureaucratic clique and re-establish socialist democracy on the planned economies there, and the forces for the socialist transformation of the advanced ¢ apitalist sectors of the world,”
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