70th anniversary of the Cominform-Bureau
founded on 23rd of September 1947
published on occasion of the 109th birthday of comrade Enver Hoxha
written by Wolfgang Eggers, 16th of October, 2017
Comrade Enver Hoxha was one of the first to fight the Truman Doctrine, with which the Greek monarcho-fascists militarily provoked Albania. Enver Hoxha was aware that the Truman Doctrine meant an imminent threat of war not only for Albania. He therefore adopted a Marxist-Leninist stance in his assessment of the two hostile world camps:
"The socialist camp (stands) opposite the imperialist camp (...)." (Enver Hoxha: 16 November 1960)
The Truman Doctrine of 12 March 1947 stated that the world was divided into two camps. Quote from Truman:
"At the present moment in the history of the world almost every nation must choose between alternative forms of life. Too often the choice is not free. One way of life is based on the will of the majority and distinguished by free institutions, representative governments, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based on the will of a minority imposed by force on the majority. It is based on terror and repression, a controlled press and radio; fixed elections and the suppression of personal liberties."
Translated into our words, the Truman Doctrine means of the alleged "free world" (by which capitalism is meant) on the one hand and the world of alleged "totalitarianism" ( by which socialism is meant) on the other, that is, the division of the world into a capitalist and socialist world camp.
Truman's doctrine was the doctrine of American imperialism to play the role of world leader in order to save the world from communism.
In response, Zhdanov formulated his "theory of the two world camps" at the first Kominform conference on 22 September 1947 - half a year later. In his speech on the international situation, Zhdanov speaks of the
"Emergence of two camps, the imperialist and anti-democratic camp on the one hand and the anti-imperialist and democratic camp on the other."
In our opinion, this definition is a distortion of Marxism-Leninism. Marxism-Leninism divides the two world camps into the capitalist and socialist world camps and not into a "democratic and anti-democratic" world camp.
This is and remains our opinion, even if it should be true that Stalin is said to have approved Zhdanov's report on the international situation on June 16, 1948 (according to the preface of the book on the 3 Cominform Conferences which we have published in Russian):
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We consider the re-establishment of the world socialist camp, as it existed at the time after the Second World War until the death of Stalin, to be a dangerous illusion, because it is and remains a historical fact that it turned into a revisionist world camp which prevented the building of socialism. Instead, we fight for a world socialist camp, which comes into being through nothing other than the victory of the world socialist revolution, just as the Soviet Union came into being through the October Revolution. The emergence of two world camps is based on the victory of the socialist revolution, on the victory of the proletarian camp and on nothing else. Those who try to reconcile the old road of the world socialist camp with the new road of the world socialist camp adopt a centrist attitude towards us. Our line of demarcation against neo-revisionism consequently begins with the demarcation of centrist lines, which all lead in the same direction - into the camp of the world bourgeoisie.
