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Cohesion and Conflict in International Communism - A Study of Marxist-Leninist Concepts and Their Application (Paperback, 1968 ed.)
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Cohesion and Conflict in International Communism - A Study of Marxist-Leninist Concepts and Their Application (Paperback, 1968 ed.)
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The current conflict which threatens the very existence of the
inter national communist movement as a single coherent entity must
be looked for in the roots of Marxian philosophy. The central
concept of pre-Leninist communism is contained in the notion of
"proletarian internationalism. " Yet the emergence of the communist
party-states has been squarely predicated on the requirements of
single national states, as viewed through the training and
experience of the various communist leaders. Thus the Soviet
version has been shaped by the nationalism of Lenin, Stalin, and
Khrushchev. The only aberrant case, the internationalism of
Trotsky, was doomed to failure. The Chinese version of "communism"
has as its root concepts the spirit of "prolonged" struggle against
a superior enemy, whose ultimate defeat is ensured through the
dialectics of political growth. The non communist societies are by
definition "decadent. " The movement came to power by exploiting
the nationalism engendered within China by the Japanese invasion.
Its mass support was based on the peasantry, although the
transparent fiction of "proletarian leadership" was strictly
maintained. Further, "communism" is a term which has lost its
original encompassing definition. Peking now narrowly defines it as
policies consonant with "the thought of Mao Tse-tung. " Thus both
the Soviet and the Chinese interpretation of "commun ism" are based
on a concept which was anathema to the intellectual founders of the
movement."
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