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What's in a Priority
by
Nusret Sen
INTRODUCTION
The
perceived wisdom is that, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
has set upon a revisionist course beginning with its 20th.
congress(1956); that Stalin was attacked for the first time at this
congress and that by Khrushchov in his secret speech which many people
did not know of till some time later; that the Communist Party of China
(CPC) and Party of Labour of Albania (PLA) has began a defence of Stalin
and a fight against the revisionism of the 20th congress some time after
this; that the fight of these parties represent the fight of
Marxist-Leninists against the Soviet revisionists; that this fight
represents the defence of Stalin against his enemies; that the division
thus came about between the CPSU and the CPC and PLA is the first
division in the communist movement after Stalin's death between the
Marxist-Leninists and the revisionists, etc., etc.
We have to look into the correctness or falseness of these propositions.
That we have to do so should have been obvious to all for obviously we
have been defeated in a bad way, we have been smashed to smithereens and
obviously the ideologies perpetrated by all quarters in the above
mentioned division have not given us a weapon to fight with but a rope
to hang ourselves with. And we most certainly hanged ourselves with that
rope. Long past the time we realised what has gone on and what is going
on.
This work is a small start in this respect. It shows that the attack
upon Stalin -if Stalin means building communism- has began in August
1953, at the latest, that his plan of building communism has been openly
attacked at the beginning of August 1953 and carried on being openly
attacked at the 20th Congress. That for only those who understand from
an attack upon Stalin an attack on his personality and thus sink Stalin
to their own narrow, petty, personal (personality cult) level can think
that the attack upon Stalin began with the secret speech of Khrushchev
at the 20th. Congress and can not see the attack that was openly started
before the 20th. Congress and carried on, again openly, at the 20th.
Congress.
And again, when we look at the documents of CPC and PLA we can easily
see why is it that they understand from the defence of Stalin a defence
of his personality etc. For we see that when it is an issue of policy of
how to build communism, they, the Soviet, the Chinese and the Albanian
leadership, are one and the same, that they full heartily have taken
part in the attack upon Stalin's Plan of Building Communism; that their
plan of building communism has nothing in common with that of Stalin's
but everything in common with Khushchov's and with Buharin's and
Trotsky's.
In the first section of this study, we comment on the documents that are
presented to the reader in the second section of the book. We have
divided the commentaries just as we have divided the documents as those
of Soviets, Chinese and Albanians with an interesting addition from the
Poles. The third section of the book, the appendix, has been added to
strengthen the views presented in the first section, that the CPC and
ALP knew of the attacks on Stalin's plans, did not defend his plans and
that they took part in the formulation of revisionist policies.
All has to choose whom they will follow: Stalin -with his Plan of
Building Communism- or his opponents -with their own plan of building
"communism".
There never was, and there is not now, a third road.
One either joins the fight against all revisionists of Marxism-Leninism
without any compromise, or one preserves one's ways of compromise and
keeps one's connections with the enemies of communism
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