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‘powers once it has established its state power, This simpleminded formal ation. , it is designed to maintain a facade of support for revolution, Recently,the -. ‘Soviets have expanded contacts with Chang Kai Shek clique in Taiwan, are closely ' to oceupy Chinese territory, and, in general, are stepping up their campaign “Sask as PL ‘attrite “to “eho: state ] pover of the | super-nety powers to co-opt and turn into its opposite every reform struggle short of 2 are Fotialism (not led by PLP), so too, it attributes to the proletariat | supernatural “* cbscures the struggle between two roads, the capitalist road and the socialist’ mg road, which continues during all phases of the struggle for communism, Smashing “% the state power of the imperialists increases the opportunities of the working. i. class to finally defeat the ruling class a thousand-fold, but it by no means . follows that the projetariat ean do exactly as it. Mishes, in total disregard: of the mass Vine. Pa ye ae ee SS nae 9 A as weet Fat > . - : a zy what is the nub of PL's, argument on the * aid”, - question? They Say, "You. can't. : take increasing “aid™ from the revisionists and fight revisionism at the same time Pee time."“? They have since gone way beyond this, arguing that Soviet domination of © --* the Vietnamese is a fait accompli. Concealed in thit emingly innocent phrase | 22.07 is rampant national chauvinism, It is certainly true that Soviet "aid" is not a genuine "eid", The “aid” the Soviets give is designed to increase their ‘leverage + ay ls weet os Te in order to undermine the revolutionary strugels of the Vietnamese. It is designed to enhance Russian Great Power arbitions vis a vis China and Southeast Asia and © coordinating military and other matters with the Jepanese, are directly secking to - to encircle China, But Soviet intentions are one thing and the Vietnamese reaction | i is quite another, They cannot be equated nor can they be blurred over, The Pee Ey Vietnamese believe they can subordinate “aid” received from abroad to the revolutionary struggle. It ultimately comes down to a question of whether or not 4t is possible to have unity on any level with the revisionists, The Vietnamese believe you can, The Chinese believe you cannot, he fundamentally - agree with the Chinese on this question, but we refuse to arrogate to ourselves the posture of denouncing the Vietnamese on that count. Furthermore we : hold that it is a bald-faced lie to say that the Vietnamese are under the domination of the Soviets, PL really treats the question revisionism as if it vere = some thirteenth century plague. Tf the body becomes infected, the case 4s terminal, This ettituce shows nothing but contempt for the people, In practice PL ends up counting on a Vietnamese sellout and desperately - searching for proof! . Chou En Lai summed up the question excellently so far as we are concerned in a speech delivered at the National Day Celebration given by the Vietnamese ambassa- dor, On the Vietnamese question, Soviet revisionism has long pursued a policy of sham support and real betrayal. In fact, the peace talks scheme on Vietnam is jointly devised by U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. After the invasion end occupation of etna, Czechoslovakia by Soviet revisionism, U,5. imperialism will definitely i demand a higher price on the Vietnam question, while Soviet ae revisionism will only serve U.S, imperialism all the more obce- ad quiously in the latter’s scheme of splitting the Vietnam nation Pee eZ Le pene aanthan U4 otuan Tt te hich time all and forcibly occkpying souther Vietnam, <-t 18 nigh tame ail Baa ae those whp cherish iljysions about Soviet revisionism and U, 5. seperieli sm woke up! Tt was in the same ‘speech that Chou En Lai hailed Ho Chi Minh's great leadership and reaffirmed Chinese support for the Vietnamese revolution. If the leadership of the PLP were really consistent, it would denounce Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese party for permitting Soviet “aid” to pass through Chinese territory, If the "shameful betrayal of the Vietnamese revisionist leaders" was that grave, what docs it make Meo who has yet to denounce them? The last refuge of these scoundrels in atLempting to cover their real epposition to the Vietnamese is to finally adrit “we are doing the Chinese e faver since they must be quiet for 2 27) Unfortunately the footnote for this citation was lost, In the tedious ‘Job of reviewing PL's literature we found an even better statement of their - position which wo include here: “We believe thet revolutionaries must agree on this crucial point: under no circumstances should aid be taken from 7 revisionism, “We believe thet anyone whe takes “aid” from the revisionists will eventually lese their struggle, no matter how heroic the forces involved. We believe this to be a life ond death question for the international | revolutionary movement,” - . 2B) Peking Review, September 6, 1968 ie