ON THE COMINFORM

11 The Cominform and Maoism

As for Maoism, Stalin not only condemned Titoism but rightly called Mao a "half Titoist".

Even in the critical Chinese paper, "Is Yugoslavia a Socialist State?" (dated 26 September 1963 - from Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement), the Cominform resolution against Titoism (1948) is not defended, let alone even mentioned. In this paper: "Is Yugoslavia a socialist state?" one looks in vain for the historical letters of Stalin to Tito, in which Stalin rejected the accusations made by Tito against the Soviet Union and for the first time strongly condemned Titoism. The Chinese revisionists were not concerned with Stalin, but only with playing themselves up to the Soviet revisionists who had fallen on Tito's knees as the "true defenders" of Marxism-Leninism, in order to hide their own revisionism behind it. In truth, the Chinese revisionists have not only adopted a conciliatory attitude towards Soviet revisionism, but also towards Titoism, as documented in various Chinese writings. They have also admitted that while they half-heartedly agreed with the Cominform resolution, they actually condemned it. Thus the Chinese revisionists have adopted the same opportunist attitude towards the Cominform as all the other revisionists from the countries of the People's Democracy.

In words for the Cominform - in deeds against the Cominform - this is the physiognomy of the revisionist betrayal of the Cominform.

Judin, the same Soviet revisionist who was editor-in-chief of the Kominform organ, was later appointed by Khrushchev as ambassador to China between 1953 and 1959. Until January 1955, China had no diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. From Judin's diaries we learn some interesting facts about Mao's true negative attitude towards the Cominform:

"Mao said:

We did not refuse our support to the Cominform decision of 1948, but we did not agree with the Cominform resolution of 1949. It put us all in a passive situation and Tito still reminds us of that resolution today. Stalin should not have taken such a rude attitude towards Yugoslavia." ( April 19, 1958, quoting from Judin's diary) . Surely Stalin's struggle against Titoism is not a question that can be resolved by the method of diplomatic politeness! Who discredited the Soviet Union in the crudest, most infamous way ? It was Tito. And whoever comes to Tito's defence is already "half Tito". And that was Mao. That is how Stalin saw it, that is how Enver Hoxha saw it, and that is how the Comintern (SH) sees it.

In his Works Volume V, Mao writes:

"When we won the war, Stalin conjectured that this was a victory in the manner of

of Tito, and in 1949 and 1950 he put a lot of pressure on us." (Mao Zedong,

Selected Works, Vol. V, p.328 - French. Edition).

Mao adopts in essence the united front policy of Dimitroff and the popular front policy of Yugoslavia in founding the PRC. Mao, the world bourgeoisie and the whole revisionist world camp always talk about the "socialist revolution in China". Yet, when the PRC was founded in 1949, not once was the word "socialism" mentioned, let alone the word "socialist revolution".

In the view of the Comintern (SH), there can be no question of any "socialist revolution" either in China or in all other people's democracies. To make the bourgeois-democratic Chinese revolution out to be a "higher development of the October Revolution" is not only a mockery of the Chinese proletariat, not only a mockery of the October Revolution, but also a frontal attack on world Bolshevism and the world socialist revolution.

Compare Mao's line with the general line of the Comintern (SH). One line is thousands of light years away from the other line:

Mao quote:

"At present we must not push the bourgeoisie away from us, but unite them around us. (6 September 1950; "DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY TO ALL DIRECTIONS", Mao, Vol. V, pp. 31-34).